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Christopher Columbus lands on an island in what is now the Bahamas, "discovering" the New World.
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Massachusetts colonists costumed as Indians dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes on it.
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The Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.
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Abraham Lincoln is shot while attending a play in Washington, DC. He died the next day.
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Barack Obama is elected the 44th and first African American president.
