This Day in History - July 2-3


	This Day in History - July 2-3
righthand
7-3-2008 12:21 AM
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July 3, 1835
Children employed in the silk mills at Paterson, New Jersey, went on strike for an eleven-hour workday and a six-day workweek. With the help of adults, they won a compromise settlement of a 69-hour week.
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                      Jersey became the first British colony in America to grant
                      partial
                    women's suffrage.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">“of full age, who are worth fifty pounds
                    proclamation money,” including non-whites and widows;
                    married women were not able to own property under common
                law</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1809</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/tecumseh/tecumseh.html" href="http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/tecumseh/tecumseh.html" style="font-size: 11px;">freemasonry.bcy.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/tecumseh/tecumseh.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/freemasonry.bcy.ca/img/AC4E6012-C757-477D-BAA3-F2D76053B474" alt="[Tecumseh]" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" href="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.peacebuttons.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">Shawnee Chief Tecumseh called on
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                        American lands</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1839</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/amistad.html" href="http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/amistad.html" style="font-size: 11px;">history.sandiego.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/amistad.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/history.sandiego.edu/img/56658575-0ABB-41B3-974A-116D61D53B0B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" href="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.peacebuttons.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">captive Africans on the Cuban slave ship
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                        Cinquè</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/30EAC556-E139-4387-952E-10533E503F12" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1964</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/av.hom/images/276-10-64.JPG" href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/av.hom/images/276-10-64.JPG" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lbjlib.utexas.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/av.hom/images/276-10-64.JPG"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/img/1A618E4C-6243-4C5B-AE69-ED744688FD9E" alt="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/av.hom/images/276-10-64.JPG" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" href="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.peacebuttons.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of
                      1964 into law</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">The law had survived an 83-day
                      filibuster in the U.S. Senate by 21 members from southern
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                  and Freedom march April 28, 1963 
Washington DC</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">"We have lost the South for a generation," said Pres. Johnson to an
aide, immediately after signing the Act</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/FEC51CE7-3811-41C5-B78B-E7944B4795F4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1992</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">Bush (the elder) announced</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">the worldwide withdrawals of all its
                    ground- and sea-launched tactical nuclear weapons </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ED1C3E32-D7FB-4AE5-B3F1-F4C5E4FC4164/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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