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5 August

🇮🇳 In India

2019 Indian government announces it is changing the status of Indian-controlled Kashmir from a state to a union territory, revoking Article 370 in response to security concerns.

🌎 Elsewhere

1861 President Lincoln signs the first US personal Income Tax into law (3% of incomes over $800).

1914 Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I.

1914 The first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio. It had red and green light.

1930 U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, was born.

1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and for illegally leaving South Africa.

1963 The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in Moscow.

2019 American writer Toni Morrison, who earned a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for novels that examine the Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community, died at age 88.

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