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| December 1, 1955 | Rosa Parks arrested for not moving to the back of the bus |
| December 4, 1973 | Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter |
| December 5, 1933 | Prohibition ends |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| December 8, 1980 | John Lennon shot and killed in NYC |
| December 11. 1941 | US declares war on Germany and Italy |
| December 14, 1911 | South Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen |
| December 15, 1791 | U.S. Bill of Rights signed |
| December 16, 1773 | The Boston Tea Party |
| December 17, 1770 | Ludwig Von Beethoven is born |
| December 20, 1998 | U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton is impeached |
| December 21, 1898 | Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium |
| December 22, 1865 | General Sherman takes Savannah |
| December 23, 1888 | Dutch Painter Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his own ear |
| December 24, 1814 | War of 1812 Peace Treaty signed |
| December 25, 1776 | General George Washington and his troops cross the Delaware River |
| December 28, 1895 | World's first movie theater opens in Paris |
| December 29, 1890 | The Battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. |
| January 2, 1968 | First successful human heart transplant performed |
| January 3, 1959 | Alaska becomes 49th U.S. state |
| Januay 4, 1642 | Sir Isaac Newton is born |
| January 5, 1920 | Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to NY Yankees |
| January 6, 1412 | French heroine Joan of Arc born |
| January 8, 1935 | Elvis Presly is born |
| January 13, 1930 | First Mickey Mouse comic strip appears |
| January 17, 1706 | Benjamin Franklin is born |
| January 18, 1778 | Capt. James Cook finds Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands |
| January 21, 1799 | Edward Jenners smallpox vaccine introduced |
| January 24, 1924 | St. Petersburg, Russia renamed Leningrad |
| January 25, 1915 | Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call |
| January 26, 1875 | Dentist's electric drill patented |
| January 27, 1967 | Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee |
| January 30, 1933 | The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC radio |
| January 31, 1865 | Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery |
| February 2, 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo end U.S-Mexican War |
| February 8, 1587 | Mary Queen of Scots beheaded |
| February 13, 1866 | Jesse James hold up his first bank in Liberty, MO |
| February 16, 1923 | Tutankhamen's burial chamber is opened |
| February 19, 1878 | Edison patents the gramophone |
| February 20, 1792 | U.S. Postal Service is created |
| February 23, 1945 | U.S. Marines raise the flag on Iwo Jima |
| February 24, 1821 | Mexico gains independence from Spain |
| February 26, 1870 | First NYC subway line opens |
| February 28, 1854 | Republican Party formally organized |
| March 1, 1790 | First U.S. census authorized |
| March 2, 1973 | Vietnam peace treaty signed in Paris |
| March 3, 1931 | The Star Spangled Banner become the U.S. national athem |
| March 7, 1926 | First transatlantic telephone call |
| March 8, 1965 | First U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam |
| March 10, 1862 | First U.S. paper currency is issued |
| March 11, 1953 | Nuclear bomb accidentally dropped on North Carolina |
| March 16, 1830 | Slowest day ever for NY Stock Exchange |
| March 18, 1949 | NATO is formed |
| March 21, 1965 | Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, AL |
| March 22, 1903 | Niagra Falls runs dry due to drought |
| March 24, 1837 | Canada grants blacks the right to vote |
| March 25, 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 145, only 13 girls survive |
| March 27, 1914 | First successful blood transfusion |
| March 29, 1932 | Jack Benny debuts on radio |
| March 30, 1932 | Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| April 2, 1978 | Velcro is first sold |
| April 3, 1882 | Jesse James is killed |
| April 4. 1581 | Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world |
| April 8, 1513 | Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain |
| April 9, 1865 | Gen. Lee surrenders to Gen. Grant at Appomattox |
| April 10, 1849 | The safety pin is patented |
| April 14, 1614 | Pochahontas marries John Rolfe |
| April 15, 1452 | Leonardo da Vinci is born |
| April 16, 1922 | Annie Oakley shoot a record 100 clay targets in a row |
| April 19, 1906 | The Great San Francisco Earthquake |
| April 19, 1956 | Grace Kelley marries Prince Ranier III of Monaco |
| April 20, 1889 | Adolf Hitler was born |
| April 23, 1564 | WIlliam Shakespeare was born |
| April 26, 1986 | The Chernobyl nuclear disaster |
| April 28, 1789 | Fletcher Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty |
| April 29, 1913 | The zipper is patented |
| April 30, 1803 | U.S. purchased Louisiana Territory |
| May 2, 1945 | Berlin surrenders to the Russian army |
| May 4, 1970 | Four students killed by National Guard at Kent State University |
| May 5, 1961 | Alan Shepard is first American in space |
| May 6, 1915 | Ocean liner Lusitania sunk by German submarines |
| May 10, 1994 | Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's first black president |
| May 17, 1845 | The rubber band was patented |
| May 18, 1804 | Napoleon became Emperor of France |
| May 21, 1881 | Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross |
| May 23, 1945 | British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns |
| May 24,1884 | Samuel Morse send the first telegraph message |
| May 26, 1896 | Nicholas II crowned Czar of Russia |
| May 28, 1934 | The Dionne quintuplets were born |
| May 27, 1923 | Henry Kissenger was born |
| May 31, 1962 | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann executed |
| June 2, 1924 | U.S. Congress grants Native Americans citizenship |
| June 4, 1940 | German forces invade Paris |
| June 5, 1967 | Six Day War begins between Isreal and it's Arab neighbors |
| June 12, 1939 | Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown |
| June 18, 1815 | Wellington defeats Napolean at Waterloo |
| June 22, 1970 | 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18 |
| June 24, 1948 | Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade |
| June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versailles signed, ending WWI |
| June 29, 1854 | Gadsen Purchase--U.S. aquires parts of present day AZ & NM |
| June 30, 1936 | Gone With the Wind is published |
| July 1, 1963 | U.S. Postal Service starts using ZIP code system |
| July 4, 1997 | Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars |
| July 6, 1933 | First all star game is played at Chicago's Wrigley Field |
| July 8, 1835 | The Libery Bell cracks |
| July 11, 1804 | Alexander Hamilton shot by V.P. Aaron Burr in a duel |
| July 13, 1977 | New York City paralyzed by 25 hour black-out |
| July 15, 1099 | Crusaders take control of Jerusalem |
| July 16, 1945 | First atomic bomb detonated in NM |
| July 17, 1998 | Nicholas II of Russia and family buried 80 years after they are assasinated |
| July 18, 1921 | Black Sox trial begins in Chicago |
| July 20, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for a fourth term as U.S. President |
| July 22, 1934 | Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger killed by FBI agents in Chicago |
| July 23, 1935 | An airplane crashes into the Empire State Building |
| July 25, 1952 | Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. |
| July 26, 1946 | President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces |
| July 27, 1940 | Bugs Bunny makes his debut |
| July 28, 1959 | Hawaii's first U.S. election send first Asian American to Congress |
| July 29, 1957 | Pres. Eisenhower signs legislation creating NASA |
| July 30, 1830 | Henry Ford born in Dearborn, MI |
| August 1, 1291 | Republic of Switerland founded, the oldest republic still existing |
| August 2, 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia |
| August 3, 1492 | Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain |
| August 4, 1914 | England declares war on Germany; U.S. declares neutrality |
| August 5, 1936 | Jesse Owens wins his third gold medal at Berlin Olympics |
| August 6, 1926 | Warner Bros. Studios premieres first talking pictures |
| August 7, 1942 | Battle of Guadalcanal |
| August 13, 1521 | Spanish conqerors take Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) from the Aztecs |
| August 14, 1935 | Social Security Law is established |
| August 15, 1057 | Macbeth killed by Duncan, his rival for the Scottish throne |
| August 16, 1969 | Woostock rock festival begins |
| August 26, 1920 | 19th Amendment ratified, giving women the right to vote |
| August 30, 1967 | Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice |
| September 1, 1939 | WWII begins as Germany invades Poland |
| September 3, 1888 | George Eastman patents roll film and registers the Kodak name |
| September 4, 1781 | Villiage of Los Angeles was founded |
| September 5, 1997 | Mother Theresa dies in Calcutta at age 87 |
| September 6, 1966 | Star Trek television program premieres |
| September 7, 1533 | England's Elizabeth I is born |
| September 8, 1565 | St. Augustine, FL founded, first permanent European settlement in North America |
| September 12, 1953 | Nikita Khrushcheb becomes Soviet Prime Minister |
| September 13, 1788 | New York City becomes the first U.S. capital |
| September 14, 1814 | Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner |
| September 15, 1890 | Mystery writer Agatha Christie was born |
| September 18, 1851 | First issue of the New York Times is published |
| September 20, 1932 | Gandhi begins a hunger strike protesting treatment of India's untouchables |
| September 21, 1981 | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| September 22, 1789 | The U.S. Postal Service is established |
| October 1, 1908 | Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, selling for $825 |
| October 2, 1944 | Nazis crush the Warsaw uprising, killing 250,000 people |
| October 3, 1974 | The Watergate trial began |
| October 4, 1957 | The Soviet Sputnik satellite is the first to orbit the earth |
| October 14, 1947 | U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuch Yeager is first pilot to exceed the speed of sound |
| October 17, 1933 | Albert Einstein emigrates to U.S. from Germany |
| October 21, 1879 | Thomas Edison demonstrates his incandescent electric lamp |
| October 1918 | Great Influenza Epidemic begins, killing over 18 million |
| October 25, 1854 | Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War |
| October 26, 1881 | Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday face the Clanton gang at the OK Corral |
| October 27, 1938 | Dupont announces invention of Nylon, named for New York and London |
| October 28, 1886 | The Statue of Liberty is dedicated |
| October 31, 1517 | Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, triggering the Protestant Reformation |
| November 5, 1895 | George Selden receives the first U.S. patent for an automobile |
| November 6, 1869 | Rutgers and Princeton play the first intercollegiate football game |
| November 8, 1731 | Benjamin Franklin opens the first public library in Philadelphia |
| November 9, 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt is the first U.S. president to visit other countries (Puerto Rico and Panama) |
| November 10, 1926 | Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan |
| November 11, 1939 | God Bless America is publicly sung for the first time by Kate Smith |
| November 12, 1954 | Ellis Island immigration station in NY Harbor is closed |
| November 16, 1532 | Inca Empire falls to Spaniard Pizarro |
| November 17, 1868 | Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red Seas |
| Nobember 18, 1928 | Mickey Mouse makes his animated debut in Steamboat Willie |
| November 20, 1945 | International War Crimes Tribunal begins trials in Neuremburg, Germany |
| November 21, 1620 | The Mayflower Compact was signed |
| November 22, 1962 | President John F. Kennedy was assasinated |
| November 29, 1929 | Commander Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole |
| December 1, 1880 | The White House has its first telephone installed |
| December 2, 1823 | The Monroe Doctrine declares European powers must stay out of the Western Hemisphere |
| December 7, 1787 | Delaware is the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution |
| December 8, 1941 | U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan |
| December 11, 1620 | 103 pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
| December 12, 1800 | Washington, D.C. is established as the U.S. capital |
| January 1, 1863 | Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery |
| January 19, 1793 | French King Louis XVI sentenced to death |
| January 24, 1848 | Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill starts California Gold Rush |
| January 28, 1986 | Space Shuttle Chanlleger explodes killing all on board |
| January 29, 1886 | First successful gasoline driven car patented by Karl Benz in Germany |
