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A bit of June 5th history…
1851 - Anti-slavery book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe was 1st published in serial form in “The National Era” (pictured)
1873 - Sultan Bargesh bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern Tanzania
1876 - Bananas become popular in the US at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
1981 - AIDS epidemic officially begins when US CDC reports on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men in L.A.
1991 - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church in D.C.
2019 - Average person ingests 80,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes on similar amount according to 1st ever study published in journal “Environmental Science and Technology”
Today In History: June 05