1963: The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United…
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1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert,…
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1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was…
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1931: Nevada Gov. Fred B. Balzar signed a measure that made the state the first…
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1925: Nearly 700 people died when the Tri-State Tornado struck southeastern…
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1762: New York held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade.
1950: Scientists at…
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1802: President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment…
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44 B.C.: On the “ides of March,” Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated…
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1794: Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that…
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1781: The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by…
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1912: The Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings as Juliette Gordon Low of…
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1918: What were believed to be the first confirmed U.S. cases of a deadly…
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1496: Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere…
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1796: The future emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, married Josephine…
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1917: Protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd (now St.…
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1965: A march by more than 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken…
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1820: President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed…
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1770: The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by…
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1789: The Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first…
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1849: Congress established the U.S. Department of the Interior.
1863:…
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1807: The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was signed by President Thomas…
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1872: President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park…
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1844: A 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded as the ship was sailing…
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1933: Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire;…
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1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba, sailing back…
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1870: Republican Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi was sworn in as U.S. senator,…
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1803: In its landmark Marbury v. Madison decision, the U.S. Supreme Court…
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1836: The siege of the Alamo by Mexican troops began in San Antonio, Texas.…
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1959: The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held; although Johnny Beauchamp was…
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1885: President Chester Arthur dedicated the Washington Monument.
1911:…