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The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.
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Queen Victoria dies and Edward VII becomes King.
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publishes Hear of Darkness
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Edgar Rice Boroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.
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RMS Titanic collides with iceburg and sinks.
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Irish Republicans attempt to win independence from the British.
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Vladimir Lenin lead the Bolsheviks in the world's fist communist revolution.
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Treaty of Versailles offically ends WWI.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chairman of Germany's Nazi Party.
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Howard Carter discovers tomb of King Tut in Egypt.
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James Joyce publishes Ulysses.
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W. B. Yeats awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs. Dalloway.
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Women win the vote to right in Britian.
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The New York stock exchange crashes leading the US into The Great Depression.
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Joseph Stalin begins the Great Purge in Soviet Russia by expelling 400,000 party members.
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Hindenburg explodes killing 36 passengers.
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J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
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United Kingdom declares war on Germany after the Nazis invade Poland, starting WWII.
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Auschwitz concentration camp is established; over next 5 years millions executed.
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Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britian.
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Virginia Woolf dies.
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Hitler invades Russia, violating Germany's non-aggression pact.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor which brings US into WWII.
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C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.
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Allied troops land at Normandy, France.
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George Orwell publishes Animal Farm.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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US drops nuclear bombs on Japan ending WWII.