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1913
Ford introduces
The Assembly Line
Mass Production
Industrial Revolution
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1925
John Scopes
Monkey Trials
Evolution in
the classroom
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'36 - '39
Spanish
Civil War
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1947 - 1949
Israeli War for
Independence
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Korean War
June 25, 1950
- July 27, 1953
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April 29, 1975
US troops
pull out of
Viet Nam
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February 26, 1993
World Trade Center
Bombing - kills six
injures over 1000
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September 11, 2001
911 Terrorist Attack
hijacked jets crash
into Pentagon and
World Trade Center
- thousands killed -
WW3 begins ???
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2001-2002
US invades
Afghanistan,
ousts Taliban
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2003 - ???
US / Iraq War
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| Ford Autos
| | Model A - 1903
| | Model T - 1908
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January 16, 1919
18th Ammendment
US bans alcohol
Prohibition begins
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October 24, 1929
"Black Thursday"
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression
officially begins
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Dec. 5, 1933
Prohibition
is repealed
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Dec 1, 1955
Rosa Parks
arrested for
refusing to
leave seat
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1956
bus boycott
lasts 381 days
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1974
Watergate
Nixon
resigns
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August 26th, 1920
19th Amendment
Suffrage ends
Women gain vote
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February 1930
Gandhi launches
The Civil
Disobedience
Movement
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Iran - 1979
Ayatollah
Khomeini
ousts Shah
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Feb. 11, 1990
South Africa
Mandela freed
signaling end
of Apartheid
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Jan. 15, 1991
"Desert Storm"
US invades Iraq
Gulf War begins
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July 7, 1937
Japan invades China
1st battle World War II
250,000 soldiers lost
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Dec. 1937 - Jan. 1938
The Rape of Nanjing
over 300,000 killed
80,000 women raped
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September 1-3, 1939
Germans invade Poland
- Britain and France thus
declare war on Germany
World War II begins
|
December
7th, 1941
- Day of -
- Infamy -
Empire
of Japan
attacks
Pearl
Harbor
US enters
- WW2 -
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August 1945
USA drops two
nuclear bombs
on Japanese
cities of
Hiroshima
& Nagasaki
120,000 dead
- WW2 ends -
Nuclear Age
begins
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March 7, 1965
Selma, Alabama
Bloody Sunday
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August 6, 1965
Voting Rights Act
signed into law
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1978 - Camp
David Summit
- US President
Jimmy Carter
brokers peace
treaty between
Israel & Egypt
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1990 - Walesa elected
president of Poland
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1979 - 1989
The Soviet Union
invasion of Afghanistan
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April-May 1992
Rodney King Riots
- in Los Angeles
& other US cities
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January 1905
First Russian
Revolution
140,000 workers
demonstrate at
Tsar's residence
Winter Palace
1000 killed
5000 injured
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July 17, 1918
Czar Nicholas II and
family assassinated
Anastasia escapes,
flees to Europe
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Poland 1980
Solidarnosc
Lech Walesa
leads workers in
union movement
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Oct. 2-22 2002
DC Sniper Scare
father-son team
kill 10, wound 3
| Train Bombings
3/11/ 04 - Madrid
7/7/05 - London
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Feb - Nov 1917
Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin installed as
new Russian leader
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Dec. 30, 1922
Soviet Union forms
unites Russia with
surrounding states
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Fall 1936
- Axis formed -
Nazi Germany,
Italy & Japan
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March 21, 1960
South Africa Apartheid
Sharpeville Massacre
police fire on 20,000
69 killed, 178 wounded
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August 22, 1910
Empire of Japan
annexes Korea
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World War I
Summer 1914
Nov. 11, 1918
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December 6, 1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty
establishes Ireland
as a Free State
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| June 6, 1944 - D-Day |
| May 8, 1945 - V-E Day |
| Aug 14, 1945 - V-J Day |
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Jan. 8, 1959
Castro leads
Communists
Cuban Civil War
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1974 - IRA
bombings
England,
Ireland
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1982 - 1983
Israeli troops
invade Lebanon
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Nov 95 - Jan 96
Budget Disputes
twice shut down
US Government
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June 26, 2003
Sodomy Laws ruled
unconstitutional by
US Supreme Court
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China - 1900
Boxer Rebellion
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Oct 1911 - Feb 1912
Chinese Revolution
Manchu Dynasty to
Republic of China
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August 10, 1920
Treaty of Sevres
- Allies & Turkey -
Ottoman Empire ends
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Jan 10, '46
UN General
Assembly
1st session
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October 1, 1949
Chinese Civil War ends
People's Republic of China
formed by Communists and
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
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1972 - Nixon
visits China
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1973
Middle East oil embargo
U.S. energy crisis begins
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1992 - MTV's
"Rock the Vote"
rallies 18-25
demographic
|
January 29, 1993
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Clinton lifts ban on
"gays in military"
|
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Nov. - Dec. 2000
Presidential Election
Fla. Recount Scandal
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February 14, 1919
League of Nations
formed - predecessor
of United Nations
|
Feb 25, 1933 - Japan
Oct 14, 1933 - Germany
- future Axis powers split
from League of Nations
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1948
South Africa
Apartheid begins
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1961 - Soviet Union builds Berlin Wall
dividing Europe into East & West Blocs
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November 9, 1989 - Berlin Wall falls
ending the Eastern Communist Bloc
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Amelia Earhart
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1932 - 1st woman 2nd person
to fly solo across the Atlantic
- first to fly the Atlantic twice
|
January 11, 1935
1rst person to fly solo
from Hawaii to California
|
July 2, 1937
disappeared over S Pacific
near Howland Island
in round world attempt
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Oct. 6-24, 1973
Yom Kippur War
Isreal vs Egypt & Syria
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RU-486 - Mifepristone - "The Abortion Pill"
| |
1980 - antiprogestins invented in France
| |
September 2000 - approved by the US FDA
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2001
Mad Cow Disease
Britain and Europe
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1930 - MIT develops
first Modern Computer
"Differential Analyser"
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1972
Munich Olympics
PLO murders 11
Israeli athletes
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May 18, 1980
Mt. St. Helens
volcanic eruption
|
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2000 - DNA sequencing
Human Genome Project
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2001
Power crisis
& blackouts
in California
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Oct '99 - April '02
Second Boer War
British South Africa
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Great Floods of '27
Mississippi Valley,
Galicia, Poland &
Kiu-Siu Is. Japan
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1956-57 - Suez Crisis
Egypt, USSR vs Isreal,
UK, France, US & UN
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April 26, 1986
Chernobyl USSR
nuclear accident
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1995
Chicago
Heat Wave
800 dead
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Dec. '04 - Jan '05
El Nino causes
California landslides
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Earthquakes
| April 18, 1906
San Francisco
| Dec. 28, 1908
Messina, Sicily
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April 14-15, 1912
Titanic strikes iceberg
on maiden voyage
- over 1500 lost -
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1928 - 1935
Hoover Dam
construction
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1951 - UNIVAC
world's first commercial
computer installed
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1957 - 1960
"The Pill"
Birth Control
FDA Approved
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1971
microchip
and email
invented
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1977
Star Wars
released
- modern
Sci-Fi era
begins
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1981 - IBM
markets first
Personal
Computer
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1984
Macintosh
1st computer
with mouse
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Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP
Internet Boom sweeps world
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December 26, 2004
Indonesia Tsunami
NE Indian Ocean
over 160,000 killed
|
August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
hits New Orleans
over 10,000 killed
thousands homeless
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Mt. Rushmore National Monument
begun - 1927 / completed - 1941
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1962 - Silent Spring published
environmentalism movement
| | 1972 - US EPA bans DDT
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1985
British Antarctic Survey
discovers hole in ozone
layer over Antarctica
|
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2003 Europe
Heat Wave
35,000 perish
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1900
Poulsen
invents first
tape recorder
Telegraphone
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1930 - planet Pluto
discovered by Clyde
William Tombaugh
- Lowell Observatory,
Flagstaff Arizona -
as predicted by
William Pickering
and Perceval Lowell
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July 4, 1997
Mars Pathfinder
Sojourner Rover
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April 6, 1909 - Peary
reaches North Pole
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Nov 14, 1911 - Amundsen
reaches South Pole
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Feb. 14, 1929
St. Valentine's Day
Massacre - Chicago
Capone vs Bugsy
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Jan. 1, 1958
UFO sightings
off Trinidade
Island, Brazil
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April 13, 1970 - Apollo 13
"Houston, we've had a problem."
Three astronauts return to Earth
after oxygen tank explosion
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1977 - Voyager 1 & 2 launched
1979 - Jupiter / 1980 - Saturn
1986 - Uranus / 1988 - Neptune
1989 - exits the solar system
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1903 - Nobel Prize
awarded to Pierre
and Marie Curie
for discoveries
in radioactivity
|
1905 - E=mc2
Einstein publishes
Theory of Relativity
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1918
Harlow Shapley
discovers shape &
size of Milky Way
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April 4, 1932
Vitamin C
isolated
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1932
Cambridge
physicists
discover
the neutron
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April 25, 1953
structure of DNA
defined in UK science
journal "Nature"
|
April 26, 1954
Dr. Jonas Salk
develops Polio Vaccine
1.8 million children
immediately innoculated
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1961 - First in Space |
Yuri Gagarin - USSR
Alan Shepard - USA |
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1973 - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
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1975 - Apollo & Soyuz link in space
| |
1977 - First space shuttle - Enterprise
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| - "Mass UFO Sightings" - |
July 11, 1991
Mexico City
| March 13, 1997
"Phoenix Lights"
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January - March 2004
NASA, ESU probes, rovers
detect signs of water on Mars
|
Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2005
NASA Cassini mission
orbits Saturn, probes Titan
|
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1920 - Einstein publishes
Relativity: The Special
and General Theory
|
January 30, 1929
Unified Field Theory
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October 4, 1957
USSR launches
Sputnik satellite
Space Age begins
|
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July 20, 1969 - Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
become the first men on the Moon
|
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Feb. 20, 1986 - Russia launches Mir
March 23, 2001 - Mir re-enters in S Pacific
|
Jan. 28, 1986 - Shuttle Challenger Explosion
Feb. 1, 2003 - Shuttle Columbia Explosion
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1936 - Berlin Summer Olympics
first TV signal strong enough
to reach deep space
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August 15-17, 1969
Woodstock
Music and Arts Fair
"Three days of peace"
500,000 fans attend
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July 3, 69 - Brian Jones
Sept. 18, 70 - Jimi Hendrix
Oct. 4, 70 - Janis Joplin
Jul. 3, 71 - Jim Morrison
Oct. 29, 71 - Duayne Allman
Sept. 20, 73 - Jim Croce
July 29, 74 - Mama Cass
Nov. 25, 74 - Nick Drake
Dec 4, 76 - Tommy Bolin
Aug. 16, 77 - Elvis Presley
Sept. 7, 78 - Keith Moon
Feb 2, 79 - Sid Vicious
Feb. 19, 80 - Bon Scott
Sept. 25, 80 - John Bonham
Dec. 8, 80 - John Lennon
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| Helluva Band in Heaven |
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May 11, 81 - Bob Marley
Mar. 5, 82 - John Belushi
Mar. 20, 82 - Randy Rhoads
Feb. 4,83 - Karen Carpenter
April 1, 84 - Marvin Gaye
Jan. 4, 86 - Phil Lynott
March 10, 88 - Andy Gibb
Dec. 7, 88 - Roy Orbison
April 20, 90 - Steve Marriott
Aug. 27, 90 - SR Vaughan
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Nov. 24, 91 - Freddie Mercury
April 10, 92 - Sam Kinison
Jan. 12, 93 - Ray Gillen
Dec. 4, 93 - Frank Zappa
April 8, 94 - Kurt Cobain
Aug. 9, 95 - Jerry Garcia
Oct. 21, 95 - Shannon Hoon
June 28, 02 - John Entwistle
Sept. 12, 03 - Johnny Cash
Aug 6, 04 - Rick James
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1927
The Jazz Singer
first "talkie" film
|
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1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien publishes "The Hobbit"
The Lord of the Rings trilogy published - 1954-55
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1924 - 1926
television
invented by
John Baird
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1951
Cleveland
DJ coins term
"Rock and Roll"
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