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1990 - The US and Soviets agreed to destroy chemical weapons 1980 - CNN Launches 1965 - Coal mine explosion in Japan kills 236 people | |
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1935 - Babe Ruth retires 1924 - The Indian Citizenship Act 1912 - Universal founded 1885 - American Civil War ends | |
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1989 - Crackdown at Tiananmen begins 1980 - Natural gas explosion kills 500 in Russia 1965 - Edward H. White II, the first American astronaut, walks in space 1800 - President Adams settles in new capital, Washington DC | |
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1989 - Tiananmen Square massacre takes place 1972 - The collision of two trains in Jessore, Bangladesh, kills 76 people 1919 - Congress passes the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote 1896 - Ford test-drives the Quadricycle, the first automobile he designed and drove | |
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2004 - Ronald Reagan dies 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy shot after California primary 1951 - Gordon M. Buehrig received his "vehicle top with removable panels" T-Top patent 1944 - Allies prepare for D-Day | |
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1944 - D-Day: Allies invade France 1934 - FDR signs Securities Exchange Act 1933 - First "drive-in" opens 1932 - First gas tax enacted | |
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1966 - Reagan becomes governor of California 1939 - King George VI becomes the first British arch visiting the U.S. 1893 - Mohandas K. Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience | |
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1968 - Robert Kennedy buried 632 - Muhammad, a principal founder of Islam dies | |
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1934 - Donald Duck makes his first film appearance, in "The Wise Little Hen" a short by Walt Disney 1856 - Mor handcart pioneers depart for Salt Lake City | |
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1947 - Saab introduces first car 1940 - Norway surrenders to Germany 1940 - Italy declares war on France and Great Britain | |
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1979 - John Wayne dies 1788 - Russian explorer Izmailov arrives at Yakutat Bay, Alaska | |
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1942 - Anne Frank started writing her diary, which became "The Diary of a Young Girl",
published in 1947 and has been translated into some 30 languages 1898 - Philippine independence declared 1897 - Deadly quake hits India killing more than 1,500 people | |
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1973 - Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign new peace agreement - Vietnam War 1967 - rgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court 1944 - Germans launch V-1 rocket attack against Britain | |
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1982 - Falkland Islands War ends 1977 - Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes 1940 - Germans enter Paris | |
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1965 - U.S. planes bomb North Vietnam 1877 - First Acan American graduate of West Point 1846 - U.S.-Canadian border established 1776 - Delaware declares independence | |
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1977 - Leonid Ilich Brezhnev is elected president of the Supreme Soviet. 1963 - Vostok 6, Soviet Cosaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space 1958 - Imre Nagy, a former Hungarian premier uprising against Soviet rule in 1956, is hanged by his country's communist authorities. | |
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1940 - France to surrender to Germany 1885 - Sta of Liberty arrives | |
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1923 - The first Checker cab was produced by the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company 1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel into space. 1815 - Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history | |
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1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, are put to death in the electric chair in New York 1867 - Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of Mexico by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, is executed on the orders of Benito Juarez, the president of the Mexican Republic. | |
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1979 - Solar-energy system installed at White House 1977 - Oil flows in Alaska 1863 - West Virginia enters the Union | |
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1990 - Earthquake devastates Iran 1863 - French withdraw navy from NATO 1778 - U.S. Constitution ratified | |
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1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the GI bill to provide financial aid to veterans returning from World War II 1934 - Porsche builds prototypes 1775 - Congress issues Continental currency> | |
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1972 - President Richard Nixon signs into law the Higher Education Act, as a result, women’s participation in team sports, particularly in collegiate
athletics, surged with the passage of this act. 1940 - Hitler takes a tour of Paris | |
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1948 - Soviets blockade West Berlin 1901 - Picasso exhibited in Paris 1812 - Napoleon's Grande Armee invades Russia | |
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1950 - Korean War begins 1942 - Eisenhower assumes command of U.S. troops in Europe 1910 - Congress passes the Mann Act, which was ostensibly aimed at keeping innocent girls from being lured into prostitution. | |
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1945 - U.N. Charter signed 1917 - First U.S. troops arrive in France | |
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1950 - U.N. approves armed force to repel North Korea 1950 - Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea 1944 - U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg, France 1844 - Mor leader killed by mob | |
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1948 - The Soviet Union expels Yugoslavia from the Communist Information Bureau (COMINFORM) for the latter's position on the Greek civil war 1914 - Ferdinand assassinated in Austro-Daimler 1888 - Robert Louis Stevenson sets sail for the South Seas | |
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1995 - U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station 1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a letter marked “secret” to leading Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer 1941 - Germans advance in USSR 1902 - Renault wins in car he designed | |
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1967 - Thieu becomes president of South Vietnam 1953 - First Corvette produced 1936 - Gone with the Wind published | |
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