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2002 - Euro coins and notes went into circulation in twelve European nations. 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. 1993 - Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 1984 - AT&T and its Baby Bells are broken up. 1959 - NASA created. 1959 - Cuban dictator Batista falls from power. 1942 - United Nations created. 1914 - The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, debuts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida. | |
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1994 - Chrysler's Neon hits the road 1974 - Nixon signs highway speed limits 1959 - The first spacecraft flied by the Moon and orbited the Sun, Mechta (Luna I) was launched by the USSR. 1905 - The Russo-Japanese war ended. 1839 - Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first picture of the Moon. 1788 - Georgia state joins the U.S. | |
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1967 - Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died. 1961 - The U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. 1959 - Alaska state joins the U.S. 1947 - Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time. 1938 - March of Dimes is found by Franklin Roosevelt. 1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands. | |
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1999 - The U.S. Mint started to distribute the 50 State Quarters. 1995 - Republican controls 104th Congress after 40 years. 1951 - North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul. 1948 - Burma (Myanmar) gained its independence from Great Britain. 1896 - Utah state joins the U.S. | |
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1972 - President Nixon signs the order of the development of the space shuttle. 1940 - The first FM radio demonstration 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge is built. 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor of a state (Wyoming). 1924 - The first Chrysler's car is built. 1643 - First divorce given in the U.S. | |
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1980 - Jimmy Carter signed $1.2B bill loan saved Chrysler 1971 - Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up 1919 - Former president Theodore Roosevelt dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y. 1912 - New Mexico joins the U.S. 1838 - Samuel Morse givef the first public demonstration of the telegraph. 1066 - Harold II crowns king of England | |
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1989 - Emperor Hirohito dies 1971 - GM's Saturn is built 1965 - Civilian government is restored in Saigon 1953 - Truman announces U.S. developed hydrogen bomb 1927 - Commercial telephone service begins between New York and London. 1782 - First commercial bank opens for business | |
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1982 - The AT&T monopoly agrees divesting itself of 22 Bell System companies and splitting itself into seven "Baby Bells." 1976 - Chinese leader Zhou Enlai dies. 1962 - Mona Lisa exhibited in Washington DC. 1959 - Charles de Gaulle become the first president of France's Fifth Republic. 1790 - George Washington delivers first State of the Union 1642 - Astronomer Galileo dies | |
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1986 - Kodak barred from selling cameras 1968 - Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon. 1958 - Japanese cars arrive in California 1913 - Richard Nixon is born 1788 - Connecticut becomes the 5th state in the United States. 1894- First motion picture/movie given copyright 1861- Mississippi becomes the 2nd state to secede from the Union. | |
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1984 - The U.S. and the Vatican reestablish diplomatic relations after a 117-year break. 1979 - Convertible "Bug" retires 1967 - Edward Brooke, the first African-American senator elected by popular vote in MA, took his seat. 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations is held in London. 1942 - Ford makes Jeeps | |
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2002 - The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 1989 - Ronald Reagan gives his farewell speech. 1964 - The first report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking is issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry. 1935 - 1st female solo pilot Earhart flies from HI to CA. 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created. | |
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1932 - Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas, is elected as the first female U.S. senator. 1919 - First meeting of Big Four Nations' leaders in Paris. 1915 - The U.S. House of Representatives reject a proposal to give women the right to vote. 1879 - British-Zulu War begins. 1773 - The first public U.S. museum is established in Charleston, S.C. | |
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1990 - Douglas Wilder (D-Virginia) becomes the first elected African-American governor in the U.S. 1942 - Henry Ford patents plastic car 1966 - 1st African-American cabinet member is appointed 1910 - First radio demonstration | |
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1980 - Gold prices soar $800/ounce. 1966 - Franklin Roosevelt, the 1st President travels by airplane. 1953 - Tito formally becomes the first president of the Republic of Yugoslavia. 1910 - The first constitution in the American colonies | |
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1992 - The European Community recognizes Croatia and Slovenia as the separate states, effectively ended the Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918. 1973 - President Nixon orders halt to offensive operations in North Vietnam. 1970 - Qaddafi serves as Premier of Libya. 1967 - The first Super Bowl is played: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. 1943 - The construction of the world's largest office building, Pentagon, is completed. 1936 - Ford Foundation is established 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr. is born 1909 - Hearse used for the first time 1777 - The Republic of New Connecticut declares its independence from Britain & NY. Six months later it was renamed Vermont. 1759 - The British Museum is opened. 1559 - Queen Elizabeth I is crowned in Westminster Abbey. | |
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2001 - Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is assassinated. 1991 - Iraq war - Operations Desert Storm begins 1979 - Shad flees Iran 1945 - Adolf Hitler retires to his bunker hideaway 1913 - Duryea introduces the first hardtop sedan in US 1883 - The U.S. Civil Service Commission is established. 1547 - Ivan the Terrible is crowned the first czar of Russia. | |
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1945 - Soviets capture Warsaw 1893 - Americans overthrown Hawaiian monarchy 1899 - New car speed (43.69 mph) record is set 1806 - James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the White House. 1706 - Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. | |
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1993 - All 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. 1950 - Soviet Union recognizes North Vietnam 1943 - The Nazi siege of Leningrad (Soviet) is broken. 1912 - Bentley Motor is established in London 1912 - British explorer Robert Scott reaches the South pole 1899 - New car speed (43.69 mph) record is set 1778 - British explorer James Cook discovers Hawaii 1733 - The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston. | |
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2001 - President Clinton admitted he made false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky. 1997 - Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron after 30 years, as Israel transfers control of the West Bank city to Palestinians. 1966 - Indira Gandhi is elected prime minister of India. 1950 - China recognizes North Vietnam 1941 - British attack Italians in Africa 1915 - First air raid on Britain 1915 - The electric neon sign is patented in the U.S. by George Claude of Paris, France. | |
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2009 - Barack Hussein Obama II is sworn in as the 44th US President 1996 - Arafat is elected as leader of Palestine 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1981 - Ronald Reagan becomes the oldest president to take office (69 years + 349 days) 1981 - 52 American hostages seized from the American Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days in captivity. 1971 - The Jaguar XJ13 prototype was displayed in England 1969 - Richard Nixon takes office 1964 - The Beatles released their first album "Meet the Beatles" in the U.S. 1961 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated 1946 - The first Kaiser-Frazer cars are introduced in NY 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his 4th term 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president 1841 - As a result of the First Opium War, Hong Kong is ceded to Britain. | |
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2003 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics had surpassed Blacks as the largest minority group. 1976 - The first commercial Concordes takes off 1954 - The world's 1st gas-turbine powered car (FXP-21) 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet leader, dies in Moscow 1899 - (GM) Opel opens for business 1793 - King Louis XVI executed 1789 - The first American novel published | |
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1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state. 1973 - The US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions in Roe v. Wade. 1973 - Lyndon Baines Johnson dies in Texas at the age 64 1905 - Massacre in Russia: 500 workers are killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg. 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand | |
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1989 - Salvador Dali (famous Spanish painter) dies in Spain at age 84. 1973 - President Nixon announces peace settlement reached in Paris to end the Vietnam War. 1968 - North Korea seizes U.S. ship Pueblo (the crew was released 11 months later) 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman receives M.D. 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman received M.D. (physician) in the U.S. 1789 - Georgetown University established in Washington, DC. 1556 - The deadliest earthquake on record killed 830,000 in Shansi, China. | |
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2003 - The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, becomed a cabinet department. 1993 - The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, dies. 1986 - Voyager II space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus. 1972 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam; he spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on. 1965 - Winston Churchill dies in London at age 90. 1927 - First Alfred Hitchcock film opens 1907 - G. Curtiss sets motorcycle-speed record: 136.3mph | |
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1995 - Near launching of Russian nukes 1980 - Mao's widow sentenced to death 1961 - President John F. Kennedy holds the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television. 1949 - First Emmy awards 1942 - Thailand declares war on the U.S. and England 1924 - The first Winter Olympic games opened at Chamonix, France. 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurats transcontinental telephone service. 1890 - United Mine Workers of America is founded | |
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2004 - President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan. 2001 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people. 1993 - Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic. 1950 - Republican India born 1950 after 3 years gaining its independence from the United Kingdom 1945 - Soviets liberate Auschwitz 1918 - Ukraine declares its independence 1905 - World's largest diamond found 1837 - Michigan became the 26th state in the U.S. 1788 - The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia. 1500 - Spanish explorer Vicente Y. Pinzon discovers Brazil | |
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1973 - US-Vietnam Paris Peace Accords is signed 1967 - The Apollo I fire kills astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral. 1951 - First atomic detonates at the Nevada test site 1945 - The Russians liberates Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews. 1944 - Siege of Leningrad is lifted 1943 - First American bombs drops in Germany 1899 - Jenatzy captures car-speed record: 49.932 mph 1880 - Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his incandescent light. | |
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1999- The creation of Element 114 "ununquadium " is announced by scientists. 1986 - U.S. shuttle Challenger explodes 72 seconds after lift off, killing all seven crew members aboard. 1973 - Vietnam war's cease-fire goes into effect. 1964 - Soviets shoot down U.S. jet. 1956 - Elvis' first TV appearance. 1915 - Congress passed legislation creating the U.S. Coast Guard. 1902 - Carnegie Institution established. | |
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2002 - George W. Bush makes “Axis of Evil” speech 1989 - Yugo files for bankruptcy 1979 - Carter & Deng open new China-US relations 1886 - Karl Benz receives a patent ("Motorwagen") for the first successful gasoline-driven car. 1861 - Kansas became the 34th state in the U.S. | |
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1972 - British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre. 1968 - North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive. 1933 - Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany 1948 - Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born 1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded for treason. | |
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1990 - First McDonald's is opened in Soviet Union. 1971 - NASA Apollo 14 departs for the moon. 1958 - The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, is launched. 1940 - The first social security check is issued to Ida Fuller for $22.54. 1939 - G. Burns sentenced for buying smuggled goods 1865 - The House of Representatives approves the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the U.S. | |
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