| 1 | 8.4.1513 | Event | The spanish explorer Juan de Leon discovered Florida in what is now the USA |
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| 2 | 21.10.1760 | Birthday | Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter |
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| 3 | 19.10.1781 | Event | The American War of Independence ended, with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to George Washington at Yorktown, USA |
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| 4 | 6.11.1854 | Birthday | John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor |
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| 5 | 4.1.1885 | Event | An appendix was successfuly removed for the first time in Iowa, USA |
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| 6 | 4.4.1887 | Event | The world's first woman mayor, Susanna Salter, was elected at Argonia, Kansas |
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| 7 | 15.8.1901 | Event | The Cadillac motor company was founded in Detroit, USA |
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| 8 | 18.12.1903 | Event | The Panama Canal Zone was acquired 'in perpetuity', by the USA for an annual rent |
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| 9 | 7.9.1905 | Event | Italy suffered an earthquake, killing thousands and completely destroying many villages |
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| 10 | 16.9.1906 | Event | Two car manufacturers, in the USA, merged to form General Motors |
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| 11 | 4.5.1907 | Event | Large numbers of immigrants were entering the USA (up to 5,000 per day) |
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| 12 | 1.10.1908 | Event | The first Model T Ford was produced in Detroit, USA |
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| 13 | 12.9.1910 | Event | The world's first police woman was appointed in Los Angeles, USA |
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| 14 | 26.11.1910 | Birthday | Cyril Cusack, Irish writer and actor; appeared in many films |
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| 15 | 18.1.1911 | Event | A plane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA |
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| 16 | 28.2.1912 | Event | The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA |
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| 17 | 5.8.1914 | Event | The USA declared itself neutral as Germany declared war on the Soviet Union |
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| 18 | 30.6.1919 | Birthday | Susan Hayward, American actress |
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| 19 | 9.9.1920 | Event | Earthquakes struck Italy, leaving tens of thousands homeless |
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| 20 | 7.2.1922 | Event | During an outbreak of the disease 'Foot and Mouth', thousands of cattle were slaughtered |
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| 21 | 24.3.1926 | Event | The first Safeway's Supermarket was opened in Maryland, USA |
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| 22 | 6.5.1930 | Event | An earthquake struck Burma, killing thousands |
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| 23 | 24.2.1932 | Event | Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record in 'Bluebird', in the USA |
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| 24 | 22.7.1934 | Event | John Dillinger, the FBI's most wanted man, was gunned down in Chicago, USA |
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| 25 | 3.9.1935 | Event | Malcolm Campbell achieved a new world landspeed record of 301.13mph on Bonneville Salt Flats, USA |
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| 26 | 27.4.1937 | Event | The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco USA was opened |
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| 27 | 6.5.1937 | Event | The Hindenberg airship caught fire and was destroyed while in the USA |
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| 28 | 27.5.1937 | Event | The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA, was opened |
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| 29 | 12.6.1938 | Event | Severe flooding of China's Yellow river killed thousands |
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| 30 | 7.2.1940 | Event | Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' had its world premiere, in the USA |
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| 31 | 12.3.1941 | Event | Hebrides islanders hid from government officials, thousands of bottles of Whiskey from a shipwreck |
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| 32 | 5.2.1942 | Birthday | Susan Hill, Playwright and novelist |
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| 33 | 12.5.1942 | Birthday | Susan Hampshire, Film actress |
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| 34 | 13.2.1945 | Event | The RAF and USAF mounted a three wave bombing attack on the German city of Dresden |
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| 35 | 16.7.1945 | Event | The first atomic bomb was test detonated in New Mexico, USA |
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| 36 | 14.8.1946 | Birthday | Susan St. James, American film actress |
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| 37 | 4.4.1949 | Event | The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 'NATO' was formed in Washington USA |
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| 38 | 3.2.1953 | Event | Hurricane force winds,and high tides, caused havoc on the east coast of Britain, leaving many drowned, & thousands homeless |
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| 39 | 27.11.1953 | Event | The writer and nobel prize winner, Eugene O'Neill died in Boston USA |
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| 40 | 26.7.1957 | Event | The USA test launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile |
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| 41 | 25.9.1957 | Event | The US National Guard were deployed in Little Rock, USA, to enforce desegregation in schools |
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| 42 | 19.9.1960 | Event | A new dance craze, the twist, began in the USA |
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| 43 | 26.3.1963 | Birthday | Susanne Sulley, Of the Pop group 'Human League' |
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| 44 | 13.1.1964 | Event | The first 'Beatles' release in the USA sold 1 million copies in three weeks |
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| 45 | 19.5.1964 | Event | The USA made an official complaint to the USSR when 'bugs' were found in its Moscow embassy |
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| 46 | 22.9.1966 | Event | The first ever 'Star Trek' episode was broadcast in the USA |
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| 47 | 12.10.1967 | Birthday | Susan Tully, Actress in TV's 'Grange Hill' and 'East Enders' |
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| 48 | 18.4.1968 | Event | An oil tycoon bought the old London Bridge, and shipped it stone by stone to the USA |
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| 49 | 3.6.1969 | Event | The last ever episode of the original 'Star Trek' series was broadcast in the USA |
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| 50 | 1.10.1971 | Event | Disneyworld, the amusement park in Florida USA, was opened |
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| 51 | 14.3.1975 | Event | Susan Hayward, the Oscar winning actress, died |
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| 52 | 17.8.1976 | Event | Earthquakes and tidal waves struck the Philippines, killing thousands |
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| 53 | 17.10.1980 | Event | Mount St Helens, in Washington State USA, erupted for the third time in 24 hours |
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| 54 | 1.10.1987 | Event | The city of Los Angeles, USA, was struck by an earthquake |
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| 55 | 16.10.1987 | Event | Hurricane force winds battered Britain, causing severe damage & destroying thousands of trees |
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| 56 | 7.2.1988 | Event | Torrential rains and flooding killed 120 people and injured thousands in Rio de Janeiro |
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| 57 | 4.4.1988 | Event | After over four and a half thousand episodes, the soap 'Crossroads' ended |
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| 58 | 14.7.1989 | Event | Hundreds of thousands of Siberian miners went on strike for better pay & conditions |
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| 59 | 10.9.1989 | Event | Hungary opened its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany |
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| 60 | 1.10.1989 | Event | Thousands of East German refugees continued to pass to the West |
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| 61 | 24.1.1991 | Event | Operation 'Desert Storm' against Iraq continued with thousands of air sorties |
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| 62 | 13.3.1992 | Event | At least a thousand people were killed in eastern Turkey by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale |
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| 63 | 2.9.1992 | Event | A tidal wave in Nicaragua killed 56 people and made thousands homeless |
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| 64 | 23.7.1993 | Event | There was further widespread flooding on the Mississippi river, USA |
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| 65 | 13.9.1993 | Event | Israel and the PLO signed an historic agreement at the White House, USA |
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| 66 | 19.4.1995 | Event | A massive bomb explosion destroyed much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA |