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- Francis Scoot Key born in 1779 – Star-Spangled Banner author
- Anne Franks last diary entry 1944
- The first Olympic games opened in Berlin, Germany 1936
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- The Persian Gulf War began 1990
- First Lincoln Penny issued 1909
- Rasksha Bandhan – Hindu holiday celebrating the love between a bother and sister
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- Columbus set sail on his 1st Voyage in 1492
- The National Dance Hall of Fame, Saratoga, New York 1984
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- Barack Obama born, 1961
- Louis Armstrong born 1901, famous black /African American jazz artist
- Coast Guard Day - 1790
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- Neil Armstrong born, 1917 - first man to walk the moon
- First Federal income tax was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln
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- First Atomic Bomb was dropped over Hiroshima
- Jamaica achieved independence from British and Spanish rule
- The voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law by President Lydon B. Johnson
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- “Purple Heart” – medal given to military men or women who are injured at war, George Washington created the medal
- President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, had a baby son 1963
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- Eid-Al Fitr or Ramadan – Muslims holiday
- US dollar was created 1786
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- Japan surrendered to the United States ending WWII 1945
- Edward VII was crowned king of England 1902
- Gerald Ford became the 38th president of the United States 1974
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- Herbert Hoover born 1874
- Missouri was admitted to the Union 1821
- Ruther Bader Ginsburg becomes second women and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court
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- Babe Ruth became the first player in the history of baseball to hit 500 home runs 1929
- 911 Emergency Number was introduced 1991
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- King Philip’s War ended
- National Youth Day
- Untied States Postal system became independent 1970
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- Women enlist in the United State Marine Corps for the first time
- Lucy Stone born 1818, women’s right pioneer
- The first roller derby was held 1935
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- V-J Day – Japan surrendered to the Allies
- Social Security Act passes by Congress 1935
- Pakistan’s Independence Day
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- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications under the program began 2012
- Transcontinental Railroad completed, 1869
- India’s Independence Day
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- Elvis Presley died 1977
- First issue of Sports Illustrated is published 1954
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- Dublin, Ireland celebrates Diamond Jubilee 1987
- Woodstock Musical Festival ends 1969
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- The Bureau of Immigration was created 1894
- Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig was the first novel published by a black writer
- Bon Festival/Feast of Lanterns in Japan
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- National Aviation Day
- Bill Clinton born 1946
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- Benjamin Harrison born 1833
- The first commercial radio station begins operations 1920
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- Hawaii became part of the Union as the 50th state
- The Mona Lisa portrait was stolen 1911
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- Ann Franklin born, 1762 – first female newspaper editor
- The Cadillac Company started selling Cadillac cars 1902
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- Chinese Valentine’s Day
- First Photograph of the Earth from the Moon taken 1966
- First National Women’s Rights Convention 1850
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- National Waffle day
- Amelia Earhart – first women to fly across the Untied States 1932
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- National Park Service Established 1916
- National Association of Colored Nurses founded 1908
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- Women’s Equality day – women getting the right to vote
- Mother Teresa born 1910
- Betty Friedan leads a nationwide protest called The Women’s Strike for Equality in New York 1970
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- Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908
- Mary McLeod Bethune founds the national council of Negro Women
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- Dream day – Martin Luther Kind Jr gave “I have a dream speech” 1963
- Speeding laws went into effect in many states 1923
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- The Goodyear tire company is founded 1898
- The first American Indian Reservation was established in New Jersey 1758
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- Lt. Col.Guion S. Bluford Jr. Becomes the first African American astronaut in space
- London Paralympic Games began 2012
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- Maria Montessori born 1870
- Judith A. Reesnick is the second US women in space