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Today in History in 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, future 26th President of the United States was born in New York City, also on this same day in 1880 he married Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

HISTORICAL EVENTS

312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

1867 - Garibaldi marches on Rome

1938 - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

1962 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba

1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

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