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…
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1845: The U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Maryland, with an…
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1985: Strawberry Fields in New York’s Central Park, a memorial to former Beatle…
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1871: The Great Chicago Fire began; more than 300 people died and more than 17,…
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1913: The first moving assembly line began operation at the Ford Motor Company…
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1973: War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise…
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1892: The Dalton Gang, notorious for its train robberies, was practically wiped…
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1777: Gen. George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at…
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1944: During World War II, U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of…
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2006: An armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish…
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1903: The first modern baseball World Series began, with the National League's…
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forced to flee in the face of advancing British forces — moved to York,…
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1938: British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich…
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1781: American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began…
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1779: John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s…
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1777: British troops occupied Philadelphia during the American Revolution.…
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1789: The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the…
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1789: President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s…
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1780: British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict…
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1776: During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy…
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1792: The National Convention of France issued a proclamation announcing the…
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1519: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on…
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1796: President George Washington’s farewell address was published. In it,…
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1793: President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.…
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1787: The Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a…
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1810: Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called on his parishioners to…
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1940: The tide turned in the Battle of Britain in World War II, as the Royal…
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1847: During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott…
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1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election…