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1795 - US Senate confirms Elias Boudinot as US Mint director.

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1851 - US Senate passes legislation to establish a Branch Mint in San Francisco.

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1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign).

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1864 - Battle of Nashville, Tennessee.

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1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, Virginia.

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1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.

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1939 - First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Deleware.

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1939 - World premiere of film Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia.

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1941 - USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.

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1942 - Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs.

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