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1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the globe (More info)
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State (More info)
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1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established (More info)
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which proposes to free all slaves of rebel states as of January 1, 1863 (More info)
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1780 – American General Benedict Arnold commits treason by giving the British the plans to West Point (More info)
1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy (More info)
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1940 – Ancient cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France (More info)
1953 – Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (More info)
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1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio (More info)
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island (More info)
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1892 – The parents of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home (More info)
1944 – A tip from a Dutch informer leads Nazis to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others (More info)
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1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain (More info)
1900 – The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded (More info)
1949 – The National Basketball Association is formed (More info)
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (More info)
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1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence takes place (More info)
1790 – The first US census is completed and shows a population of 3,929,214 people (More info)
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1775 – Congress establishes the United States Post Office and names Benjamin Franklin the first US Postmaster General (More info)
1908 – The Office of the Chief Examiner, which later becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is created (More info)
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1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg begins (More info)
1943 – Income tax withholding begins in the United States (More info)