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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY
1861 Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general.
1932 Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag.
1963 Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC.
1979 First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
1983 Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
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