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June 1863. Harriet Tubman led 150 Black soldiers up the Combahee River in the dead of night. By morning, 756 enslaved people were free. The first woman in U.S. history to lead an armed military operation.
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February 1864. The Confederate submarine Hunley became the first in history to sink an enemy warship. Then it disappeared. Found 131 years later — all eight crew members were still at their posts.
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May 4, 1886. Chicago. A bomb exploded at a labor rally. Eight people died. The bomber was never identified. But eight labor activists were hanged anyway.
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May 1862, 3 a.m. — enslaved Robert Smalls put on the captain's hat, blew the signal whistle, and sailed a Confederate warship past two forts to freedom.
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On April 16, 2007, 76-year-old aerospace engineering professor Liviu Librescu barricaded his classroom door with his body during the Virginia Tech shooting, giving his students time to escape through windows. A Holocaust survivor, he chose in his final moments to ensure others would survive.
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July 1881. President Garfield was shot. The bullet missed his spine. He should have survived. Instead, he died 79 days later — because his doctors kept probing the wound with unwashed fingers.
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1857. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2: Black Americans were not citizens and had no right to sue. Congress had never had the power to restrict slavery. The last door to compromise closed.
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Carnegie built 2,500 libraries. That same year, he sent armed mercenaries against striking workers. One man. Two faces.
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May 1869. The railroad connecting America's East and West was complete. 10,000 Chinese laborers had laid 3,000 kilometers of track. They were not invited to the ceremony where a golden spike was driven.
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