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1608 - City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain |
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1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge Mass. |
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1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors |
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1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus. |
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1848 - slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands). |
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1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY |
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1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North |
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1890 - Idaho becomes 43rd state. |
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1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba |
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1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti remain until 1934. |
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1939 - Lou Gehrig day Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech |
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1950 - 1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War |
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1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule |
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1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3. |
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1976 - Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers |
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1980 - 73 096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 |
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1982 - Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon |
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1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m). |
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1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members |
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1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island. |
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1985 - CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock |
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1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty |