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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is a ten-hour, ten-part television series that aired on the History Channel from April 9 through April 13, 2006. It later became a published book with the same title. ==Overview== The ten days featured in the series, in chronological order:

Date Event
May 26, 1637 The Mystic Massacre of the Pequot War
January 25, 1787 Shays Rebellion in Western Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays
January 24, 1848 The beginning of the California Gold Rush
September 17, 1862 The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War
July 6, 1892 The Homestead Strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania
September 6, 1901 The assassination of President William McKinley
July 21, 1925 The infamous Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee
July 16, 1939 Albert Einstein sends his letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to explore nuclear weaponry
September 9, 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
June 21, 1964 Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner being murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi