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1862 - Battle of Kernstown, Virginia - Jackson begins his Valley Campaign.

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1864 - Encounter at Camden, Arkansas.

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1865 - General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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1867 - US Congress passes second Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto.

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1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945.

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1942 - US moves native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers.

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1943 - German counter-attack on US lines in Tunisia.

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1945 - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Okinawa.

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1950 - 22nd Academy Awards: All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win.

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1957 - US army sells last homing pigeons.

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