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First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
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The General Electric Company is formed.
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
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The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon
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Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
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The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m.
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The George Cross is awarded “to the island fortress of Malta” by King George VI.
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The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons)
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President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75
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President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later
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The General Electric Company is formed.
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