1971
North Pole first
Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
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1614
Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
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1792
George Washington cast the first presidential veto.
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1887
Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" in the manual alphabet.
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1951
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
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1955
Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
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1999
Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
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