1955
The House of who?
Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
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1821
Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
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1898
Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
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1917
The British royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti-German senitment during World War I.
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1938
"Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.
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1945
President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.
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1975
The American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up for the first time.
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1998
The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
