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1st -1933 - Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. -2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the firstx country to allow it. -2002 -The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. 2nd -1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy." -2006 - 60 tornadoes break out in the US killing 29 people 3rd -1974 - The Super Outbreak begins - 148 tornadoes - 13 states - 315 dead -1996 - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is arrested -2004 - Surrounded by police, five suspects in Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up in a building outside the Spanish capital, also killing a special forces agent. 4th -1841 - President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia one month after his inauguration, becoming the first U.S. president to die in office. -1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated -2008 - Raid on FLDS compound in Texas 5th -1887 - British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, "All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." 6th -1830 - Mormon church founded -1917 - US declares war on Germany -1994 - The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital which begins the Rwandan genocide. 7th -1906 - Mt Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples -2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots. 8th -1895 - The Supreme Court of the United States declares income tax to be unconstitutional -1943 - President Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages & prices and prohibits workers from changing jobs -1952 - President Harry S. Truman seized the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. 9th -1865 - Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the village of Appomattox Court House, Va. 10th -1912 - Titanic Set Sail -1963 - The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher and its crew of 129 was lost off Cape Cod, Mass. -1996 - President Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call "partial-birth" abortion. -2001 - The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness. -2002 - Eight Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in Haifa. -2007 - A woman wearing an explosives vest strapped underneath her black robe blew herself up in the midst of 200 Iraqi police recruits in Muqdadiyah, killing 16. 11th -1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba. -1986 - Miami FBI Shoot-out -2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country had succeeded in enriching uranium on a small scale for the first time. 12th -1861 - Civil War begins -1934 - The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. -1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage -1999 - U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving "intentionally false" testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. -2001 - Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency amid an outbreak of racial violence. 13th -1873 - Colfax Massacre - 108+ killed in Louisiana in a fight between whites and blacks -1945 - German troops kill over 1,000 prisoners in Gardelegen Germany -1970 - Oxygen tank on Apollo 13 explodes -1992 - Great Chicago Flood 14th -1846 -The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannabilism, and survival. -1865 - Lincoln shot -1935 - Black Sunday - the worst storm of the Dust Bowl -2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military 15th -1865 - Lincoln dies -1912 - Titanic sinks -1986 - The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5 -1989 - Hillsborough disaster - 96 soccer fans die in a 'human crush' 16th -1947 - Texas City Disaster - freighter explodes killing 581 people and destroying the port of Texas City -1990 - Jack Kevorkian goes through with his first assisted suicide -2007 - a student killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., before taking his own life in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history 17th -1861 - The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union -1961 - About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. 18th -1775 - Paul Revere Rides -1906 - a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died -1983 - Suicide bomber destroys US Embassy in Beirut Lebanon killing 63 19th -1775 - American Revolution begins -1861 - Baltimore Riot - Pro-Secessionist marchers attacks US Army troops -1933 - The United States went off the gold standard -1943 - Warsaw Ghetto uprising -1993 - Branch Davidian compound burns down -1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing -1997 - Flooding from the Red River forced more than 50,000 residents to abandon Grand Forks, N.D. 20th -1889 - Hitler born -1914 - Ludlow Massacre - 20 people (11 of them children) killed during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on striking miners -1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets -1999 - Columbine School Shooting -2007 - Johnson Space Center Shooting & Hostage situation 21st -1836 - Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto -1898 - Spanish-American War begins -1980 - Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, was disqualified when officials discovered she had jumped into the race about a mile from the finish -1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests 22nd -1889 - Oklahoma Land Run -1945 - Jasenovac Concentration Camp Revolt - 520 prisoners killed -2000 - In a pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' home in Miami 23rd -2003 - SARS outbreak forces Beijing schools to close for two weeks 24th -1877 - Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South -1898 - Spain declared war on the United States -1915 - Armenian Genocide begins 25th -1792 - Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine -1898 - The United States declared war on Spain -1945 - Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations -2007 - The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time 26th -1865 - John Wilkes Booth killed -1933 - Gestapo is established -1986 - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident -1991 - 55 tornadoes break out in the central US killing 24 -2000 - Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions -2002 - An expelled student went on a shooting rampage at a school in Erfurt, Germany, killing 13 teachers, two students and a police officer before taking his own life. 27th -1805 - Marines attack Derna, Tripoli -1861 - Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus allowing him to imprison 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial -1865 - The steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 Union prisoners of war 28th -1789 - The crew of the British ship Bounty mutineed -1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army. -1973 - The town of Antelope California ceases to exist as a train carrying 6000+ bombs and liquefied petroleum gas explodes reducing every building to the foundation -1988 - The roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled back during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu, killing a flight attendant and injuring 61 people. -2004 - The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS 29th -1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp -1945 - Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. The couple killed themselves the next day. -1992 - Rodney King riots 30th -1789 - Washington becomes first elected president of US -1900 - Casey Jones died in a train wreck -1945 - Hitler commits suicide -2001 - Chandra Levy went missing
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