1818
I pledge allegiance . . .
Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
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1841
President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
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1905
Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
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1945
The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
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1949
The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
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1968
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
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1973
The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
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1979
Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
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1981
Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
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1983
Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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