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Juan Ponce de Leon discovers what is now Florida.
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The Cherokee are forced to leave the Southeast on the Trail of Tears.
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The South secedes and the Civil War begins.
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The South attacks Fort Sumter.
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The C.S.S H.L. Hunley is the first submarine to sink a enemy, but the Hunley was also lost, taking all 7 of its crew with it. It would be over a hundred years until it was found again.
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After 4 years of fighting the Civil War ends.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, which started the Montgomery bus boycott.
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The Apollo 11 lands the first humans on the moon.
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds into its flight, all of it's crew were killed.
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The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated while coming back to Earth, all of its crew are killed.
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Hurricane Katrina kills 1,833 people.
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Hurricane Sandy formed and kills 286 people.