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1830
Joseph Smith and five others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette, New York.
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1862
The Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War began.
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1909
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first to reach the North Pole.
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1917
U.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I.
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1994
The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash.
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