| 2024-12-03 |
Illinois Becomes the 21st US State (1818) |
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| 2024-12-02 |
John Brown Hanged for Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) |
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| 2024-12-01 |
Portuguese Restoration War Begins (1640) |
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| 2024-11-30 |
Ken Jennings's Winning Streak on Jeopardy! Ends (2004) |
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| 2024-11-29 |
The Warren Commission Is Established (1963) |
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| 2024-11-28 |
Albania Declares Independence from the Ottoman Empire (1912) |
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| 2024-11-27 |
Harvey Milk and George Moscone Are Assassinated (1978) |
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| 2024-11-26 |
University of Notre Dame Is Founded (1842) |
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| 2024-11-25 |
The White Ship Sinks, Drowning the Son of Henry I of England (1120) |
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| 2024-11-24 |
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species Is Published (1859) |
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| 2024-11-23 |
Hijacking of EgyptAir Flight 648 (1985) |
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| 2024-11-22 |
Juan Carlos I Becomes King of Spain (1975) |
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| 2024-11-21 |
First Permanent ARPANET Link Is Established (1969) |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Whaling Ship Essex Rammed by Whale (1820) |
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| 2024-11-19 |
Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon (1969) |
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| 2024-11-18 |
William Tell Shoots an Apple Off His Son's Head (1307) |
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| 2024-11-16 |
Hoxne Hoard Found in Britain (1992) |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial Is Laid (1939) |
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| 2024-11-14 |
The Apalachin Meeting (1957) |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Two Libyans Indicted for Pan Am 103 Attack (1991) |
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| 2024-11-12 |
Ramzi Yousef Found Guilty of Masterminding 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (1997) |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Highwayman Joseph "Blueskin" Blake Hanged (1724) |
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| 2024-11-10 |
Hope Diamond Donated to the Smithsonian Institution (1958) |
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| 2024-11-09 |
Garry Kasparov Becomes Youngest World Chess Champion (1985) |
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| 2024-11-08 |
John F. Kennedy Defeats Richard Nixon for US Presidency (1960) |
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| 2024-11-07 |
The Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) |
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| 2024-11-06 |
Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America (1861) |
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| 2024-11-05 |
The Gunpowder Plot Is Thwarted (1605) |
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| 2024-11-03 |
The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, now The Times of India, Is Founded (1838) |
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| 2024-11-02 |
The Balfour Declaration (1917) |
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| 2024-11-01 |
The Malbone Street Wreck (1918) |
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| 2024-10-31 |
Martin Luther Posts His Ninety-Five Theses (1517) |
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| 2024-10-30 |
Soviet Union Detonates "Tsar Bomba" (1961) |
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| 2024-10-29 |
Black Tuesday (1929) |
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| 2024-10-27 |
Italian Public Administrator Enrico Mattei Dies in Plane Crash (1962) |
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| 2024-10-26 |
Erie Canal Opens (1825) |
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| 2024-10-25 |
George III Becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland (1760) |
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| 2024-10-24 |
Annie Edson Taylor, 63, Goes Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel (1901) |
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| 2024-10-23 |
The Battle of Edgehill (1642) |
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| 2024-10-22 |
The Scilly Naval Disaster (1707) |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Opens in New York (1959) |
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| 2024-10-20 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Weds Aristotle Onassis (1968) |
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| 2024-10-19 |
Streptomycin Is First Isolated (1943) |
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| 2024-10-18 |
Alaska Formally Transferred from Russia to US (1867) |
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| 2024-10-17 |
The First British Open Is Held in Scotland (1860) |
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| 2024-10-16 |
Marie Antoinette Guillotined (1793) |
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| 2024-10-15 |
Graf Zeppelin Completes Its First Transatlantic Flight (1928) |
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| 2024-10-14 |
Theodore Roosevelt Shot in the Chest While Campaigning (1912) |
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| 2024-10-13 |
Ankara Replaces Istanbul as Capital of Turkey (1923) |
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| 2024-10-12 |
First Oktoberfest Held in Munich, Germany (1810) |
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| 2024-10-11 |
Launch of Apollo 7 (1968) |
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| 2024-10-10 |
United Air Lines Chesterton Crash (1933) |
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| 2024-10-09 |
The Great Hurricane of 1780 Forms (1780) |
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| 2024-10-07 |
William II Becomes King of the Netherlands (1840) |
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| 2024-10-06 |
The Battle of Tigranocerta (69 BCE) |
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| 2024-10-05 |
Dr. No, the First James Bond Film, Is Released (1962) |
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| 2024-10-04 |
Sputnik 1 Launch Begins the Space Race (1957) |
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| 2024-10-03 |
"The Shot Heard 'Round the World" (1951) |
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| 2024-10-01 |
Stanford University Officially Opens (1891) |
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| 2024-09-30 |
Mozart's The Magic Flute Premieres (1791) |
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| 2024-09-29 |
CERN Is Founded (1954) |
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| 2024-09-28 |
The Paddington Tram Depot Fire (1962) |
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| 2024-09-27 |
Pope Urban VII Dies Just 13 Days into Papacy (1590) |
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| 2024-09-26 |
The Parthenon Is Partially Destroyed by an Explosion (1687) |
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| 2024-09-25 |
Sandra Day O'Connor Becomes First Female US Supreme Court Justice (1981) |
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| 2024-09-24 |
Honda Motor Company Founded (1948) |
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| 2024-09-23 |
The Concordat of Worms (1122) |
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| 2024-09-22 |
Sara Jane Moore Attempts to Assassinate US President Gerald Ford (1975) |
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| 2024-09-21 |
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Is Published (1937) |
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| 2024-09-20 |
Saladin Begins Siege of Jerusalem (1187) |
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| 2024-09-18 |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Is Formed (1998) |
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| 2024-09-17 |
US Constitution Signed in Philadelphia (1787) |
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| 2024-09-16 |
Mayflower Sets Sail for New England (1620) |
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| 2024-09-15 |
Steam Locomotive John Bull Operates for the First Time (1831) |
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| 2024-09-14 |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Founded (1960) |
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| 2024-09-13 |
Michelangelo Begins Carving His Statue of David (1501) |
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| 2024-09-12 |
Elizabeth Barrett Elopes with Robert Browning (1846) |
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| 2024-09-10 |
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (1547) |
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| 2024-09-09 |
Elvis Presley Appears on The Ed Sullivan Show (1956) |
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| 2024-09-08 |
American Pledge of Allegiance First Published (1892) |
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| 2024-09-07 |
First Miss America Pageant Held in Atlantic City, New Jersey (1921) |
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| 2024-09-06 |
Leningrad's Name Reverts to Saint Petersburg (1991) |
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| 2024-09-05 |
Sam Houston Elected First President of Texas (1836) |
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| 2024-09-04 |
George Eastman Receives a Patent for His Kodak Camera (1888) |
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| 2024-09-03 |
Anne Frank and Family Deported to Auschwitz (1944) |
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| 2024-09-02 |
CBS Evening News Expands to Half Hour (1963) |
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| 2024-09-01 |
Germany Invades Poland (1939) |
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| 2024-08-31 |
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997) |
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| 2024-08-30 |
The Battle of Tannenberg Ends (1914) |
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| 2024-08-29 |
US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Incident (2007) |
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| 2024-08-28 |
Caleb Davis Bradham Begins Selling "Pepsi-Cola" (1898) |
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| 2024-08-27 |
Mars Makes Its Closest Approach to Earth in Nearly 60,000 Years (2003) |
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| 2024-08-26 |
National Assembly of Quebec Adopts the Charter of the French Language (1977) |
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| 2024-08-25 |
WWII: The Liberation of Paris (1944) |
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| 2024-08-24 |
Pluto Gets Demoted (2006) |
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| 2024-08-23 |
Sacco and Vanzetti Are Executed (1927) |
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| 2024-08-22 |
The Battle of Bosworth Field (1485) |
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| 2024-08-21 |
Mona Lisa Stolen by a Louvre Employee (1911) |
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| 2024-08-20 |
The Big Burn (1910) |
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| 2024-08-19 |
American Outlaw John Wesley Hardin Shot Dead (1895) |
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