Ricorrenze USA

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1790 The District of Columbia is established as the seat of the U.S. government

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1821 Spain sells Florida to the United States

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1969 Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon

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1861 The Congress of the Confederate States begins holding sessions in Richmond, Va

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1949 The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty

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1943 American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captures Palermo, Sicily

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1885 Ulysses S. Grant’s death

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1862 Martin Van Buren’s death

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1866 Tennessee becomes the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War

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1929 President Herbert Hoover proclaims the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy

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1866 Ulysses S. Grant is named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank

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1868 Congress passes an act creating the Wyoming Territory