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2013 Event - Americans learn the FBI and CIA had previous intelligence from Russia warning U.S. intelligence agencies about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's extremist connections before the Boston Marathon bombings

2013 Event - Scientist in China discover an ancient human fossil in a cave near Beijing; the 40,000 year-old leg bone shows it was related to the ancestors of present-day Asians and Native Americans

2012 Event - A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a respons to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act

2011 Event - A new census measure claims that a record number of Americans, 49.1 million, are living below the poverty line

2010 Event - If trends in diet and exercise continue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project estimate 1 in 3 adult Americans will have diabetes by 2050

1995 Event - NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix

1992 Event - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

1990 Event - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq

1990 Event - Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq

1990 Event - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

1990 Event - "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 62 performances

1990 Event - "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 62 performances

1988 Event - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel

1982 Event - New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans

1981 Event - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1981 Event - 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days are freed

1980 Event - Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds

1979 Event - 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)

1978 Event - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)

1975 Event - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans

1974 Event - 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida

1974 Event - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24

1969 Event - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans

1969 Birthday - Rick Mercer, born in St. John's, Canada, comedian, satirist, television personality, created television show, 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes', trademark routine titled, 'Talking to Americans'

1968 Event - New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA)

1967 Event - New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game

1964 Event - Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians

1964 Death - Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69

1963 Death - Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters

1959 Event - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans

1959 Death - Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War

1951 Event - NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27

1943 Birthday - Kenny Vance, born in New York City, New York, musician, singer, producer, member of Jay and the Americans, guest singer on Saturday Night Live, supervised music for film Animal House

1943 Birthday - Jay Traynor, rocker, Jay and The Americans

1942 Event - NY Americans NHL team folded

1942 Event - 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 Event - 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 Event - NHL record 32 points scored, New York Americans (28) and Mont Maroons (24)

1935 Birthday - Dick Davalos, Bronx, actor, Jeff-The Americans

1926 Event - Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies

1925 Event - NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1

1925 Event - 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1

1925 Event - NHL's New York Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1

1924 Event - Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens

1917 Event - 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WW I

1909 Event - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

1906 Event - After 20 straight losses, Boston Americans win vs. Chicago White Sox 3-0

1903 Event - 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Americans Pilgrims (Red Sox)

1903 Birthday - Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brigadier General, Answers for Americans

1899 Event - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

1897 Birthday - Rewi Alley, New Zealand, writer, Americans in China

1894 Birthday - Charles Hodge, California, New York University professor, Answers for Americans

1888 Event - John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans in Yonkers, New York

1883 Event - U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans

1822 Event - Liberia colonized by Americans

1814 Event - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh

1814 Event - Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British

1814 Event - Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario

1814 Event - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada

1813 Event - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British

1813 Event - Americans capture Ft. George, Canada

1813 Event - Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed

1813 Event - Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada

1805 Event - Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent

1795 Event - 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 Event - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers

1781 Event - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War

1780 Death - John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)

1780 Event - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC

1777 Event - Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts

1777 Event - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British

1777 Event - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt

1777 Event - British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1776 Event - Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester

1776 Event - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island

1776 Event - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston

1775 Event - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold

1775 Event - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

1767 Event - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea

1764 Event - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1619 Event - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia

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