1936
"Cuando yo me muera, enterradme con mi guitarra"
Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot and killed by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War .
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1227
Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died in China.
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1587
Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America.
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1894
Congress established the Bureau of Immigration, forerunner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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1920
When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
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1958
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was published.
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1963
James Meredith became the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
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