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John Wilkes Boothe Killed
Johnston surrenders troops to Sherman
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Maryland, the seventh state
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Battle of Chancellorsville
Louisiana, the eighteenth state
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Arkansas secedes from the Union
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Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe
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Jefferson Davis is captured
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Minnesota, the thirty-second state
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British capture Charleston, SC
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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North Carolina secedes from the Union
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Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
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South Carolina, the eighth state
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Rhode Island, the thirteenth state
Wisconsin, the thirtieth state
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Kentucky, the fifteenth state
Tennessee, the sixteenth state
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Invasion of Normandy
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