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	1 1945—U.S. troops land in Okinawa, Japan	2 1834—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor, is born 1917—President Wilson asks for Declaration of War against Germany 1805—Hans Christian Andersen, fairy tale author, is born more	3 1948—President Harry S. Truman signs into law the European Recovery Program (known as the Marshall Plan) 1873—Susan B. Anthony asks, “Is it a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote”? 1822—Edward Everett Hale, abolitionist & short story writer, born more	4 1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1928—Maya Angelou, American poet, is born 1949—North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded	5 1614—John Rolfe and Pocahontas marry in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia 1856—Booker T. Washington born	6 1917—U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1862—Battle of Shiloh
7 1917—Billie Holiday born 1770—William Wordsworth born 1889—Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga) Chilean poet, is born	8 1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress 1982—Holocaust Remembrance Day 1952—President Truman seizes control of the steel industry to avoid strike	9 1812—Charles Baudelaire is born 1865—Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox 1939—Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial	10 1925—F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby 1933—Civilian Conservation Corps established by FDR	11 1898—President William McKinley asks Congress for a declaration of war against Spain 1968—President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 1945—U.S. forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp	12 1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC 1633—Galileo Galilei put on trial by the Inquisition 1777—American Statesman Henry Clay born	13 1939—Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, is born 1909—Eudora Welty, American author, is born 1743—Thomas Jefferson, American President, is born
14 1876—Frederick Douglass delivers speech at Freedman’s Monument 1865—President Lincoln is shot 1939—John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is published more	15 1452—Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor, is born 1862—For the first time, Emily Dickinson sends her poems to T.W. Higginson, for review 1889—Thomas Hart Benton, American painter, is born	16 1947—The term "Cold War" is coined by Bernard Baruch 1963—Martin Luther King publishes his Letter from a Birmingham Jail	17 1897—Thornton Wilder born 1790—Benjamin Franklin dies at 84	18 1775—Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!" 1942—Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle leads 16 B-25s on bombing raid on Tokyo, Japan 2002—Poem in Your Pocket Day	19 1943—Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1775—Battle of Lexington and Concord—American Revolution 1897—1st Boston Marathon run	20 1841—First detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," published by Edgar Allen Poe 1893—Artist Joan Miró is born
21 753—Rome founded (BCE) 1816—English writer Charlotte Bronte is born 1836—Texas wins independence from Mexico more	22 1451—Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479–1504) and patron of Christopher Columbus, is born 1994—Former President Richard Nixon dies	23 1616—William Shakespeare dies 1564—William Shakespeare born 1616—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra burial more	24 1947—Willa Cather dies 1800—Library of Congress established	25 1918—Ella Fitzgerald, "first lady of song," born 1719—Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" published	26 121—Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and author of Meditations, is born 1607—Jamestown colonists land at Cape Henry, VA 1785—John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter, is born	27 1791—Samuel Morse, American inventor, is born 1822—President Ulysses S. Grant is born
28 1926—Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," is born 1758—James Monroe born	29 1899—Duke Ellington born	30 1975—End of Vietnam War 1996—El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) 1803—Lousiana Purchase Treaty signed

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