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On this date, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.
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This is the date my great-grandfather was born. He was born and raised in Irvine, Kentucky.
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My great-grandmother was born on this date.
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On April 10, 1912, the Titanic, largest ship afloat, left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage to New York City. Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lost.
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With the first declaration of war given by Germany, the first World War offically began. WWI lasted for a long time and killed millions of people.
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The new, lethal virus, which became known as the Spanish flu, swept around the world in three waves, killing an estimated 50 million to 100 million people
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When the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into affect it made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal and beginning Prohibition in the United States.
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This is the date my great- grandparents got married and decided to start a family. They were married in Irvine, Kentucky.
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On Black Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 38 points to 260, a drop of 12.8%. The stock market crash signaled the bebining of the Great Depression.
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My grandfather was born on this date. He was also born and raised in Irvine, Kentucky.
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This is the date my grandmother was born. She was born and raised in Richmond, Indiana.
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World War II, was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations.
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The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which was supported by People's Republic of China.
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The U.S. went in to try to stop the Communism from spreading to other countries because Vietnam had split into two different countries, one communist and one not.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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This was the date my mother was born. She was the first child and she was born in Xenia, Ohio.
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My grandparents were married on this date. They got married and began their family in Richmond, Indiana.
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This is the date my father was born. He was the second child and he was born in Richmond, Indiana.
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Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America.
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When my father was two years old he moved from Richmond, Indiana to Fountain City, Indiana.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
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At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, King was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel.
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The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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This Constitutional Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
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This date was the day my parents got married and decided to start a family. They were married in Dayton, Ohio.
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This was the day I was born. I was the third and final child and I am also the only girl.
