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Lee and Grant met at a private home to arrange a confederate surrender.
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The Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date.
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The car was very simple to drive, and easy and cheap to repair. It only costed $825 in 1908.
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An old French crane boat, became the first ship to make a complete transit of the Panama Canal under its own steam.
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Germany agreed to a cease fire on Armistice day.
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From Roosevelt Field located in Garden City on New Yorks Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 miles
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Adolf Hitler begins his rise to power in Germany.
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The accident served to shatter public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship, and marked the end of the airship era.
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The next day the United States declared war on Japan resulting in our entry into World War II.
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Neil Armstrong takes the first steps on the moon.