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| 1862 | At the Second Battle of Bull Run, the South's General Lee soundly trounces the North's General Pope and sends his army scuttling back to Washington, DC, "with their tails between their legs".
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| 1890 | The Morrill Act (first passed in 1862) is passed by Congress which supports Land Grants to colleges and establishes experiment stations, extension services and agricultural research programs to aid U.S. farmers.
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| 1954 | The "Atomic Energy Act" becomes law.
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| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court Justice, appointed.
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| 1991 | The Republic of Azerbaijan declares its independence from the USSR.
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| 1994 | Russian troops withdraw from Estonia and Latvia, following the dissolution of the USSR.
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| 1995 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aircraft begin large-scale attacks on Serbian positions in Bosnia; 300 sorties are flown in the first 12 hours, and by September 13 over 800 missions have been completed. (Quoted from The Encarta® 2000 New World Timeline © Copyright 1998, Helicon Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.) [Why is Dick Cheney smiling?]
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