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the Jamestown colony is founded by John Smith in modern-day Virginia
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A women names Mary Rowlandson was held captive by Native Americans and publishes a book about her experience
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Poor Richards Almanack circulates thanks to Benjamin Franklin
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Tomas Jefferson writes the declaration of Independence
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Noah webster publishes his first dictionary
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Texas secedes from Mexico
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In California the first gold rush begins
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John Brown is caught and put to death because he raids harpers ferry west Virginia
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south carolina seceded to the union which later lead to 10 other states seceding
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In Whitechapel, London the salvation army is started
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the comstock law was set by congress which meant that it was illegal to send almost any book through the mail
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the first ever telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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the first addition of "the winning of the west' is published by Teddy Roosevelt
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A man named Lord Stanley donates the Stanley cup to be used as an annual award to be given to the best hockey time in Canada
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"Main Street" is published by Sinclair Lewis
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the tomb of Tutankhamen is discovered in Egypt by Howard Carter
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the first trans-atlantic flight is completed by Charles Lindberg
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"The Topic of Cancer" is published by Henry Miller
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In Mexico the first ever atomic bomb is detonated in a test
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on April the 30th Hitler dies due to suicide and on May the 7th Germany surrenders
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Norman Mailer's book 'The Naked and the Dead' is published
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Israel becomes the only jewish state in the world
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Ralph Ellison book 'Invisible Man' is published
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both Ethel and Julius Rosenburg are executed for selling nuclear arms secrets to the soviet union
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both Hawaii and Alaska become states
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Between East and West Germany the Berlin wall is built
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Alex Haley lets Malcolm X co-write his own biography
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The first ever Earth day is held on the 22nd of April
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Maya Angelou's book 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' is published
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Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter and becomes president
