![]() His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 19, killed three people and injured 23 others. In 1996, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex". The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. In 1982, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). ![]() ![]() The states quickly ratified the Amendment and it was signed into law on July 1st by President Richard Nixon. It was a response to the criticism that men could fight at 18, but not vote for the policies and politicians who sent them to war. In 1971, in March, Congress passed the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18 (from 21). ![]() It called for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and the goal of nuclear disarmament. In 1969, one hundred countries, along with the United States and the Soviet Union signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT). In 1964, Independence Day in the Philippines was moved from July 4th to June 12th at the insistence of nationalists and historians. In 1946, in the year that Leroy Gray was born, on July 4th, the Philippines gained independence from the United States. Add Leroy's birthday or the date he died to see a list of historic events
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