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- ... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
- ... that Peter Plympton Smith's victory in 1988 was the last time a member of the Republican Party was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Vermont?
- ... that the theme of the board game Parks is based on the national parks of the United States?
- ... that Bazzini, established in 1886, is the oldest extant nut company in the United States?
- ... that the 2022 USFL playoffs and championship game could not be played in Birmingham, Alabama, as the rest of the season was, due to the 2022 World Games?
- ... that the many refugees who have entered Canada via Roxham Road at the border between New York and Quebec since 2017 may not have been breaking any laws?
- ... that Louise Willingale is developing ZEUS, which is projected to be the most powerful laser in the United States?
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Witherspoon married actor and Cruel Intentions co-star Ryan Phillippe in 1999; they have two children, Ava and Deacon. The couple separated at the end of 2006 and divorced in October 2007. Witherspoon owns a production company, Type A Films, and she is actively involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation.
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Louisville is situated in north-central Kentucky on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio. Although situated in a Southern state, Louisville is influenced by both Midwestern and Southern culture, and is commonly referred to as either the northernmost Southern city or the southernmost Northern city in the United States.
Louisville has been the site of many important innovations through history. Notable residents have included inventor Thomas Edison, the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, newscaster Diane Sawyer, writer Hunter S. Thompson, and actor Tom Cruise. Notable events occurring in the city include the first public viewing place of Edison's light bulb, the first library open to African Americans in the South, and medical advances including the first human hand transplant, the first self-contained artificial heart transplant and the development site of the first cervical cancer vaccine.
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Anniversaries for June 1
- 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
- 1812 – President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
- 1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo people to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
- 1926 – Marilyn Monroe (pictured), actress, singer, model, pop culture icon, eminent sex symbol, and reported mistress of President John F. Kennedy, is born.
- 1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
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- ... that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon (pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?
- ... that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?
- ... that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?
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