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| 1 | 1849 | - 1849: The California Gold rush draws fortune seekers from around the world to San Francisco.
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| 2 | 1861 | - 12 Apr 1861: American Civil War begins
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| 3 | 1865 | - 9 Apr 1865: The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Lee at Appomattax.
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| 4 | 1869 | - 10 May 1869: Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah. This reduced from 6 months to 6 days the travel time from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California; a distance of 2,000 miles.
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| 5 | 1878 | - Jan 1878: First North American telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
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| 6 | 1879 | - 1879: California's 2nd Constitutional Convention, presided over by Joseph P. Hoge, concludes. The constitution they drew up is the one in effect today.
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| 7 | 1881 | - 1881: The first public electricity supply was generated in Godalming, Surrey using a waterwheel at a nearby mill.
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| 8 | 1886 | - 1886: Flush toilets are invented.
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| 9 | 1901 | - 10 Jan 1901: Texas Oil Rush begins when Spidletop comes in a gusher in East Texas near Beaumont.
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| 10 | 1906 | - 18 Apr 1906: The Great San Francisco Earthquake. 8:12 AM
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| 11 | 1914 | - 1 Jan 1914: The first commerical airline flight in the United States.
- 1 Aug 1914: World War I begins when Germany declares war on Russia following the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.
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| 12 | 1917 | - 6 Apr 1917: American formally declared war against Germany, entering World War I.
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| 13 | 1918 | - 11 Nov 1918: Word War I ends when the Germans request armistice negotions with the Allies.
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| 14 | 1920 | - 1920: Women have the right to vote for the first time in a federal election.
- 29 Jan 1920: The 18th Amendment was certified as ratified on January 29, 1919, having been approved by 36 states, and went into effect on a Federal level on January 29, 1920, beginning Prohibition.
- 2 Nov 1920: The first commerical radio broadcast gives citizens of Pittsburg presidential election results before the newspapers.
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| 15 | 1928 | - 28 Sep 1928: Penicillin is discovered to be a miracle antibiotic by Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish biologist and pharmacist.
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| 16 | 1929 | - 1929: The Theodore Swann Company begins production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Anniston, Alabama.
- 24 Oct 1929: The Great Wall Street stock market crash begins on Thursday. The sell-off closes the markets on Friday. When the market continues to crash the following Monday and Tuesday panic spreads and the Great Depression begins. The Great Depression didn't end until 1941 when the United States entered World War I.
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| 17 | 1930 | - 1930: The Great Dustbowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands. It lasted until 1936 and in some places until 1940.
- 5 Sep 1930: The Bardford #3 comes in, beginning an oil rush in the East Texas counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, Smith, and Cherokee.
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| 18 | 1933 | - 5 Dec 1933: The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, on December 5, 1933, ending Prohibition.
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| 19 | 1935 | - 1935: Monsanto purchases the Theodore Swann Company which produces polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
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| 20 | 1937 | - 2 Aug 1937: Them 75th Congress passes The Marihuana Tax Act, marking the beginning of marijuana prohibition in American and around the world.
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| 21 | 1939 | - 1 Sep 1939: Hitler attacks Poland beginning Word War II. Great Britain and France declare war on Germany 2 days later.
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| 22 | 1941 | - 1 Jul 1941: First commercial television broadcast airs in New York City.
- 7 Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor.
The U.S. entered World War II when the Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor.
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| 23 | 1945 | - 2 Sep 1945: World War II ends
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| 24 | 1961 | - 14 May 1961: Freedom Rider's bus firebomed in Anniston, Alabama.
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| 25 | 1963 | - 15 Sep 1963: The 16th Street Baptist Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, Texas.
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| 26 | 1965 | - 7 Mar 1965: On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were brutally assaulted by heavily armed state troopers and deputies.
- 11 Aug 1965: Six days of race riots begin in Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles.
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| 27 | 1966 | - Mar 1966: PCBs from the Monsanto Plant cause a massive fish kill in Choccolocco Creek.
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| 28 | 1968 | - 4 Apr 1968: Martin Luther King is assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
- 5 Jun 1968: Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of assassinated President John Kennedy, is assassinated.
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| 29 | 1969 | - 19 May 1969: In a challenge brought by Timothy Leary, The U.S.Supreme Court declares The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 unconstitutional on grounds the tax violates the 5th Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.
- 20 Jul 1969: The first manned spacecraft, Apollo 11, lands on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility.
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| 30 | 1970 | - 27 Oct 1970: Congress reinstates marijuana prohibition with The Controlled Substances Act, 17 months after the Supreme Court declared The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 unconstitutional.
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| 31 | 1977 | - 1977: Personal computers enter the commerical market.
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| 32 | 1982 | - 1982: AIDS is diagnosed in San Francisco
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