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year. • • Today's Highlights in History: • On Aug. 20, 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Horace Greeley to President Abraham Lincoln titled "The Prayer of Twenty Millions"; in it, Greeley called on Lincoln to take more aggressive measures to free the slaves and end the South's rebellion. • • On this date: • In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio. • In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped. • In 1882, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" had its premiere in Moscow. • In 1910, a series of forest fires swept through parts of Idaho, Montana and (Continued on page 27)
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