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Today is Tuesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2021. There are 304 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 2, 1932, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
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In 1867, Howard University, a historically Black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., was founded. Congress passed, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the first of four Reconstruction Acts.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
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Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2021. There are 304 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 2, 1932, the