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45 Cards in this Set
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1777
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Vermont declared independence
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1493
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Columbus returns to Spain
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1832
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Darwin lands in Santiago and Cape Verde
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1815
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Henry ("Old Brains") Halleck born
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1759
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British Museum Opens
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27
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Octavian becomes Augustus
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1556
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Phillip II becomes King of Spain
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1412
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Medici family becomes Pope's bankers
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1325
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Laura dies
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1547
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Ivan IV becomes Tsar of Russia
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1581
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England outlaws Catholicism
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1847
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John C. Fremont becomes CA governor
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1883
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Pendleton Act
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1868
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Refrigerated car invented by William Davis
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1906
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Algeciras Conference about Morocco
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1913
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Ireland achieves home rule
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1861
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Crittenden Compromise Killed
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1865
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Sherman issued Field Order #15 (Land for Blacks)
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1871
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Jefferson Long is 1st Georgia African-American Congressman
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1909
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Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
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1870
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VA readmitted into the Union
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1914
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Maxim Gorky returns to Russia
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1920 (meets)
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League of Nation
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1919
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Prohibition ratified (by Nebraska)
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1920 (into effect)
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Prohibition
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1920 (declares)
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Georgia declares independence
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1925
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Leon Trotsky dismissed from the Russian Revolutionary Military Council
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1939
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Superman debuts
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1943
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Red Army takes airport in Stalingrad
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1944
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Eisenhower commands Allied Invasion
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1945
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Adolf Hitler moves into bunker
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1950
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Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg acknowledge Israel
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1951
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Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
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1953
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Naguib dismisses all Egyptian political parties
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1956
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Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
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1963
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Khruschev claims to have bomb
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1974
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Benchley's "Jaws" published
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1990
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Soviet troops sent to Azerbaijan
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2001
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Clinton gives Teddy Roosevelt Medal of Honor
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1970
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Khaddafi takes power in Libya
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1989
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Vaclav Havel arrested in Prague
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2006
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Sirleaf, Liberia's female president, becomes first female African head
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1979
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Shah Pahlavi flees Iran
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1991
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Operation Desert STorm begins
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2003
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Columbia's final mission
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