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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus arrives in South America
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George Washington dies
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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The Spanish American war begins
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United States is attacked in the Philippines
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William McKinley’s Second Election to the Presidency
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William McKinley assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz
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United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone Treaty
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Election as President of the United States
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Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established
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William Howard Taft Elected President of the United States
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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First Long Distance Telephone Service between New York and San Francisco
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Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Woodrow Wilson elected President
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Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth
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Worldwide Spanish flu epidemic strikes (20 million dead worldwide and 500,000 in the US)
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Charles Lindbergh first nonstop transatlantic flight, Spirit of the St. Louis
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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League of Nations joining of the US is denied in the US Senate
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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President Calvin Coolidge becomes President
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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Stock market Crash of 1929 marks the beginning of the Great Depression
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Al Capone is convicted on Tax Evasion
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the United States
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Hitler comes to power in Germany
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Works Progress Administration begins
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WWII begins with Germany’s Invasion of Poland
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U.S. declares neutrality at the beginning of WWII
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Tripartite pact is signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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D-Day Invasion by American, British, and Canadian Troops
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Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Yalta
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman succeeded him as President
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Cold War is termed and begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
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Presidential Succession Act signed by President Truman
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Twenty Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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President Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur as head of the Far East Command
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President Eisenhower elected President
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Korean War ends in an Armistice
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Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin accuses people of Communist activities and hearings begin
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Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision ended segregation
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Russia detonates its first hydrogen bomb
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Rosa Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
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Martin Luther King, Jr and others set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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President John F. Kennedy is Elected President
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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March at Selma, Alabama
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Edward W. Brooke becomes first African American U.S. Senator
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated
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Richard Nixon Elected President
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House recommends impeachment of Nixon
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Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States
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Ronald Reagan elected president of the United States
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Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court Justice
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Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War)
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U.S.S.R. collapses and Communism comes to an end
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