1794 African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia is dedicated

1835 First sugar plantation in Hawaii is established

1899: The First Hague Convention concerning land war customs and laws is signed

1921 New language rules give equal rights to the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium

1970 Six days of race riots in Hartford, Connecticut

1981 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police, who use batons to stop them from marching to the South African consulate in New Zealand

1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film “Cry Freedom”

2014 One hundred Gazans are killed overnight by Israeli strikes

2014 France contributes 8 million euros in aid to Gaza

2024 Gaza declares a polio epidemic, blaming the Israeli military offensive for its spread [1]

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July 28, 1868: Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of State William Seward issues a proclamation certifying the amendment.

Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts, where new state governments, based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July 1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.” The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the “equal protection of the laws.”

Two men at a Washington state park stumble on a skull, part of a skeleton later found to be over 9,000 years old—one of the oldest in N. America. “Kennewick Man” is reburied 21 years later, in Native American rites.

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