1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded…
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1863: The Siege of Vicksburg began during the Civil War, ending July 4 with a…
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1792: The Buttonwood Agreement, a document codifying rules for securities…
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1770: Marie Antoinette, 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, 15.…
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1800: President John Adams ordered government offices to relocate from…
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1607: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, was…
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1846: The United States Congress formally declared war against Mexico,…
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1780: The besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British…
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1935: The Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President…
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1869: A golden spike was driven in a ceremony in Promontory, Utah, marking the…
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1754: The famous political cartoon “Join or Die” was first published by…
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1541: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River, the…
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1915: A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off…
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1882: President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which…
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1821: Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1862…
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1886: At Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour…
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1802: Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1937: Margaret Mitchell…
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1863: During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was…
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1931: The Empire State Building was dedicated in New York City; it would be the…
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1789: George Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York as…
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1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered…
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1789: Mutineers led by Fletcher Christian took control of the ship HMS Bounty…
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1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan…
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1607: English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Virginia, on an…
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1507: A world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller…
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1916: Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British…
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1635: The Boston Latin School, the first public school in what would become the…
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1889: The Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked…
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1836: An army of Texans, led by Sam Houston, defeated the Mexican Army, led by…
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1993: The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas,…