1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts,…
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1954: The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American…
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1888: Jack the Ripper’s infamous killing spree in the Whitechapel district of…
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1960: John F. Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election over Vice President…
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1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of…
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1888: Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison won the electoral…
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1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the…
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1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt.
1979:…
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1911: The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and…
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1783: Gen. George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the Army.
1861:…
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1938: In a two-horse match, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner…
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1864: President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation making Nevada the 36th…
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1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in…
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1787: The first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for…
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1774: The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825: The Erie…
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1859: Radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Virginia,…
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1537: Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, died 12 days…
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1915: An estimated 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City in…
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1836: Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected president of the…
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1944: U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen — the first German city to…
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1803: The U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1944: Gen. Douglas…
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1781: British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown,…
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1867: The United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
1954:…
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1777: British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in…
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1962: The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed…
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1815: Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed French emperor, arrived on the British-…
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1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life rather than face…
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1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House…
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1492: Christopher Columbus’s first expedition made landfall on what is now San…
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1906: The San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students…