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1492
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The new world is discovered in the Carribean which was likely San Salvador from the Pinta under command of Christopher Columbus | |
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1901
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President Theodore Roosevelt officially changed the name of the president's residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC from Executtive Mansion to the White House | |
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1915
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English nurse Edith Cavell was executed for assisting allied soldiers in their escape from German occupied Belgium | |
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1998
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Matthew Shepard died in Fort Collins, Colorado the victim of a severe beating by 2 men who then left him in the cold in Laramie, Wyoming believed to be an antihomosexuality motivated hate crime | |
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1999
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Wilt Chamberlain one of the greatest offensive basketball players ever died at age 63 | |
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2000
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The Navy destroyer USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers associated with al-Qaeda with casualties of 17 sailors killed and 39 wounded | |
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