1760 |
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Cherokee Indians held hostage at Fort St. George are killed in revenge for Indian attacks on frontier settlements. |
1804 |
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US Navy lieutenant Steven Decatur leads a small group of sailors into Tripoli harbor and burns the USS Philadelphia, captured earlier by Barbary pirates. |
1862 |
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Fort Donelson, Tennessee, falls to Grant‘s Federal forces, but not before Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes. |
1865 |
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Columbia, South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops. |
1923 |
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Bessie Smith makes her first recording “Down Hearted Blues.” |
1934 |
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Thousands of Socialists battle Communists at a rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden. |
1937 |
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Dupont patents a new thread, nylon, which will replace silk in a number of products and reduce costs. |
1940 |
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The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord. |
1942 |
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Tojo outlines Japan’s war aims to the Diet, referring to “new order of coexistence” in East Asia. |
1945 |
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American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines. |
1951 |
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Stalin contends the U.N. is becoming the weapon of aggressive war. |
1952 |
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The FBI arrests 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. |
1957 |
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A U.S. flag flies over an outpost in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. |
1959 |
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Fidel Castro takes the oath as Cuban premier in Havana. |
1965 |
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Four persons are held in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument. |
1966 |
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The World Council of Cult being held in Geneva, urges immediate peace in Vietnam. |
1978 |
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China and Japan sign a $20 billion trade pact, which is the most important move since the 1972 resumption of diplomatic ties. |
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