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Edward VII becomes king
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; United States enters WWI
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The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War I ends as Japan surrenders.
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Apollo 11 lands on moon.
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Hijacked planes crash n to the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and a field in rural pennsylvania. Thousands of lives are lost