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Date |
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| 1 | 1846 | - 1846—1848: Mexican-American War
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| 2 | 1850 | - 1850—1850: Railroads begin to supplant canals in the United States as a primary means of transporting goods.
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| 3 | 1860 | - 1860—1865: The American Civil War
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| 4 | 1876 | - 1876—1876: The prototype telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
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| 5 | 1881 | - 1881—1881: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops.
- 1881—1881: James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States assassinated.
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| 6 | 1886 | - 1886—1886: Earliest commercial automobile is invented.
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| 7 | 1898 | - 1898—1898: Spanish-American War
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| 8 | 1906 | - 1906—1906: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3,000.
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| 9 | 1914 | |
| 10 | 1919 | - 1919—1933: Prohibition of alcohol occurs in the United States.
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| 11 | 1929 | - 1929—1940: The Great Depression
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| 12 | 1939 | |
| 13 | 1949 | - 1949—1949: Establishment of the defense alliance NATO.
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| 14 | 1950 | |
| 15 | 1955 | - 1955—1975: The Vietnam War
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| 16 | 1958 | - 1958—1958: NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958
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1848 - Yes, date unknown
