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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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1776
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Patriot executed for spying »
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AUTOMOTIVE
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1953
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The famous “four-level” opens in Los Angeles »
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CIVIL WAR
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1862
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is announced »
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COLD WAR
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1961
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President Kennedy signs Peace Corps legislation »
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CRIME
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1980
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So-called Midtown Stabber kills his first victim »
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DISASTER
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1993
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Train derails in Alabama swamp »
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GENERAL INTEREST
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1776
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American Patriot executed for spying »
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1828
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Shaka Zulu assassinated »
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1914
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U-boat devastates British squadron »
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1927
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Dempsey loses on long count »
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1980
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Iran-Iraq War »
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HOLLYWOOD
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1994
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Friends debuts »
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LITERARY
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1598
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Playwright Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter »
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MUSIC
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1985
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The first “Farm Aid” concert is held in Champaign, Illinois »
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OLD WEST
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1554
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Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold »
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PRESIDENTIAL
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1975
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President Ford survives second assassination attempt »
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SPORTS
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1927
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Controversial long count mars Tunney- »
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VIETNAM WAR
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1964
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Goldwater attacks Johnson’s Vietnam policy »
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1971
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Medina is acquitted of all charges »
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WORLD WAR I
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1914
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German U-boat devastates British squadron »
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WORLD WAR II
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1945
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Patton questions necessity of Germany’s “denazification” »
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