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During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released Agent Orange into Vietnam jungle to defoliate forest land Nguyet, a young girl, is one of many people that got sequel after the war She was born without...

1716 - 1st lion exhibited in America 1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France 1832 - 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded. 1865 -...

1715 - First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn 1837 - William Crompton patented the silk power loom 1867 - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite 1884 - John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated...

1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old. 1639 - 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of...

1654 - French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life. 1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published. 1963 - JFK's body lay in...

1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle...

164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. 1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure...

1302 - Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unamsanctam" 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage 1863 - US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..." 1872 -...

1477 - "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres," was the first book to be printed in England by William Caxton 1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first...

1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor. 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe. 1869...