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The British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a Herman submarine off the south coast of Ireland.
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Woman marched for their rights. They held up signs saying " A vote for suffrage is a vote for justice" and "You trust us with the children; trust us with the vote".
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote was ratified by Tennessee.
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Chrysler the automobile was founded by Walter Chrysler when the Maxwell Motor Company was reorganized into the Chrysler Corporation.
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Approximately 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan mrached down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC
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Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate
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President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.
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The Social Security Act established a system of old-aged benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physical handicapped.
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German Jews are stripped of their citizenship, reducing them to "subjects" of the state.
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IN response to Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain, and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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Code-named Operation Overload, 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
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First patent for the microwave weighed over 300 kg, had to be water cooled, and cost $52,000 in today's dollars
