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1941 – Following the Americans’ declaration of war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States (More info)
1946 – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund — UNICEF — is established (More info)
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1898 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War (More info)
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace (More info)
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1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec (More info)
1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder (More info)
1958 – The John Birch Society is founded in the United States (More inf
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1863 – President Abraham Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for reunification of the United States with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (More info)
1980 – Music icon John Lennon is murdered by a mentally unstable fan in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City (More info)
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1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution (More info)
1941 – In an early-morning sneak attack, Japanese warplanes bomb the US naval base at Oahu Island’s Pearl Harbor, causing the United States to enter World War II (More info)
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1824 – Congress acts to decide a presidential election for the first time in history, giving the presidency to John Quincy Adams (More info)
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing the time needed to build a car from 12 hours to just under three (More info)
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1981 – In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (More info)
1982 – Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the best-selling album of all time, is released (More info)
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1520 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean with three ships, becoming the first European to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (More info)
1895 – Frank Duryea wins the first motor-car race in the United States (More info)
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1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco (More info)
1936 – The first issue of the pictorial magazine Life is published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam by Margaret Bourke-White (More info)
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1718 – Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is killed off the coast of North Carolina (More info)
1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan (More info)
