The Donner Party departed Independence, Missouri on their ill-fated journey to California.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On the 9th May 1887, Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West Brompton.
More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Manifest Destiny was a belief that the United States had a divinely-inspired right to expand across North America, and that this expansion was inevitable.
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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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