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More than 300,000 Arizonans would lose their health insurance under a Republican reconciliation bill making its way through Congress, according to the Democrats who represent Arizona in Washington, D.C.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1897: Author and poet Oscar Wilde was released from prison, having served two years of hard labor on charges related to homosexuality, which was a crime at the time in England.
•	In 1910: Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet. There were some who predicted dire outcomes, and panic led to sales of “comet pills” supposed to protect people from gas from the comet, but the event came and went without incident.
•	In 1925: Malcolm X, who sought to empower the Black community as an activist and minister in the Nation of Islam, was born in Omaha, Nebraska.
•	In 1930: Lorraine Hansberry, author of “A Raisin in the Sun,” was born in Chicago. When “A Raisin in the Sun” was performed in 1959 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, it was the first time a play written by a Black woman had been performed on Broadway.
•	In 1963: Excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” were published in New York Post Sunday Magazine.
•	In 2018: England’s Prince Harry married American actor Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel, incorporating aspects of African American culture into a royal wedding ceremony for the first time to honor Markle’s multiracial background.
•	In 2022: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices recommended Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters for those ages 5-11, as well as a second booster for those 50 and older and those 12 and older who are immunocompromised.

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