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1790 - First Census
1961 - Peace Corps (Lessons)
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1847 - Alexander Graham Bell
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1770 - Boston Massacre
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1857 - Dred Scott decision
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1876 - Telephone patented by Bell (Antonio Meucci, the real inventor)
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1862 - Monitor & Merrimac
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1912 - Girl Scouts founded
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1781 - Uranus discovered by W. Herschel
1879 -1955 - Einstein
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44 B.C. - Julius Caesar assassinated
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1751 - James Madison
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1860-1925 - William Jennings Bryan (audio clip)
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1685-1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach
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1972 - ERA passes in Senate
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1775 - Patrick Henry speech (lesson plan)
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1989 - Valdez oil spill
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1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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1953 - Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine (audio - Pres. Eisenhower)
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1512 - Ponce de Leon sighted Florida
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1867 - US. purchase of Alaska
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1943 - Oklahoma opens on Broadway (audio)
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