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Four male college students from historically black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College challenged segregation in public restaurants.
In the 1840s, Sir Richard Owen coins the name "Dinosauria" to refer to fossilized remains being found.
On June 6, 1099, the First Crusaders reach Jerusalem and battle the Muslims; many die, including about 40,000 Muslims and Jews.
For 18 years, William Wilberforce pleads with Members of the House of Commons that Parliament must abolish the slave-trade. On February 23, 1807, Par...
People refuse to help each other or the sick and parents abandon children; no one is safe from the possibility of catching the plague.
Wolfe Tone and his colleagues rebel against British rule by forming the Society of United Irishmen.
Read an excerpt fromThe Harp Weaver and Other PoemsbyEdna St Vincent Millay.
The Hughes family becomes extremely wealthy from the invention of the "rock eater" drill bit.
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