1864: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. The prison is now a national park devoted to POWs.

1922: The US Supreme Court rebuffs a challenge to the Nineteen Amendment to the US Constitution, which granted American women the right to vote.

1951: Ratification of the first term limits legisation, the Twenty-second Amendment to the US Constitution, which limits Presidential tenure.

1991: In the first Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."

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