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February. February 1 – Sundance Channel debuts. February 2 – Frontier Middle School shooting: A gunman kills his algebra teacher and two other students in Moses Lake, Washington. February 6 – 1996 Honolulu hostage crisis: A gunman takes hostages at his former place of employment in Honolulu, Hawaii.
11 February 28, 1847 Massacre by gun 20 unknown Sutter County, California: Kern and Sutter massacres – White American settlers and U.S. Army personnel make a series of three attacks on local California Indians in an attempt to dissuade them from future raids. U.S. Army and White settlers 12 March 1847 Massacre 5 (possibly 1) "many more"
October–December. December 5, 1933: Sloppy Joe's Bar opens in Key West, Florida (1986 photo) October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title. October 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana, by a bomb.
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
June 11. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 203 days remain until the end of the year.
Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3rd president of the United States on March 4, 1801. First Barbary War, 1801–1805. The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio is admitted to the Union as the State of Ohio (the 17th state) on March 1, 1803. The United States takes possession of the Louisiana Purchase, December 20, 1803.
29. 30. Events. 1776 – Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. 1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska. 1805 – A fire consumed large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
October 1 – The Ideal Toy Company debuts the Evel Knievel stunt-cycle, which would go on to become one of the best-selling toys of Christmas 1973. October 6 – American Country Countdown, a country music -oriented spin off of the nationally syndicated radio program American Top 40, debuts with host Don Bowman.