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1760
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Richard Allen (Pennsylvania-born First African-American Methodist Bishop)
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1763
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General Jean-Victor Marie Moreau (French General)
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1817
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Frederick Douglass (Maryland-born African-American Escaped Slave, Human Rights Advocate, Journalist)
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1829
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Alfred Iverson Jr. (Georgia-born Confederate General)
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1847
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Anna Howard Shaw (English Women's Suffragist)
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1848
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Harriet Laura Cramer (Wisconsin-born Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts)
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1874
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Charlotta Amanda Bass (South Carolina-born African-American Newspaper Publisher, Civil Rights Activist)
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1913
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Jimmy Hoffa (Indiana-born Labor Leader)
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1400
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Richard II, King of England (Murdered)
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1884
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Mittie Roosevelt (Mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt)
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Alice Lee Roosevelt (Wife of Theodore Roosevelt)
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1891
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William Tecumseh Sherman (Ohio-born Union General)
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1962
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Herman Guy Kump (Former Governor of West Virginia)
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1979
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Adolph Dubs (U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Killed in a Shootout After Abduction by Islamic Extremists)
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2005
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Rafik Hariri (Former Prime Minister of Lebanon - Assassination)
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1349
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The Jews of Strasbourg, France Are Blamed for Causing the Plague: 2,000 Are Burned at the Stake
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1556
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Thomas Cranmer Is Deposed as the Archbishop of Canterbury by Mary Queen of Scots
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1729
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Marqués de Aguayo Proposes Spain Relocate Families from the Canary Islands to Texas
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1779
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340 Patriots Defeat a Militia of 700 Loyalists at Kettle Creek, Georgia
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Hawaiian Natives Murder English Explorer, Captain James Cook, on His Third Visit to the Islands
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1840
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White South African Pioneers (Voortrekkers) Defeat the Zulus and Establish Their Own Republic
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1843
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Lincoln Makes Known His Wishes to Run for Congress
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1849
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James K. Polk Is First President Photographed in Office
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1861
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President Lincoln's Train Is Greeted by Large Crowds in Heavy Rain from Columbus, OH to Pittsburgh
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1862
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Wisconsin's Fifteenth Regiment Infantry Is Organized at Camp Randall in Madison and Mustered into Service
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1864
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Sherman's Union Forces Enter Meridian, Mississippi
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1884
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Theodore Roosevelt's Wife and Mother Die Only Hours Apart
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1899
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President McKinley Signs Legislation Authorizing States to Use Voting Machines for Federal Elections.
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1903
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U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor Established
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1919
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President Woodrow Wilson Presents a Draft Covenant for the League of Nations
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1943
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Rommel's Afrika Korps Defeat U.S. Troops at Kasserine Pass |
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1945
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Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador join the United Nations |
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1949
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Chaim Weizmann Is Elected as the First President of Modern Israel |
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1958
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Jordan & Iraq Form the Arab Federation
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1960
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Referendum Confirms Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan As President of Pakistan |
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Democratic Presidential Candidate, John F. Kennedy, Campaigns in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
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1962
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President John Kennedy Authorizes U.S. Advisors to Fire in Self-defense |
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Jackie Kennedy Gives First Televised Tour of the White House |
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1976
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U.S. Conducts 200 - 500 kt Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada
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1979
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Islamic Extremists Abduct the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Who Is Then Killed in a Shootout
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1980
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US Launches Solar Maximum Mission Satellite to Study Solar Flares
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1984
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The Black South African Community of Mogopa Is Bulldozed & Residents Forcibly Displaced
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1989
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Nicaraguan Sandinistas Agree to Free Elections
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Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini Calls for Murder of Authors Salman Rushdie for Blaspheming Islam
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Union Carbide Agrees to Pay $470M to Government of India for 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
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1995
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South Africa's New Constitutional Court Officially Opens
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2005
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Lebanon's Former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, Killed in Beirut Terrorist Attack |
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