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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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End of Civil War
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Treaty of Washington signed
agreement concluded between the United States and Great Britain in Washington, D.C. Its principal articles provided for determination of the Alabama claims by an international commission. The treaty also provided for arbitration of the San Juan Boundary Dispute and of the Canadian-American fisheries controversy. Hamilton Fish, who was chiefly responsible for bringing about the treaty, headed the five American commissioners in the negotiations Read more: Washington, Treaty of | Infoplease.com ht -
Civil Rights Act of 1875 signed
It protected all Americans, regardless of race, in their access to public accommodations and facilities such as restaurants, theaters, trains and other public transportation, and protected the right to serve on juries. However, it was not enforced, and the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1883. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/ps_1875.html -
Colorado became the 38th state
Colorado became the 38th state to join the Union when President Ulysses Grant signed a proclamation of statehood. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60323.html#ixzz32I5m71Pn -
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World War 1
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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Women's suffurage ends
Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage -
Black Tuesday
It was because of this day that the Roaring Twenties came to a stumbling halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression http://www.blacktuesday.org/ -
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Dust bowl
Caused by a major drought and a bunch of wind that made a bunch of people sick -
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The Manhatton Project
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D- day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy -
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Cold War
Growing out of post-World War II tensions between the two nations, the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war -
Bombing of Hiroshima
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
Bombing of Nagasaki
a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. http://www.history.com/topics -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza.
Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest. At 1:00 p.m. John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead. http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx?p=2 -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act -
Launching of Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. An important prelude to actually landing on the Moon was testing the flight trajectory and operations for getting there and back. Apollo 8 did this and acheived many other firsts including the first manned mission launched on the Saturn V, first manned launch from NASA's new Moonport, first pictures taken by humans of the Earth from deep space, and first live TV coverage of the lunar surface. http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-a -
9/11
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Mount st Helens Eruption
