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Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
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US and Australia sink Japan convoy ships
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A fire in a Houston hotel kills 55 people
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The Trinity test detonates the world's first atomic bomb.
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A coal mine in Illinois explodes and kills 111 miners
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11 thieves steal more than $2,000,000 from an armored car in Boston
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The United States, Austrilla, and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
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President Truman declared an official end to a war with Germany
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The first Chevy Corvette is built in Flint, Michigan
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Earl Warren is appointed Chief Justice of the US by president Eisenhower