1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.
1918 6 US soldiers surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York given command, shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more.
1925 First national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.
1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.
1945 US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials.
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.
1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.
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