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1 1973 - Honda's Civic is introduced
1961 - Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
1941 - First commercially licensed FM station
1872 - Yellowstone Park established
2 1972 - Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
1949 - Automatic streetlights are introduced
1925 - First numbered highways
1836 - Texas Independence proclaimed
1807 - Congress abolishes the Acan slave trade
3 1879 - United States Geological Survey created
1873 - Congress bans sending obscene materials
1845 - Congress overrides presidential veto for first time
4 1952 - Ernest Hemingway finishes "The Old Man & the Sea"
1865 - Lincoln inaugurated for a second term
1861 - Lincoln inaugurated
5 1953 - Joseph Stalin dies
6 1983 - Kohl elected West German chancellor
1953 - Georgi Malenkov succeeds Stalin
1931 - First radio newsreel debuts
1475 - Michelangelo is born
7 1973 - Bangladesh's first democratic leader
1918 - Finland signs treaty with Germany
1916 - BMW is born
8 1975 - S. Vietnam President Thieu orders force withdrawal
1957 - Egypt opens the Suez Canal
1796 - Supreme Court knocks down tax law
9 1938 - Bob Hope's film debut
1932 - China's last emperor is Japanese puppet
1925 - US National treasurer is born
1916 - Germany declares war on Portugal
10 1970 - Army captain charged with My Lai, Vietnam, war crimes
1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first film
1906 - Mine explosion kills 1,060 in France
1902 - Edison loses movie camera suit
1876 - Speech transmitted by telephone
11 2004 - Terrorists bomb trains in Madrid
1990 - Liania proclaims its independence
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev picked to succeed Chernenko
1918 - First cases reported in deadly influenza epidemic
1779 - Congress establishes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
12 1952 - Mercedes introduces 300SL
1938 - Gandhi leads civil disobedience
1923 - First movie with sound recorded on film
13 1946 - UAW takes on General Motors
1881 - Czar Alexander II assassinated
14 1990 - Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union
1879 - Albert Einstein born
15 1990 - Ford Explorer is introduced
1939 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia
1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicates
1906 - Rolls Royce is born
16 1968 - My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam
1945 - Fighting on Iwo Jima ends
1915 - FTC is founded
1802 - U.S. Military Academy established
17 1949 - First Porsche is introduced
1906 - Earthquakes kill more than 1,200 in Taiwan
1776 - British evacuate Boston
18 1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Sihanouk
1950 - Nationalist Chinese forces invade mainland China
1947 - William Durant, the founder of GM, died in NY
1929 - GM acquires Opel
1852 - Wells Fargo established
1850 - American Express founded
19 2003 - War in Iraq begins
1952 - One millionth Jeep produced
1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling
1916 - First U.S. air combat mission begins
20 1995 - Tokyo subways are attacked with sarin gas
1854 - Republican Party founded
21 1980 - Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott in Moscow
1971 - First use of computer animation for entertainment
22 1945 - Arab League formed
1933 - FDR legalizes sale of beer and wine
23 1919 - Mussolini founds the Fascist party
1918 - Paris hit by shells from new German gun
24 1999 - NATO bombs Yugoslavia
1989 - Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska
1954 - AMC (later bought by Chrysler) incorporated
25 1994 - Last U.S. troops depart Somalia
1975 - King Faisal assassinated
1967 - Martin Luther King leads march against the war
1946 - Soviets announce withdrawal from Iran
1920 - Chrysler leaves GM
1918 - Belarusian Peoples’ Republic established
1901 - Mercedes debuts
26 1979 - Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed
1975 - Hue (Vietnam) falls to the communists
1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel published
1885 - First movie film made
27 1998 - FDA approves Viagra
1958 - Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier
1939 - NASCAR giant is born
28 1979 - Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
1969 - Eisenhower dies
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends
29 1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
30 1981 - President Reagan is shot
1867 - U.S. buys Alaska
1946 - Academy Award radio show begins
31 1959 - Dalai Lama begins exile
1940 - Germany's Atlantis launches
1889 - Eiffel Tower opens
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