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05-09-2020, 08:34 PM
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May 9 in US Military History.
May 9 | This Day in U.S. Military History
Benjamin Franklin's newspaper runs the first political cartoon in 1754.
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1754 – The first American newspaper political cartoon was published. The illustration in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, “Join or die.”
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