Recent Memorial Pages by This_Day_In_History, 41-60

• Today In History- September 13

  The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 391 views

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• Today In History- September 12

  Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 416 views

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• Today In History- September 11

  The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 388 views

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• Today In History- September 10

  The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 2,074 views

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• Today In History- September 9

  Stono Rebellion erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 510 views

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• Today In History- September 8

  US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish," is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 368 views

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• Today In History- September 6

  Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 357 views

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• Today In History- September 4

  American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 487 views

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• Today In History- September 3

  American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 644 views

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• Today In History- September 2

  The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 405 views

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• Today In History- September 1

  World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Invasion of Poland.)

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 480 views

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• Today In History- August 30

  Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 393 views

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• Today In History- August 29

  Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 426 views

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• Today In History- August 28

  At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 529 views

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• Today In History- August 27

  Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 425 views

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• Today In History- August 26

  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 374 views

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• Today In History- August 25

  Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 425 views

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• Today In History- August 24

  The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 410 views

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• Today In History- August 23

  Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 489 views

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• Today In History- August 22

  King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.

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  Updated 19 Jul 2011 - 375 views

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