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the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to votes a right known as woman suffrage
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment company, film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. It is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios
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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles inundated up to a depth of 30 feet
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Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the February 14, 1929 murder of seven men of the North Side Irish gang during the Prohibition Era. It resulted from the struggle between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang
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on October 29, 1929 which later on came to be known as Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 this speculative bubble finally burst. Starting in October 1929 over a period of one week nearly $30 billion dollars were lost.
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was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
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Adolf Hitler has escaped death after a bomb exploded at 1242 local time at his headquarters in Rastenberg
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first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers
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an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection
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John F Kennedy was shot fatally in Dallas Tx
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Americans viewed his killing as simply the result of an ongoing feud between him and the Nation of Islam
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is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
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Jet crashes killing 109 people on board and four on the ground
