1965 - Civil Rights protesters march from Selma to Montgomery
1989 - Oil tanker Exxon Valdez spills over 10 million gallons of oil
1881 - Wyatt Earp and others engage in gun battle at the OK Corral in Tombstone
1906 - Diamonds are discovered in North America for the first time
1848 - Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek leads to a Gold Rush
1954 - US Air Force Academy founded
1701 - Yale University founded
1787 - Became the first state granted US statehood
1969 - Apollo 11 launches sending first men to the moon
1886 - Coca-Cola invented
1941 - Japanese launch offense on Pearl Harbor
1805 - Meriwether Lewis becomes first US citizen to cross Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass from Montana into this State
1858 - (D) Stephen A Douglas and (R) Abraham Lincoln debate throughout the State for Senate seat
1911 - Famous speedway is opened becoming the largest sporting venue in the world
1884 - 30th President of the US Herbert Hoover is born in West Branch
1872 - Old West frontier town, Dodge City is founded
1809 - 16th President of the US, Abraham Lincoln, is born in Hodgenville
1815 - American troops led by Andrew Jackson defeat English here at last major battle of the War of 1812
1819 - This former territory of Massachusetts breaks off and forms it's own State
1814 - Francis Scott Key writes 'The Star Spangled Banner' at Ft. McHenry
1620 - Pilgrims Land on Plymouth Rock
1913 - Assembly line developed for the first time at Ford plant making the Model T
1889 - Mayo Clinic founded in Rochester
1935 - 'The King' Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo
1961 - Construction begins on the Gateway Arch
1876 - General Custer and US forces defeated at Battle of Little Bighorn
1877 - Lakota Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to US forces at Ft. Robinson
1931 - Construction begins on the Hoover Dam spanning across the Colorado River between Arizona and this State
2003 - Rocky icon 'Old Man of the Mountain' collapses
1937 - Hindenburg disaster kills 36
1947 - Mystery UFO crashes near Roswell
1886 - Statue of Liberty opens
1903 - Wright brothers successfully fly plane for the first time at Kitty Hawk
2006 - Oil discovered near Williston leads to oil boom
1970 - Four student protesters killed after confrontation with National Guard at Kent State University
1838 - President Jackson forces Cherokee people off their lands to this destination in the 'Trail of Tears'
1830 - Trailblazers set out for this destination from the Great Plains (hoping to avoid dysentery and cholera)
1776 - US Declaration of Independence signed
1636 - Roger Williams founds Providence
1861 - First shots of US Civil War fired at Ft. Sumter
1941 - US Monument at Mt. Rushmore completed
1968 - Activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
1836 - Davy Crockett and American troops defeated by Mexican troops at the Battle of the Alamo
1869 - Golden Spike hammered down celebrating the union of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads creating the first continental railway
1609 - French explorers discover Lake Champlain
1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
1980 - Mt. St. Helens erupts killing 57 and spewing debris over 11 states
1970 - An airplane carrying the Marshall University football team crashes killing all 75 on board
1890 - The first dairy school in the US opens in Madison
1906 - Devil's Tower declared National Monument
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