History
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Rhode Island waited until 1790 to become the final original colony to join the Union
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A desperate 1918 victory at Sardarabad saved the Armenian nation from total destruction
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In 1176, a league of Italian towns defeated the might of the Holy Roman Empire
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Belgium's 1940 surrender forced the Allies into the desperate evacuation at Dunkirk
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In 1802, 400 rebels chose a mass suicide over returning to Napoleon's slavery
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A teenager embarrassed the Soviet military in 1987 by landing a plane in Red Square
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A 1926 military coup established a dictatorship in Portugal that lasted 48 years
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In 2008, Nepal abolished its 240-year-old monarchy to become the world's newest republic
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In 1960, a military coup ended the first era of multi-party democracy in Turkey
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In 1940, two soldiers miraculously survived a massacre of 99 British prisoners of war
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In 2001, a resort kidnapping in the Philippines triggered a year-long international hostage crisis
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A sitting British prime minister fought a bloodless pistol duel with a rival in 1798
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In 1865, the final major Confederate army surrendered and effectively ended the war
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Operation Dynamo began in 1940 to rescue 338,000 soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk
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Napoleon was crowned King of Italy in 1805 with an ancient 1,300-year-old crown
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