1807: Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat made its first voyage, heading up…
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1777: American forces won the Battle of Bennington in what was considered a…
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1057: Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son…
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1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law,…
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1521: Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan, present-day…
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1909: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, first…
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1929: Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to reach 500 career home runs…
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1792: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace…
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1173: Construction began on the campanile of Pisa Cathedral — better known as…
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1814: During the War of 1812, peace talks between the United States and Britain…
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1964: Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B…
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1806: Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Holy Roman Empire…
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1861: Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, which levied the first…
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1790: The U.S. Coast Guard had its beginnings as President George Washington…
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1492: Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on his first voyage that…
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1790: The first United States Census began under the supervision of Thomas…
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1876: Colorado was admitted as the 38th state in the Union, less than a month…
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1715: A fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewelry sank during a…
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1619: The first representative assembly in Colonial America convened in…
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1890: Artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot…
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1794: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by…
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1789: President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department…
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1775: The Continental Congress established a Post Office and appointed Benjamin…
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1866: Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the…
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1974: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled President Richard Nixon had to…
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1903: The Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a Model A, for $850.
1958:…
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1862: President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of…
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1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T.…
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1944: An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler…
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1812: During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake…