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Oil exploration begins in Oman in 1907
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Balkan Wars (1912–1913) resulting from territorial disputes: Turkey defeated by alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro; London peace treaty (1913) partitions most of European Turkey among the victors. In second war (1913), Bulgaria attacks Serbia and Greece and is defeated after Romania intervenes and Turks recapture Adrianople. Titanic sinks on maiden voyage; over 1,500 drown. New Mexico and Arizona admitted as states.
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On March 19, 1918, Louis married Daisy Parker from Gretna, Louisiana.
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On September 26th, Allied troops now took the offensive, under the command of General Foch. Thanks to the presence of a million American soldiers in France by this time, the Allies made slow, but steady, progress. The German high command warned that it could no longer ensure victory and, as the German army began mutinying, it sued for peace.
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Prior to the 1920s, women used to blow-dry their hair, by inserting a flexible pipe in the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner. In 1920, the first hair dryer was invented. Though, the machine overheated easily, it was of course better than using a vacuum cleaner!
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William Potts, a police officer from Detroit Michigan, invented traffic lights. He made his invention by using red, green and amber lights and wire; it was installed in the region of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit, United States.
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Lie detector or polygraph was invented by John A. Larson, a medical student in California. In the lie detector test, the device measured the heartbeats and breathing of a person to check whether the person was lying or not. If the pulse rate and breathing were high, then an alarm would buzz, indicating that the person was lying.
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He joined King Oliver's group in Chicago,
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Lil Hardin she was musician, and that's how they met each other. So, they got married in 1924 and got divorce in 1931.
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A B and that Armstrong stared in 1925-28
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Armstrong's vocal genius also became apparent during his recordings with the Hot Five and Hot Seven. On Feb. 26, 1926, Armstrong and his band recorded "Heebie Jeebies."
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Another band that Armstrong started in 1927 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven were the companion sessions of the Hot Five sides. The personel is the same as the first Hot Five records except that John Thomas of Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra takes over Kid Ory's place on trombone, Pete Briggs of the Carroll Dickenson Orchestra plays Tuba, and Baby Dodds plays drums
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Armstong was rewarded a Grammy Award in 1972 for a Lifetime Achievenment Award
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Married Lucille Wilson on Oct. 12 ,1942
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NBA Championship
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The Leonard Bernstein Collection 1920-1989
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
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