| 1973 |
-- US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
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| 1968 |
-- USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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| 1967 |
-- Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
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| 1962 |
-- Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around
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| 1961 |
-- France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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| 1942 |
-- 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
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| 1936 |
-- Battle of Madrid begins
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| 1931 |
-- Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
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| 1928 |
-- Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
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| 1919 |
-- US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
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| 1918 |
-- Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
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| 1918 |
-- United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
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| 1917 |
-- October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
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| 1916 |
-- Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
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| 1876 |
-- Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
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| 1872 |
-- US cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from NY on a journey which ended when it is found mysteriously abandoned the following month
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| 1865 |
-- London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
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| 1863 |
-- Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
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| 1861 |
-- Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
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| 1861 |
-- Battle of Belmont, MO
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| 1848 |
-- General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US
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| 1820 |
-- James Monroe elected 5th US president
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| 1811 |
-- Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan
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| 1794 |
-- French troops conquer Nijmegen
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| 1775 |
-- Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
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