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1963 - James Whittaker , the first American to reach the summit of Mt. Everest 1931 - Empire State Building dedicated 1902 - The first prototype gasoline-powered locomobile is built | |
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1945 - Berlin surrenders to Russia's Zhukov 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender to the Allies 1918 - GM acquired the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware | |
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1962 - Two trains collide near Tokyo, Japan, killing more than 160 people 1947 - New Japanese constitution goes into effect | |
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1980 - Tito dies 1979 - Margaret Thatcher is sworn in as Britain's first female prime minister 1959 - First Grammys announced 1865 - Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois | |
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1963 - Tito is made president for life 1945 - Japanese battleship Yamatois k by Allied forces 1939 - Italy invades Albania | |
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1970 - American students launch nationwide protest the Vietnam war 1942 - American forces in the Philippines surrender unconditionally to Japanese 1861 - Arkansas secedes from the Union | |
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1998 - Daimler and Chrysler merge 1960 - Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviets 1954 - French fall to Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam 1945 - Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims | |
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1984 - Soviets to boycott L.A. Olympics 1933 - First police radios installed 1914 - Paramount Pictures formed | |
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1960 - FDA approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill--Enovid-10 1955 - West Germany joins NATO 1914 - Woodrow Wilson proclaims the first Mother’s Day holiday | |
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1994 - Nelson Mandela inaugurated 1940 - Churchill becomes prime minister 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover begins his legacy with the FBI 1869 - First transcontinental railroad is completed | |
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1997 - IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov, the chess champion 1947 - Ferrari made its independent racing debut at a race in Piacenza, Italy 1858 - Minnesota enters the Union | |
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1961 - Lyndon B. Johnson visits South Vietnam 1957 - Race car driver A.J. Foyt gets first pro victory 1937 - George VI crowned at Westminster | |
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1981 - Pope John Paul II shot 1607 - Jamestown, VA foundeds | |
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1973 - Skylab, America's first space station, is successfully launched into an orbit around the earth 1948 - State of Israel proclaimed 1904 - The 3rd Olympiad of the modern era, and the 1st Olympic Games is held St. Louis, Missouri | |
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1981 - The 20,000,000th Volkswagen Beetle was produced at the Volkswagen plant in Puebla, Mexicoe 1800 - President John Adams orders federal government leave Philadelphia for Washington DC | |
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1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest 1968 - A general strike spreads to factories and industries across France 1929 - First U.S. Academy Awards presented | |
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2004 - First legal same-sex marriage performed in Massachusetts 1970 - Televised Watergate hearings begin | |
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1989 - One million protesters take to the streets in Beijing 1980 - Mount St. Helens erupts 1974 - India joins the nuclear club 1908 - Congress mandates use of "In God We Trust" 1861 - Arkansas admitted to the Confederate States of America | |
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1997 - First Avian flu kills young boy in Hong Kong 1943 - Churchill and FDR plot D-Day | |
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1961 - Automaker Ford makes presidential limousine 1956 - United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1899 - First speeding ticket issued 1837 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans 1506 - Christopher Columbus dies | |
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1960 - Huge earthquake hits Chile, kills 5,000 people and leaves another 2 million homeless 1901 - First speed limit law is enacted 1881 - American Red Cross founded | |
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1990 - After 150 years apart, Marxist South Yemen and conservative North Yemen are unified as the Republic of Yemen. 1972 - President Nixon in Moscow | |
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1920 - Tami hits Hawaii 1949 - Federal Republic of Germany is established 1915 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary | |
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1899 - First parking garage opens 1883 - Brooklyn Bridge opens 1775 - John Hancock becomes president of Congress | |
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1992 - Jay Leno's first Tonight Show 1979 - AA Flight 191 crashes in Chicago kills killing all 271 people on board | |
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1991 - A Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, Thailand, killing all 223 people on board 1953 - First 3-D sci-fi film opens 1896 - Czar Nicholas II crowned | |
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1971 - Senators announces support to North Vietnam 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public 1924 - Jules Stein founds the Music Corporation of American (MCA) in Chicago 1703 - St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great | |
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1991 - Ethiopian capital falls to rebels 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge opens to vehicular traffic 1940 - Belgium surrenders unconditionally | |
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1988 - Reagan arrives in Moscow for summit talks 1942 - Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats 1917 - John F. Kennedy is born 1914 - British liner Empress of Ireland collides with Norwegian freighter Storstad kills 1,012 people | |
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1990 - Gorbachev arrives in Washington for summit 1967 - Republic of Biafra proclaimed | |
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1996 - Netanyahu elected prime minister of Israel 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Architect of the Holocaust, is hanged in Israel 1759 - Pennsylvania bans theater | |
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