LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY (1809)/LOST PENNY DAY
Categories: Anniversary, Politics & Finance & Banking
Location: United States
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
Location: United States
Type of Event: Daily Event
Updated: May 06, 2024
About Lincoln's Birthday, also known as Lost Penny Day.
February 12, 2025 is the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln of the United States. It is also the birthday of Dr. Charles Darwin.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
His best known speech, elegant in its simplicity was the Gettysburg Address which he gave on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the height of the Civil War:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
It is one of the shortest Presidential speeches ever given, yet considered one of the most profound. President Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865whilst attending a play at the Ford's Theatre in Washington. His assassin was an actor, John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln’s Birthday is also known as Lost Penny Day because it is Lincoln’s face that appears on the penny. His face also graces the US five dollar bill.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
His best known speech, elegant in its simplicity was the Gettysburg Address which he gave on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the height of the Civil War:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
It is one of the shortest Presidential speeches ever given, yet considered one of the most profound. President Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865whilst attending a play at the Ford's Theatre in Washington. His assassin was an actor, John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln’s Birthday is also known as Lost Penny Day because it is Lincoln’s face that appears on the penny. His face also graces the US five dollar bill.
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