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10th May 1801: The First Barbary War began when Tripoli declared war on the United States
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9th May 1386: Treaty of Windsor, the longest-lasting diplomatic treaty in recorded history, signed between Portugal and England
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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific
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7th May 1253: William of Rubruck sets out on his journey into the Mongol Empire that resulted in a masterpiece of medieval travel literature
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6th May 1906: Russia enacts the Fundamental Laws, which serve as the Constitution of 1906
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5th May 1961: Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel in space on board Freedom 7
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4th May 1926: General strike of 1.7 million workers begins in the United Kingdom.
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3rd May 1978: The world’s first ‘spam’ email sent by Gary Thuerk of Digital Equipment Corporation
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2nd May 1946: The Battle of Alcatraz began when armed inmates attempted to escape from the high security prison
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1st May 1840: The Penny Black, the world’s first pre-paid postage stamp, goes on sale in the UK
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30th April 1789: George Washington inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America
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29th April 1909: The People’s Budget introduced to the British Parliament by David Lloyd George
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28th April 1869: Ten miles of railway track are laid in a single day by the crews of the Central Pacific Railroad
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27th April 1953: The US launches Operation Moolah to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter through defection
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26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany
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25th April 1898: The United States declares war on Spain in the Spanish–American War
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24th April 1800: The Library of Congress established when John Adams approves a budget of $5,000 for books
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23rd April 1348: Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England
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22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush takes place with 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands opened to settlement
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21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union
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20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria
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19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show
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18th April 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington with his message that “the Regulars are coming out!”
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17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants
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16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opens as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre
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15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster
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14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era
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13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks
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12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
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11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson
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10th April 1815: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history occurred at Mount Tambora
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9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
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8th April 1838: SS Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York as the first steamship specifically built for transatlantic travel
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7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference
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6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France
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5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island
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4th April 1925: Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of the SS
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3rd April 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain
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2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops
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1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory
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