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1579

• Explorer Francis Drake "discovers" land on the northern pacific coast of Turtle Island in what is modern day Washington or Oregon.

1778

• New York becomes the 11th state of the United States.

1874

• Settler colony Liberia declares independence from the United States.

1891

• France annexes Tahiti.

1936

• Nazi Germany and Italy support Franco and the National Front in the Spanish Civil War.

1944

• The Red Army re-captures Lviv, Ukraine from Nazi occupation.

1953

• Beginning of the Cuban Revolution.

• Korean War comes to a nominal end, leaving the south under US occupation.