1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. "The Big Bopper") are killed in a plane crash in Iowa.
1945: B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin as part of Operation Thunderclap in WWII.
1945: The Soviet Union declares war against Japan.
1944: U.S. Troops capture the Marshall Islands in WWII.
1917: In response to Germany's announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare, the U.S. breaks off all diplomatic relations with Germany.
1913: Sixteenth Amendment ratified, creating a federal income tax.
1870: Fifteenth Amendment ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1809: Illinois Territory created.
1787: Shays' Rebellion crushed.
1690: The first paper money in America is issued, by the colony of Massachusetts.
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But what if this all happened on the same day IN THE SAME YEAR?!?!?
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