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Oliver Wendell Holmes writes a Supreme Court decision which allows people to say what they think but not necessarily avoid punishment.
Wyatt Earp, a lawman, is arrested and charged with murdering Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton.
In 1902, A.E.W. Mason's novel, The Four Feathers, highlights a soldier's fight against fear in the Sudan, and his reaction to feathers, a symbol of co...
The Allies devise a plan to break Hitler's reign in Europe by attacking from a new waterfront direction.
Soldiers arriving back in the U.S. spread the Spanish flu through the entire country. Hardest hit are large-crowd events, such as Philadelphia's Liber...
Villagers and health-care workers in the vicinity of Yambuku, Zaire (now the Republic of Congo) are getting extremely sick, then dying. No one knows w...
Convicted of murdering Dr. George Parkman, Dr. John Webster is given a death sentence.
In Charles Frazier's book, Cold Mountain, Inman is a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts after participating in terrible battles.
Chicago's prosperous and proud business district burns to the ground.
To resolve the missile crisis, America removes obsolete missiles in Turkey but replaces them with missiles on nuclear submarines.
The submerged Titanic is located in 1985.
Berlin is caught in the conflict that erupts and the Russians erect the Berlin Wall to divide the city.
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