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- // The U. S. of A.
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- #e <t>migration<d>1620<n>The Mayflower lands<c>Plymouth Rock<info>with Pilgrim settlers
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- // Presidents
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- #p <nat>American<o>general<o>president<n>George Washington<b>1732<d>1799<el>1789<ret>1797<info>1st president of U.S.
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>Thomas Jefferson<b>1743<d>1826<el>1801<ret>1809<info>3rd president of U.S.
- #p <nat>American<o>president<o>general<n>Andrew Jackson<b>1767<d>1845<el>1829<ret>1837<info>7th president of U.S.
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>Abraham Lincoln<b>1809<d>1865<el>1861<ret>1865<info>16th president of U.S.
- // McKinley 1900-1901; assassinated
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>Theodore Roosevelt<sur>T. Roosevelt<b>1858 Oct 27<pow>1901<el>1904<ret>1912<d>1919
- // William Taft<el>1909<ret>1913
- // Woodrow Wilson<el>1913<ret>1921
- // Warren Harding<el>1921<ret>1923
- // Calvin Coolidge<el>1923<ret>1929
- // Herbert Hoover<el>1929<ret>1933
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>Franklin Delano Roosevelt<sur>F. D. Roosevelt<b>1882 Jan 30<el>1932<d>1945 Apr 12
- // Harry Truman<el>1945<ret>1953
- // Dwight Eisenhower<el>1953<ret>1961
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>John Fitzgerald Kennedy<b>1917<el>1961<d>1963 Nov 22
- #e <t>assassination<d>1963 Nov 22<n>Kennedy assasinated<c>Dallas
- // Lyndon Johnson<el>1963<ret>1969
- // Richard Nixon<el>1969<ret>1974
- // Gerald Ford<b>1913<el>1974<ret>1977
- // Jimmy Carter<el>1977<ret>1981
- #p <nat>American<o>president<n>Ronald Reagan<b>1911 Feb 6<el>1980<ret>1989
- // shot in assassination attempt by John Hinkley<d>1981
- // George Bush<el>1989<ret>1993
- // Bill Clinton<el>1993
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- #p <nat>American<o>senator<n>Robert Kennedy<b>1925<d>1968
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- // Others
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- #p <nat>American<o>author<n>Mark Twain<aka>Samuel Clemens<b>1835<d>1910
- #p <nat>American<o>general<n>Douglas Mac Arthur<sur>Mac Arthur<b>1880<d>1964
- #p <nat>American<n>Eleanor Roosevelt<sur>E. Roosevelt<fem><b>1884 Oct 11<d>1962 Nov 7
- #p <nat>American<o>author<n>Ernst Hemingway<b>1899<d>1961
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- #p <nat>American<o>popular leader<n>Martin Luther King Jr.<sur>King<b>1929 Jan 15<d>1968
- #e <t>speech<n>"I have a dream..."<au>King<d>1963<c>Washington D.C.
- #e <t>assassination<n>King assassinated<c>Memphis<d>1968
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- // Misc
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- #e <t>pub<n>Curious George<c>New York City<d>1941<info>by H.A. & Margret Rey
- #e <t>constr<d>1802 Jul 4<n>West Point Military Academy opens
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- // Southeast Asia
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- #e <t>battle<d>1964 Aug 2<n>U.S. destroyers attacked<info>by North Vietnamese patrol boats<c>Gulf of Tonkin
- #e <t>battle<d>1968 Jan 30<n>Tet offensive<info>launched by North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
- #e <t>surrender<d>1975 Apr 24<n>South Vietnam surrenders<info>to North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
- #e <t>battle<d>1979 Feb 17<n>Chinese invade Vietnam<info>between 200,000 and 300,000 troops<c>Vietnam
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- // Battles
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- #e <t>bombing<d>1983 Oct 23<n>Car bomb destroys U.S. Marine barracks<c>Beruit
- #e <t>battle<d>1983 Oct 25<n>U.S. forces invade Grenada<c>Grenada
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- #e <t>war<n>War of Independence<d>1775<e>1783<c>U.S.
- #e <t>war<n>U.S. Civil War<d>1861<e>1865<c>U.S.
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- #e <t><d>1974 Aug 9<n>President Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford sworn in as president
- #e <t><d>1976 Nov 2<n>Jimmy Carter elected president
- #e <t><d>1980 Nov 4<n>Ronald Reagan elected president
- #e <t><d>1984 Nov 4<n>Ronald Reagan re-elected
- #e <d>1981 Mar 30<n>Reagan is shot by John Hinkley<c>
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- #e <t><d>1763<n>Treaty of Paris<info>France cedes her Canadian colonies, and most of the Louisiana Territory, to Britain
- #e <t><n>The Second Treaty of Paris<d>1783 Sep 3
- #e <t><d>1867<n>U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia<c>Alaska<info>for $7,200,000
- #e <t><n>Hindenburg burns<d>1937 May 6<c>Lakehurst, New Jersey
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