1859
The spark of civil war
Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
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1793
French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.
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1916
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.
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1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis began.
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1964
China detonated its first atomic bomb.
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1978
John Paul II was elected pope.
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1995
Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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2001
Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.
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2002
The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.
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