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The United States receives its rights to Pearl Harbor under the renewed reciprocity treaty

Eleven days after King Kalākaua signs, Washington holds a legal claim to a coaling and repair station on the shallow lagoon Hawaiians call Wai Momi.

American whalers, traders, missionaries and businessmen had spent decades making themselves at home in the Hawaiian Islands. On November 9, 1887, the United States received the rights to Pearl Harbor under the renewed Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. King Kalākaua had signed the renewal on October 29, after the U.S. Senate amended it to allow an American coaling and repair station at the harbor. No base existed yet, only the legal footing for one…

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1979

NORAD screens show a massive Soviet strike; satellite and radar checks find no attack

A test tape is running as though it were real, and the warnings reach two continuity of government bunkers and command posts around the world.
1967

The first Saturn V leaves Florida with no crew aboard; the shock rattles the control center ceiling

Ten months after the Apollo 1 fire, NASA flies every stage and the spacecraft together on the very first try.
1862

McClellan says farewell to his troops; Burnside takes the Army of the Potomac

The handover happens in front of the Claggett farmhouse in New Baltimore, Virginia, two days after Lincoln settled on a more aggressive general.
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He is going to see the Panama Canal for himself, and Edith Roosevelt is traveling with him.
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1910

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

George Bird Grinnell, who first rode into the region in 1885 and spent two decades lobbying Congress, calls it "the Crown of the Continent."
1906

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

For decades, pot hunters have stripped pottery and bones from Chaco Canyon and across the Southwest. The president can now designate national monuments alone, by proclamation.
1882

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

The self-declared savior of the Republican Party had bought his ivory-gripped revolver with a museum in mind. The jury was not sympathetic.
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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