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30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President

30th January 2021
Tagged as: America, Andrew Jackson, Assassination, Capitol, President, United States, USA, Washington DC

Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence was found ‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ and was committed to an asylum.

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27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan

27th December 2020
Tagged as: Ameria, American West, Andrew Jackson, Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Oregon, Texas, United States, USA

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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30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President

27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan

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4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms

28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam

1st March 1692: First of the Salem ‘witches’ face magistrates in Massachusetts

28th February 1525: Execution of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor

27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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