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Queen Victoria dies. Her reign lasted 64 years before she died.
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Panama declares their indiendence from Columbia.
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The Russo-Japanese war begins. Russia and Japan fight for control of Manchuria and Korea.
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Titanic sinks. 1500 people die.
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The superior court in Fulton county GA. accepts the charter for the esrablshment of the Ku Klux Klan.
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U.S. National Park Service is created by act of Congress.
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Womens sufrage goes into effect following Tennessee's ratifaction of the 19th amendment.
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U.S. congress in a joint resolution declares WW1 ended.
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The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C.
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Riechstag fire in Berlin; Nazi terror begins.
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The Hindenburg goes down at Lakehurst N.J. 36 people killed.
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Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of H.G. Welles's War of the Worlds. Creating a nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have landed in N.J.
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THe first Social Security checks are paid out.
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Allies invade Normandy.
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Hitler committs sucide.
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U.S. explodes firt thermonuclear bomb at Enewetak Island.
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East Berliners rise against communist rule.
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Dien Bien Phu French military outpost in vietnam falls to Viet Minh.
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American U-2 spy plane is shot down over Russia.
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1,200 US sponsered anti-Castro exiles invade cuba in an attempt to assassinate Castro. THe invasion fails and all invaders are either killed or captured by Cuban forces.
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Pope John XXIII opens second Vatican Council.
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Four students at Kent State University slain by National Gaurdsmen during demonstration protesting the incursion into Cambodia.
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India and USSR sign a 20 year friendship pact.
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Richard Nixon announces that he will resign the next day. First president to do so.
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US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran.
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Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman.
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Congress rebukes Ronald Reagan on use of federal funds for mining Nicaraguan harbors.
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US Supreme Court upsets law banning flag burning.
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US Supreme Court limits death row appelas.
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Bill Clinton elected president Al Gore vice president, democrates keep control of congress.
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I was Born. VERY IMPORTANT!
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Terrorists hijack jetliners and ram them into Twin Towers in NY and Pentagon.
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US withdraws from international court treaty.
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Massachusettes first state to legalize gay marrige.