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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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166 |
Mississippi became a state on December 10, 1817. |
History > United States |
10/25/08 |
|
167 |
Minnesota became a state on May 11, 1858. |
History > United States |
10/20/08 |
|
168 |
Michigan became a state on January 26, 1837. |
History > United States |
10/23/08 |
|
169 |
Michael Romanov was the first tsar in a dynasty that would rule Russia for 300 years. |
History > European |
12/29/08 |
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170 |
Michael I of the Romanov Dynasty ruled from 1613 to 1645. |
History > European |
02/27/09 |
|
171 |
Merle Curti won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1944. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
172 |
Massachusetts became a state on February 6, 1788. |
History > United States |
10/24/08 |
|
173 |
Maryland became a state on April 28, 1788. |
History > United States |
11/05/08 |
|
174 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. |
History > Famous Dates |
11/12/08 |
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175 |
Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. |
History |
07/12/10 |
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176 |
Marie Curie discovered the elements polonium and radium. |
History |
09/17/10 |
|
177 |
Maine became a state on March 15, 1820. |
History > United States |
10/26/08 |
|
178 |
Luddites often destroyed machines during the Industrial Revolution, for they felt the machines were leaving them without work. |
History > European |
02/11/09 |
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179 |
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. |
History > United States |
10/15/08 |
|
180 |
Louis-Philippe of France was forced to abdicate the French throne after the February 1848 Revolution; he escaped to England and renamed himself "Mr. Smith". |
History > European |
02/08/09 |
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