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| 1 | 1865 | - USA Civil War ends.
- Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
- Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
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| 2 | 1865-1873 | - Smallpox outbreaks in Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans.
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| 3 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 4 | 1873-1875 | - Influenza epidemic North America and Europe.
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| 5 | 1877 | - Rutherford Hayes president of the USA 1877-1881.
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| 6 | 1878 | - Yellow Fever epidemic in New Orleans.
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| 7 | 1881 | - James Garfield president of the USA 1881. James Garfield wounded by assassin's bullet on 3 Jul 1881 and dies 19 Sep 1881.
- Chester A. Arthur president of the USA 1881-1885. Chester A. Arthur, vice president under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
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| 8 | 1885 | - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
- Typhoid epidemic in Plymouth, Penn..
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| 9 | 1886 | - Yellow Fever epidemic in Jacksonville, FL..
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| 10 | 1889 | - Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
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| 11 | 1893 | - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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| 12 | 1897 | - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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| 13 | 1898 | - Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
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| 14 | 1901 | - Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Theodore Roosevelt, vice president under William McKinley, sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
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| 15 | 1909 | - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
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| 16 | 1913 | - Woodrow Wilson president of the USA 1913-1921.
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| 17 | 1914 | - World War I begins. Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
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| 18 | 1918 | - World War I ends.
- Worldwide Influenza epidemic.
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| 19 | 1921 | - Warren Harding president of the USA 1921. Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
- Calvin Coolidge president of the USA 1921-1929. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
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| 20 | 1929 | - Herbert Hoover president of the USA 1929-1933.
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| 21 | 1933 | - Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA 1933-1945.
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| 22 | 1939 | - World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
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| 23 | 1945 | - World War II ends.
- Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
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| 24 | 1950 | - Korean War: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.
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| 25 | 1953 | - Dwight Eisenhower president of the USA 1953-1961.
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| 26 | 1960 | |
| 27 | 1961 | - Bay of Pigs Invasion: United States vs Cuba 1961.
- John F. Kennedy president of the USA 1961-1963.
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| 28 | 1963 | - John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, 22 Nov 1963.
- Lyndon B. Johnson president of the USA 1963-1969. Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
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