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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Sadly, she's never found.
"The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are."(Golding 22) -
Famine begins in the USSR.
"What are they-oh God! I'm hungry-"(Golding 144) -
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and has dictatorial powers
"He didn't say. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up."(Golding 120) -
Mussolini Invades Ethiopia.
"He was not really far from the Castle Rock, and during the first panic he had thought he heard sound of pursuit."(Golding 140) -
King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry Wallace W. Simpson.
"Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass." -
Amelia Earhart lost in the Pacific.
"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a plane with wheels."(Golding 2) -
Great Britain declares war on Germany.
"We're English, and the English are best at everything."(Golding 29) -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
"Round the bend." "Bomb happy." "Crackers."(Golding 125) -
Doomsday occurs.
"Perhaps one of those legendary storms of the Pacific has shifted it here."(Golding 55) -
Atomic bombs are dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
"Like a bomb!"(Golding 17) -
Color TV is invented.
"And an airplane, and a TV set,"(Golding 46) -
Racial segregation is schools ruled unconstitutional.
"Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law."(Golding 44)
