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1832 - US Congress passes legislation making the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas the first nationally protected area in the USA.

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1861 - Battle of Norfolk, Virginia.

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1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army.

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1896 - Congress appropriates $60,000 to purchase property to erect a mint facility in Denver, Colorado.

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1933 - US suspends convertibility of paper money to gold.

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1939 - New York World's Fair opens.

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1940 - RCA demonstrates its new electron microscope in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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1945 - US 7th Army and Allied forces capture Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany.

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1945 - US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa.

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1948 - United Auto Workers' president Walter P Reuther shot and wounded at his home in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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