In 1969, a coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. In 1666, the Great Fire of London broke out, claiming thousands of homes, but only a few lives. In 1789, the U.S. Treasury Department was established. They grow as big, rank, and yellow as if they were 40 miles from a house. The sunflower ought to be made the emblem of our state.
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In 1985, it was announced that a U.S.-French expedition had located the wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. In 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. D.C. In 1971, the Kansas Capitol was declared a National Historic Site. In 1978, Pope John Paul II was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.