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1819 First bicycles in the US, called swift walkers, are debuted in NYC.

1832 First US Democratic National Convention is held in Baltimore.

1856 Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces. 1-2

1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House of the US Civil War ends inclusively with an estimated 32,000 casualties on both sides. 3-5

1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton.

1906 The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation.

1917 The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality. 6

1918 US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote.

1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens.

1944 WWII: West Loch Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills at least 160 sailors, injures nearly 400, destroys six ships and damages 3 piers and several buildings at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Oahu, Hawaii; details were kept classified until the early 1960s. 7-9

1954 US Twenty-sixth amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.

1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.

1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University.

1979 Dan White convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay city Supervisor Harvey Milk. The conviction on a lesser charge outraged the gay community and led to the White Night riots. 10-11

1998 Five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida, are targeted by a butyric acid attack.

1774 The British pass the second of the Intolerable Acts: the Massachusetts Government Act, giving British-appointed governor wide-ranging powers.

1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence from Great Britain. 1

1830 Douglass Hyde receives the first US patent for a fountain pen.

1862 US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American West (80 million acres by 1900).

1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured. 2

1902 United States withdraws its troops from Cuba as the first Cuban president, Tomas Estrada Palma takes power.

1932 Amelia Earhart departs Newfoundland on her journey to become the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. 3

1940 First successful helicopter flight in the US: Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky demonstrated to the public at Bridgeport Airport in Stratford, Connecticut. 4

1942 US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.

1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship.

1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama. 5-6

1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam. 7-9

1970 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam.

1980 710 families in Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York are evacuated due to linger effects of prior use as chemical waste disposal site. 10-11

1997 US President Clinton signs an executive order barring new US investment in Burma (also known as Myanmar), effective May 21 and renewable annually.

1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven form the United Colonies of New England. 1

1828 U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North.

1856 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachesetts speaks out against slavery. 2

1883 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opens Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska. 3

1921 US Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system.

1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) founded by the Radio Corporation of America.

1944 Writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois becomes 1st Black member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. 4

1952 "Time" magazine features 'Theseus', an electrical learning machine built by American scientist Claude Shannon - the 1st example of AI. 5

1953 US House of Representatives votes to ratify the state constitution and admit Ohio to the Union retroactively as of March 1, 1803, 150 years after overlooking the paperwork.

1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed. 6

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK before 15,000 attendees, accompanied by jazz pianist Hank Jones, at Madison Square Garden, NYC.

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy. 7

1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary.

1992 US VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values. 8

1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1

1652 Rhode Island enacts the first law declaring slavery illegal.

1846 US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros, during the Mexican–American War.

1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school.

1860 US Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president.

1863 US General Ulysses S. Grant begins siege on Vicksburg, Mississippi; after 47 days of battle siege, Confederate Lt. General John C. Pemberton’s troops surrender. 2-3

1869 Robert Tanner Freeman is 1st African American to graduate from Harvard Dental School. 4

1871 Warren Wagon Train raid: Native American Comanche and Kiowa warriors attack a corn train led by Henry Warren near Graham, Texas, killing 7 waggoners. William T. Sherman pursues and captures 3 leaders, Satanta (White Bear), Satank (Sitting Bear) and Addo-eta ( Big Tree).

1896 US Supreme court affirms legitimacy of racial separation (Plessy v Ferguson), a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".

1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, is ordered to France.

1917 US Congress passes Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through compulsory enlistment.

1927 Bath School Disaster: Andrew Kehoe blows up Bath Consolidated School killing 38 children, 2 teachers at Bath, Michigan. 6-7

1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams.

1964 US Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years.

1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington approves repeal of the Butler Act (or "Monkey Law") - prohibiting the teaching of evolution, upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial.

1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state triggers the largest landslide in history, killing 57 people and causing over $1 billion in damage. 8-12

1998 United States v. Microsoft: Department of Justice and 20 states file an antitrust case against Microsoft. 13-14

1775 the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

1792 Twenty-four merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street. 1

1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi. 2-4

1876 7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Fort Lincoln.

1900 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is first published by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow in Chicago.

1909 White firemen on the Georgia Railroad strike to protest the hiring of Black workers.

1943 Millionaire Howard Hughes crashes into Lake Mead, while test flying his Sikorsky S-43, killing CAA inspector Ceco Cline and Richard Felt.

1944 Chinese and US forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma.

1946 US President Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike.

1954 US Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reverses 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy v Ferguson decision ruling racial segregation in public schools as illegal. 5

1973 US Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. 6

1974 Symbionese Liberation Army shoot-out with Los Angeles police kills six SLA members in the gunfire and resulting fire. One of the largest police shootouts in US history, with more than 9,000 rounds fired.

1980 Race riot in Miami, Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured. 7-9

2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. 10

1771 Battle of Alamance County, NC. 1-2

1777, British-born Georgia Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett receives a bullet wound in a duel with his political rival, Georgia city Whig Lachlan McIntosh. Three days later, Gwinnett died as a result of the gangrenous wound. McIntosh was also shot in the duel, but the wound was not fatal. 3

1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins.

1860 - Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate. 4

1861 Major General Twiggs surrenders to Confederate Army in San Antonio, Texas. 5

1868 US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote ( yes, I am aware the picture is from the H of R for articles of impeachment vote) 6

1918 Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense. 7

1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico.

1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US.

1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant. 8

1988 US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin.

1990 Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creators of the M16 rifle and the AK-47, meet in Washington, D.C. 9

1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts.

1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.

1800, President John Adams orders the federal government to pack up and leave Philadelphia and set up shop in the nation’s new capital in Washington, D.C.

1829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith. 1

1841 First emigrant wagon train to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada.

1862 US Department of Agriculture created. 2

1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). 3

1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US.

1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kill 2 students during racial disturbance at Jackson State University in Mississippi. 4-6

1972 Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. 7-8

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.