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Gen. George Washington issued his farewell address to the Army near Princeton, N.J.
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Marie-Antoinette 11/2/1755 - 10/16/1793
French queen consort to Louis VXI -
1889 North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states.
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Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
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Sally Elizabeth Oldham born in Akron, Ohio to Genevieve Margaret Carlson Oldham and Donald Edwin Oldham
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1976 Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter defeated Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since the Civil War.
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President George W. Bush was elected to a second term.
