| Year | Event
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| 1776 | Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
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| 1861 | The Florida legislature votes to secede from the Union.
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| 1920 | League of Nations comes into existence -- without US involvement.
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| 1967 | PBS (the Public Broadcasting System) Television begins as a 70 station network
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| 1972 | An essay in the Washington Post, "Study Says Cigarette Smoke Also May Harm Nonusers", raises the issue that .
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| 1984 | The United States and the Vatican reestablished diplomatic relations, which had been broken off in 1867.
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| 1998 | Today's Example of a Most Interesting Government Purchase (from the CBD): From the U.S. Department of Education: "EARLY CHILDHOOD LONGITUDINAL STUDY--BIRTH COHORT", AMT $13,219,319, TO Westat, Inc. [The public and the press have been puzzled as to why the quality of education has decreased in inverse proportion as the educational government spending has increased. Now you have a clue!]
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| 2007 | In a nationally televised address, President Bush announces an additional 20,000 troops will be deployed to Baghdad to try to stem the sectarian fighting. The "Surge".
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