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Carrie Nation walks into Dobson's Saloon in Kiowa and starts throwing rocks

She calls them "smashers"; before the day is out she has wrecked two more saloons, and a tornado that strikes eastern Kansas tonight she takes as a sign from God.

Kansas had banned the sale of liquor, but the law was openly ignored — saloons in Barber County operated with near-impunity, and local temperance advocates had run out of polite options. On June 7, 1900, Carrie Nation walked into Dobson's Saloon in Kiowa, announced "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate," and began hurling rocks — "smashers," she called them — through the stock. She moved through two more Kiowa saloons before the day was done. When a tornado struck eastern Kansas that evening, Nation took it as God's endorsement…

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1776

Lee rises in Congress and calls the colonies free and independent states; Adams seconds the motion

Five delegations lack instructions to vote, so a decision is delayed three weeks and a drafting committee is named in the meantime.
1942

Dive bombers sink three Japanese carriers in six minutes; a fourth falls before dark

Cryptanalysts cracked Tokyo's naval code and fed the enemy a lie about a water shortage, and Nagumo's flight decks are crowded with fueled, armed planes when the Americans arrive.
1862

Seward and Lyons sign a treaty giving both navies the right to search and seize slave ships

The Senate ratifies unanimously the same day, ending half a century of U.S. resistance to British calls for mutual search rights on African and Cuban waters.
19421776 Club
The 301st Infantry Battalion met almost no resistance on Attu, where the island held 45 Unangax villagers, a radio technician, and his schoolteacher wife.
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1910

Taft signs Glacier into law; a million Montana acres become a national park

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Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act; no proclamation needed from Congress to seal off federal land

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Guiteau hangs at the Washington jail; Garfield's killer takes nine months to follow him

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1898

Roosevelt and the Buffalo Soldiers take Kettle Hill; San Juan Heights fall to the Fifth Corps

Outnumbered 16-to-1, Spanish defenders under Linares y Pombo inflict punishing losses before the heights are carried and the road to Santiago opens.
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