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Roosevelt and Mackenzie King cut one ribbon, open a bridge over the St. Lawrence

Twenty-five thousand people watched two heads of government share the same car for the first crossing.

By the summer of 1938, a construction crew had spent sixteen months pushing steel across a chain of islands between New York and Ontario, finishing ten weeks ahead of schedule. On August 18, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King met at Ivy Lea to jointly cut the ribbon on the Thousand Islands Bridge, then rode together in the first car to cross it. More than 25,000 people turned out to watch two nations open a single road between them…

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Tennessee ratifies; the 19th Amendment clears its final hurdle

A 24-year-old legislator's last-minute switch gives suffrage the 36th state it needed.
1590

White comes home to Roanoke and finds it empty; the houses are taken down

He lands on his granddaughter's third birthday and finds only a carved word where his colony used to be.
1877

Hall finds a second Martian moon, tucked in close to the planet

Six days after spotting Deimos, the Naval Observatory astronomer confirms an inner satellite so near Mars it nearly hides in the glare.
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Through rain and mud, Union soldiers reach the Weldon Railroad, then dig in after a Confederate counterattack pushes them back a mile.
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1929

A German airship lifts off from New Jersey to fly around the world

Hearst money bought the trip; a New Jersey field bought its start and finish.
1942

In the dark off Guadalcanal, Mikawa's cruisers sink four Allied warships in under an hour

Then, fearing carriers that had already left, the Japanese admiral turns north and leaves the invasion transports untouched.
1944

Bambi's loan runs out; the Forest Service names a bear of its own

Disney's Bambi was only on loan for a year. When the deal ran out, the Forest Service needed a mascot of its own.
1945

Bockscar drops a second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki

A broken fuel pump nearly forced the mission to abort before the plane ever reached its target.
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