Monday, January 1st, 2024

Batista forced out by Castro-led revolution

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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

U.S.-Russia detente ends

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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024

Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S.

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Thursday, January 4th, 2024

L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address

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Saturday, January 6th, 2024

Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph, revolutionizing communication

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Sunday, January 7th, 2024

First U.S. presidential election

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Monday, January 8th, 2024

Crazy Horse fights last battle

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Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

Columbus mistakes manatees for mermaids

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Wednesday, January 10th, 2024

Gusher signals new era of U.S. oil industry

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Thursday, January 11th, 2024

U.S. Surgeon General announces definitive link between smoking and cancer

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Friday, January 12th, 2024

Massive earthquake strikes Haiti

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Saturday, January 13th, 2024

Pope recognizes Knights Templar

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Sunday, January 14th, 2024

Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution

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Monday, January 15th, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr. born

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Tuesday, January 16th, 2024

Prohibition is ratified by the states

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Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

Boston thieves pull off historic Brink's robbery

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Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Post-World War I peace conference begins in Paris

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Friday, January 19th, 2024

Edgar Allan Poe is born

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Saturday, January 20th, 2024

Iran Hostage Crisis ends

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Sunday, January 21st, 2024

President Carter pardons draft dodgers

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Monday, January 22nd, 2024

Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings

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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

Toy company Wham-O produces first Frisbees

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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to prison for sexual assault

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Thursday, January 25th, 2024

World’s largest diamond found

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Friday, January 26th, 2024

British settlement begins in Australia

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Saturday, January 27th, 2024

Auschwitz is liberated

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Sunday, January 28th, 2024

The space shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff

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Monday, January 29th, 2024

U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

Gandhi assassinated

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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

Truman announces development of H-bomb

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Thursday, February 8th, 2024

Americans secure Guadalcanal

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Friday, February 9th, 2024

Satchel Paige nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame

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Saturday, February 10th, 2024

World chess champion Garry Kasparov loses game to computer

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Sunday, February 11th, 2024

Nelson Mandela released from prison

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Monday, February 12th, 2024

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes

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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

Firebombing of Dresden

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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024

St. Valentine beheaded

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Thursday, February 15th, 2024

The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor

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Friday, February 16th, 2024

Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut

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Saturday, February 17th, 2024

Madame Butterfly” premieres

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Sunday, February 18th, 2024

Mark Twain publishes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

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Monday, February 19th, 2024

Donner Party rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

Ireland allows sale of contraceptives

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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024

Malcolm X assassinated

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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024

U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the "Miracle on Ice"

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Friday, February 23rd, 2024

U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima

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Saturday, February 24th, 2024

Alamo defenders call for help

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Sunday, February 25th, 2024

Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title

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Monday, February 26th, 2024

Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed

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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras

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Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Chemical structure of DNA discovered

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Friday, March 1st, 2024

Lindbergh baby kidnapped

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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

Dr. Seuss Born

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Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan

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Monday, March 4th, 2024

FDR Inaugurated

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Thursday, March 7th, 2024

Civil Rights protesters beaten in "Bloody Sunday" attack

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Friday, March 8th, 2024

February Revolution begins, leading to the end of czarist rule in Russia

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Saturday, March 9th, 2024

Barbie Doll Makes it Debut

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Sunday, March 10th, 2024

Tibetans revolt against Chinese occupation

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Monday, March 11th, 2024

Fukushima nuclear disaster

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Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

FDR broadcasts first "fireside chat" during the Great Depression

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Wednesday, March 13th, 2024

Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg

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Thursday, March 14th, 2024

Albert Einstein born

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Friday, March 15th, 2024

LBJ calls for equal voting rights

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Saturday, March 16th, 2024

U.S. Military Academy established

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Sunday, March 17th, 2024

St. Patrick dies

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Monday, March 18th, 2024

Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company

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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

War in Iraq begins

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Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march

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Friday, March 22nd, 2024

Stamp Act imposed on American colonies

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Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

"OK" enters national vernacular

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Sunday, March 24th, 2024

Exon Valdez Crash

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Monday, March 25th, 2024

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine

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Wednesday, March 27th, 2024

1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac

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Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island

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Friday, March 29th, 2024

U.S. withdraws from Vietnam

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Saturday, March 30th, 2024

President Reagan Shot

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Sunday, March 31st, 2024

Eiffel Tower Opens

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Monday, April 1st, 2024

April Fools’ Day

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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

Pope John Paul II dies

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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024

Pony Express debuts

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Thursday, April 4th, 2024

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

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Friday, April 5th, 2024

Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide

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Saturday, April 6th, 2024

The United States officially enters World War I

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Sunday, April 7th, 2024

Violence erupts in Rwanda, foreshadowing genocide

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Monday, April 8th, 2024

Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record

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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

Robert E. Lee surrenders

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Wednesday, April 10th, 2024

ASPCA is founded

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Thursday, April 11th, 2024

Napoleon abdicates the throne and is exiled to Elba

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Friday, April 12th, 2024

Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter

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Saturday, April 13th, 2024

Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament for the first time

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Sunday, April 14th, 2024

John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln

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Monday, April 15th, 2024

Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead

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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024

Apollo 13 returns to Earth

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Thursday, April 18th, 2024

The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands

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Friday, April 19th, 2024

American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington

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Saturday, April 20th, 2024

Teen gunmen kill 13 at Columbine High School

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Sunday, April 21st, 2024

Legendary musician and megawatt star Prince dies at 57

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