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1797—Whiskey Rebellion
Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion (LP)
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1776—The Declaration of Independence was formally signed
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)
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1492—Christopher Columbus sets sail
What Was Columbus Thinking?
Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus (LP)
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Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory (LP)
Born 1901—Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong
Learning the Blues (LP)
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1884—Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid in NYC
The Statue of of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol (LP)
The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America (LP)
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1945—The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during WWII
Images at War (LP)
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1782—George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart
The Living Symbol (LP)
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1879—born - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
Art Safari (W)
1919—Treaty of Rawalpindi—
British recognize Afghanistan's independence
Asia Source (W)
1974—Richard Nixon announces his resignation as President
Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution (W)
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1845—Henry David Thoreau publishes his book "Walden"
American Memory Project (W)
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1846—Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum (W)
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1898—Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War
Casa de Joanna (W)
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1521— Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs
Conquistadors (W)
1818—born - Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights
Cultural Change (LP)
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1848—Congress created the Oregon Territory
Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail (LP)
If I Were a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail (LP)
1947—India gains Independence from Britain
SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (W)
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1057—Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the “Dagger of the Mind” (LP)
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)
1769—born - Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon (W)
Freedmen and Southern Society Project (W)
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1863—The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln
Attitudes Toward Emancipation (LP)
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Born 1786—Davy Crockett
Born on a Mountaintop? Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History (LP)
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Born 1774—Explorer Meriwether Lewis
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1954—Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1958—NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1991—Coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
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1866—Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1908—Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
1940—Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City
1968—650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
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1831—The Nat Turner Slave Rebellion occurred.
Families in Bondage (LP)
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Died 1904—Kate Chopin, author
The Internet Public Library (W)
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79—Mt. Vesuvius Erupts
In Old Pompeii (LP)
Pompeii Forum Project (W)
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1920—The 19th Ammendment, granting women's suffrage, passes
Cultural Change (LP)
Scripting the Past (LP)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 (W)
U.S. Women's History Workshop (W)
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1789—The "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" signed in France
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (W)
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1963—Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech
Dr. King's Dream (LP)
Great American Speeches (W)
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Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence (LP)
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (W)
1758—1st U.S. Indian reservation established
Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation (LP)
Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee (LP)
1786—Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, MA
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1967—Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice
Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: Supreme Court WWW Resource (W)
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1887—Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
Thomas A. Edison Papers (W)
1957—Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Asia Source (W)
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