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Samoset: Native American man made a sudden appearance among the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, greeting them in English (1622)
<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/samoset">Samoset</a>: Native American man made a sudden appearance among the <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/pilgrims">Pilgrims</a> at <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/plymouth-colony">Plymouth Colony</a>, greeting them in English (1622)

West Point: the US Military Academy was established; graduates include US presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1802)
<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states-military-academy">West Point</a>: the US Military Academy was established; graduates include US presidents <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/ulysses-s-grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> and <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/dwight-d-eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> (1802)

Robert Goddard: physicist launched the first liquid fuel rocket, in Auburn, Massachusetts; "Nell" the rocket traveled 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage field (1926)
<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-goddard">Robert Goddard</a>: physicist launched the first <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/liquid-rocket">liquid fuel rocket</a>, in Auburn, Massachusetts; "Nell" the rocket traveled 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage field (1926)

My Lai massacre: US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnam village of My Lai (1968)
<a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/my-lai-massacre">My Lai massacre</a>: US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnam village of <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/my-lai-vietnam">My Lai</a> (1968)