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  • Declaration Of independence

    Declaration Of independence
    Was written 1776 on July Fourth. It even says on the back of it " Original Declaration Of Independence/ dated 4th July 1776". Thomas Jefferson was not the only "Author" Of the DOI It was a whole committee that included Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. There are 26 " Dunlap Broadsides " Known of that are worth more then 10 million dollars. Dunlap Broadsides are copies of the Declaration of Independence.
  • The offical Signing of the U.S Constitution

    The offical Signing of the U.S Constitution
    On September 17, 1787, the Constitution was signed. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. Beginning on December 7, five states--Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut--ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially Massachusetts, opposed the document.
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    Atomic bombing of Japan

    the atomic bombs wefe conducted by the U.S at the end of World War II in 1945. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many Japanese cities, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of Japan.
  • March on MLK "I have a dream" speech

    March on MLK "I have a dream" speech
    "I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin." King spoke these words in Detroit, two months before he addressed a crowd of nearly 250,000 with his resounding "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963.
  • When the Hubble Telescope was launched into orbit.

    When the Hubble Telescope was launched into orbit.
    The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth. It had taken off at Kennedy Space center. It had cost 1.5 billion dollars just to launch it. Length Of Hubble: 43.5 ft (13.2 m). Weight Of hubble: 24,500 lb (11,110 kg). Maximum Diameter Of hubble: 14 ft (4.2 m).
  • My Birthday ;*

    My Birthday ;*
    Im 14 years young <3 My birtday is April 25th. I was born in Reading hospital. I weight 7 lbs 11 ounces haha i was a chubby butt. born at 10;30 pm on Friday April 25h of the year 1999.
  • Stock Market Crash Of 1929

    Stock Market Crash Of 1929
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, Government-financed capital spending accounted for only 5 percent of the annual U.S. investment in industrial capital in 1940; by 1943, the government accounted for 67 percent of U.S. capital investment.