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The opening volleys of the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
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The shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie on 28 June 1914 that was the casus belli of the Great War.
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A 1951 home run by Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants
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Any cataclysmic event
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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History
From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Across languages
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