| 1997 | -- 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
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| 1979 | -- US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
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| 1977 | -- Patty Hearst let out of jail
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| 1967 | -- 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
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| 1966 | -- China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
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| 1965 | -- Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
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| 1963 | -- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| 1962 | -- US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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| 1962 | -- Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
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| 1960 | -- US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
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| 1960 | -- US send U-2 over USSR
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| 1955 | -- German Federal Republic joins NATO
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| 1951 | -- Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
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| 1946 | -- 1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premieres
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| 1945 | -- Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
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| 1945 | -- Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
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| 1945 | -- Jersey liberated from nazis
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| 1944 | -- 1st eye bank opens (NYC)
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| 1944 | -- Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
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| 1943 | -- 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia
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| 1941 | -- English Army breaks German spy codes
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| 1914 | -- Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
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| 1899 | -- Lawn mower patented
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| 1896 | -- 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
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| 1882 | -- Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
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| 1864 | -- Battle of Dalton, GA
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| 1864 | -- Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
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| 1864 | -- -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
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| 1862 | -- US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
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| 1862 | -- Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
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| 1862 | -- Battle of Farmington, MS
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| 1846 | -- Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
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| 1837 | -- "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
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| 1754 | -- 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
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| 1502 | -- Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
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