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Notable events from September 23 to 29 across history
The period highlights Lewis and Clark returning to St Louis in 1806, Knickerbockers founding in 1845, Neptune’s discovery in 1846, Nixon’s 1952 Checkers speech, Balboa sighting the Pacific in 1513, Bill of Rights adoption in 1789, New Jersey displaying the Bill of Rights manuscript, NJ ratification in 1789, Little Rock desegregation in 1957, and the IRA disarmament in 2005.
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Lewis and Clark
Corps of Discovery
St. Louis
Pacific Coast
New York Knickerbockers
Urbain le Verrier
John Couch Adams
Johann Gottfried Galle
Richard Nixon
Texas
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Pacific Ocean
Congress
New Jersey
Trenton
N.J
U.S. Army
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