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answered by hgherron2 4
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30 B.C.
Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
1862
The Second Battle of Bull Run took place during the Civil War.
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2007-03-25 11:11:47
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answered by Kristin E 2
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1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 - Houston, Texas is founded.
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1986 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This inclused the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg.
The launch of STS-41-D, flown by Discovery.1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2007-03-25 11:13:01
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answered by Missy 2
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1901: Scottish inventor Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
2007-03-25 11:10:53
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answered by Hobilar 5
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Births, deaths, the beginning of wars and the ending of wars.
2007-03-25 11:14:19
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answered by staisil 7
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let me guess, is that your birthday?
2007-03-25 11:16:18
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answered by Anonymous
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