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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1888
Princess Isabel signed the Lei Aurea, the Golden Law, freeing the remaining enslaved people in Brazil. It ended slavery in the last country in the Americas to still allow it, bringing freedom to hundreds of thousands of people.
Source: Wikipedia
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