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Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified: 3 February 1870 - This Day in History
On this day in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race and intending to ensure, with the Fourteenth Amendment, the civil rights of former slaves.
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1924: Former U.S. president Woodrow Wilson died in Washington, D.C.
1917: Not yet involved in World War I, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after the Germans announced their intention to practice unrestricted submarine warfare.
1913: The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, granting Congress the authority to levy income taxes, was ratified.
1894: The first American steel ship, the Dirigo, was launched from Bath, Maine.
1865: In a personal meeting with Confederate representatives, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln offered liberal pardons in exchange for the South quitting the Civil War, with reunion as a precondition of peace—an offer that was rejected.
1690: Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the American colonies.
1468: German craftsman, inventor, and printer Johannes Gutenberg died in Mainz.
Felix Mendelssohn: Biography of the Day
"I have grown accustomed to composing in our garden…today or tomorrow I am going to dream there the Midsummer Night's Dream."Felix Mendelssohn, letter to Fanny Mendelssohn, 1826
One of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period, German composer Felix Mendelssohn, born this day in 1809, largely observed Classical models and practices while initiating key aspects of Romanticism.
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