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1876 - Colorado became a U.S. state. 1936 - Opening of the Olympic Games in Hitler's Berlin. |
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1945 - Conclusion of the Potsdam Conference. 1990 - Start of the Persian Gulf War. |
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1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain, on his journey to reach the Indies by sailing west. 1949 - Founding of the National Basketball Association (NBA). |
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1892 - Axe murder of Lizzie Borden's parents in Fall River, Massachusetts. 1914 - Great Britain declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Belgium (World War I). 1944 - The Nazis discovered Anne Frank and her family in hiding in Amsterdam. |
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1914 - Cleveland, Ohio, became home to the first electric traffic lights.
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1825 - Bolivia declared its independence. 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. 1965 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. 1991 - The first website was launched at info.cern.ch and was dedicated to the World Wide Web, with instructions on how to use it. |
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1789 - United States War Department established by Congress. 1964 - Tonkin Gulf Resolution passed by Congress. |
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1588 - Spanish armada attacked by English forces. 1969 - Charles Manson's "family" killed Sharon Tate and others in California. |
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1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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1821 - Missouri became a U.S. state. 1846 - Establishment of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. |
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1960 - Chad achieved independence.
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1851 - Sewing machine patented by Isaac Singer. 1898 - Formal U.S. annexation of Hawaii. |
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1521 - Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztecs, taking control of the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlán.
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1935 - Social Security Act became law. 2003 - Start of the largest blackout in U.S. history. |
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1057 - Scotland's Macbeth killed.
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1960 - Cyprus gained its independence. |
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1969 - Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast.
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1227 - Death of Genghis Khan.
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1934 - Adolf Hitler was elected as Führer of Germany.
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1964 - Economic Opportunity Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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1831 - Nat Turner Rebellion occurred in Virginia. 1940 - Leon Trotsky was killed in Mexico City, Mexico. 1959 - Hawaii became a state. 1983 - Benigno Aquino was assassinated in the Philippines. 1991 - Latvia became independent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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1642 - Start of the English Civil War, fought between the Cavaliers (Royalists) and Roundheads. 1846 - Annexation of New Mexico by the United States. 1910 - Annexation of Korea by Japan. |
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1305 - Execution of Scotland's William Wallace in London (Mel Gibson's character in "Braveheart"). 1939 - Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed. |
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79 C.E. - Herculaneum and Pompeii destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 1814 - White House and Capitol burnt by the British as part of the War of 1812. 1821 - Treaty of Cordoba gave Mexico independence from Spain. |
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1270 - Saint Louis died of dysentery in Tunis, Tunisia, while leading the Eighth Crusade. 1718 - French settlers founded New Orleans. 1825 - Uruguay became independent. 1916 - National Park Service was created. 1944 - Paris was liberated from the Nazis. |
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1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact signed.
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1609 - Henry Hudson sailed into Delaware Bay. 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. |
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1533 - Atahualpa, ruler of the Incas, was murdered in Peru. 1786 - Shays's Rebellion started in Massachusetts. 2005 - Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. |
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30 BCE - Suicide of Cleopatra VII. 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run. 1967 - Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice. |
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1887 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the Kinetoscope. 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago became independent. |