| 1991 |
-- US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
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| 1981 |
-- USSR performs underground nuclear test
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| 1974 |
-- Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
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| 1972 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1963 |
-- Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
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| 1962 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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| 1959 |
-- US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
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| 1958 |
-- Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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| 1958 |
-- National Defense Education Act was signed
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| 1957 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1954 |
-- Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
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| 1945 |
-- V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
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| 1945 |
-- Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
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| 1944 |
-- Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
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| 1944 |
-- During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
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| 1942 |
-- German troops enter Stalingrad
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| 1941 |
-- Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
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| 1940 |
-- Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
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| 1937 |
-- US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
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| 1935 |
-- A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
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| 1930 |
-- 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
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| 1919 |
-- Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
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| 1901 |
-- VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
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| 1900 |
-- Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
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| 1898 |
-- Machine gun 1st used in battle
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| 1897 |
-- "McCall-magazine 1st published
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| 1894 |
-- Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
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| 1864 |
-- Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
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| 1859 |
-- Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
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| 1796 |
-- Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
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| 1792 |
-- Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them
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| 1789 |
-- US Treasury Department established by Congress
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| 1743 |
-- England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
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| 1732 |
-- Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
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| 1686 |
-- Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
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| 1666 |
-- Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses & kills 8
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| 1519 |
-- 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
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| 1192 |
-- Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
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