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1794 - The US Mint releases first half dollars into circulation.

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1864 - Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee, to Saltville, Virginia.

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1864 - Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia.

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1868 - John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war.

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1878 - First White House telephone installed.

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1936 - Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use.

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1938 - School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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1941 - US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes.

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1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks (black) is arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus.

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1958 - In Chicago, Illinois, Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and three nuns.

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