16 June 1933
On this date in 1933...
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his New Deal recovery program, signing bank, rail, and industry bills and initiating farm aid. The New Deal was especially popular in the rural South since there had been much suffering and very little recovery among the common people since the Great Depression began.
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- 1774 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky was founded.
- 1862 - The Battle of Secessionville, South Carolina.
- 2004 - The 9/11 Commission determined that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House allegations that helped launch the second American invasion of Iraq and led to the dictator's execution.
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