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Ben Franklin flied a kite with a key attached to the string to prove that lightning is electricity.
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Samual Adams leads a small group to throw imported tea off a ship in boston
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A revolution against the horrible government that ruled france.
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French people who want fair rights and less tax storm the bastille and start the French Revolution.
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Gold was dicovored in Australia, leading to mass imagration for work.
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Americans revolt against the rule of the British Empire to gain independance.
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Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone at the same time, but Bell anounces first and is written in history as the inventor of the telephone.
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Thomas Edison makes an electronic breakthrough and invents the light bulb, which is used as one of the most common sources of light.
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The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of freedom, is finished in New York City.
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The first modern olympics take place in Athens.
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The worlds population reaches an all time high at 1.5 billion, after this world population exploded, now 7 billion.
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The Titanic hits an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks.
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World War One is triggered by the assasination of Franz Ferdinand.
