Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.
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Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1767 Birth of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States (1825-1829).
1786 Morocco agrees to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1804 Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded by Aaron Burr in a duel.
1838 Birth of John Wanamaker, U.S. merchant, founder of one of the first American department stores.