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1997 - Boeing purchases McDonnell-Douglas 1941 - The Jeep is born 1910 - New York issues first license plates | |
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1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait 1934 - Hitler becomes fuhrer (leader) 1861 - First income tax is passed | |
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1990 - Firestone is founded 1941 - Gas rationing begins in eastern U.S. 1914 - Germany and France declare war 1492 - Columbus sets sail | |
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1969 - US-Vietnam: Secret negotiations are initiated in Paris 1944 - Anne Frank and her family arrested by Gestapo | |
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1983 - "Baby Bells" are born 1981 - Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers 1974 - Congress cuts military aid to South Vietnam 1962 - Marilyn Monroe is found dead 1914 - First traffic light is installed 1861 - Lincoln imposes first federal income tax 1858 - First transatlantic telegraph cable completed | |
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1945 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima 1928 - Chung Se Yung, a cofounder of the Hyundai Motor Company, was born 1890 - First execution by electric chair | |
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1998 - U.S. embassies in East Africa bombed 1959 - U.S. satellite photographs earth 1782 - Washington creates the Purple Heart | |
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1974 - Nixon resigns 1945 - Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria | |
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1974 - Nixon leaves White House. Ford is inaugurated 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki | |
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1846 - Smithsonian Institution created 1945 - Japan accepts Potsdam terms, agrees to unconditional surrender | |
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1972 - Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam 1952 - Hussein succeeds to Jordanian throne | |
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1981 - IBM's first PC is completed 1973 - Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones' record of 13 major championships 1953 - Soviets test "Layer-Cake" bomb | |
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1961 - Berlin is divided | |
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2003 - Blackout hits Northeast United States 1947 - China declares war on Germany 1935 - FDR signs Social Security Act 1784 - Russians settle Alaska 1784 - Paris issues first license plates | |
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1961 - Berlin Wall built 1947 - Ferrari makes racing debut 1945 - Hirohito of Japan announces unconditional surrender 1945 - Gas rationing ends in the US 1914 - Panama Canal open to traffic | |
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1977 - Popular music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. 1977 - S. Vienam: General Khanh ousts General Minh as chief of state 1948 - Babe Ruth dies 1923 - Carnegie establishes eight-hour day 1812 - Detroit surrenders without a fight | |
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1976 - Viking 1 lands on Mars 1973 - U.S. troops to withdraw from Thailand 1909 - Andrew McNally III, an executive with Rand McNally Co., the oldest map publisher of the US, was born in Chicago | |
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1966 - The first batch of redesigned $100 bills featuring the now-familiar motto "In God We Trust" is printed 1937 - Toyota Motor Company is established | |
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1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany 1909 - First car race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1841 - First bankruptcy laws established | |
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1996 - Minimum wage is increased 1975 - Viking 1 launched to Mars 1968 - Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia 1962 - The first 1963 Ford Thunderbird is produced 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico 1862 - Eight-hour workday is born | |
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1991 - Coup attempt against Gorbachev collapses 1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th state 1911 - Theft of Mona Lisa is discovered | |
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1959 - Rockefeller marries family maid 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes first African-American on U.S. tennis tour 1944 - Romania captured by the Soviet Union 1901 - Cadillac is launched 1851 - U.S. wins first America's Cup | |
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1979 - Russian ballet star Aleksandr Godunov defects to the United States after a performance in New York City 1784 - Four counties in western North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. The counties lay in what would eventually become Tennessee. | |
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1954 - Congress passes Communist Control Act 1945 - The last Cadillac-built M-24 tank was produced 1821 - Spain accepts Mexican independence 1814 - British capture and burn Washington, DC | |
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1954 - USPS issues car stamps 1944 - After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French and US forces 1910 - Yellow Cab Company is born | |
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1985 - The Yugo, manufactured in Yugoslavia, is introduced to the U.S. market. It quickly became infamous
for its poor quality of construction and was the butt of many jokes 1980 - A 1,500-pound bomb is discovered in a Nevada casino 1957 - Russia tests an intercontinental ballistic missile 1939 - First televised Major League baseball game | |
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1938 - Captain George Eyston established a new land speed record of 345.49mph. The current record is
held by Andy Green at 763.035mph 1916 - Romania enters World War I 1908 - LBJ is born 1859 - Oil is found in Pennsylvania | |
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1996 - Charles and Diana divorce 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to more than 200,000 people attending the March on Washington. The demonstrators demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination. 1922 - The famous Autodromo, an automobile-racing track, is opened in Monza, Italy | |
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2005 - Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast 1949 - Soviets explode atomic bomb 1898 - Goodyear incorporates 1885 - First motorcycle is patented 1862 - Bureau of Engraving is founded | |
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1983 - U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel into space 1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1918 - Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot 30 BC - Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, commits suicide following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome | |
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1997 - Princess Diana dies 1897 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph | |
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