This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Timeline of notable events from 1797 to 2009 recap
A compact chronology lists key milestones from the 1797 patent for a washing machine to 2009 Earth Hour. Highlights include Wong Kim Ark gaining citizenship in 1898, St Nazaire raid in 1942, Three Mile Island 1979, Kosovo airstrikes in 1999, and the 2009 global Earth Hour effort.
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Nathaniel Briggs
New Hampshire
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
Wong Kim Ark
Wong
Constantinople
Angora
Istanbul
Ankara
Virginia Woolf
Lewes
East Sussex
England
St. Nazaire
Atlantic
Stump
NATO
Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Albania
Macedonia
Iraq
Baghdad
Nasiriyah
George W. Bush
Colorado Supreme Court
Robert Harlan
Rhonda Maloney
Fargo
N.D
Red River