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Date
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Event - Location
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# of People
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Participants
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April 18, 1775
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Midnight Horse Ride - Charlestown, Lexington & Concord, Massachusetts
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5
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Paul Revere | William Dawes | Samuel Prescott | John Hancock | Samuel Adams
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September 17, 1787
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Signing of the U.S. Constitution - Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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39
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George Washington | James Madison | Alexander Hamilton | Benjamin Franklin | Robert Morris | Abraham Baldwin | Richard Bassett | Gunning Bedford Jr. | John Blair | William Blount | David Brearley | Jacob Broom | Pierce Butler | Daniel Carroll | George Clymer | Jonathan Dayton | John Dickinson | William Few | Thomas Fitzsimons | Nicholas Gilman | Nathaniel Gorham | Jared Ingersoll | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | William Samuel Johnson | Rufus King | John Langdon | William Livingston | James McHenry | Thomas Mifflin | Gouverneur Morris | William Paterson | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | Charles Pinckney | George Read | John Rutledge | Roger Sherman | Richard Dobbs Spaight | Hugh Williamson | James Wilson
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July 11, 1804
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Dueling Grounds - Weehawken, New Jersey
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7
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Aaron Burr | Alexander Hamilton | Nathaniel Pendleton | William Van Ness | Dr. David Hosack | Matthew Davis | John Swarthout
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November 15, 1805
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Corps of Discovery - Columbia River at Pacific Ocean
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~33
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Meriwether Lewis | William Clark | Toussaint Charbonneau | Sacagawea | Jean Baptiste Charbonneau | York | John Ordway | Patrick Gass | Nathaniel Hale Pryor | William Bratton | John Collins | John Colter | Pierre Cruzatte | Joseph Field | Reubin Field | Robert Frazer | George Gibson | Silas Goodrich | Hugh Hall | Thomas Proctor Howard | François Labiche | Jean-Baptiste Lepage | Hugh McNeal | John Potts | George Shannon | John Shields | John Thompson | Peter M. Weiser | William Werner | Joseph Whitehouse | Alexander Hamilton Willard | Richard Windsor | George Drouillard
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October 16, 1859
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Seizure of Federal Armory - Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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~21
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Jerry Anderson | John Anderson | John Brown | Oliver Brown | Watson Brown | John Cook | John Copeland | Edwin Coppock | Shields Green | Albert Hazlett | John Kagi | Lewis Leary | William Leeman | Dangerfield Newby | Aaron Stevens | Stewart Taylor | Adolphus Thompson | William Thompson | Charles Tidd | William Williams | Daniel Whelan
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April 9, 1865
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Confederate Surrender - Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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~17
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Robert E. Lee | Charles Marshall | Ulysses S. Grant | Ely S. Parker | Philip H. Sheridan | Edward O.C. Ord | Seth Williams | John A. Rawlins | Horace Porter | Orville E. Babcock | Robert Todd Lincoln | Theodor S. Bowers | Frederic T. Dent | John G. Barnard | Adam Badeau | Rufus Ingalls | Wilmer McLean
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April 14, 1865
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The President's Box - Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C.
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5
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Abraham Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | Henry Rathbone | Clara Harris | John Wilkes Booth
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March 10, 1876
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First Telephone Call - Boston, Massachusetts
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2
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Alexander Graham Bell | Thomas Watson
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October 26, 1881
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Tombstone, Arizona
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14
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Wyatt Earp | Virgil Earp | Morgan Earp | Doc Holliday | Warren Earp | Billy Clanton | Ike Clanton | Tom McLaury | Frank McLaury | Billy Claiborne | Curly Bill Brocius | Frank Stillwell | Pony Diehl | Pete Spence
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December 17, 1903
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The First Manned, Powered, and Controlled Flight - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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7
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Orville Wright | Wilbur Wright | John Daniels | Adam Etheridge | Will Dough | W.C. Brinkley | Johnny Moore
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December 2, 1942
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Chicago Pile 1, First Artificial Nuclear Reactor - Chicago, Illinois
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49
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Enrico Fermi | Leo Szilard | Eugene Wigner | Walter Zinn | Leona Woods | George Weil | Herbert Anderson | Harold Agnew | Samuel Allison | Wayne Arnold | Hugh Barton | Thomas Brill | Robert Christy | Arthur Compton | Richard Fox | Stewart Fox | Carl Gamertsfelder | Alvin Graves | Crawford Greenewalt | Norman Hilberry | David Hill | William Hinch | Robert Johnson | W.R. Kanne | August Knuth | Phillip Grant Koontz | Herbert Kubitschek | Harold Lichtenberger | George Maronde | Anthony Matz | George Miller | George Monk | Henry Newson | Robert Nobles | Warren Nyer | Wilcox Overbeck | J. Howard Parsons | Gerard Pawlicki | Theodore Petry | David Rudolph | Leon Sayvetz | Leo Seren | Louis Slotin | Frank Spedding | William Sturm | Albert Wattenberg | Richard Watts | George Weil | Marvin Wilkening | Volney (Bill) Wilson |
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September 30, 1955
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Fatal Accident - U.S. Route 466 near Cholame, California
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5
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James Dean | Rolf Wutherich | Sanford Roth | Bill Hickman | Donald Turnupseed
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December 4, 1956
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"Million Dollar Quartet" Jam Session - Sun Record Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
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10
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Elvis Presley | Jerry Lee Lewis | Carl Perkins | Johnny Cash | Clayton Perkins | Jay Perkins | W.S. Holland | Sam Phillips | Marilyn Evans | Jack Clement
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February 3, 1959
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"The Day the Music Died" Plane Crash - Clear Lake, Iowa
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4
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Buddy Holly | Ritchie Valens | J. P. Richardson "The Big Bopper" | Roger Peterson
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November 22, 1963
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Convertible Limousine - Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas
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6
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John F. Kennedy | Jacqueline Kennedy | John Connally | Nellie Connally | Bill Greer | Roy Kellerman
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April 4, 1968
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Assassination - Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee
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~18
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Rev. Ralph Abernathy | Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Andrew Young | Ben Branch | Solomon Jones } Marrell McColough | Joseph Louw | Hosea Williams | James Bevel | James Orange | Earl Caldwell | James Laue } A.D. King | Georgia Davis | Lucretia Ward | Loree Bailey
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July 18/19, 1969
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Fatal Car Accident - Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
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2
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Edward "Ted" Kennedy | Mary Jo Kopechne
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April 11-17, 1970
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Apollo 13 Command Module - Outer Space
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3
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James A. Lovell Jr. | John L. Swigert Jr. | Fred W. Haise Jr.
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April 1, 1976
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Founding of the Apple Computer Company - Los Altos, California
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3
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Steve Jobs | Steve Wozniak | Ronald Wayne |
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November 29, 1981
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Death of Famed Hollywood Actress - Yacht near Santa Catalina Island, California
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4
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Natalie Wood | Richard Wagner | Christopher Walken | Dennis Davern
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