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Britain enters World War I.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; United States enters World War II.
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The United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II ends as Japan surrenders.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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Hijaked planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentegon in Washington, D.C., and in a field in rural Pennsylvania. Thousands of lives are lost.