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Event
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Year
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State
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Battle of the Alamo.
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1836
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Texas
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Launch of the Apollo 11 Space Mission.
|
1969
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Florida
|
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Fulton County goes dry, forcing chemist John Pemberton to change his patented Wine Coca into a softdrink called Coca Cola.
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1885
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Georgia
|
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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1941
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Hawaii
|
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Wounded Knee Masacre
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1890
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South Dakota
|
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Salem Witch Trails
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1692-1693
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Massachusetts
|
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Martin Luther King organizes a city wide boycott in this states capital.
|
1955-1956
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Alabama
|
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First Starbucks Coffee House opens in the Pike Street Fish Market.
|
1971
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Washington
|
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Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck start a mail order retail company.
|
1886
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Illinois
|
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The Hindenburg Dissaster.
|
1937
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New Jersey
|
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Aristedes beomes the first winner of this states "Derby".
|
1875
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Kentucky
|
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Ted Kacynzky, AKA: The Unabomber, is finally apprehended.
|
1996
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Montana
|
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Four student protesters are shot and killed at Kent State University.
|
1970
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Ohio
|
|
The United States Constitution is drafted.
|
1776
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Pennsylvania
|
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July 1, 1921 - The first state sales tax is put into effect.
|
1921
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West Virginia
|
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William S. Harley and Arthur Davison design their first motorcycle.
|
1903
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Wisconsin
|
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The Woodstock Music Festival takes place over three days.
|
1969
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New York
|
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The Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads are joined at Promontory Summitto form the Transcontinental railroad.
|
1869
|
Utah
|
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Sam Phillips of Sun Records signs Elvis Presley to his first record deal
|
1954
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Tennessee
|
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Women are granted the right to vote fifty-one years before the passage of the nineteenth amendment.
|
1869
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Wyoming
|
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Sam Walton opens his first Wal*Mart.
|
1962
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Arkansas
|
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Endpoint of Lewis and Clark's expedition.
|
1805-1806
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Oregon
|
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This colony declares independence from England six months prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independance.
|
1776
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New Hampshire
|
|
Traveling salesman Ray Kroc visits a resteraunt called McDonald's and offers to franchise it.
|
1955
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California
|
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First atomic bomb is detonated.
|
1945
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New Mexico
|
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The ice cream cone is invented at the 1904 World's Fair.
|
1904
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Missouri
|
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"Buffalo Bill" Cody puts on his firist Wild West Show.
|
1883
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Nebraska
|
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The cable network ESPN sings on.
|
1979
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Connecticut
|
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The Flamingo Hotel and Casino is opened by gangster Bugsy Seagal.
|
1946
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Nevada
|
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The Camp David Accords are signed.
|
1978
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Maryland
|
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The Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk.
|
1903
|
North Carolina
|
|
First state to ratify the Constitution.
|
1787
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Delaware
|
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Sun Valley becomes the countries first destination ski resort in 1936.
|
1936
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Idaho
|
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Grant Wood paints his iconic canvas "American Gothic".
|
1930
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Iowa
|
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Attack on Fort Sumpter and the begining of the U.S. Civil War.
|
1861
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South Carolina
|
|
Mt. McKinley reverts back to it's indigenous name, Denali.
|
2015
|
Alaska
|
|
Mass shooting at Columbine High School.
|
1999
|
Colorado
|
|
Launch of the first ship built by English colonist in North America.
|
1609
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Maine
|
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Lawman Wyatt Earp helps saloon keeper Luke Short take on a corrupt mayor before Short decides to "get out of Dodge."
|
1883
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Kansas
|
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The first human heart transplant is successfully performed.
|
1967
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Mississippi
|
|
Louis Armstrong takes over as the leader of Joe "King" Oliver's band.
|
1919
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Louisiana
|
|
Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen open their first ice cream parlor.
|
1979
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Vermont
|
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The Peace Garden, represent the friendship between the United States and Canada, is dedicated on this states international border.
|
1932
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North Dakota
|
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Henry Ford opens up the worlds first automobile plant to utilize and assembly line.
|
1913
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Michigan
|
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Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the New World, is established.
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1607
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Virginia
|
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A seventeen-year-old Steven Spielberg screens his 8mm feature film "Firelight" at a local theater. Makes a $100 profit.
|
1964
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Arizona
|
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The Mall of America, the largest indoor shopping complex in North America, opens.
|
1992
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Minnesotta
|
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The endpoint for the "Trail of Tears."
|
1830-1850
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Oklahoma
|
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On May 29, 1790, it became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution.
|
1790
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Rhode Island
|
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David Letterman begins his broadcasting career on a college radio station at Ball State University.
|
1965-1969
|
Indiana
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