Gold Rush in California in history

VietPress USA (May 20th, 2016): This Day in History:

1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans

• American Revolution

• 1778 Battle of Barren Hill, Pennsylvania

• Automotive

• 1995 Street in front of the White House closed to traffic

• Civil War

• 1862 Union Congress passes the Homestead Act

• Cold War

• 1956 United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

• Crime

•  2005 Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim

• Disaster

• 1965 Plane crashes at Cairo airport

• General Interest

• 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India
• 1506 Christopher Columbus dies
• 1862 The Homestead Act
• 1927 Spirit of St. Louis departs
• 1969 Battle for Hamburger Hill ends
• 1996 Supreme Court defends rights of homosexuals

• Hollywood

• 2007 The Simpsons airs 400th episode

• Literary

• 1946 W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen

• Music

• 1998 Frank Sinatra is laid to rest

• Old West

• 1873 Levi Strauss patents copper-riveted jeans

• Presidential

• 1862 Lincoln signs Homestead Act

• Sports

• 1989 Sunday Silence wins Preakness by a nose

• Vietnam War

• 1953 French see “light at the end of the tunnel” in Vietnam
• 1969 Kennedy criticizes the “Hamburger Hill” battle

• World War I

• 1915 British renew attacks in Battle of Festubert

• World War II

• 1940 Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville, France

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