| 1990 |
-- France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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| 1982 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1971 |
-- France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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| 1969 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1966 |
-- LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
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| 1966 |
-- Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
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| 1960 |
-- America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
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| 1959 |
-- America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
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| 1956 |
-- Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
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| 1950 |
-- Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
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| 1946 |
-- Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
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| 1946 |
-- Philippines gains independence from US
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| 1944 |
-- 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
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| 1944 |
-- 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
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| 1944 |
-- Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
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| 1944 |
-- Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
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| 1942 |
-- US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
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| 1942 |
-- 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
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| 1940 |
-- German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
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| 1940 |
-- British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
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| 1903 |
-- Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
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| 1898 |
-- US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
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| 1894 |
-- Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
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| 1884 |
-- Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
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| 1883 |
-- Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
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| 1882 |
-- Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
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| 1881 |
-- Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
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| 1875 |
-- White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
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| 1874 |
-- Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
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| 1863 |
-- Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
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| 1863 |
-- Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
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| 1863 |
-- General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
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| 1863 |
-- Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
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| 1863 |
-- Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
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| 1862 |
-- Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
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| 1862 |
-- Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
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| 1862 |
-- Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
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| 1861 |
-- Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
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| 1861 |
-- In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
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| 1845 |
-- Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
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| 1845 |
-- Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
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| 1836 |
-- Wisconsin Territory forms
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| 1831 |
-- "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
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| 1829 |
-- Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
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| 1828 |
-- Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
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| 1827 |
-- Slavery abolished in NY
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| 1802 |
-- US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
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| 1796 |
-- 1st Independence Day celebration is held
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| 1789 |
-- 1st US tariff act
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| 1779 |
-- French fleet occupies Grenada
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| 1776 |
-- Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
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