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Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, with a steady hand because he didn’t want future generations to think he hesitated.

Mae Jemison learned computer programming while working as a doctor.

John Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church festival when they were both teenagers.

Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata in 1801 while his hearing was starting to fail, but he was not yet fully deaf at that time.

Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, making her the first Vice President to be born in that state.