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1859 - The Comstock silver lode in Nevada is discovered, near Virginia City.

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1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law act establishing the Medal of Honor.

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1934 - Black-McKeller Bill passes causing Bill Boeing empire to break up.

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1936 - First 50-kilowatt US radio station (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

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1939 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.

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1942 - Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City, USA.

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1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the nation in his last "Fireside Chat".

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1963 - African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers (age 37) is gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.

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1967 - Race riot in Cincinnati, Ohio; 300 arrested.

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1967 - US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.

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