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Revoulutionary War Begins
On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commanded by King George III to suppress the rebellious Americans, had ordered 700 British soldiers, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John Pitcairn, to seize the colonists' military stores in Concord, some 20 miles west of Boston. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr19.html -
Declaration of Independence Approved
Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28United_States%29 -
Revoulutionary War Ends
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784,[1] and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 (the ratification documents were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784), formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281783%29 -
US Constitution Written
On September 17, 1787, forty-two of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America.http://usgovinfo.about.com/blconstday.htm -
Constitution Becomes the Law
New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-constitution-ratified -
George Washington is the 1st President
Elected as the first President of the United States in 1789, he attempted to bring rival factions together to unify the nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington -
Bill of Rights Ratified
On December 15, 1791, the new United States of America ratified the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec15.html -
Abraham Lincoln Becomes the 16th President
On Monday, March 4, 1861, President James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln left the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Capitol and Lincoln's first inauguration.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar04.html -
The Civil War Starts
On Friday, April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Confederate batteries opened fire, firing for 34 straight hours, on the fort. Edmund Ruffin, noted Virginian agronomist and secessionist, claimed that he fired the first shot on Fort Sumter.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter -
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution Adotpted
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
The 15th Amendement to the Constitution Ratified
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -
World War 1 Begins
Imperial, territorial, and economic rivalries led to the “Great War” between the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey) and the Allies (U.S., Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Montenegro, Portugal, Italy, and Japan). About 10 million combatants killed, 20 million wounded.http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001284.html -
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution Ratified
The U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, declared the equality of all people, yet it was not until August 18, 1920, that women in the United States were officially recognized as equal participants in the nation's political process. On that date the 19th amendment was ratified, ending the long struggle for women's political suffrage in this country.http://www.humanistsofutah.org/humanists/19thAmendment.html -
World War 2 Begins
in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: Polenfeldzug) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland -
Vietnam War
The Battle for Saigon was a month-long battle between the Vietnamese National Army of the State of Vietnam and the private army of the Binh Xuyen organised crime syndicate.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_in_the_Vietnam_War -
Martin Luther King, Jr."I Have a Dream" speech
Widely hailed as a masterpiece of rhetoric, Martin Luther King's speech resembles the style of a Baptist sermon (King himself was a Baptist minister). It appeals to such iconic and widely respected sources as the Bible and invokes the United States Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the United States Constitution. Early in his speech King alludes to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream -
Jacobo's Birthday
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Nadia's Birthday
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Twin Towers Are Attacked By Terrorist.
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11.
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Barack Obama Is Elected President
victory spech
Obama: Hello, Chicago. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/obama.transcript/ -
Constitution Day 2011
In honor of Constitution Day, all educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to hold an educational program pertaining to the United States Constitution. The National Constitution Center can help you meet this requirement! http://constitutioncenter.org/ncc_progs_About.aspx