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The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
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James Marshall found an important discovery. He was building a sawmill and seen something shiny
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Fort Sumter is in Charleston, South Carolina. Confederate troops started to attack the place. That is when the Civil War began.
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The Titanic hit an iceberg and then sunk to the bottom of Atlantic Ocean. 1,503 people died and 705 survivors.
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The Great Depression was when the economy dropped down. People were very poor and didn't have any food or jobs.
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There were battles all over the world. More than 100 million people were involved in it.
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The black and white children were not allowed to go to school together. In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court decided that they could.
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Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream speech", was in Washington DC. He wanted racism to end and he wanted all of us to get along.
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Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935. He was a singer and an actor. He is known as the "King of Rock and Roll."
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On this day, the hijackers flew into the twin towers and it collapsed. 2,500 people were killed.
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This was the day I was born!
