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1997 - Boeing purchases McDonnell-Douglas 1941 - The Jeep is born 1910 - New York issues first license plates 1790 - The first U.S. Census is completed. There are four million people in the U.S. | |
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1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched 1990 - Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia 1934 - Hitler becomes fuhrer (leader) 1861 - First income tax is passed 1819 - 1st parachute jump in the U.S. | |
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2014 - About 400 people are killed as a 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes the south-western province of Yunnan, China. 1990 - Firestone is founded 1941 - Gas rationing begins in eastern U.S. 1914 - Germany and France declare war 1492 - Columbus sets sail | |
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1969 - US-Vietnam: Secret negotiations are initiated in Paris 1961 - President Barack Hussein Obama II is born in Hawaii. 1944 - Anne Frank and her family arrested by Gestapo 1914 - Germany invades Belgium. 1914 - Britain declares war on Germany. 1693 - Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon. | |
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1983 - "Baby Bells" are born 1981 - Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers 1974 - Congress cuts military aid to South Vietnam 1962 - Marilyn Monroe is found dead 1914 - First traffic light is installed 1861 - Lincoln imposes first federal income tax 1858 - First transatlantic telegraph cable completed | |
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1996 - Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 people 1985 - 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities 1945 - The Atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the U.S. The city was destroyed and estimated 129,558 were killed, wounded or missing as a result of the blast. 1928 - Chung Se Yung, a cofounder of the Hyundai Motor Company, was born 1890 - First execution by electric chair | |
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1998 - U.S. embassies in East Africa bombed 1994 - 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan 1971 - U.S. Apollo 15 returns to Earth 1959 - U.S. satellite photographs Earth 1941 - 551 Jews are shot by Nazi Germany in Kishnev ghetto in Romania 1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. 1909 - US issues 1st Lincoln penny 1782 - The "Order of the Purple Heart" is created by President George Washington | |
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1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province 1989 - US space shuttle STS-28 launched 1983 - Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees 1974 - US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day 1967 - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 1945 - Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria; and establishes a communist government in North Korea | |
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1974 - President Richard M. Nixon becomes the first and only president to resign while in office; Ford is inaugurated 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki | |
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1846 - Smithsonian Institution created 1945 - Japan accepts Potsdam terms, agrees to unconditional surrender 1874 - President Hoover is born in Iowa. | |
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2012 - At least 250 people are killed as two powerful quakes which strikes within minutes in Tabriz and Ahar of Iran 1972 - Last U.S. ground combat unit departs South Vietnam 1952 - Hussein succeeds to Jordanian throne | |
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1981 - IBM's first PC is completed 1973 - Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones' record of 13 major championships 1959 - US Military satellite "Discoverer 5" launched into polar orbit 1953 - Soviets test "Layer-Cake" bomb 1898 - US annexes Hawaii. | |
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1993 - US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mails 1978 - Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed 1961 - Berlin is divided 1913 - Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England invented stainless steel | |
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2003 - Blackout hits Northeast United States 1947 - China declares war on Germany 1945 - Japan surrenders, ending World War II. 1941 - Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Philippines, and Guam. 1935 - FDR signs Social Security Act 1784 - Russians settle Alaska 1784 - Paris issues first license plates | |
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2007 - At least 519 people are killed as a 7.90-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 90 miles (145km) south-east of the capital, Lima of Peru. 1961 - Berlin Wall built 1947 - Ferrari makes racing debut 1945 - Hirohito of Japan announces unconditional surrender to Allied, WW2 is ended 1945 - Gas rationing ends in the US 1914 - Panama Canal is opened to traffic | |
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1977 - Popular music icon Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 42. 1977 - South Vietnam: General Khanh ousts General Minh as chief of state 1948 - Babe Ruth dies 1923 - Carnegie establishes eight-hour day 1812 - Detroit surrenders without a fight | |
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1999 - Over 17,000 people are killed as a 7.40-magnitude earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul. 1976 - Viking 1 lands on Mars 1973 - U.S. troops to withdraw from Thailand 1961 - Construction is started on the Berlin Wall. 1909 - Andrew McNally III, an executive with Rand McNally Co., the oldest map publisher of the US, was born in Chicago | |
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2008 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned 1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment 1976 - USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on the moon 1966 - The first batch of redesigned $100 bills featuring the now-familiar motto "In God We Trust" is printed 1949 - Hungary adopts constitution 1937 - Toyota Motor Company is established 1894 - US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration | |
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1946 - President Bill Clinton is born in Arkansas. 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany 1909 - First car race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1841 - First bankruptcy laws established | |
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1996 - Minimum wage is increased 1975 - Viking 1 launched to Mars 1968 - Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia 1962 - The first 1963 Ford Thunderbird is produced 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico 1833 - President B. Harrison is born in Ohio. 1862 - Eight-hour workday is born | |
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1991 - Coup attempt against Gorbachev collapses 1959 - Hawaii becomes the 50th state 1911 - Theft of Mona Lisa is discovered | |
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1959 - Rockefeller marries family maid 1950 - Althea Gibson becomes first African-American on U.S. tennis tour 1944 - Romania captured by the Soviet Union 1901 - Cadillac is launched 1851 - U.S. wins first America's Cup | |
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1979 - Russian ballet star Aleksandr Godunov defects to the United States after a performance in New York City 1966 - The first picture of Earth from the moon is taken by Lunar Orbiter 1. 1784 - Four counties in western North Carolina declare their independence as the state of Franklin. The counties lay in what would eventually become Tennessee. | |
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1954 - Congress passes Communist Control Act 1945 - The last Cadillac-built M-24 tank was produced 1821 - Spain accepts Mexican independence 1814 - British capture and burn Washington, DC | |
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1954 - USPS issues car stamps 1944 - After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French and US forces 1920 - U.S. Congress passes the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. 1910 - Yellow Cab Company is born | |
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1985 - The Yugo, manufactured in Yugoslavia, is introduced to the U.S. market. It quickly became infamous
for its poor quality of construction and was the butt of many jokes 1980 - A 1,500-pound bomb is discovered in a Nevada casino 1957 - Russia tests an intercontinental ballistic missile 1939 - First televised Major League baseball game | |
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1957 - Senator Thurmond begins a 24 hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Bill. 1938 - Captain George Eyston established a new land speed record of 345.49 mph. The current record is held by Andy Green at 763.035 mph. 1916 - Romania enters World War I. 1908 - President L. B. Johnson is born in Texas. 1859 - Oil is found in Pennsylvania. | |
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1996 - Charles and Diana divorce 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks to more than 200,000 people attending the March on Washington. The demonstrators demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination. 1922 - The famous Autodromo, an automobile-racing track, is opened in Monza, Italy | |
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2005 - Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast 1949 - Soviets explode atomic bomb 1898 - Goodyear incorporates 1885 - First motorcycle is patented 1862 - Bureau of Engraving is founded | |
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1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman premieres on CBS 1983 - U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel into space 1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1918 - Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is shot 30 BC - Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, commits suicide following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome | |
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1997 - Princess Diana dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris 1994 - Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov 1978 - Sri Lanka adopted Constitution 1965 - US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development 1968 - 12,000 die in 7.8 quake in Iran 1957 - Malaysia gains independence from Great Britain 1919 - Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev 1897 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph | |
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