2010……………………Deepwater Horizon oil spill
1999……………………Shootings at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
1978……………………Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union
1914……………………Mine strikers slaughtered by militia at Ludlow, Colorado
1902……………………Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium
1871……………………Congress authorizes President Grant to use military force against the Ku Klux Klan
1861……………………Col. Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. Army two days after he had been offered its command and three days after Virginia secedes from the Union. Promoted to Major General, Lee accepted appointment as commander of Virginia’s forces.
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