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1787. Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution.

1941. Pearl Harbor bombed.

1988. Earthquakes wreak havoc in Armenia

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1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands starts.

1940. Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game.

1941. Jeannette Rankin casts sole vote against joining WW2.

1949. Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan.

1969. President Nixon announces Vietnam War will end.

1980. John Lennon shot.

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1835. The Texan Army captures San Antonio.

1917. Jerusalem surrenders to British troops.

1979. Smallpox is officially declared eradicated.

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1864. General William T. Sherman completes March to the Sea.

1898. Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War.

1915. Ford builds its 1 millionth car.

1963. Frank Sinatra Jr. endures a frightening ordeal.

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1915. Yuan Shih-kai accepts Chinese throne.

1936. King Edward VIII abdicates.

1941. Germany declares war on the US.

1994. Russian forces enter Chechnya.

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1963. Kenya declares independence from Britain.

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1577. Explorer Francis Drake sets sail from England.

1916. Soldiers perish in avalanche as World War I rages.

1937. The Rape of Nanking.

2000. Al Gore cencedes presidential election.

2003. Saddam Hussein captured.