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New York, the eleventh state
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Colorado, the thirty-eighth state
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Birth of the U.S. Coast Guard
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Battle of Mobile Bay
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
Richard Nixon resigns as President
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Missouri, the twenty-fourth state
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Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces
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Hawaii, the fiftieth state
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British troops enter Washington, D.C.
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Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" Speech
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Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender
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