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William McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Wright Brothers fly first plane
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New York gets first subway line
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Earthquake and fire destroy most of San Francisco
Shortly after 5:12 A.M. on April 18, 1906, and for as long as a minute, the earth shook violently along nearly 300 miles of the San Andreas Fault in California. The violent earthquake, estimated around 8 on the Richter scale, caused severe damage from Salinas, south of San Francisco, to Santa Rosa, north of the city. People as far away as southern Oregon, Los Angeles, and central Nevada felt its tremors. -
Henry Ford introduces Model T automobile
It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the 20th century in an international poll. -
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William Howard Taft
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W.E.B. Dubois help founded the National Association for Colored People
Du Bois's life and work were an inseparable mixture of scholarship, protest activity, and polemics. All of his efforts were geared toward gaining equal treatment for black people in a world dominated by whites and toward marshaling and presenting evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority. -
World population surpasses 1.5 billion people
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Titanic sinks
The ship was considered to have been so well constructed it was believed she could sustain any amount of damage and still remain afloat. Late on the night of April 14, 1912, the sinking of the Titanic proved this idea wrong in a horribly tragic way, the ship struck an iceberg. -
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Woodrow Wilson
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Panama Canal opens
The narrow land bridge between North and South America offers a unique opportunity to create a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The earliest colonists of Central America recognized this potential, and schemes for such a canal were floated several times in the subsequent years. -
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World War I
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First transatlantic radio telephone call is made between Arlington,VA and Paris, France
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Russian Revolution
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A pandemic of Spanish Influenza sweeps the globe
As WWl was winding down a new influenza virus was sweeping the globe, it became known as the "Spanish Flu." This flu was doing what no other flu had done in recorded history, namely
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19th Amendment gives U.S. women the right to vote
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote -
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Warren G. Harding
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Calvin Coolidge
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The first Winter Olympics
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain a powerful antibiotic, penicillin. However, though Fleming was credited with the discovery, it was over a decade before someone else turned penicillin into the miracle drug for the 20th century. -
First scheduled T.V. programs broadcast
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Herbert Hoover
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. -
Federal Bureau of Narcotics formed
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics was an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury. Established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930 consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Narcotic Division. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Boycott of Jews begins in Germany
The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany took place on 1 April 1933, soon after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor on 30 January 1933. The boycott was the first of many measures against the Jews of Germany, which ultimately culminated in the "Final Solution". -
China declares war on Japan
apan's national policy has always aimed at the domination of Asia and mastery of the Pacific. For more than four years China has resolutely resisted Japan's aggression, regardless of suffering and sacrifice, in order not only to maintain her national independence and freedom but also to uphold international law and justice and to promote world peace and human happiness. -
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Spanish Civi Warl
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Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. -
U.S. economy booms
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Spanish Civil War
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World War II
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Nazi Germany invades Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg
Hitler's ultimate plan was to expand east at the expense of the USSR. He attempted to establish a peace treaty with France and the UK to recognize German conquests and annexations in Central Europe, to enable Germany to recharge before invading the USSR. When the Allies refused, Hitler knew he would have to quickly conquer France, through the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), to remove France as a combatant, isolating the UK to carry the Allied cause, and hopefully forcing a p -
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
This was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Holocaust begins
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
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Harry S. Truman
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First Indochina War
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Cold War
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United Nations begins
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva, committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. -
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Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Josef Stalin Dies
His political life as a dictator who dominated millions has been minutely dissected over the decades. But his last days continue to provoke speculation and argument. Did he die of natural causes following a brain haemorrhage or was Stalin killed because he was about to plunge the Soviet Union into a war its people were in no position to fight? -
Rise of Martin Luther King Jr. to National Prominence
He rose in 1955 from a newly arrived minister in Montgomery, Ala. to a figure of national prominence. It was Dr. King who dramatized the Montgomery bus boycott with his decision to make it the testing ground, before the eyes of the nation, of his belief in the civil disobedience teachings of Thoreau and Gandhi. -
Work on the U.S. Interstate Highway System begins
President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid-Highway Act of 1956, which authorized the interstate highway system (later formally named the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways). The Act authorized 41,000 miles of high quality highways that were to tie the nation together. Later, congressional action increased the length to 42,500 miles and required super-highway standards for all interstate highways. -
Explorer I, first U.S. satellite launched
The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, was launched into Earth orbit by the Army on Jan. 31, 1958, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, four months after Russia orbited Sputnik. The 18-pound satellite had a cylindrical shape and was 80 inches long and six inches in diameter. -
The 49th and 50th states
Alaska and Hawaii admitted as the 49th and 50th state in the United States of America. -
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John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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J.F.K. was assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade. Kennedy is the most recent of the four Presidents who were assassinated. -
Medicare programs approved
Unlike most industrialized nations, the United States does not guarantee access to health care or health insurance for all of its population. Employers are the major providers of health insurance for working people and their dependents. But two major government programs also exist to ensure that Americans have access to health insurance. -
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Arab-Israeli War
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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
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Richard M. Nixon
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Neil Armstrong first man on the moon
For thousands of years, man had looked to the heavens and dreamed of walking on the moon. In 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong became the very first to accomplish that dream, followed only minutes later by Buzz Aldrin. Their accomplishment placed the United States ahead of the Soviets in the Space Race and gave people around the world the hope of future space exploration. -
First Woodstock
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Beatles breakup
he break-up of The Beatles, one of the most popular and influential musical groups in history, has become almost as much of a legend as the band itself or the music they created while together. The Beatles were active from their formation in 1960 to the disintegration of the group in 1970. The final announcement that The Beatles had broken up came in a McCartney press release on April 9, 1970. -
Cigarette ads are banned from U.S. T.V.
Americans began a new year free of cigarette advertisements broadcast on television today. "As of midnight Friday night, all TV and radio commercials for cigarettes are banned by federal law, since tobacco has been alleged hazardous to health and because of the apparent statistical relationship between smoking and high death rates from lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema," explained the Delta Democrat-Times on January 3, 1971. -
Bobby Fischer wins World Chess title
An American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author. After ending his competitive career, he proposed a new variant of chess and a modified chess timing system. His idea of adding a time increment after each move is now standard, and his variant Chess960 is gaining in popularity. -
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Gerald R. Ford
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Unemployment rate reaches 9.2%
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James Carter
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Elvis Presley Dies
Through the early morning of the 16th Elvis took care of last minute tour details and relaxed with family and staff. He was to fly to Portland, Maine that night and do a show there on the 17th, then continue the scheduled tour.
Elvis retired to his master suite at Graceland around 7:00 AM to rest for his evening flight. By late morning, Elvis Presley had died of heart failure. -
John Lennon shot dead
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City, on Monday, 8 December 1980; Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. -
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Ronald Reagan
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Falklands War
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2 years drought causes massive famine in Ethiopia
The worst famine to hit the country in a century, in northern Ethiopia it led to more than 400,000 deaths, but more than half this mortality can be attributed to human rights abuses that caused the famine to come earlier, strike harder, and extend further than would otherwise have been the case. -
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Invasion of Grenada
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Bill Gates becomes the computer industry's first billionaire
Bill Gates is cofounder, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft, the most successful software company in the world, renowned for making software that is powerful and innovative while still being user friendly. Microsoft now employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries. -
Dow Jones drops 23%in one day during Black Monday
Between August 1982 and 1987, Wall Street had one of its greatest periods of growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose from 776.92 points in 1982 to a peak of 2722.42 in 1987, an increase of nearly 250 percent. -
The tabcco indusry
A jury orders the tabcco indusry to pay $400,000 in smoker's death -
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George H. W. Bush
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Gulf War
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Nelson Mandela freed from South African prison
Freedom for Nelson Mandela
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. -
World Wide Web started up for home use
The World Wide Web is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web. -
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William J. Clinton
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O.J. Simpson found innocent
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Mother Teresa dies
Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanianethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950. For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. -
Michael Jordan retires from the NBA
American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." -
Tiger Woods wins four golf titles in a row
American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No. 1, he is the highest-paid professional athlete in the world, having earned an estimated US$90.5 million from winnings and endorsements in 2010. -
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George W. Bush
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Islamic terrorist attack the U.S.A
were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, striking the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. -
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War on Terror
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Afghanistan War
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The Winter Olympics opened by George W. Bush
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Iraq War
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. Debris from Columbia fell to Earth in Texas along a path stretching from Trophy Club to Tyler, as well as into parts of Louisiana. -
Asia get the new tallest building
This is the list of tallest buildings in Asia. It ranks the skyscrapers which are at least (787.44 feet) tall. The tallest building, freestanding structure, and man-made structure of any kind is the Burj Khalifa. The Burj Khalifa stands at 2,717 ft. The Burj Khalifa has 160 floors. The first tallest skyscraper of Asia was Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong; it stands 1,204 ft tall with 74 floors, it was built in 1990. This was the only skyscraper which was built outside North America. -
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Barack Obama
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Picasso painting sold
Picasso painting sells for a record breaking $106.5 million -
North Korea unexpectedly attacks South Korea
he North Korean artillery shell knocked Park Myung-hoon unconscious and peppered him with shrapnel when it hit his construction site. -
First of the 33 Chilean miners are rescued after 68 days
Most of theChilean miners have ascended to
freedom from the underground chamber where
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Kate Middleton marries Prince William
he wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London. The groom, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is the eldest son of Charles, Prince of Wales. -
Osama bin Laden dead
U.S. troops and CIA operatives shoot and kill Osama bin Laden
