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On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson and a ragtag group of Americans decimated a professional army of British Redcoats at the Battle of New Orleans, a critical American port. The victory made Jackson a nationally known war hero and reaffirmed America’s independence from Great Britain.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each year in June — sparked by the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village, a tipping point for the gay rights movement in the United States.
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