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July 4 – The United States centennial is celebrated. August 1 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state (see History of Colorado). Senate votes to acquit former Secretary of War William W. Belknap of all impeached charges relating to the trader post scandal. August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok is killed during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota.
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August 9 – The Arikara War breaks out between the Arikara nation and the United States, the first American military conflict with the Plains Indians. August 23 – Hugh Glass is attacked and mauled by a sow grizzly bear and left for dead in the Missouri Territory. He crawls 200 miles before reaching help, events depicted in The Revenant.
August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American president to ride in an automobile, a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut. September 19 – Shiloh Baptist Church stampede : 115 people are killed in a crush at a black church in Birmingham, Alabama , following a mistaken alarm of fire after an address by Booker T ...
America's History (Henretta et al.) American History: A Survey ; American Passages (Ayers et al.) The American Pageant (Bailey et al.) The American People (Nash et al.) By the People ; The Enduring Vision (Boyer et al.) Give Me Liberty! Liberty, Equality, Power (Murrin et al.) Out of Many (Faragher et al.) A People and a Nation (Norton et al.)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. by early next year or face a ban ...
In her 2014 historical fiction novel The Anatomy Lesson, author and journalist Nina Siegal tells the life story of Aris Kindt, based on documents about his criminal history that she discovered in the Amsterdam city archives. Medical specialists have commented on the accuracy of muscles and tendons painted by the 26-year-old Rembrandt. It is not ...