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failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines as territories.
· In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap–a notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee–through the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River.
In March 1917, the army barracks at Petrograd united striking workers in challenging socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was enforced to step down from his leadership. Nicholas and his family were first detained at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk. In July 1918, the improvement of anti-revolutionary forces caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet forces to fear that Nicholas might be set free. After a secret meeting, a death sentence was approved on the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16.