World Events from 1933-1972

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/30/1933	1933	Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
07/02/1937	1937	Amelia Earhart lost in the Pacific Ocean
07/14/1939	1939	Germany invades Poland
12/07/1941	1941	Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
12/16/1944	1944	Battle of the Bulge began
08/06/1945	1945	U.S. drops Atomic Bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
08/09/1945	1945	U.S. drops Atomic Bombs on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
09/23/1950	1950	Truman orders devolpment of the Hydrogen Bomb
01/21/1954	1954	First Atomic Submarine built.
02/16/1959	1959	Castro takes over Cuba
09/04/1961	1961	U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
11/22/1963	1963	Kennedy is assassinated; Lee Harvey Oswald accused for his murder.
04/04/1968	1968	Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
08/15/1969	1969	Woodstock held in Bethel, New York
05/04/1970	1970	Four students killed at Kent State University in Ohio by National Guardsmen
09/04/1972	1972	Start of the Water Gate scandal