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1973 - Honda's Civic is introduced 1961 - Kennedy establishes Peace Corps 1941 - First commercially licensed FM station 1872 - Yellowstone Park established | |
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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 | |
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1879 - United States Geological Survey created 1873 - Congress bans sending obscene materials 1845 - Congress overrides presidential veto for first time | |
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1952 - Ernest Hemingway finishes "The Old Man & the Sea" 1865 - Lincoln inaugurated for a second term 1861 - Lincoln inaugurated | |
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1953 - Joseph Stalin dies | |
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1983 - Kohl elected West German chancellor 1953 - Georgi Malenkov succeeds Stalin 1931 - First radio newsreel debuts 1475 - Michelangelo is born | |
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1973 - Bangladesh's first democratic leader 1918 - Finland signs treaty with Germany 1916 - BMW is born | |
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1975 - S. Vietnam President Thieu orders force withdrawal 1957 - Egypt opens the Suez Canal 1796 - Supreme Court knocks down tax law | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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1952 - Mercedes introduces 300SL 1938 - Gandhi leads civil disobedience 1923 - First movie with sound recorded on film | |
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1946 - UAW takes on General Motors 1881 - Czar Alexander II assassinated | |
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1990 - Gorbachev elected president of the Soviet Union 1879 - Albert Einstein born | |
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1990 - Ford Explorer is introduced 1939 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia 1917 - Czar Nicholas II abdicates 1906 - Rolls Royce is born | |
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1968 - My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam 1945 - Fighting on Iwo Jima ends 1915 - FTC is founded 1802 - U.S. Military Academy established | |
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1949 - First Porsche is introduced 1906 - Earthquakes kill more than 1,200 in Taiwan 1776 - British evacuate Boston | |
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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 | |
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2003 - War in Iraq begins 1952 - One millionth Jeep produced 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling 1916 - First U.S. air combat mission begins | |
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1995 - Tokyo subways are attacked with sarin gas 1854 - Republican Party founded | |
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1980 - Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott in Moscow 1971 - First use of computer animation for entertainment | |
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1945 - Arab League formed 1933 - FDR legalizes sale of beer and wine | |
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1919 - Mussolini founds the Fascist party 1918 - Paris hit by shells from new German gun | |
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1999 - NATO bombs Yugoslavia 1989 - Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska 1954 - AMC (later bought by Chrysler) incorporated | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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1998 - FDA approves Viagra 1958 - Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier 1939 - NASCAR giant is born | |
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1979 - Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island 1969 - Eisenhower dies 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends | |
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1973 - U.S. withdraws from Vietnam | |
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1981 - President Reagan is shot 1867 - U.S. buys Alaska 1946 - Academy Award radio show begins | |
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1959 - Dalai Lama begins exile 1940 - Germany's Atlantis launches 1889 - Eiffel Tower opens | |
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