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Sept. 22, 1776 During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy by the British in New York. ALSO ON THIS DATE 1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel...

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