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of important dates in world history ready for importing into Active
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January 4, 1999
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Euro debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment
markets
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January 5, 1968
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Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia
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January 8, 1916
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Allies retreat from Gallipoli
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January 10, 1920
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League of Nations formally comes into being
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January 15, 1970
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Gadafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
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January 16, 1991
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The Persian Gulf War begins
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January 19, 1966
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Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India
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January 20, 1961
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John F. Kennedy inaugurated
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January 22, 1901
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Queen Victoria dies
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January 25, 1924
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First Winter Olympic Games
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January 27, 1926
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First public demonstration of a television system in London,
UK
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January 28, 1986
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Space shuttle "Challenger" explodes during lift-off
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February 1, 1979
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Ayatollah Homeini returns to Iran
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February 2, 1943
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Battle of Stalingrad ends
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February 4, 1789
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George Washington elected the first president of United
States
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February 7, 1992
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European Union established
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February 8, 1725
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Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, dies
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February 11, 1945
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Yalta conference ends
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February 16, 1959
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Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba
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February 19, 1473
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Nicolaus Copernicus, the father of modern astronomy, is
born in Torun
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February 21, 1848
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The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx is published
in London
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February 23, 1981
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Spanish rebels storm Parliament
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February 26, 1935
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Hitler organizes Luftwaffe
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March 2, 1972
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Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
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March 6, 1475
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Michelangelo, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists,
is born in Caprese
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March 8, 1917
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February Revolution in Russia begins
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March 3, 1876
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First speech transmitted by telephone
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March 12, 1930
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Gandhi leads civil disobedience
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March 14, 1879
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Albert Einstein is born
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March 15, 44 BC
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The Ides of March: Julius Caesar stabbed to death
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March 20, 1995
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Nerve gas attach on Tokyo subway
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March 23, 1919
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Mussolini founds the Fascist party
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March 25, 1957
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European Economic Community established
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March 26, 1979
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Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed
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March 28, 1939
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Spanish Civil War ends
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March 29, 1973
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United States withdraws from Vietnam
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April 2, 1982
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Argentina invades Falklands Islands
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April 4, 1968
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Marthin Luther King assassinated
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April 6, 1896
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Olympic Games reborn in Athens
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April 7, 1963
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A new constitution Tito the president for life of Yugoslavia
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April 12, 1961
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in
space
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April 15, 1912
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British ocean liner Titanic sinks 400 miles south of Newfoundland,
Canada
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April 16, 1917
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Lenin returns to Russia to take the reins of Russian Revolution
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April 21, 753 BC
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Rome founded
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April 23, 1564
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William Shakespeare born
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April 25, 1859
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Ground broken for Suez Canal
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April 26, 1986
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Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Soviet Union (today Ukraine)
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April 28, 1969
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De Gaulle resigns as leader of France
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May 4, 1979
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Margaret Thatcher sworn in as UK's prime minister
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May 7, 1915
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British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by a German
submarine and sinks
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May 8, 1945
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German forces agree to an unconditional surrender ending
World War II
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May 9, 1978
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Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro found dead
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May 10, 1994
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Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first black president
of South Africa
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May 13, 1981
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Pope John Paul II shot in Rome's St. Peter's Square
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May 14, 1948
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State of Israel proclaimed
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May 16, 1968
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Massive protests begin in France
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May 19, 1588
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Spanish Armada sets sail
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May 21, 1927
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American pilot Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget
Field in Paris
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May 23, 1945
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Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, commits suicide
while in Allied custody
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May 26, 1896
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Nicholas II , the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia
in Moscow
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June 2, 1953
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Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United
Kingdom
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June 4, 1919
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US Congress approved the 19th Amendment, which would guarantee
suffrage to women
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June 5, 1967
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Six-Day War begins: The Israel launches simultaneous attacks
on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
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June 7, 1939
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King George VI becomes the first British monarch to visit
the United States
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June 8, 632
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Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies in Medina
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June 11, 1937
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Soviet Union executes eight army leaders during "Great
Purge"
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June 13, 1983
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Pioneer 10, the world's first outer-planetary probe, leaves
the solar system
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June 15, 1215
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England's King John puts his royal seal on the Magna Carta,
or "Great Charter"
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June 16, 1963
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Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first
woman to travel into space
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June 18, 1815
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Napoleon defeated in Waterloo
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June 23, 1956
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Gamal Abdel Nasser elected first president of the Republic
of Egypt
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June 24, 1812
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Napoleon invades Russia
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June 26, 1945
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Delegates from 50 nations sign the United Nations Charter
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June 28, 1914
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia
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June 30, 1520
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Spanish retreat from Aztec capital
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July 1, 1997
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Hong Kong returned to China
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July 4, 1776
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United States declares independence from Great Britain
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July 8, 1994
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Kim Il Sung, the communist dictator of North Korea, dies
of a heart attack
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July 13, 1985
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Live Aid concert at London and Philadelphia
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July 14, 1789
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French revolution begin when Parisian revolutionaries storm
the Bastille
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July 16, 1918
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In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family
are executed by the Bolsheviks
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July 18, 1936
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Spanish Civil War breaks out
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July 20, 1969
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American astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on Moon
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July 23, 1952
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Military seizes power in Egypt
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July 25, 1943
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Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out
of power
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July 26, 1847
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The Republic of Liberia, formerly a colony of the American
Colonization Society, declares its independence
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July 27, 1794
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Robespierre, the architect of the French Revolution's Reign
of Terror, is overthrown
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July 28, 1914
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, starting World
War I
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August 1, 1914
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Germany and Russia declare war against each other
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August 3, 1492
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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail on a journey
to find a western sea route to China and India
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August 5, 1858
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First telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean is completed
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August 6, 1945
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Atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan
killing 80,000 outright
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August 8, 1974
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US President Richard M. Nixon resigns
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August 9, 1945
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An atomic bomb is detonated over the city of Nagasaki
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August 13, 1521
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Aztec capital Tenochtitlan falls to Cortez
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August 15, 1961
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East German authorities begin building the Berlin Wall
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August 16, 1977
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Elvis Presley dies
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August 20, 1968
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Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the "Prague
Spring"
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August 23, 1939
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed
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August 24, 1979
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Mount Vesuvius erupts in Italy, devastating Roman cities
of Pompeii and Herculaneum
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August 25, 1944
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Paris is liberated after more than four years of Nazi occupation
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August 29, 1949
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Soviets explode atomic bomb at a remote test site at Semipalatinsk
in Kazakhstan
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August 31, 1997
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Princess Diana killed in a car accident
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September 1, 1939
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II
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September 2, 1945
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Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, ending World War
II
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September 6, 1972
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Israeli hostages killed in Munich
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September 8, 1664
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English captures New Amsterdam and change it's name to
New York
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September 11, 2001
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Terrorist Attack on WTC in New York City and The Pentagon
in Arlington, Virginia killed around 3000
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September 13, 1993
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Israel and Palestine sign a peace accord
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September 14, 1812
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Napoleon enters Moscow
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September 17, 1978
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Camp David Accords signed
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September 19, 1955
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Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron is deposed in a
military coup
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September 21, 1792
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French Assembly abolish the monarchy
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September 22, 1980
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Iraq invades Iran starting 8-year war
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September 24, 622
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Prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira from Mecca to Medina
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September 27, 1996
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture capital city Kabul
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September 28, 1066
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William the Conqueror invades England
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September 29, 1939
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Germany and the Soviet Union agree to divide control of
occupied Poland
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October 1, 1936
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General Franco proclaimed leader of the rebel Nationalist
government in Spain
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October 4, 1957
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Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the world's first artificial
satellite
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October 5, 1989
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Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize
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October 7, 1949
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East Germany created within Soviet occupation zone
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October 12, 1492
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Christopher Columbus lands at a Bahamian island, discovering
New World
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October 15, 1990
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize
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October 16 ,1793
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Former French Queen Marie-Antoinette is beheaded on guillotine
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October 21, 1959
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Rocket designer Wernher von Braun moved from the US Army
to the newly created NASA
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October 22, 1962
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Cuban missile crises begin
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October 23, 1983
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Beirut barracks blown up
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October 24, 1648
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The Treaty of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years
War
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October 28, 1886
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The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people
of France to the people of the United States, is dedicated
in New York Harbor
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October 29, 1929
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Black Tuesday: Stock market crashes leading to Great Depression
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October 31, 1984
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Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is assassinated
in New Delhi by two of her own bodyguards
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November 1, 1993
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The Maastricht Treaty comes into effect, formally establishing
the European Union
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November 6, 1917
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Russian Bolshevik Party launch a coup against Russia's
Provisional Government
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November 11, 1793
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Louvre museum is opened in Paris
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November 11, 1918
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Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies,
ending World War I
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November 13, 1990
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The first known World Wide Web page is written
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November 15, 1957
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Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile "shooting
match"
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November 17, 1558
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Queen Mary I of England and Ireland since 1553, dies and
is succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth
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November 20, 1945
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Nuremberg trials begin
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November 22, 1963
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US president, John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,
Texas
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November 24, 1859
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Charles Darwin publishes groundbreaking scientific work "Origin
of Species"
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November 27, 1957
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Indian Prime Minister Nehru makes an impassioned speech
for nuclear disarmament in New Delhi
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November 29, 1947
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U.N. votes for partition of Palestine despite strong Arab
opposition
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December 2, 1804
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In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is
crowned Napoleon I
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December 3, 1967
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First human heart transplantation
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December 6, 1921
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The Irish Free State is declared
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December 7, 1941
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Japanese warplanes bombed US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor
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December 11, 1994
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian forces into
Chechnya
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December 12, 1901
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Marconi sends first radio transmission across the Atlantic
Ocean
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December 17, 1903
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Wright brothers make the first successful flight in history
of airplanes
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December 19, 1984
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Agreement committing Britain to return Hong Kong to China
in 1997 signed
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December 21, 1991
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Soviet republics proclaim the Commonwealth of Independent
States, which lead to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union.
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December 24, 1812
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War of 1812 ends
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December 28, 1895
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First Motion Picture shown by Lumiere brothers at Paris
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December 29, 1940
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Worst air raid on London
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December 30, 1922
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Soviet Union established
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