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William Mckinley
25th president of the United States of America.
*Had served two terms before his assassination by Leon Czolgosz. He was shot twice in his abdoman.
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US president McKinley is Assinated
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th President
*Was almost assassinated by John Schrank, and had a bullet lodged in his chest.
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Boer War Ends
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"bloody sunday"
Russian Revolution of 1905 -
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William H. Taft
27th President
*Know as the fattest president in the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson
28th President
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WWI started
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W.W. 1
*A major war that centered in Europe.
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Russian Revolution
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US Enters WWI
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Russian Revolution
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Prohibition Begans in US
was when the United States of America banned the transportation, sale, and production of liquor. -
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Warren G. Harding
29th President
*Developed pneumonia. Then later on shudered and died in midconversation with his wife.
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Tomb of King Tut discovered
Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, spent a number of years and a lot of money searching for a tomb they weren't sure existed. He worked in Egypt for 31 years looking for it. -
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Calvin Coolidge
30th President
*Died because of myocardial infarction, or a heart attack
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Babe Ruth Makes Home-run Record
Record home runs with 714 -
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Herbert Hoover
31st President
*Died because of a massive internal hemorrhaging, bleeding from upper gastrointestinal tract; strained vascular system.
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Assassination Attempt on FDR
FDR had just sat down after giving a speech at the Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida when five shots rang out by Giuseppe Zangara -
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Franklin Roosevelt
32nd President
*Died because of a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) .
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Cheeseburger Created
Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have invented the cheeseburger in the mid-1920s at the age of 16 when he was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop, "The Rite Spot," and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger. -
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Spanish Civil War
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WWII Begins
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W.W. 2
*Mainly had Adolf Hitler as the cause because of the mass massacre of Jews and the invasions. -
Japanese Attack On Pearle Harbor
2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. In one stroke the Japanese action silenced the debate that had divided Americans ever since the German defeat of France left England alone in the fight against the Nazi terror. -
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Cold War
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Harry S. Truman
33rd President
*Died because of a minor lung congestion; complexity of organic failures; collapse of cardiovascular systems.
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WWII Ends and US Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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!st Indochina War
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Arab-Israeli War
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NATO is Established
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Korean War Begins
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Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President
*Died because of a heart disease (coronary thrombosis).
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McDonalds Corp. Founded
The McDonald's concept was introduced in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald brothers in the concept and went on to found McDonald's Corporation. -
Disneyland Opens
After years of planning, Walt Disney's very first theme park Disneyland opened its gates at 2:30PM on Sunday July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California. -
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John F. Kennedy
35th President
*He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. However, there are debates if there was a group that planned his death.
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JFK Assassination
The ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission, 1963–1964, concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
36 President
*Died from heart failure.
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US Sends Troops To Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, per the authority given to him by Congress in the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam. -
Black Panther Party Established
Was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
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Richard Nixon
37th President
*Died from paralysis (stroke), swelling of the brain.
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Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
The earliest floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter they became commercially available in 1971. These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such as Memorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation. -
US Pulls Out Of Vietnam
The peace talks then resumed, and on January 27, 1973, the parties agreed to a cease-fire the following day, the withdrawal of all U.S. forces, the release of all prisoners of war, and the creation of an international force to keep the peace. -
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Gerald Ford
38th President
*Died from cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.
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Jimmy Carter
39th President
*He is still alive, he will be 88 October 1st. -
First Test Tube Baby Born
On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby -
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Ronald Reagan
40th President
*Died from pneumonia
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New Plague Identified As AIDS
The illness interferes with the immune system, making people with AIDS much more likely to get infections, including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not affect people with working immune systems. This susceptibility gets worse as the disease continues. -
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Falklands War
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Falklands War
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Michael jackson Releases "Thriller"
Thriller was released on November 30, 1982, and sold one million copies worldwide per week at its peak -
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Invasion of Grenada
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Invasion of Grenada
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George H.W. Bush
41st President
*He is still alive. He will be 88 June 12th. -
Berlin Wall Falls
In the evening of November 9, 1989, East German government official Günter Schabowski stated during a press conference that travel through the border to the West was open. People who heard the broadcast were shocked. They went to the border to see if it was true. The border guards, who had no explicit instructions as to what to do, let them through. As the news spread on both sides of the Wall, huge numbers of people flocked to the Berlin Wall and celebrated. -
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Gulf War
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Gulf War
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Operation Desert Storm
commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Official End of Cold war
After a series of revolutions in Soviet Bloc states, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. which led to the end of the war. -
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Bill Clinton
42nd President
*He is still alive. He will be 66 August 19th. -
Scientists Clone Sheep
Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.[1][2] She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. -
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George W.Bush
43rd President
*He is still alive. He will be 66 July 6th. -
911 Attack
19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction, triggering major U.S. initiatives to combat terr -
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War on Terror
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War on Terror
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Afghanistan War
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Invasion of Iraq
Was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations. The invasion phase consisted of a conventionally fought war which concluded with the capture of the Iraq capital Baghdad by United States forces -
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Iraq War
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Barrack Obama Elected 44th President of the US
Obama is the first African American to be elected President in U.S. history. His Republican opponent, Arizona senator John McCain is projected to win at least 173 electoral votes. McCain has phoned Obama to concede the election. Obama officially became the President-elect when John McCain issued his concession speech shortly after 9:00PM Mountain Time. -
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Barack Obama
44th President
*He is still alive. He will be 51 August 4th.
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Haiti Is Struck By A Devastating Earthquake
was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies estimated that as many as 3 million people had been affected by the quake.[ -
Death of Osama BinLaden
the former head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda known for the September 11 attacks, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 am local time by DEVGRU/SEAL Team 6, a United States special operations military unit. The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was ordered by United States President Barack Obama and carried out in a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation by a team of United States Navy SEALs from the SOF (Special Operations Forces). -
Windows 8 Released
is the official name[2] for the next version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs.