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April
Apr
14
Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre
Apr
17
Virginia secedes from the Union
Apr
18
Ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes
Apr
19
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Apr
26
Johnston surrenders troops to Sherman
Apr
26
John Wilkes Boothe Killed
Apr
28
Maryland, the seventh state
Apr
30
Louisiana, the eighteenth state
May
May
01
Battle of Chancellorsville
May
04
Vermont, the fourteenth state
May
06
Arkansas secedes from the Union
May
07
Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe
May
10
Jefferson Davis is captured
May
11
Minnesota, the thirty-second state
May
12
British capture Charleston, SC
May
17
Brown vs. Board of Education
May
20
North Carolina secedes from the Union
May
21
Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
May
23
South Carolina, the eighth state
May
29
Wisconsin, the thirtieth state
May
29
Rhode Island, the thirteenth state
June
Jun
01
Kentucky, the fifteenth state
Jun
01
Tennessee, the sixteenth state
Jun
06
Invasion of Normandy
Jun
08
Tennessee secedes from the Union
Jun
11
End of Segregation at University of Alabama
Jun
14
National Flag Day
Jun
14
Birth of the U.S. Army
Jun
15
Arkansas, the twenty-fifth state
Jun
15
George Washington named Commander in Chief
Jun
17
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Jun
18
War of 1812 Begins
Jun
20
West Virginia, the thirty-fifth state
Jun
21
Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi
Jun
21
New Hampshire, the ninth state
Jun
21
Battle of Okinawa Ends
Jun
25
Virginia, the tenth state
July
Jul
01
Battle of Gettysburg
Jul
02
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
Jul
02
Amelia Earhart and plane missing over central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island
Jul
02
James Garfield shot
Jul
03
Idaho, the forty-third state
Jul
04
Declaration of Independence adopted
Jul
08
British burn Fairfield, Connecticut
Jul
10
Wyoming, the forty-fourth state
Jul
11
British burn Norwalk, Connecticut
Jul
11
British evacuate Savannah, GA
Jul
21
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
Jul
21
First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
Jul
26
New York, the eleventh state
August
Aug
01
Colorado, the thirty-eighth state
Aug
02
Declaration of Independence signed
Aug
04
Birth of the U.S. Coast Guard
Aug
06
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Aug
06
Battle of Mobile Bay
Aug
09
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
Aug
09
Richard Nixon resigns as President
Aug
10
Missouri, the twenty-fourth state
Aug
15
Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces
Aug
21
Hawaii, the fiftieth state
Aug
24
British troops enter Washington, D.C.
Aug
28
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Aug
28
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream Speech"
Aug
28
14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement
Aug
28
Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
September
Sep
02
Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender
Sep
02
Battle of Atlanta
Sep
06
William McKinley shot
Sep
08
Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon
Sep
09
California, the thirty-first state
Sep
12
Battle of Baltimore
Sep
12
Battle of Harpers Ferry
Sep
15
British occupy New York City
Sep
15
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Sep
17
U.S. Constitution ratified
Sep
17
Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg
Sep
19
Battle of Chickamauga
October
Oct
13
Birth of the U.S. Navy
Oct
14
Man flies faster than the speed of sound
Oct
16
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
Oct
19
Victory at Yorktown
Oct
31
Nevada, the thirty-sixth state
November
Nov
02
South Dakota, the fortieth state
Nov
02
North Dakota, the thirty-ninth state
Nov
08
Montana, the forty-first state
Nov
10
Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps
Nov
11
Washington, the forty-second state
Nov
16
Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state
Nov
19
Gettysburg Address
Nov
21
North Carolina, the twelfth state
Nov
22
John F. Kennedy assassinated
Nov
23
Battle of Chattanooga
Nov
25
British troops leave New York
Nov
30
British sign Articles of Peace
December
Dec
01
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger
Dec
03
Illinois, the twenty-first state
Dec
06
Thirteenth Amendment ratified
Dec
07
Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japanese
Dec
07
Delaware, the first state
Dec
10
Mississippi, the twentieth state
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