President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Designed by Frédéric Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French Third Republic commemorating the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution and their shared democratic ideals.
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