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Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
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In July 5th of 1914, Kaiser Williams II offered and promised to the Germans support and protection for Austria against Serbia
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Britain declared war upon Germany
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The battle of the Marne began
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The first zeppelins arrived on the English coast
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Winston Churchill resigns from everything
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The Lusitania was sunk which use to and currently held Americans at the time
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Italy entered the war on the side of the allies
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President Wilson launches a nationwide campaign to gain support for Preparedness and the Continental Army with three speeches in New York
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British conscription law goes into effect
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Secretary of War, Hugh L. Scott asks United States War College Division if any plans exist in the event of a complete rupture with Germany
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Pancho Villa raids on Columbus, New Mexico
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Pershing persuits Villa in Mexico
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The French passenger ship, Sussex is torpedoed
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David Lloyd George replaces Asquith as British Prime Minister
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Holds first meeting and accomplishes the the Treaty of Versailles which ceises the fighting
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19th Amendment is passed granting women the right to vote
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The United States establishes a quota count on incoming immigrants for the first time
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A congressional resolution is signed by President Harding declaring peace in World War One
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The proposal for a trail along the Allegheny Mountain ridges is put forward by regional planner Benton MacKaye. It stretches from Maine to Georgia
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is won by Margaret Gorman
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Reader's Digest is founded. The first issue is published by Dewitt and Lila Wallace
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The Lincoln Memorial, located near the Capitol building, is dedicated in Washington, D.C
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Aztec ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed as a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding
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Time Magazine is published for the first time
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill after a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge
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The IBM corporation is founded
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J. Edgar Hoover leads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States
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The Great Mississippi Flood occurs, affecting over 700,000
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Pluto is discovered by astronomer by Clyde Tombaugh
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The Hawley-Smoot is signed by President Herbert Hoover. Its high rates slash world trade
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In order to get the economy moving again and get jobs out there and available for americans, President Herbert Hoover asked Congress to pass a $150 million dollar project
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The ruins of an ancient Indian village is approved as a national monument by President Herbert Hoover
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Written by Francis Scott Key, was approved by President Herbert Hoover and Congress as the national anthem
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The state of Nevada legalizes gambling for the first time
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Contruction on the Empire State Building halts as it comes to an end and opens for business
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The son of Charles Linbergh and Anne Morrow Linbergh is kidnapped and held for ransom. He is found dead May 12th not far from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time. He will become the only president to serve more than two terms
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The Civilian Conservation Corps was authorized under the Federal Unemployment Act. It provided work to millions of people
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21st Amendment is passed,bringing prohibition to an end
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Japan renounces the Naval treaties of Washington (1922) and London (1930)
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The greatest and most popular baseball player in the nation, retires. He is currently placed in the Hall of Fame
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The Social Security Act is passed by Congress to provide money for retirees
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Naval Expansion Act is passed
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The most visited park in the United States is officially dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and opens up to the public
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U.S. Congress approves first peacetime draft
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The Lend-Lease Act is approved which provided 7 billion dollars in military credits
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United States occupies Iceland attempting to throw off an invasion by Nazi Germany
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An eight point declaration of principles called the Atlantic Charter is issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Great Britain Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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Japan pulls a surprise attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Executive order 9066 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confining 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II
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The development of the first atomic bomb is signed into agreement between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The United States Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in the first American offensive of World War II
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North Africa is invaded by United States and Great Britain
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The first nuclear chain reaction is produced at the University of Chicago in the Manhattan Project
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The United States encounters its first major defeat of World War II at the Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries
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The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law, providing benefits to veterans.
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President Roosevelt succumbs to a brain hemorrhage. Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the presidency and role as commander in chief of World War II
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Tiros I, the first weather satellite of all time, is launched by the United States
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United States U-2 plane is shot down by the Soviet Union leading to the capture of pilot Gary Powers and the cancellation of the Paris Summit
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Presidential race is won narrowly by John F. Kennedy over Dwight D. Eisenhower who was attempting to proceed onto another term
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Due to disputes, United States severed diplomatic and consular relations with the Cuban government
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United States figure skating team is killed in a plane crash near Belgium on their way to the World Championships. The crash involved 73 people
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Bay of Pigs fight begins in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro
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The first space flight sub-orbital with man is completed by the United States. The man to go was Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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The last 27 prisoners of Alcatraz are ordered to be removed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and it be closed for good
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The United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain agree to a limited nuclear test-ban treating, barring all nuclear testing above ground
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Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial is given in front of a crowd of Civil Rights followers
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During a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
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Mobs of panama residents engaged the united states troops leading in the death of 21 people total
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legislation in the U.S. Congress on Civil Rights is passed. It banned discrimination in jobs and voting
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. It was to take effect on October 10, 1967
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice
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Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guard in protest of war
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attacks by vietnam troops across the demilitarized zone in four years prompts bombing raids to begin again by US
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The United States Supreme Court ruled that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion
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Four part Vietnam peace pacts were signed in Paris, France. The last U.S. military troops would leave the war zone
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The first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon is recommended in a 27-11 vote
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President Richard M. Nixon resigns from office, avoiding the impeachment process and admitting his role in the Watergate affair
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns amid charges of tax evasion and is replaced by the appointment of Gerald R. Ford
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Microsoft becomes a registered trademark, one year after it was introduced by Bill Gates and partner
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The Mt. St. Helens volcano erupts, killing fifty-seven people and economic devastation to the area with losses near $3 billion
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President Ronald Reagan withstands an assassination attempt, shot in the chest while walking to his limousine in Washington, D.C
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court Justice in history
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The Senate passed a bill that virtually eliminated the practice of busing to achieve racial integration
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The largest art theft in U.S. history occurs in Boston, Massachusetts
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The World Trade Center is bombed by terrorists. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect, creating a free trade zone between Canada, the United States, and Mexico
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