1907: President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act excluding “idiots…
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1847: The first rescuers reached members of the Donner Party, who had been…
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1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the U.S.…
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1801: The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas…
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1862: The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000…
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1879: President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a law allowing female attorneys to…
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1779: English explorer James Cook was killed on the island of Hawai’i during a…
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1935: A jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the…
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1809: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a…
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1937: A 6-week-old sit-down strike against General Motors ended, with the…
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1736: The treaty ending the Seven Years’ War was signed in Paris, with France…
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1825: The House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no…
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1587: Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after…
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1904: The Great Baltimore Fire began; one of the worst city fires in American…
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1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official…
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1917: The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 over President…
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1789: Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of…
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1865: President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H.…
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1536: Present-day Buenos Aires, Argentina, was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of…
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1865: Abolitionist John S. Rock became the first Black lawyer admitted to the…
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1863: During the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-Black…
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1945: During World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV…
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1891: Following the death of her brother Kalakaua, Lili‘uokalani was sworn in…
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1986: The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape…
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1756: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1888:…
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1788: Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a…
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41: Claudius I, who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a…
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1848: James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern…
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1368: China’s Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu…
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1901: Britain’s Queen Victoria died at 81 after a reign of 63 years; she was…