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1
1920 Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association Convention opened.
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1876 Wild Bill Hickok killed.
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1921 Eight players banished from baseball in Black Sox scandal.
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1735 John Peter Zenger trial began.
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5
1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty signed.
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1965 Johnson signed Voting Rights Act.
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1964 Congress passed Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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1942 Captured Nazi saboteurs executed.
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1974 Nixon resigned.
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1846 Smithsonian Institution established.
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11
1965 Watts Riots began.
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12
1676 King Phillip's War ended.
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1961 Border closed between East and West Berlin.
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14
1935 Social Security Act passed.
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1914 Panama Canal opened.
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1896 Major gold strike in Alaska sparked the Klondike Gold Rush.
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1807 First steamboat trip
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1920 19th Amendment ratified.
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1981 U.S. Navy planes shot down two Libyan fighter planes.
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1968 USSR invaded Czechoslovakia.
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1831 Nat Turner rebellion began.
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1775 King George proclaimed the colonies in "open rebellion."
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1927 Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti.
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1814 Washington burned.
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1916 National Park Service established.
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26
1968 Tumultuous Democratic Convention began.
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1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact signed.
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28
1963 March on Washington held.
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1817 Rush-Bagot Treaty signed.
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30
1967 Thurgood Marshall joined U.S. Supreme Court.
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1955 Body of Emmett Till found.
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August 18, 1920—19th Amendment Ratified