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1635
Religious dissident and Rhode Island founder, Roger Williams, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1888
For the first time the public was admitted to the Washington Monument.
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1930
Aviator Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight across the United States.
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1975
Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end the nuclear arms race.
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