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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

6th February 2020
Tagged as: Alliance, America, American Revolution, American War of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, Britain, Diplomacy, Economy, France, Louis XVI, Trade

France and the United States signed the first two treaties ever negotiated by the American government, and which formally recognised the independence of the United States.

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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

23rd December 2018
Tagged as: America, Benjamin Franklin, Electricity, Experimentation, Science, Turkey

Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.

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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

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15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

7th August 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by US Congress

6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

5th August 1861: Abraham Lincoln signs US income tax into law to help pay for the American Civil War

4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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