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1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1775 United Colonies change name to United States
1776 Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence
1863 Mexico City captured by French troops
1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1899 Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving places
1906 RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow Scotland
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1917 Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge
1929 The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence
1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 The Battle of Midway ends in American victory
1942 Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, off Alaska
1944 Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1775 United Colonies change name to United States
1776 Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence
1863 Mexico City captured by French troops
1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1899 Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving places
1906 RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow Scotland
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1917 Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge
1929 The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence
1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 The Battle of Midway ends in American victory
1942 Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, off Alaska
1944 Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1981 Israel destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility