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,…
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1775: Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington,…
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1961: Some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of…
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1947: The French cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying over 2,000 tons of ammonium…
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1912: The British luxury liner RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic off…
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1865: President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes…
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1861: Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first…
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1861: The U.S. Civil War began as Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter…
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1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to…
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1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded…
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1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen.…
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1820: The Venus de Milo statue, likely dating to the 2nd century B.C.E., was…
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1862: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell…
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1830: Joseph Smith and others met in Fayette, New York, to form the Church of…
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1887: In Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as…
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1841: President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after…
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1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what was to be his…
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1792: Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.…
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1946: A magnitude 8.6 earthquake centered near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands…
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1492: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, an…
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1822: Florida became a United States territory.
1867: U.S. Secretary of State…
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1943: World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began, limiting American…
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1898: The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled 6-2 that…
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1912: In Washington D.C., first lady Helen Herron Taft and the wife of Japan’s…
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1992: A judge in Indianapolis sentenced former heavyweight boxing champion Mike…
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1911: One hundred-forty-six people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed…
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1882: German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin he discovered the…
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1775: Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention…
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1963: The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United…