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1513 - Florida was reached by Juan Ponce de Leon. 1917 - Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. |
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1917 - The U.S. House of Representatives accepted The American's Creed, penned by William Tyler Page, as an official national motto. 1948 - Marshall Plan was signed by President Harry Truman. |
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1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed into existence. 1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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1614 - Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
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1830 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) was established by Joseph Smith and others in Fayette, New York. 1862 - Start of the Battle of Shiloh (U.S. Civil War). |
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1948 - Founding of the World Health Organization.
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1946 - First assembly of the United Nations.
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2005 - Marriage of Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince Charles of Great Britain.
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1849 - Patent granted to Walter Hunt for his safety pin. 1912 - Titanic set sail. 1942 - Start of the Bataan Death March, Philippines (World War II). |
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1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba. 1945 - Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces. 1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
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1861 - Attack on Fort Sumter which started the U.S. Civil War. 1961 - Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person in space. |
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1598 - France's Edict of Nantes granted Huguenots (Protestants) religious tolerance.
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1828 - Dictionary copyrighted by Noah Webster. 1865 - Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. 1912 - Iceberg struck by the Titanic. |
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1945 - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces (World War II).
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1917 - Return of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Russia (Russian Revolution).
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1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki formally ended the First Sino-Japanese War. 1975 - Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia). |
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1775 - Paul Revere went on his famous midnight ride. 1906 - Great San Francisco earthquake. 1956 - Marriage of Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier. |
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1775 - Americans defeated the British at the Battle of Concord, later commemorated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his "Concord Hymn." 1943 - Start of an uprising in the Warsaw ghetto of Poland (World War II). |
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1769 - Killing of Indian leader, Chief Pontiac. 1912 - Death of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. |
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1836 - The forces of Sam Houston are victorious over the forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, which ends the Texas Revolution. 1960 - Brasilia became the capital city of Brazil. |
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23 | "Talk Like Shakespeare Day" - Held in honor of his birthday.
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1916 - Easter Rising began in Dublin, Ireland. 1800 - Library of Congress established. 1915 - Start of the Armenian Massacre. Hubble Space Telescope launched. |
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1901 - New York became the first state to require license plates on cars. 1945 - The first meeting to establish the United Nations was held in San Francisco. |
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1986 - Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 1994 - South Africa's first multi-race elections were held. 2000 - Vermont became the first state to allow same-sex unions. |
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4977 B.C.E. - Kepler's Date for the formation of the universe. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines. 1937 - The first Social Security checks were mailed. 1993 - Eritrea became independent. |
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1788 - Maryland became a U.S. state. 1945 - Execution of Benito Mussolini. |
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1429 - Joan of Arc liberated Orleans. 1945 - Dachau concentration camp was liberated by American forces. |
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1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was made by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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