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1841
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Wesley Connor (South Carolina-born Father of Deaf Education in Georgia)
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1829
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Isaac Stephenson (Canadian-American U.S. Senator from Wisconsin)
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1877
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Otis Wingo (Tennessee-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas)
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1884
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Edouard Daladier (French Premier; Signed the Munich Pact in 1938)
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1917
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Judson Clements (Georgia-born Member of the U.S. Congress)
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1942
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Paul McCartney (English Singer, Composer; Member of the Beatles)
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1945
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Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky-born U.S. General Killed in Okinawa)
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1954
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Albert Patterson (Alabama Democratic Party Nominee for State Attorney General: Assassination)
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1959
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Ethel Barrymore (Pennsylvania-born Stage Actress)
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2010
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José Saramago (Portuguese Author: 1998 Nobel Laureate for Literature)
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1541
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Spanish Explorer Henando de Soto Crosses the Mississippi River into Present-Day Arkansas
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1778
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After Nearly Nine Months of Occupation, 15,000 British Troops Evacuate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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1798
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President John Adams Passes the Naturalization Act, the First of Four Alien and Sedition Acts
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1807
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Georgia and North Carolina Agree to Recognize 35°N as the Mutual Boundary of the Two States
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1812
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U.S. President James Madison Signs a Declaration of War Against Great Britain
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1836
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The Beaver Is Launched from Fort Vancouver, Washington as the First Steamboat to Operate on the Puget Sound
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1841
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In California, John Sutter Is Granted 33 Square Miles of Land Near Sacramento Where He Will Build His Mill
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1847
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English Building Contractor, William Willim, Receives the First Known U.S. Citizenship Papers Granted in Minnesota
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1855
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The Steamship Illinois Is the First Ship to Pass through the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
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1861
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President Lincoln Receives the First Telegraph from a Hot Air Balloon Aloft
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1862
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Seven Hijackers of the General Locomotive Executed by Hanging Outside of Atlanta, Georgia
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1863
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The Federal Schooner, John S. Chamber, Captures the British Blockade Runner Rebekah West of Florida's Charlotte Harbor
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The U.S.S. Tahoma Captures the British Blockade Runner Harriet Near Florida's Anclote Keys
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1876
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In Texas, Charles Goodnight and John G. Adair Draw Up the Contract for the JA Ranch
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1885
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The Indiana State Supreme Court Upholds an 1867 Law Providing Tax Support for Free Public Schools
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1893
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In Minnesota, the Towns of Virginia, Merritt, and Mountain Iron Are Destroyed in a Forest Fire
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1909
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North of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 111 Landowners Transform the Jacona Land Grant from a Community to a Private Grant
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1915
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French Troops Halt Attacks on the German Trenches in the French Artois Region
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1916
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4th Alabama Infantry Assembles to Prepare Support for General Pershing's Hunt for Mexican Revolutionary Bandit Pancho Villa
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1919
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Florida's First Kiwanis Club Is Organized in Tampa
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1934
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U.S. Congress Passes the Indian Reorganization Act, Giving Native Americans the Right to Govern Themselves on a Tribal Basis
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1939
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A Tornado Kills 9 and Injures 222 in the Anoka, Minnesota Area
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1940
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill Urges British to Persevere so That Future Generations Will Say, "This was their finest hour."
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Hitler and Mussolini Meet in Munich
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1945
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General Dwight Eisenhower Addresses a Joint Session of Congress
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U.S. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Is Killed in Okinawa
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1950
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The 42nd Annual Governors Conference Begins in at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
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1953
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Martin Luther King Jr. Marries Coretta Scott at Her Parents Home in Marion, Alabama with King's Father Conducting the Ceremony
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1954
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Alabama Democratic Party Nominee for State Attorney General, Albert Patterson, Is Assassinated
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1956
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Speaking at a London News Conference, Former U.S. President, Harry Truman, Rejects Suggestions of Soviet Reform
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1965
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B-52's Are First Used to Bomb Vietnam
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1966
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U.S. General Westmoreland Requests More Troops for Vietnam
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1971
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Southwest Airlines Begins Service with Its First Flight From Love Field in Dallas, Texas
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1979
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Meeting in Vienna, Austria, President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev Sign the SALT-II Agreement Limiting Nuclear Weapons
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1983
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Aboard the Space Shuttle, Dr. Sally Ride Is the First American Woman in Space
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1990
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German Church Files Suit in Texas U.S. District court to Recover Artifacts From Former American Soldier
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2002
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A Palestinian Detonates a Nail-Studded Bomb in a Jerusalem Bus, Killing 19 Passengers and Himself
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