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  • Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.…

  • United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an Act of Congress at the recommendation of the nation’s first secretary…

  • The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress, formally announcing and explaining separation from the…

  • NASA’s seventh Space Shuttle mission, STS-7, launched carrying Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut and the first astronaut in space…

  • In what becomes known as the “Mission Accomplished” speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President George W. Bush…

  • Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in the Führerbunker while the invading Red Army raise the Soviet flag over…

  • U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others…

  • A history of interventionism by western powers post World War II: December 2, 1950: Premier of the Democratic People’s Republic…

  • A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four…

  • Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. ㅤThe Zanzibar Revolution began on…