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1770 - Explorer William Clark was born

1818 - Maria Mitchell, astronomer, was born

1492 - Christopher Columbus sailed for the new World

1900 - Louis Armstrong, musician, was born

1930 - Astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong, , was born

1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming, scientist, was born

1945 - The first Atomic bomb to be used against human targets was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

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1866 - Matthew Henson, polar explorer, was born

1860 - Annie Oakley, sharp shooter, was born

1818 - Women’s rights activist, Lucy Stone, was born

1896 - Gold was discovered in Yukon

1945 - Victory Over Japan

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1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, general and emperor, was born

1888 - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was born

1786 - David “Davy” Crocket, frontier’s man was born

1863 - Fort Sumpter was fired upon. The first shot of the American Civil War

1774 - Explorer, Meriwether Lewis, was born

1920 - Women in American were finally given the vote

1906 - Philo Farnsworth, inventor, was born

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A.D. 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum

1883 - The volcano of Krakatoa erupted

Women’s Equality Day

1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream...” speech in Washington D.C.

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1797 - Author Mary Shelley was born