• Cuban Missile Crisis
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• Area Studies: Cuba
  Resources from our database.

American Revolutionary War began (1775)

• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
  Here is a fascinating Web site about the American Revolution. The site offers a set of primary source letters written by spies on both sides of the conflict, plus the stories surrounding them. Learn about the methods that secret agents used to encode and hide their information.

Apollo 13 safely returned to earth (1970)

Columbus granted a commission in the Spanish Navy

• Christopher Columbus
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• Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
  Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World? Check out these Internet sites and help your students explore the earliest explorers.
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!
• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.

Horses 1st arrived in US

Nikita Khrushchev Born

• Nikita Khrushchev
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• History: Russia
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Polish Solidarity legalized (1982)

Rhodesia became Zimbabwe (1980)

• National Geographic Introduces Two New Atlases -- Activities Too!
  A world atlas for ages 5 to 8. A U.S. atlas for ages 8 to 12. The National Geographic Beginner's World Atlas and the National Geographic United States Atlas for Young Explorers are the latest in a children's series launched by the Society in 1998. Included: Geography activities for students and families!
• Explore the World’s Newest Country!
  Stop the presses! Volume “Z” of the encyclopedia just lost a few pages! A bunch of web sites can help to keep you and your students current on news about the world’s newest country, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).

Virginia seceded from the Union (1861)