| 1991 |
-- USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics
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| 1988 |
-- USSR performs underground nuclear test
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| 1988 |
-- Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
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| 1986 |
-- USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
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| 1983 |
-- USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
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| 1978 |
-- USSR performs underground nuclear test
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| 1978 |
-- Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
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| 1975 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1970 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| 1962 |
-- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1961 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
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| 1958 |
-- US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
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| 1954 |
-- US plane shot down above Siberia
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| 1941 |
-- Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
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| 1941 |
-- All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
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| 1939 |
-- South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
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| 1939 |
-- 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
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| 1924 |
-- Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
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| 1914 |
-- Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
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| 1901 |
-- Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
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| 1876 |
-- Race riot in Charleston SC
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| 1866 |
-- Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention
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| 1863 |
-- After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
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| 1863 |
-- -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
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| 1862 |
-- Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
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| 1861 |
-- General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
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| 1853 |
-- Women's Right's Convention met (NYC)
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| 1848 |
-- National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
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| 1839 |
-- Cherokee Nation forms
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| 1839 |
-- Great fire in NY
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| 1776 |
-- 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
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| 1716 |
-- 1st US lighthouse built (Boston)
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| 1628 |
-- Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
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| 1622 |
-- Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
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| 1543 |
-- French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice
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| 1522 |
-- Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
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| 1492 |
-- Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
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