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| | 1500 |
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| Verrazano enters New York Harbor | 1524 |
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| | 1600 |
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| Hendrik Hudson navigates the Hudson River | 1609 |
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| | 1624 | Dutch colonies started in Albany and NYC area
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| Peter Minuet purchases Manhattan from Manahatta Indians | 1626 |
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| | 1640 | First book printed in America: Bay Psalm Book
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| English seize New Netherlands from the Dutch | 1664 |
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| | 1675 | Bloody Indian war begins: King Philip's War
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| | 1676 | King Philip's War ends
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| | 1683 | Dutchess County formed
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| Rombout patent | 1685 |
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| | 1686 | Minisink patent
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| Schuyler patent | 1688 |
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| | 1688 | Kipsbergen patent
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| Pawling patent (now Staatsburg) | 1696 |
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| | 1697 | Philipse patent
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| Poughkeepsie patent | 1697 |
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| | 1697 | Great Nine Partners patent
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| | 1700 |
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| | 1701 | Dutchess County provisionally annexed to Ulster County
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| Beekman patent | 1703 |
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| | 1703 | Rhinebeck patent
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| Little Nine Partners patent | 1706 |
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| | 1708 | Queen Anne sends a number of indentured Palatines for production of naval stores
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| First Europeans in the L9P area: Sackett | 1711 |
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| | 1712 | Slave revolt in NYC (more)
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| Dutchess elects officers; independent from Ulster | 1713 |
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| | 1719 | Dutchess divided into wards: North, Middle, South
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| Great Awakening, general revival of evangelical religion | 1726 |
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| | 1728 | Quakers settle in the Oblong from Westchester and CT
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| Oblong patent (a/k/a Equivalent Tract) | 1731 |
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| | 1733 | Influenze epidemic in New York City and Philadelphia
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| Dutchess divided into seven Precincts: Beekman, Charlotte, Crom Elbo, North, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, South East Town | 1737 |
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| | 1740 | (PP) Brother Rausch arrives to establish the Moravian Mission to the Indians; First permanent settlement.
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| Slave Insurrection in NYC (more) | 1741 |
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| | 1742 | (PP) First North American regular congregation of Christian Indians, composed of ten persons
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| (PP) Old Moravian Church erected | 1743 |
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| | 1744 | Little Nine Partners patent divided into 64 lots
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| North East Precinct formed from North Precinct | 1746 |
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| | 1764 | (PP)Capt. Thomas "Baron" Ross dies
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| Boston Massacre | 1770 |
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| | 1772 | (PP) Morris Graham stone house completed
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| (PP) Graham-Brush house erected (more) | 1773 |
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| | 1774 | Rhode Island abolishes slavery
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| | 1775 | American Revolutionary War begins
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| | 1776 | Declaration of Independence
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| Johannes Rowe, a German, purchases 911 acres from chancellor Livingston, the first sale made to an individual. | 1780 |
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| | 1781 | American Revolutionary War ends
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| Articles of Confederation take effect | 1781 |
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| | 1783 | Massachusetts abolishes slavery
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| Treaty of Paris grants America unconditional independence | 1783 |
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| | 1785 | Temple Lodge established in North East Precinct, first Masonic lodge in L9P
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| Regular stagecoach routes established between Albany, New York City and Boston | 1785 |
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| | 1785 | Poughkeepsie Journal begins publication; now oldest NYS paper, 3rd oldest national
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| Charlotte Precinct divided into Clinton Precinct and Washington Precinct | 1786 |
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| | 1787 | Federalist Papers first published, NY Independent Journal
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| NY ratifies Federal Constitution at Poughkeepsie, 11th state to do so | 1788 |
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| | 1788 | General Organization Act reorganizes DC into townships
Northeast Township formed, includes Pine Plains and Milan
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| U.S. Constitution in effect | 1789 |
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| | 1789 | George Washington inaugural
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| US Bill of Rights adopted | 1791 |
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| | 1793 | Eli Whitley invents the cotton gin
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| (PP) Union Library opens, first Dutchess public library | 1798 |
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| | 1800 |
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| Federal government moved to Washington, D.C. | 1800 |
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| | 1802 | (PP) Church St relocated to the south as part of the Dutchess and Ulster Turnpike
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| U.S. Milirary Academy established at West Point | 1803 |
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| | 1804 | Vice President Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in a duel
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| Fauconier patent (now Hyde Park) | 1805 |
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| | 1807 | First practical steamboat: Robert Fulton, NYC to Albany in 32 hrs
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| (PP) Warren Masonic Lodge No. 157 | 1808 |
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| | 1808 | Importation of slaves outlawed
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| Putnam County set off from Dutchess | 1812 |
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| | 1812 | War of 1812 begins
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| | 1815 | War of 1812 ends
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| | 1818 | Milan taken off from Northeast
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| Pine Plains taken off from Northeast; first town election | 1823 |
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| | 1823 | Hudson River School of painters comes to public attention
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| Erie Canal opens | 1825 |
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| | 1829 | (PP)Graham-Brush house sold to Alfred Brush
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| Mormon Church organized in Fayette, NY | 1830 |
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| | 1835 | (PP) Methodist church erected
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| (PP) Baptist church erected; destroyed by tornado, rebuilt | 1837 |
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| | 1844 | First telegraph message, Washington to Baltimore, by S.F.B. Morse
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| Elias Howe invents sewing machine | 1846 |
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| | 1848 | Gold discovered in California
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| (PP) William Eno purchases land and lays out Evergreen Cemetery | 1852 |
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| | 1858 | Moravian Historical Society pilgrimage to Shekomeko
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| First Atlantic telegraph cable laid | 1858 |
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| | 1861 | (PP) Episcopal church erected
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| Vassar College founded | 1861 |
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| | 1861 | Civil War begins
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| Draft riots in NYC | 1863 |
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| | 1863 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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| | 1865 | Civil War ends
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| | 1866 | (PP) Stissing Lodge FAM organized
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| U.S. purchaes Alaska from Russia | 1867 |
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| | 1873 | The Panic of 1873 (more)
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| (PP)Lamp District organized | 1874 |
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| | 1876 | A.G. Bell invents telephone
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| F. W. Woolworth opens first 5¢ & 10¢ store in Utica, NY | 1879 |
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| | 1879 | (PP) Seymour Smith Academy opens (more)
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| Brooklyn Bridge opens, world's longest suspension bridge | 1883 |
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| | 1888 | Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge over the Hudson River completed (more)
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| The Great Blizzard of ´88 | 1888 |
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| | 1895 | (PP)Water District organized
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| Pine Plains Hose Co. organized (more) | 1895 |
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| | 1899 | Central New England Railway Company (CNE) formed; takes over extant Dutchess lines
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| | 1900 |
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| | 1903 | Wright Brothers, first flight
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| General Slocum burns, sinks in East River, 1,021 dead | 1904 |
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| | 1904 | First section of NYC subway system opens
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| Henry Ford introduces the Model T | 1908 |
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| | 1910 | Railroad abandonments begin in DC
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Co. file in NYC | 1911 |
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| | 1912 | (PP) Roman Catholic Church erected
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| HMS Titanic disaster, 1,503 dead | 1912 |
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| | 1915 | HMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine, 1,198 dead
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| | 1917 | US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
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| | 1918 | WW I ends
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| Prohibition begins | 1919 |
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| | 1920 | 19th Amendment enfranchises women
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| (PP) Presbyterian church struck by lightning, burns down; rebuilt next year | 1922 |
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| | 1927 | CNE merges with New York, New Haven and Hartford system
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| Lindbergh: first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight | 1927 |
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| | 1929 | Stock market crash on 29 Oct, "Black Tuesday"; The Great Depression begins. (more)
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| Empire State Building opens; world's tallest building | 1931 |
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| | 1932 | Franklyn D. Roosevelt elected to first presidental term
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| Prohibition ends | 1933 |
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| | 1933 | (PP) Seymour Smith Academy torn down, Pine Plains Central School erected in its place
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| Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY | 1936 |
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| | 1938 | (PP) NYS Rte  extended north from PP to Bell Pond in Columbia County (more)
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| New York World's Fair | 1939 |
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| | 1939 | Great Depression ends
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First peacetime draft
Forty-hour work week established | 1940 |
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| | 1941 | Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; US enters World War II
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| | 1945 | US drops two atomic bombs on Japan
Japan surrenders
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| | 1947 | AF Capt. Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier in X-1 rocket plane
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| Soviet blockade of Berlin, US airlift | 1948 |
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| | 1949 | NATO organized
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TSP  reaches NYS Rte  in Milan (more) | 1949 |
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| | 1950 | Korean War starts
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| Rosenbergs executed at Sing Sing for espionage | 1953 |
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| | 1953 | Korean War armistice signed
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| Brown vs Board of Education ends "separate but equal" segregation | 1954 |
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| | 1955 | Hurricanes Connie and Dianne cause widespread DC flooding
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| First transatlantic telephone cable | 1956 |
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| | 1957 | Soviets launch Sputnik, first artificial Earth satellite
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| First domestic jet airline passenger service, NYC-Miami | 1958 |
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| | 1961 | Little Nine Partners Historical Society formed (more)
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| John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth | 1962 |
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| | 1963 | President John F. Kennedy assassinated
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| New York World's Fair | 1964 |
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| | 1964 | Vietnam War starts
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| Senator Robert F. Kennedy assassinated | 1968 |
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| | 1969 | Neil Armstrong, US Astronaut, first man to set foot on the moon
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| Sharon Tate and others slain by Charles Manson followers | 1969 |
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| | 1969 | Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, NY
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| | 1973 | End of Vietnam War
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| | 1974 | Nixon resigns
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| Three Mile Island nuclear accident | 1979 |
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| | 1980 | Winter Olympics at Lake Placid
US defeats Russian hocky team
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Mt St Helens erupts
Beatle John Lennon assassinated | 1980 |
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| | 1986 | Space shuttle Challenger disaster;
Explodes on launch
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| (PP) Graham-Brush house and plot conveyed to Little Nine Partners Historical Society | 1997 |
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| | 1998 | (PP) Arsonists set fire in Graham-Brush house; roof damage
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| | 2000 |
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| | 2001 | 9/11 terrorist attack brings down NYC World Trade towers
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Space shuttle Columbia disaster;
Disintegrates on reentry | 2003 |
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