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Harrry is Born
Harry S. Truman is born in Lamar, Missouri. -
Truman serves in Battery B of the Missouri National Guard.
He enters as a private, but is soon promoted to corporal -
Truman works on his father's farm
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Truman's father dies.
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Truman is elected judge of county court, Jackson County, Missouri
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The Japanese attack the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The nation enters into World War II. -
Harry S. Truman is sworn in as president
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First atomic bomb dropped
Truman announces the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan by a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber named Enola Gay -
World War 2 ends
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President John Kennedy is assassinated
Lyndon B. Johnson assumes the Presidency upon the death of John Kennedy, bedoming the 36th U.S. President. -
Truman Dies age 88