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 6/13/1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
Rhode Island was the first of the northern colonies that rejected slavery, beginning the break that would eventually lead to major discord in the framing of the Constitution of the United States and finally the Civil War.
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6/13/1777 - Revolutionary War Cycle Fourth Turning event: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
6/13/1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses, were born. Two of the first millenial cohert to achieve widespread celebrity status.
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