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Texas Revolution, also called the War of Texas Independence, war fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836–45). Although the Texas Revolution was bookended by the Battles of Gonzales and San Jacinto. -
Wilbur and Orville achieved the first powered, controlled, and sustained flight in Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. -
World I also known as the Great War, was a global conflict involving major world powers fought between two coalitions the Allied Powers, and the Central Powers. It embroiled most of the nations of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. Jul 28 1914 to Nov 11 1916.
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World I also known as the Great War, was a global conflict involving major world powers fought between two coalitions the Allied Powers, and the Central Powers. It embroiled most of the nations of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. Jul 28 1914 to Nov 11 1918. -
The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. it was passed by Congress on June 4 1919 and ratified a year later. -
The beginning of the great depression after the crash of Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average declined by nearly 13% as federal reserve leaders differed on how to respond to the crisis. It led to a decade of economic challenges. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday. -
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. -
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel it into space and into history. -
During the Cold War, the wall was built to keep East Germans from escaping to the West. A decades-long fight to flee brought it down. For nearly 30 years, Berlin was divided not just by ideology, but by a concrete barrier.