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The first english settlement in the US is established
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, this brought years of peace
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The first thanksgiving celebration is held
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Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony promoting religious tolerance
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Harvard college is founded
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Deerfield, Massachussets is attacked by french and inidan forces
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New York's slave revolt results in 27 deaths
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Blackbeard is killed in North Carolina
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George Washington is born
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Benjamin Franklin invents lightning rod
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The United States Library of Congress is founded.
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The first steam-powered ferry between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey stars, the Juliana
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Joseph Smith organizes the first the mormon church
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The first major conflict of the Mexican War occurs north of the Rio Grande River at Palo Alto, Texas
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P.T. Barnum introduces Jenny Lind to an American audience of six thousand
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The Galveston hurricane kills 8,000 people.
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President Woodrow Wilson stays that the U.S. will stay neutral in the first world war
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What would be known as the great depression starts
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Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity
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NAFTA treaties are signed up
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Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City.
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Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas
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Osama Bin Laden is killed
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President Barack Obama wins the election
