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American and World Events
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the U.S.
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Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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Mark Twain published the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Baseball's National League founded
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Railroads adopt standard time zones
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The Brooklyn Bridge is opened.
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French scientist Louis Pasteur administers the first succeddful rabies vaccination
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Thomas Edison patents the phorograph
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The Wright brothers stay aloft for 852 feet in their airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC.
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Henry Ford builds the first model T