1883 - After 14 years and 27 deaths, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened.
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1883 - After 14 years and 27 deaths, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened.
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In this day somebody was born, Ha!
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1946 - Jordan gains independence from Britain.
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1937 - San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
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1922 - Ecuador becomes independent.
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1924 - The United States grants full citizenship to American Indians.
WTF!! C'mon Man!
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1989 - "Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square" - Chinese government
1968*Sirhan Sirhan shoots Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy after Kennedy�s victory in the pivotal California primary election.
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1813The United States invasion of Canada is halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
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1944 - WWII: combined allied forces landed in Normandy, France to open a second European front against German forces.
1966*Gemini astronaut Gene Cernan attempts to become the first man to orbit the Earth untethered to a space capsule, but is unable to when he exhausts himself fitting into his rocket pack
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Er, Canada didn't exist until 1867. Don't buy the story that the War of 1812 was fought between the U.S. and Canada -- it was fought between the U.S. and Britain.
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1909 An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
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On June 10, 1944, for over two hours, Waffen-SS troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of SS-Hauptsturmf�hrer Fritz Lautenbach went door to door and massacred Greek civilians as part of a 'retaliation measure' for a partisan attack upon the unit. A total of 214 men, women and children were killed in Distomo,[1] a small village near Delphi.[2] According to survivors, SS forces "bayoneted babies in their cribs, stabbed pregnant women, and beheaded the village priest."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distomo_massacre
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1775*The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.
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1215*King John signs the Magna Carta.
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1860*The U.S. Secret Service is created to arrest counterfeiters and protect the president.
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1994--The last British troops leave Hong Kong. After 153 years of British rule, the island is returned to China.
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1793 - Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts
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1787 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"
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1930--Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
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1974--US Vice President Gerald Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew, assumes the Office of the President after Richard Nixon resigns; Ford names Nelson Rockefeller as VP.
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1939--After Germany ignores Great Britain�s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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1972--*Mark Spitz becomes first Olympic competitor to win 7 medals during a single Olympics Games.
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