Monday, 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
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, January 22nd, 2024
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
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, January 29th, 2024
U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members
| Special Interest | see moreTuesday, January 30th, 2024
Gandhi assassinated
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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
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Nelson Mandela released from prison
| Special Interest | see moreMonday, February 12th, 2024
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes
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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
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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 moreMonday, February 26th, 2024
Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed
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New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras
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Chemical structure of DNA discovered
| Special Interest | see moreFriday, March 1st, 2024
Lindbergh baby kidnapped
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Dr. Seuss Born
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Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan
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FDR Inaugurated
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Civil Rights protesters beaten in "Bloody Sunday" attack
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February Revolution begins, leading to the end of czarist rule in Russia
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Barbie Doll Makes it Debut
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Tibetans revolt against Chinese occupation
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Fukushima nuclear disaster
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FDR broadcasts first "fireside chat" during the Great Depression
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Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg
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Albert Einstein born
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LBJ calls for equal voting rights
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U.S. Military Academy established
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St. Patrick dies
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Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company
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War in Iraq begins
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LBJ sends federal troops to Alabama to protect a civil rights march
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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
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1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
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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’ Day
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Pope John Paul II dies
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Pony Express debuts
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
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Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide
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The United States officially enters World War I
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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
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ASPCA is founded
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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
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Apollo 13 returns to Earth
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The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands
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American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington
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Teen gunmen kill 13 at Columbine High School
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