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Louisiana Purchase treaty
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Donna Reed, James Stewart, and Karolyn Grimes in "It's a Wonderful Life"
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Experimental Breeder Reactor?I
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Four light bulbs were lit with electricity generated from the EBR-1 reactor.
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The sword-and-shield emblem of the Cheka-KGB
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Flag of Concelho de Macau, one of the two concelhos of Macau under Portuguese rule
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Luis Carrero Blanco
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MV?
Dona Paz
in port, 1984
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Reason
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Yald? Night
(Iran)
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lots of CN tags (6)
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1803
? As part of the
Louisiana Purchase
,
New Orleans
in the
French territory of Louisiana
was officially transferred
to the United States.
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refimprove section
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1860
?
South Carolina
became the first of eleven
slave states
to declare
secession from the U.S.
, leading to the eventual creation of the
Confederate States of America
and later the
American Civil War
.
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citations needed and lead too long
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1917
? The
Cheka
, the first
Soviet secret police
, was established by a decree issued by
Vladimir Lenin
.
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lead too short, refimprove section
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1941
?
World War II
: The
Flying Tigers
of the
Chinese Air Force
engaged in its first combat missions.
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refimprove section
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1946
?
Frank Capra
's popular Christmas film
It's a Wonderful Life
was first released in New York City.
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refimprove section
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1948
?
Indonesian National Revolution
: Dutch forces
captured
Yogyakarta
, the Indonesian Republic's temporary capital, and seized President
Sukarno
.
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unreferenced section and other issues
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1951
?
Experimental Breeder
Reactor I
near
Arco, Idaho
, U.S., became the world's first electricity-generating
nuclear power plant
when it became able to illuminate four 200-
watt
light bulbs.
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expansion
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1957
? The first flight of the
Boeing 707
, the first commercially successful
jet airliner
, took place.
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refimprove section
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1968
? The first two confirmed murders by the
Zodiac Killer
occurred in
Benicia, California
, in a case which remains unsolved.
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Too much unreferenced
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1973
?
Luis Carrero Blanco
, the prime minister of Spain,
was assassinated
by a bomb planted by members of the
Basque nationalist
and separatist group
ETA
.
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Blanco: needs more footnotes; Assassination: refimprove
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1989
? American forces
invaded Panama
to overthrow the government of
Manuel Noriega
.
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refimprove section
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2005
?
U.S. district court
Judge
John E.
Jones III
ruled against mandating the teaching of "
intelligent design
" in his ruling on
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
.
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refimprove section
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Russian and U.S. Implementation Force troops