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Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the world's first powered airplane.
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Albert Einstein invents his Special Theory of Relativity. The General theory follows soon after.
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Henry Ford mass produces the Model T car with his assembly line.
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Tensions climax as several countries begin to declare war on eachother, starting World War I.
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The Russian Communist Revolution ends with the overthrowing of the Czar in place of the new government system: Communism.
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Women gain the right to vote in elections.
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Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic alone to make the world's first non-stop solo flight.
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Alexander Fleming discoveres the antibiotic, Penicillin.
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The U.S. Stock Market crashes overnight, leading into the Great Depression.
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Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany; the Nazi Party takes control.
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At the New York World Fair, the Television makes it's original debut.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
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The Japanese send a surprise bombing on Pearl Harbor, marking the beginning of American involvement in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.
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The Allied Invasion of Normandy signals the beginning of the end of World War II.
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Nazi Concentration Camps in Germany and Poland are discovered by Allied Troops.
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The United States drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders days later.
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Mao Tse-Tung establishes the People's Republic of China. Nationalists flee to Taiwan.
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Linus Pauling discovers the structure of DNA.
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Dr. Jonas Salik invents the world's first proven vaccine for Polio.
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Equal rights are gained by all races in Public Schools.
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The Russian launch of Sputnik, the world's first space satellite, begins the Space Race.
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World's first birth-control pill approved by the F.D.A.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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The Civil Rights Act is passed, outlawing segregation.
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN.
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Neil Armstrong, an American Astronaut, becomes the first man in history to set foot on the Moon.
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After the Watergate Scandal, President Nixon resigns.
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As East Germany removes it's travel restrictions, thousands of immigrants storm the Berlin Wall to watch it collapse.
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The Soviet Union dissolves and Gorbachev resigns.
