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| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress at New York. Twenty-eight delegates from nine colonies drew up memorials to the king and Parliament and adopted a Declaration of Rights and Liberties. Americans rallied to the cry “Liberty, Property, and No Stamps” and forced most stamp distributors to resign.
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| 1781 | Britain's Lord Cornwallis surrenders nearly 9,000 troops to American General George Washington (8,000 Continentals & 3,100 militiamen), with plentiful help from Lafayette and other French officers and field (7,800 troops and a fleet of 29 warships with 3,200 troops), at Yorktown in Virginia, signaling the end of the American Revolution. [I suspect that we would have remained a British colony for longer without the help from the French.]
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| 1960 | The U.S. embargoes the shipment to Cuba of all goods except medicine and food.
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| 1962 | U.S. marshals escort James Meredith onto University of Mississippi campus.
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| 1976 | The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was passed to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste disposal.
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| 1987 | "Black Monday" occurs when Wall Street stocks plunged a record 508 points, or 22.6 percent.
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| 1992 | Congress votes to close the House of Representatives Bank after it was reported to be covering hot checks for our Representatives.
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| 1997 | Today's Example of a Most Interesting Government Purchase (announced in the CBD): From the Bureau of the Census: "ADVERTISING SERVICES FOR CENSUS 2000", AMT $99,940,128.00 TO Young & Rubicam, Inc.
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| 2001 | U.S. begins ground assaults against the Taliban. More than 100 commandos parachute into an airfield near Kandahar while a small number of special operations forces raid a compound used by the Taliban to gather intelligence. Two Americans die when a support helicopter crashes.
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