World
Today in history: A day of tragic resonance for South Africa
June 29, 2015June 29 marks the 90th anniversary since the South African parliament passed a bill excluding black, mixed race and Indian people from all skilled or semi-skilled jobs.
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Today in history: The United Nations Charter is signed in 1945
June 26, 2015UN has served as a widely respected moral voice for refugees, the environment, women's rights, labor, agricultural development, disaster relief, and cultural preservation.
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Today in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
June 25, 2015The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
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Today in Pride Month history: Homosexuals in Holocaust first publicly recognized
June 24, 2015In 1976, speakers at a public program in Hartford, Conn., told the history and paid homage to the homosexuals exterminated in the Nazi concentration and labor camps.
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Ingeborg Rapoport: A doctor’s degree at 102
June 24, 2015Few of the media reports told the full story, not only about the anti-Semitism of the Nazis at its beginning but about the anti-Communism which later followed.
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