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British Parliament passes the Tea Act
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Zebulon M Pike dies
US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
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Ulysses S. Grant was born
Ohio (R), 18th US president (1869-77) and Union general -
West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union
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President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
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John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies
dies on his 58th birthday -
Coretta Scott King is born
Wife of Dr. Martin Luther King
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U.S. Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
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NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit
to study gamma rays
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Amelia F Graves is born
Junior at MCHS who has a little brother.
