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October 15, 2004 on this day:
In 1914 the U.S. Congress passed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act.
This legislation was hailed by labor leaders as a great victory
for the working classes. This act
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October 14, 2004 on this day:
In 1066 William Duke of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the
Battle of Hastings. William landed his army on the English coast
near Hastings and in a day
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October 13, 2004 on this day:
In 1792 construction began on the White House. As the residence of
the U.S. president, this mansion is one of the best known icons of
American culture. In its
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October 12, 2004 on this day:
In 1899 the Boer republics of South Africa declared war on England.
Transvaal and the Orange River Free State, frustrated by British
pressure and aggression
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October 11, 2004 on this day:
In 732, Frankish leader Charles Martel defeated a Muslim army at
the Battle of Tours in France. In the seventh century Arab tribes,
united under the new
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September 24, 2004 on this day:
In 1789 George Washington appointed John Jay as the first chief
justice of the United States. The U.S. Constitution calls for a
Supreme Court
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September 23, 2004 on this day:
In 1949, U.S. president Harry Truman announced that the Soviet
Union had exploded an atomic bomb. Once the U.S.S.R. became a
nuclear power Cold War tensions
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September 21, 2004 on this day:
In 1520 Suleiman I (The Magnificent) was crowned sultan of the
Ottoman Empire. Suleiman was a strong and capable leader who
sought to aggressively expand the reach of his empire
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September 20, 2004 on this day:
In 1792 the French revolutionary army defeated the Allied invaders
at the Battle of Valmy. Paris was in revolt and on August 10 the
Deputies of the Assembly voted to suspend
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September 17, 2004 on this day:
In 1787, The Philadelphia Convention adopted the United States
Constitution. In the spring of 1787 fifty-five delegates from
twelve states met in Philadelphia to draft a new
The History Daily - An Entertaining Look Back
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Correction: Yesterday I listed the date as September 16.
However, the information was correct for September 15.
September 16, 2004 on this day:
In 1919 the U.S. Congress chartered the American Legion
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September 16, 2004 on this day:
In 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement, a bomb planted
by members of the Klu Klux Klan exploded outside of the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church
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September 13, 2004 on this day:
In 122 A.D. Roman emperor Hadrian began construction of a
defensive was across northern Britain. For 200 years the Romans
imposed peace on the largest
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September 10, 2004 on this day:
In 1846 Elias Howe received a patent on the first sewing machine.
Howe was an amateur machinist who had worked in textile mills as
a young man. The machine
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September 9, 2004 on this day:
In 1945, at Harvard, computer engineers experienced the first
known computer bug while working on a Mark II Aiken Relay
Calculator. This computer glitch
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September 9, 2004 on this day:
In 1945, at Harvard, computer engineers experienced the first
known computer bug while working on a Mark II Aiken Relay
Calculator. This computer glitch
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September 8, 2004 on this day:
In 1565 Spanish soldiers under the command of Pedro Menendez
de Aviles established a settlement that would become St. Augustine,
Florida. This was the first
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September 6, 2004 on this day:
In 1901 a twenty-eight year old unemployed worker fatally shot U.S.
president William McKinley while the president was visiting the
Pan-American Exposition
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September 3, 2004 on this day:
In 1838, at about age 20, Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery
disguised as a sailor. Douglass soon settled in New York City
where he became active
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September 2, 2004 on this day:
In 1966, in London, the baker of King Charles II forgot to
extinguish his oven, and a fire soon started that eventually
destroyed eighty percent of the city
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August 30, 2004 on this day:
In 1721, the Great Northern War ended with the Treaty of Nystad.
In 1699 Russia, Poland, and Denmark allied against Sweden. They
expected a quick victory
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August 27, 2004 on this day:
In 1813 Napoleon won the Battle of Dresden. After his disastrous
defeat in Russia in 1812, Napoleon raised another army and rejected
peace proposals from
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August 26, 2004 on this day:
In 1909 Swiss paleontologist Otto Hauser discovered a near complete
skeleton of a cro-magnon man in a rock deposit in France. Although
this was not the first
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August 25, 2004 on this day:
In 1765, in America, a mob demolished the home of Massachusetts
lieutenant governor Thomas Hutchinson. In an effort to raise
revenue, the English Parliament
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August 24, 2004 on this day:
In 1949 the North Atlantic Organization (NATO) went into effect.
This organization grew out of European fears of Soviet military
aggression and was part
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August 19, 2004 on this day:
In 1960 American spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted
of spying by the U.S.S.R. At this time the Cold War weapons race
was at a fever pitch. U.S
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