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The slave trade ends and abolition of slavery.
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Women begin to fight for their right to vote.
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X-rays begin to emanate from crookes tubes.
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The Wright brothers invent the first aircraft.
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The Chinese Revolution begins.
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The Russian Revolution begins.
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A global Influenza epidemic proceeds to kill millions.
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The rise of Adolf Hitler begins.
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Television transmissions by John Logie Baird appear.
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The stock market crashes and the great depression begins.
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The United Nations is formed.
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Advances in medicine happen as the double helical DNA structure is discovered.
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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
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John F. Kennedy gets assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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The first desktop is made.
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The civil rights movements get bigger after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to land on the moon.
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Al Qaeda terrorists destroy World Trade Towers.
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