1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 62 performances
1990 "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 62 performances
1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans
1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days freed
1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1979 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1968 New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA)
1967 New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game
1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1964 Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1963 Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60
1961 John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1959 Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1951 NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
1943 Jay Traynor, rocker, Jay and The Americans
1942 NY Americans NHL team folded
1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort
1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) and a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1936 NHL record 32 points scored, New York Americans (28) and Mont Maroons (24)
1935 Dick Davalos, Bronx, actor, Jeff-The Americans
1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
1925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1
1925 NHL's New York Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1924 Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1917 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I
1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
1903 Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brig General, Answers for Americans
1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1897 Rewi Alley, NZ, writer, Americans in China
1894 Charles Hodge, California, New York University professor, Answers for Americans
1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers New York)
1883 U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
1814 Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British
1814 Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1813 Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1813 Americans capture Ft. George, Canada
1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1805 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1781 Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
1780 John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)
1780 British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1777 Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts
1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1777 Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1777 British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1775 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
1775 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
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