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Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead. According to the census, the nation's population numbers nearly 76 million.
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Wright brothers make the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany (April 6, 1917) and Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7, 1917) three years after conflict began in 1914.
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Stock market crash precipitates the Great Depression.
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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President Truman, without the approval of Congress, commits American troops to battle
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ―I Have a Dream‖ speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC
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President Kennedy is assassinated
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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon
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Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the 39th president