Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
Truman announces development of H-bomb
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Americans secure Guadalcanal
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Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame
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World chess champion Garry Kasparov loses game to computer
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, February 11th, 2023
Nelson Mandela released from prison
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, February 12th, 2023
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 13th, 2023
Firebombing of Dresden
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St. Valentine beheaded
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The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor
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Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut
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Madame Butterfly” premieres
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Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
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Donner Party rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Ireland allows sale of contraceptives
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, February 21st, 2023
Malcolm X assassinated
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U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the "Miracle on Ice"
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U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
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Alamo defenders call for help
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Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, February 26th, 2023
Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 27th, 2023
New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, February 28th, 2023
Chemical structure of DNA discovered
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 1st, 2023
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
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Dr. Seuss Born
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Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, March 4th, 2023
FDR Inaugurated
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 7th, 2023
Civil Rights protesters beaten in "Bloody Sunday" attack
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February Revolution begins, leading to the end of czarist rule in Russia
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 9th, 2023
Barbie Doll Makes it Debut
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Tibetans revolt against Chinese occupation
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, March 11th, 2023
Fukushima nuclear disaster
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FDR broadcasts first "fireside chat" during the Great Depression
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, March 13th, 2023
Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 14th, 2023
Albert Einstein born
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 15th, 2023
LBJ calls for equal voting rights
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, March 16th, 2023
U.S. Military Academy established
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 17th, 2023
St. Patrick dies
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Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, March 19th, 2023
War in Iraq begins
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LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, March 22nd, 2023
Stamp Act imposed on American colonies
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"OK" enters national vernacular
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Exon Valdez Crash
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, March 27th, 2023
1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, March 28th, 2023
Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island
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U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
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President Reagan Shot
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Eiffel Tower Opens
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April Fools’ tradition popularized
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, April 2nd, 2023
Pope John Paul II dies
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 3rd, 2023
Pony Express debuts
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 4th, 2023
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, April 5th, 2023
Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, April 6th, 2023
The United States officially enters World War I
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, April 7th, 2023
Violence erupts in Rwanda, foreshadowing genocide
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Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record
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Robert E. Lee surrenders
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 10th, 2023
ASPCA is founded
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 11th, 2023
Napoleon abdicates the throne and is exiled to Elba
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Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
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Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament for the first time
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John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln
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Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier
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Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 17th, 2023
Apollo 13 returns to Earth
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, April 18th, 2023
The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, April 19th, 2023
American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington
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Teen gunmen kill 13 at Columbine High School
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Legendary musician and megawatt star Prince dies at 57
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, April 22nd, 2023
The first Earth Day
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William Shakespeare born
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, April 24th, 2023
Easter Rebellion begins
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Soviet leader Yuri Andropov writes letter to U.S. fifth-grader Samantha Smith
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, April 27th, 2023
Universe is created, according to Kepler
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Benito Mussolini executed
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World War II monument opens in Washington, D.C.
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, April 30th, 2023
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 1st, 2023
Empire State Building Dedicated
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Loch Ness "Monster" sighted for the first time, igniting the modern legend
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Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli born
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National Guard kills four students in Kent State shootings
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Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
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English Channel tunnel opens
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Edvard Munch’s "The Scream" recovered after theft
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 8th, 2023
V-E Day is Celebrated
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FDA approves "the pill"
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Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States
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Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, May 12th, 2023
Kidnapped Lindbergh baby found dead
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U.S. Congress declares war on Mexico
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Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, May 15th, 2023
Madeleine Albright, America's first female secretary of state, is born
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, May 16th, 2023
First Academy Awards ceremony
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Brown v. Board of Ed is decided
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Pope John Paul II born
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Lawrence of Arabia dies
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Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, May 21st, 2023
American Red Cross founded
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A thousand pioneers head West as part of the Great Emigration
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Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde
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Brooklyn Bridge opens
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Constitutional Convention begins
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"Dracula" goes on sale in London
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Ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees, fleeing Nazi Germany, is turned away in Cuba
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Appeal for Amnesty campaign launches
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit
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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy
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Tulsa Race Massacre begins
| Special Interest | see moreSaturday, July 1st, 2023
Hong Kong returned to China
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 3rd, 2023
Battle of Gettysburg ends
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Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
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Bikini introduced
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Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon
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Building of Hoover Dam begins
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Liberty Bell tolls to announce Declaration of Independence
| Special Interest | see moreSunday, July 9th, 2023
Wimbledon tournament begins
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Scopes Monkey Trial begins
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, July 11th, 2023
Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in duel
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, July 12th, 2023
Geraldine Ferraro named vice presidential candidate
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, July 13th, 2023
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter first appears, sparking a movement
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French revolutionaries storm the Bastille
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Twitter Launches
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The first atomic bomb test is successfully exploded
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Disneyland Opens
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FDR nominated for unprecedented third term
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Rosetta Stone found
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Neil Armstrong walks on moon
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The First Battle of Bull Run
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Jessica Lynch gets hero's welcome
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Former president Ulysses S. Grant dies
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 24th, 2023
American archeologist encounters Machu Picchu ruins
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World’s first "test tube" baby born
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U.S. postal system established
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House begins impeachment of Nixon
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14th Amendment adopted
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NASA Created
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President Johnson signs Medicare into law
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, July 31st, 2023
Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, September 1st, 2023
Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship
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Japan surrenders, bringing an end to WWII
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Treaty of Paris signed
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Geronimo surrenders
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Sam Houston elected as president of Texas
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First tank produced
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United States nicknamed Uncle Sam
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Ford Pardons Nixon
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Elvis Presley makes first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
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First Drunk Driving Arrest
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Attack on the United States
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Lascaux cave paintings discovered
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Israel-Palestine peace accord signed
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Francis Scott Key pens “The Star-Spangled Banner”
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Muhammad Ali wins world heavyweight championship
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Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation
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Battle of Antietam breaks out
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George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone
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Nevada is site of first-ever underground nuclear explosion
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Billie Jean King triumphs in “Battle of the Sexes"
| Special Interest | see moreThursday, September 21st, 2023
Benedict Arnold commits treason
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Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
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Billy the Kid arrested for first time
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The first Supreme Court is established
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Little Rock Nine begin first full day of classes
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Kennedy and Nixon square off in first televised presidential debate
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John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British
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Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400
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Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills seven
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USS Nautilus—world’s first nuclear submarine—is commissioned
| Special Interest | see moreWednesday, November 1st, 2023
Sistine Chapel ceiling opens to public
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Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies
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Saturday, November 4th, 2023
Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
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The order is given Bomb Pearl Harbor
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UN condemns apartheid in South Africa
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FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
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German scientist discovers X-rays
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Nazis launch Kristallnacht
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“Sesame Street” debuts
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Armistice Day: World War I ends
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Ellis Island closes
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated
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Herman Melville publishes “Moby-Dick”
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First stock ticker debuts
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Francisco Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa
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Elizabethan Age begins
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Mass suicide at Jonestown
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President Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
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Nuremberg trials begin
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Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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First issue of “Life” is published
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"Origin of Species" is published
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"The Mousetrap" opens in London
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FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday
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Pope Urban II orders first Crusade
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Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific
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U.N. votes for partition of Palestine
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Folies Bergère stages first revue
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, January 1st, 2024
Batista forced out by Castro-led revolution
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U.S.-Russia detente ends
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Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S.
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L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address
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Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication
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First U.S. presidential election
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Crazy Horse fights last battle
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Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids
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Gusher signals new era of U.S. oil industry
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U.S. Surgeon General announces definitive link between smoking and cancer
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Massive earthquake strikes Haiti
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Pope recognizes Knights Templar
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. born
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Prohibition is ratified by the states
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Boston thieves pull off historic Brink's robbery
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Post-World War I peace conference begins in Paris
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Edgar Allan Poe is born
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Iran Hostage Crisis ends
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President Carter pardons draft dodgers
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Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
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Toy company Wham-O produces first Frisbees
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
World’s largest diamond found
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British settlement begins in Australia
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Auschwitz is liberated
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff
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U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
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