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| 1775 | "The shot heard round the world" was fired this day as the first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought. This day is celebrated as "Patriots Day" in some parts of New England.
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| 1861 | In Baltimore, a pro-secession mob has a run-in with Union troops. The first blood in the War for Southern Independence (a.k.a. the "Civil War") is shed.
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| 1906 | Without regard to Constitutionally guaranteed rights, the U.S. Army seizes all the liquor it can find in San Francisco!
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| 1933 | President Roosevelt (D) declares an end to the gold standard.
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| 1951 | The day that General MacArthur did not say, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away,”. What he actually said was (to the US Congress), "And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.”
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| 1993 | Federal Agents burn David Koresh's conclave, near Waco, Texas, to the ground killing approximately 80 men, women and children.
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| 1995 | Oklahoma City Federal Building is bombed with 167 killed.
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