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Harding signs the peace; America's war with Germany ends in a New Jersey parlor

The Knox-Porter Resolution closes the conflict by congressional act alone, two and a half years after the armistice and with no League membership attached.

Two and a half years after the guns fell silent, the United States was still, legally, at war. The Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Versailles had left America without a peace, since Versailles was also the document that would have created the League of Nations. On July 2, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the Knox-Porter Resolution at Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen's estate in Raritan, New Jersey, ending the state of war with Germany, Austria, and Hungary by congressional declaration alone. No League membership required…

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Congress votes: these colonies are free and independent states

New York abstains, lacking instructions; twelve delegations say yes, and John Adams is certain the date will be remembered forever.
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Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; King watches as a year's promise becomes law

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Out of ammunition, Chamberlain orders the bayonet; the 20th Maine sweeps Little Round Top

The Union left had no plan to hold the hill; Oates's 15th Alabama breaks when the Maine men charge downhill, and a portion of the regiment is taken.
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At 7:58 a.m. she cannot hear the Itasca and asks for voice signals; a final transmission comes in, then silence over 2,556 miles of open Pacific.
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A Japanese submarine surfaces off Cape Blanco and launches a floatplane over Oregon

A fire lookout spots the plane from Mount Emily before its bombs even hit the ground.
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Shovels hit dirt at Hoover Field; the War Department breaks ground on a five-sided headquarters

Contracts worth $31.1 million are finalized the same day, sixty years to the day before the building's darkest morning.
1924

American forces leave Santo Domingo; Dominican National Guard takes over policing

The handover closes an eight-year occupation, but Washington keeps its grip on the country's customs house.
1944

American troops push into the Hürtgen Forest, aiming for a village called Schmidt

Dense conifers and steep ravines await, ground the Germans have spent weeks fortifying with bunkers and mines.
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