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1775 Congress issues a “Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms”
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1864 Confederate General Jubal Early occupies Hagerstown
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1918 Czech troops take Russian port of Vladivostok for Allies
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1933 Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game is held
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1946 George “Bugs” Moran is arrested
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1946 George Walker Bush is born
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1955 Diem says South Vietnam not bound by Geneva Agreements
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1957 Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon
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1963 U.S. policymakers express optimism
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1988 Explosion on North Sea oil rig
