1892
Lizzie Borden took an axe...
Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were killed with an axe in Fall River, Mass.
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1735
Printer John Peter Zenger, defended by Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of libel in a case that helped foster freedom of the press.
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1884
Thomas Stevens became the first person to bicycle across the United States. He later bicycled around the world.
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1914
Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
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1916
Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for $25 million.
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1944
Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
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1964
The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found in an earthen dam, six weeks into a federal investigation backed by President Johnson
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1977
President Carter signed a congressional act that established the Department of Energy.
