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William McKinley
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1900 - 2012
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Hawaii becomes an official US territory
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First zepplin flight near Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Cuba gains independence from the US
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Panama Canal construction begins
The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. -
First passanger flight
French aviator Léon Delagrange pilots the first passenger flight with Henri Farman inside. -
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William Howard Taft
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End of Manchu Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty of China, also called the Manchu Dynasty, comes to an end after 268 years -
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Woodrow Wilson
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WW1
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Devastating earthquake in Italy
An earthquake (6.8 in Richter scale) in Avezzano, Italy, kills more than 29,000. -
Lincoln Memorial
In Washington, D.C. the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place -
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Russian Revolution
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Establishment of time zones and daylight saving time
The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31). -
Prohibition
Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect. -
NFL
The National Football League was founded -
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Warren G. Harding
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Typhoon hits China
A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 50,000 people. -
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Calvin Coolidge
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Frist round-the-world-flight
U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first round-the-world flight. It takes them 175 days and 74 stops before they finally returned to Seattle. -
Hoover Dam
The U.S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam. -
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Herbert Hoover
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The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem. -
Deadliest natural disaster
The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster). -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Earthquake in Pakistan
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000. -
Monpoly
Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly. -
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Spanish Civil War
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Night of broken glass
In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi activists and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair sees 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested) -
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World War Two
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Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT). -
War declared on the US
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind. -
Diary of Anne Frank
On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank makes the first entry in her new diary -
Italy surrenders
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibious military operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany, and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe. -
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Harry S. Truman
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Cold War
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First Indochina War
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Arab-Israeli War
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Korean War
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First nuclear power plant
EBR-1, the world's first (experimental) nuclear power plant, opens. -
North Sea flood
The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom[1][2] and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Churchill resigns
Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. -
Typhoon Vera
Typhoon Vera hits central Honshū, Japan, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the victims and damage are centered in the Nagoya area. -
Beatles first performance
The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club -
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John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Hurricane Flora
Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba killing nearly 7,000 people -
JFK assassination
In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President. -
Boeing 737 maiden flight
The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight. -
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Richard Nixon
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First episode of Scooby-Doo
The first-ever episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is broadcast on CBS: "What a Night for a Knight". -
End of trade embargo
The U.S. ends its trade embargo of China. -
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal
A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in Orissa State in India, kills 10,000. -
The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.
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Gerald Ford
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Microsoft
Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
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The rings of Uranus are discovered. -
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
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First woman to US Supreme Court
President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States -
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Falklands War
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Seatbelt use mandatory in UK
Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom. -
DNA first used in a criminal case
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Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property".[3] Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere -
War on Drugs
War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers. -
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George H. W. Bush
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Gulf War
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Haiti's first democratically elected president
Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in -
The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184. -
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Bill Clinton
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Taliban capture Kabul
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. -
First female Secratary of State
Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State, after confirmation by the United States Senate. -
Euro
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Bastille day event
A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. -
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George W. Bush
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9/11
Nearly 3,000 are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into grassland in Shanksville -
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War on Terror
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Afghanistan War
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Iraq War
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Cell phones while driving illegal
The use of hand-held cell phones while driving is made illegal in the United Kingdom. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina makes land fall along the U.S. Gulf Coast causing severe damage. At least 1,836 die in the aftermath. -
Iranian space center
Iran opens its first space center and launches a rocket into space -
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Barack Obama
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US and UK embassies close
The United States and the United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen due to the ongoing security threat by Al Qaeda. -
Tallest man made structure
The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened -
8.8 earthquake
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525.[14] The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history -
Osama bin Laden killed
U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan -
9.1 earthquake
A 9.1-magnitude[15] earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake -
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