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Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto
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Ecumencial Council of the Vatican (known as Vatican I)
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Bolshevik party formed in Russia
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World War I begins
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Three children at Fatima, Portugal, are granted visions of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady asked the children to pray the Rosary every day to stop the spread of Russia’s errors and for world peace. She asked that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart
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Soviet Union is formed (Lenin was its first leader; Stalin took power two years after Lenin’s death)
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The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained
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Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened
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Word War II begins
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Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia
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Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (now known as Vatican II)
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The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right ot an abortion
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The Soviet Union begins to fall (The end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of communism in Europe would come in 1991)