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The Columbian exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World.
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In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Lacrosse was started by the Native American Indians and was originally known as stickball. The game was initially played in the St. Lawrence Valley area by the Algonquian tribe and they were followed by other tribes in the eastern half of North America, and around the western Great Lakes.
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The seven years War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France. The seven years war started in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier , but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter.
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In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
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it is based on the English game of rounders. ... Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, baseball's true father was Cartwright. The first recorded baseball contest took place a year later, in 1846.
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England invented a game of running around kicking a ball in the mid-19th century . They called it “football,” not because the ball is played with the feet, but because the game is played on foot rather on horseback.
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The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha.
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A Londoner, Major Walter Wingfield, invented a game called Sphairistikè in 1873, from which modern tennis evolved. Wingfield's game was played on an hourglass-shaped court and created a sensation in Europe, the United States, and even China.
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The game of basketball as it is known today was created by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to condition young athletes during cold months.
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Loomis was able to make a meter connected to one kite cause another one to move, marking the first known instance of wireless aerial communication. Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895.
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Gavrilo Princip killed the Archduke and his Duchess in Sarajevo during a state visit.
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The Olympics were held at Berlin at the time of the Nazi reign and Jesse Owens set several records.
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LSte in WW2 American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Phil Jackson, the coach with the most number of NBA championships with two of the most prolific players the league has ever seen in Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, was born on September 17th.
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The Russians had cut off access from the Allied zones of occupation in West Germany in an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
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John McEnroe named ATP player of the year
