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Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII become King.
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The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.
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Rudyard Kipling wins Nobel Prize for Literature
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Republic of China formed by the Xinhai Revolution.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
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RMS Titanic collides with an iceburg and sinks.
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Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated which lead United Kingdom into WWI.
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Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British during the Easter Rising.
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Communist Revolution: In Russia, Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks in the worlds first communist revolution.
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Treaty of Versailles ends WWI.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Nazi Party.
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Ulysses published by James Joyce
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British archologist discover tomb of King Tut in Egypt.
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W. B. Yeats win Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Women gain the right to vote in Britian.
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Stock Market Crashes which leads to The Great Depression.
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Brave New World published by Aldous Huxley.
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Joseph Stalin begin the Great Purge of Soviet Russia, expelling more than 400,000 party members.
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J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit
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Hindenburg explodes and kills 36 passengers.
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The Sword and the Stone is published by T. H. White.
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Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.
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Auschwitz concentration camp established, over 5 years millions executed.
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Hitler invades Russia violating Germany's non-agression pack with that country.
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Vigina Woolf Dies; author of Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and other writings.
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Pearl Harbor: Japaneze attack Pearl Harbor and US enters WWII.
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The Screwtape Letters published by C. S. Lewis.
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Agatha Christie publishes Death Comes as the End.
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June 6th become as D-Day; Allied troops land at Normandy, France.
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George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.
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Hitler committes suicide.
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Germany Surrenders
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August 6th and 9th US dropps nucluar bomb on Japan, effectively ending WWII.