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- 26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany
(Fri, Apr 26, 2024)
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- 25th April 1898: The United States declares war on Spain in the Spanish–American War
(Thu, Apr 25, 2024)
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- 24th April 1800: The Library of Congress established when John Adams approves a budget of $5,000 for books
(Wed, Apr 24, 2024)
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- 23rd April 1348: Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England
(Tue, Apr 23, 2024)
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- 22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush takes place with 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands opened to settlement
(Mon, Apr 22, 2024)
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- 21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union
(Sun, Apr 21, 2024)
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- 20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria
(Sat, Apr 20, 2024)
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- 19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show
(Fri, Apr 19, 2024)
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- 18th April 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington with his message that “the Regulars are coming out!”
(Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
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- 17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants
(Wed, Apr 17, 2024)
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- 16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opens as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre
(Tue, Apr 16, 2024)
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- 15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster
(Mon, Apr 15, 2024)
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- 14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era
(Sun, Apr 14, 2024)
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- 13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks
(Sat, Apr 13, 2024)
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- 12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
(Fri, Apr 12, 2024)
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- 11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson
(Thu, Apr 11, 2024)
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- 10th April 1815: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history occurred at Mount Tambora
(Wed, Apr 10, 2024)
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- 9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
(Tue, Apr 09, 2024)
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- 8th April 1838: SS Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York as the first steamship specifically built for transatlantic travel
(Mon, Apr 08, 2024)
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- 7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference
(Sun, Apr 07, 2024)
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- 6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France
(Sat, Apr 06, 2024)
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- 5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island
(Fri, Apr 05, 2024)
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- 4th April 1925: Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of the SS
(Thu, Apr 04, 2024)
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- 3rd April 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain
(Wed, Apr 03, 2024)
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- 2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops
(Tue, Apr 02, 2024)
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- 1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory
(Mon, Apr 01, 2024)
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- 31st March 1985: WrestleMania I takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City
(Sun, Mar 31, 2024)
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- 30th March 1900: Archaeologists at the ancient site of Knossos discover the first clay tablet inscribed with Linear B
(Sat, Mar 30, 2024)
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- 29th March 1806: Construction of the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway, authorised by U.S. Congress
(Fri, Mar 29, 2024)
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- 28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station
(Thu, Mar 28, 2024)
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- 27th March 1964: Most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Alaska
(Wed, Mar 27, 2024)
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- 26th March 1351: Combat of the Thirty fought between English and Breton soldiers during the Breton War of Succession
(Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
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- 25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol
(Mon, Mar 25, 2024)
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- 24th March 1989: Start of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
(Sun, Mar 24, 2024)
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- 23rd March 1857: The world’s first successful passenger elevator installed in a five-storey New York City department store
(Sat, Mar 23, 2024)
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- 22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia
(Fri, Mar 22, 2024)
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- 21st March 1952: Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio
(Thu, Mar 21, 2024)
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- 20th March 1854: U.S. Republican Party founded at a meeting in a schoolhouse in Wisconsin
(Wed, Mar 20, 2024)
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- 19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in U.S. history
(Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
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- 18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the world’s largest ever art theft
(Mon, Mar 18, 2024)
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- 17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York
(Sun, Mar 17, 2024)
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- 16th March 1660: England’s Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session
(Sat, Mar 16, 2024)
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- 15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
(Fri, Mar 15, 2024)
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- 14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany
(Thu, Mar 14, 2024)
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- 13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United States
(Wed, Mar 13, 2024)
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- 12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey
(Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
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- 11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Mon, Mar 11, 2024)
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- 10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble
(Sun, Mar 10, 2024)
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- 9th March 1776: “The Wealth of Nations” published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith
(Sat, Mar 09, 2024)
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- 8th March 1971: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced each other in the ‘Fight of the Century’
(Fri, Mar 08, 2024)
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- 7th March 1850: Senator Daniel Webster makes his “Seventh of March” speech in favour of the Compromise of 1850
(Thu, Mar 07, 2024)
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- 6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case
(Wed, Mar 06, 2024)
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- 5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight
(Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
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- 4th March 1865: Andrew Johnson, Vice President of the United States, delivers his inaugural address while drunk
(Mon, Mar 04, 2024)
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- 3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time
(Sun, Mar 03, 2024)
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- 2nd March 537: First Siege of Rome begins as the Ostrogoth army encircle the Byzantine forces of the general Belisarius
(Sat, Mar 02, 2024)
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- 1st March 1562: Massacre of Vassy marks the beginning of the French Wars of Religion
(Fri, Mar 01, 2024)
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- 29th February 1796: Jay Treaty marks the start of ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain
(Thu, Feb 29, 2024)
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- 28th February 1849: First ‘49ers arrive in San Francisco to begin the California Gold Rush
(Wed, Feb 28, 2024)
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- 27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee
(Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
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- 26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording
(Mon, Feb 26, 2024)
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- 25th February 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African-American U.S. Senator
(Sun, Feb 25, 2024)
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- 24th February 1920: Adolf Hitler announces the 25 Point Programme and the establishment of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)
(Sat, Feb 24, 2024)
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- 23rd February 1836: The Siege of the Alamo begins, lasting for thirteen days before the final battle
(Fri, Feb 23, 2024)
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- 22nd February 1946: The ‘Long Telegram’ sent by George F. Kennan, a senior American diplomat in Moscow
(Thu, Feb 22, 2024)
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- 21st February 1885: the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was dedicated
(Wed, Feb 21, 2024)
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- 20th February 1939: Pro-Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York City
(Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
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- 19th February 1913: Pedro Lascurain began the world’s shortest ever presidency in Mexico
(Mon, Feb 19, 2024)
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- 18th February 1915: Germany initiates a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare during the First World War
(Sun, Feb 18, 2024)
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- 17th February 1966: First recording session for the Beach Boys song ‘Good Vibrations’ takes place at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles
(Sat, Feb 17, 2024)
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- 16th February 1861: Abraham Lincoln meets the girl who advised him to grow a beard to gain more votes
(Fri, Feb 16, 2024)
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- 15th February 1946: ENIAC, the world’s first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, formally dedicated
(Thu, Feb 15, 2024)
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- 14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg
(Wed, Feb 14, 2024)
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- 13th February 1981: The sewers of Louisville, Kentucky, explode after industrial waste makes its way into the tunnels
(Tue, Feb 13, 2024)
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- 12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
(Mon, Feb 12, 2024)
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- 11th February 1919: Friedrich Ebert elected as first President of the German Weimar Republic
(Sun, Feb 11, 2024)
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- 10th February 1962: Captured U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers freed in a prisoner exchange
(Sat, Feb 10, 2024)
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- 9th February 1950: Joseph McCarthy starts the Second Red Scare with a speech claiming Communists were working in the U.S. Department of State
(Fri, Feb 09, 2024)
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- 8th February 1910: The Boy Scouts of America organization incorporated by William D. Boyce in Washington D.C.
(Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
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- 7th February 1914: Charlie Chaplin’s iconic ‘Tramp’ character makes his first public appearance in the film Kid Auto Races at Venice
(Wed, Feb 07, 2024)
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- 6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence
(Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
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- 5th February 1909: Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic, announced by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland
(Mon, Feb 05, 2024)
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- 4th February 1555: John Rogers became the first Protestant martyr under ‘Bloody’ Mary I of England
(Sun, Feb 04, 2024)
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- 3rd February 1972: The deadliest recorded blizzard hit northwestern, central and southern Iran
(Sat, Feb 03, 2024)
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- 2nd February 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued after spending more than four years as a castaway
(Fri, Feb 02, 2024)
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- 1st February 1861: Texas declares its secession from the United States after a convention votes overwhelmingly in favour
(Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
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- 31st January 1865: Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US Congress to formally abolish slavery
(Wed, Jan 31, 2024)
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- 30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President
(Tue, Jan 30, 2024)
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- 29th January 2002: The phrase ‘Axis of Evil’ used for the first time by President George W. Bush
(Mon, Jan 29, 2024)
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- 28th January 1896: First speeding ticket for an automobile issued to British motorist Walter Arnold
(Sun, Jan 28, 2024)
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- 27th January 1916: Conscription for WW1 introduced by the British Government in the Military Service Act
(Sat, Jan 27, 2024)
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- 26th January 1885: Siege of Khartoum ends when Sudanese Mahdist forces capture the city from Governor-General Charles George Gordon
(Fri, Jan 26, 2024)
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- 25th January 1924: First Winter Olympic Games begin in Chamonix, France
(Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
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- 24th January 1935: The first canned beer goes on sale from the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia
(Wed, Jan 24, 2024)
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- 23rd January 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA
(Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
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- 22nd January 1973: The Supreme Court issues its decision on the Roe v. Wade abortion case
(Mon, Jan 22, 2024)
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- 21st January 1954: Launch of USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine
(Sun, Jan 21, 2024)
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- 20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday
(Sat, Jan 20, 2024)
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- 19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union
(Fri, Jan 19, 2024)
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- 18th January 1911: Eugene Ely lands the first aircraft on a ship when he touches down on USS Pennsylvania
(Thu, Jan 18, 2024)
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- 17th January 1966: Palomares incident sees a B-52 break apart after a mid-air collision, dropping four nuclear bombs
(Wed, Jan 17, 2024)
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- 16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment
(Tue, Jan 16, 2024)
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- 15th January 1892: Rules for basketball published for the first time by James Naismith
(Mon, Jan 15, 2024)
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- 14th January 1967: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
(Sun, Jan 14, 2024)
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- 13th January 1910: First public radio broadcast features a live performance from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
(Sat, Jan 13, 2024)
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- 12th January 1848: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 begins in Palermo on the island of Sicily
(Fri, Jan 12, 2024)
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- 11th January 1964: US Surgeon General publishes groundbreaking report on the health effects of tobacco smoking
(Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
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- 10th January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes the pamphlet Common Sense advocating American independence
(Wed, Jan 10, 2024)
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- 9th January 1861: Star of the West fired upon by South Carolina batteries as it approached Fort Sumter
(Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
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- 8th January 1828: Democratic Party established in the United States to become the oldest active voter-based political party in the world
(Mon, Jan 08, 2024)
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- 7th January 1782: The Bank of North America, the nation’s first chartered bank, opens in Philadelphia
(Sun, Jan 07, 2024)
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- 6th January 1912: Continental Drift hypothesis first presented by German scientist Alfred Wegener
(Sat, Jan 06, 2024)
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- 5th January 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman in the United States to be sworn in as governor of a state
(Fri, Jan 05, 2024)
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- 4th January 1903: Topsy the elephant electrocuted at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York
(Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
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- 3rd January 1911: The Siege of Sidney Street gunfight takes place in London’s East End
(Wed, Jan 03, 2024)
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- 2nd January 1959: USSR launches Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon
(Tue, Jan 02, 2024)
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- 1st January 1739: Discovery of Bouvet Island, the world’s most remote island
(Mon, Jan 01, 2024)
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- 31st December 1600: The East India Company officially established with a charter from Elizabeth I
(Sun, Dec 31, 2023)
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- 30th December 1916: “Mad Monk” Grigori Rasputin murdered by Russian nobles
(Sat, Dec 30, 2023)
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- 29th December 1937: Constitution of Ireland comes into effect as the longest continually operating republican constitution in the E.U.
(Fri, Dec 29, 2023)
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- 28th December 1958: ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’ in the NFL Championship Playoff
(Thu, Dec 28, 2023)
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- 27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan
(Wed, Dec 27, 2023)
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- 26th December 1825: The Decembrist Revolt takes place in Russia against autocratic Tsarist rule
(Tu , )(e, Dec 26, 2023)
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- 25th December 1776: George Washington crosses the Delaware with a column of the Continental Army
(Mon, Dec 25, 2023)
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- 24th December 1818: ‘Stille Nacht’, known in English as Silent Night, performed for the first time
(Sun, Dec 24, 2023)
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- 23rd December 1688: James II of England flees to exile in France during the Glorious Revolution
(Sat, Dec 23, 2023)
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- 22nd December 1882: The first use of electric lights on a Christmas tree
(Fri, Dec 22, 2023)
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- 21st December 1825: The Fredonian Rebellion begins when American settlers in Mexican Texas declare their independence
(Thu, Dec 21, 2023)
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- 20th December 1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States of America
(Wed, Dec 20, 2023)
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- 19th December 1918: Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not!’ published for the first time in the New York Globe
(Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
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- 18th December 1916: End of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War
(Mon, Dec 18, 2023)
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- 17th December 1969: Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force’s systematic study of UFOs, officially terminated
(Sun, Dec 17, 2023)
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- 16th December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge begins on the Western Front of the Second World War
(Sat, Dec 16, 2023)
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- 15th December 1791: United States Bill of Rights becomes law after ratification by the Virginia General Assembly
(Fri, Dec 15, 2023)
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- 14th December 1972: Gene Cernan becomes the last person on the Moon at the end of the Apollo 17 mission
(Thu, Dec 14, 2023)
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- 13th December 1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organises a formal militia, laying the foundations for the US National Guard
(Wed, Dec 13, 2023)
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- 12th December 2000: Bush v. Gore decision reached by the United States Supreme Court
(Tue, Dec 12, 2023)
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- 11th December 1941: Nazi Germany declares war on the USA
(Mon, Dec 11, 2023)
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- 10th December 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham executed for affairs with Catherine Howard
(Sun, Dec 10, 2023)
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- 9th December 1868: The world’s first traffic lights go into operation outside the Houses of Parliament in London
(Sat, Dec 09, 2023)
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- 8th December 1912: German Imperial War Council discusses the possibility of a European war
(Fri, Dec 08, 2023)
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- 7th December 1837: The Battle of Montgomery’s Tavern during the Upper Canada Rebellion
(Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
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- 6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons
(Wed, Dec 06, 2023)
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- 5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address
(Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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- 4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple
(Mon, Dec 04, 2023)
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- 3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’
(Sun, Dec 03, 2023)
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- 2nd December 1805: The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée defeat Russia and Austria
(Sat, Dec 02, 2023)
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- 1st December 1919: Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons
(Fri, Dec 01, 2023)
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- 30th November 1803: Balmis Expedition sets sail to vaccinate inhabitants of Spanish colonies against smallpox
(Thu, Nov 30, 2023)
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- 29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole
(Wed, Nov 29, 2023)
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- 28th November 1925: The Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio show in the USA, broadcast for the first time
(Tue, Nov 28, 2023)
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- 27th November 1978: San Francisco politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk shot dead by former Supervisor Dan White
(Mon, Nov 27, 2023)
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- 26th November 1789: The first formal National Day of Thanksgiving in the United States
(Sun, Nov 26, 2023)
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- 25th November 1783: The British Army departed New York City, nearly three months after the end of the American Revolutionary War
(Sat, Nov 25, 2023)
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- 24th November 1835: Texas Rangers formally instituted by Texan lawmakers
(Fri, Nov 24, 2023)
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- 23rd November 1876: William “Boss” Tweed delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain following his escape from prison for corruption
(Thu, Nov 23, 2023)
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- 22nd November 1943: Cairo Conference begins when leaders of Britain, the USA and China meet to discuss the Allied position regarding Japan
(Wed, Nov 22, 2023)
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- 21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution
(Tue, Nov 21, 2023)
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- 20th November 1910: Uprising by Francisco Madero against Porfirio Díaz triggers the Mexican Revolution
(Mon, Nov 20, 2023)
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- 19th November 1919: United States Senate votes to reject the Treaty of Versailles
(Sun, Nov 19, 2023)
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- 18th November 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting in a Presidential election
(Sat, Nov 18, 2023)
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- 17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special
(Fri, Nov 17, 2023)
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- 16th November 1933: The USA establishes formal diplomatic relations with the USSR
(Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
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- 15th November 1864: Sherman’s March to the Sea begins when the Civil War Union General leads his troops from Atlanta, GA, to the port of Savannah
(Wed, Nov 15, 2023)
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- 14th November 1680: German astronomer Gottfried Kirch uses a telescope to discover a comet for the first time
(Tue, Nov 14, 2023)
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- 13th November 1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.
(Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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- 12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division
(Sun, Nov 12, 2023)
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- 11th November 1831: Nat Turner executed for leading a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia
(Sat, Nov 11, 2023)
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- 10th November 1983: Bill Gates announces the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface for PCs
(Fri, Nov 10, 2023)
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- 9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA
(Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
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- 8th November 1861: The Trent Affair nearly causes a war between Britain and the United States
(Wed, Nov 08, 2023)
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- 7th November 1919: Palmer Raids in the United States result in the arrest of thousands of suspected communists and anarchists
(Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
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- 6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey
(Mon, Nov 06, 2023)
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- 5th November 1925: Sidney Reilly, the ‘Ace of Spies’, executed in the Soviet Union
(Sun, Nov 05, 2023)
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- 4th November 1890: City and South London Railway, the world’s first deep-level underground ‘tube’ railway, officially opened
(Sat, Nov 04, 2023)
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- 3rd November 1868: John Willis Menard became the first African-American to be elected to Congress
(Fri, Nov 03, 2023)
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- 2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack
(Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
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- 1st November 1765: The Stamp Act went into force in the Thirteen Colonies
(Wed, Nov 01, 2023)
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- 31st October 1913: Formal dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States
(Tue, Oct 31, 2023)
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- 30th October 1942: German Enigma machine ciphers retrieved from submarine U-559 by British sailors
(Mon, Oct 30, 2023)
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- 29th October 1964: ‘Murf the Surf’ and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New York’s history
(Sun, Oct 29, 2023)
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- 28th October 1922: Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome
(Sat, Oct 28, 2023)
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- 27th October 312: Constantine the Great receives his Vision of the Cross, marking the start of his conversion to Christianity
(Fri, Oct 27, 2023)
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- 26th October 1776: Benjamin Franklin departs America for France to secure a formal alliance and treaty
(Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
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- 25th October 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade undertaken by British forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War
(Wed, Oct 25, 2023)
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- 24th October 1648: Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years’ War that ravaged Europe
(Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
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- 23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public
(Mon, Oct 23, 2023)
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- 22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian
(Sun, Oct 22, 2023)
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- 21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama
(Sat, Oct 21, 2023)
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- 20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band
(Fri, Oct 20, 2023)
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- 19th October 1953: Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 first published
(Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
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- 18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States
(Wed, Oct 18, 2023)
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- 17th October 1860: Oldest golf tournament in the world begins with The Open at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland
(Tue, Oct 17, 2023)
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- 16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland
(Mon, Oct 16, 2023)
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- 15th October 1966: The Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
(Sun, Oct 15, 2023)
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- 14th October 1947: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to officially break the sound barrier in the experimental Bell X-1
(Sat, Oct 14, 2023)
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- 13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber
(Fri, Oct 13, 2023)
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- 12th October 1928: ‘Iron lung’ respirator used for the first time
(Thu, Oct 12, 2023)
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- 11th October 1649: Sack of Wexford in Ireland by English forces under Oliver Cromwell who burn much of the town and kill over 1,500 people
(Wed, Oct 11, 2023)
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- 10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record
(Tue, Oct 10, 2023)
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- 9th October 1919: Black Sox Scandal overshadows the World Series baseball championship win by the Cincinnati Reds
(Mon, Oct 09, 2023)
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- 8th October 1871: The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the most deadly wildfire in recorded history
(Sun, Oct 08, 2023)
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- 7th October 1763: Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
(Sat, Oct 07, 2023)
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- 6th October 1973: Yom Kippur War begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack on Israel
(Fri, Oct 06, 2023)
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- 5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched
(Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
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- 4th October 1927: Work begins on the USA’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota
(Wed, Oct 04, 2023)
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- 3rd October 1993: The Black Hawk Down incident during the Battle of Mogadishu
(Tue, Oct 03, 2023)
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- 2nd October 1627: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, ascends the throne
(Mon, Oct 02, 2023)
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- 1st October 1957: The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time
(Sun, Oct 01, 2023)
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- 30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Sat, Sep 30, 2023)
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- 29th September 1918: German Supreme Army Command urges Wilhelm II negotiate an armistice after the Allies break through the Hindenburg Line
(Fri, Sep 29, 2023)
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- 28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War
(Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
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- 27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day
(Wed, Sep 27, 2023)
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- 26th September 1983: Nuclear war avoided after Soviet detection system wrongly identifies incoming ballistic missile
(Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
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- 25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada
(Mon, Sep 25, 2023)
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- 24th September 1952: Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
(Sun, Sep 24, 2023)
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- 23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test
(Sat, Sep 23, 2023)
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- 22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution
(Fri, Sep 22, 2023)
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- 21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act
(Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
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- 20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match
(Wed, Sep 20, 2023)
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- 19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation
(Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
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- 18th September 1812: The Fire of Moscow burnt out five days after it began, leaving Napoleon in possession of the city
(Mon, Sep 18, 2023)
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- 17th September 1862: Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pennsylvania sees the largest single civilian loss of life during the American Civil War
(Sun, Sep 17, 2023)
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- 16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York
(Sat, Sep 16, 2023)(05:47 +0000, )
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- 15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia
(Fri, Sep 15, 2023)
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- 14th September 1607: ‘Flight of the Earls’ sees Gaelic nobility, led by Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’Donnell, leave Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe
(Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
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- 13th September 1899: Henry H. Bliss, the first person to be killed by an automobile in America
(Wed, Sep 13, 2023)
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- 12th September 1958: The world’s first integrated circuit demonstrated by Jack Kilby
(Tue, Sep 12, 2023)
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- 11th September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile after launching a coup against President Salvador Allende
(Mon, Sep 11, 2023)
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- 10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War
(Sun, Sep 10, 2023)
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- 9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress
(Sat, Sep 09, 2023)
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- 8th September 1966: Star Trek makes its television debut with “The Man Trap”
(Fri, Sep 08, 2023)
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- 7th September 1813: According to tradition, the United States gained its nickname, ‘Uncle Sam’
(Thu, Sep 07, 2023)
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- 6th September 1901: President William McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz
(Wed, Sep 06, 2023)
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- 5th September 1781: Battle of the Chesapeake sees the British Navy repelled by the French during the American War of Independence
(Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
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- 4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer
(Mon, Sep 04, 2023)
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- 3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino
(Sun, Sep 03, 2023)
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- 2nd September 1935: The Labor Day hurricane, the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall
(Sat, Sep 02, 2023)
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- 1st September 1985: Wreck of the Titanic discovered by a team led by Robert Ballard
(Fri, Sep 01, 2023)
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- 31st August 1920: The world’s first radio news service begins broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan
(Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
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- 30th August 1963: The Moscow-Washington hotline enters operation
(Wed, Aug 30, 2023)
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- 29th August 1949: USSR successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning
(Tue, Aug 29, 2023)
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- 28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi
(Mon, Aug 28, 2023)
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- 27th August 1883: The eruption of Krakatoa
(Sun, Aug 27, 2023)
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- 26th August 1346: Battle of Crécy during the Hundred Years War won by the army of the English king Edward III
(Sat, Aug 26, 2023)
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