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The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783. A list of American Revolutionary War battles gives details.
September 1 – World Chess Championship 1972 ("Match of the century"): Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match at Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American chess champion. September 4 – The New Price is Right , a revival of the 1956-65 NBC and ABC game show of the same name premieres on CBS, along with Gambit and The ...
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits Mao Zedong in China, an astonishing step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China. 1972 – The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed with the USSR. 1972 – First African-American major league baseball player Jackie Robinson dies.
1860: Colombia, Bay of Panama: From September 27 to October 8, naval forces landed to protect American interests during a revolution. 1861–1865: American Civil War: A major war between the United States (the Union) and eleven Southern states which declared that they had a right to secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (1966–73) American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (1973–76) The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic.
Political pressure led to America's withdrawal from the war in 1973, and the Fall of Saigon in 1975 leading to evacuations of South Vietnamese that same year; the 1973 oil crisis causes a financial crisis throughout the developed world; both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; in 1971 ...
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