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ON July 4th, 1776, now celebrated as Independence Day, the United States won the war for freedom and independence from Great Britain.
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The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
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The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese air service at the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii.
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The Vietnam War lasted almost 2 years, and America lost South Vietnam in the war.
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The assassination was in Dallas, Texas in 1963, while he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Park. He was campaigning with crowds of people, and he got shot in his back and neck. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital where he was declared dead.
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America won the worldwide race to be the first man on the moon. Apollo 11 made it to the moon and Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
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April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established
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The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases
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ON September 11, 2001, terrorists, the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda, attacked America by taking control of planes and targeting them at the North and South WTC. At 8:46 am the North tower was struck and at 9:03 am the South Tower was struck, killing thousands of people, hundreds of firefighters included. The South Tower fell at 9:59 am, 56 minutes after the hit, and the North at 8:56 am, 10 minutes after the hit. A third plane hit the pentagon, and a fourth was crashed by the passengers.
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Barack Obama was elected president in 2009. He was the 44th president of the United States.
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In June of 2015, Gay Marriage was legalized in all states of America and required states to honor out-of-state marriage lisences.
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On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others at a night club in Orlando, Florida.
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The first Covid-19 case in America was confirmed in Washington from Wuhan.
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