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1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command ...
1996 – While attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States, the aircraft flown by seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff crashed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing her and two others. 2002 – In a coup attempt, members of the Venezuelan military detained President Hugo Chávez and demanded his resignation.
1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command ...
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo ...
The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.
The origins of the American Civil War lay in the complex problems of slavery, expansion, sectionalism, parties, and politics of the antebellum era. As territorial expansion forced the United States to confront the question of whether new areas of settlement were to be slave or free, as the power of the slaveholders in national politics waned, and as the North and the South developed starkly ...
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