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Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#September", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Camp David Accords: Hosted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met at Camp David in Maryland to discuss a peace agreement between the two nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#September", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#January", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › January"}}]}