1536: The English Parliament passed an act declaring the authority of the pope…
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1862: During the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act,…
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1790: A site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the…
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1799: The Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was…
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1789: In an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of…
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1793: French politician, physician and journalist Jean-Paul Marat was…
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1543: England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and final wife, Catherine…
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1798: The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act…
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1509: Theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was…
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1850: President Zachary Taylor died of gastrointestinal illness after consuming…
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1776: Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of…
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1865: Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John…
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1483: England’s King Richard III was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1777:…
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1687: Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume…
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1775: Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at…
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1776: The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying “these United…
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1863: The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a…
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1918: Labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland,…
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1613: London’s original Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were…
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1863: During the Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen.…
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1844: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob…
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1917: U.S. troops entered World War I as the first troops of the American…
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1876: The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand,…
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1509: Henry VIII was crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon,…
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1888: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky…
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1941: Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive and ultimately ill-…
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1788: The United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became…
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1782: The Continental Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States,…
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1865: Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War…
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1778: American forces entered Philadelphia as the British withdrew during the…