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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary's heir to the throne, and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral.
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The First Battle of the Marne begins as well as trench warfare.
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Solidiers stopped fightng on Christmas and declared truce for one day. They also crossed trenches to exchange seasonal drinks and conversation.
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The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat.
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The Battle of Verdun was the longest and bloodiest battle of WWl.
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The Battle of the Somme begins. Also, tanks are first introduced into battle.
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Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram, which the British intercept and decipher, to persuade Mexico to join the war.
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Germany signs the armistice at Compiegne, France, which ends on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleveth month.
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The first performance of the play "Beyond the Horizon" was held and Eugene O'Neill won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes
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Marcus Garvey convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Women are given the right to vote, the 19th Amendment was added to the United States constitution which granted universal women's suffrage.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial began.
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A Congressional resolution by both houses was signed by President Warren G. Harding, which declared peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
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The first Miss America pageant was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Construction began on Yankee Stadium in New York City
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Warner Brothers Pictures was incorporated.
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J. Edgar Hoover was appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The NBC Radio Network was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, and opened with twenty-four stations.
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16th Rose Bowl: Southern California beats Pittsburgh, 47-11
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Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
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"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger
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Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
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Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
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Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
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US & Canada drop Gold Standard
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Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
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1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange" premieres
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain
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United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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The U.S. Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft
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The U.S. Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft.
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Jeep was invented.
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Mount Rushmore was completed.
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The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law, providing benefits to veterans.
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The United States Supreme Court rules in the case of Korematsu vs. the United States, the wartime internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast was valid during a time of war.
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microwave ovens were invented.
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The Republic of Austria is reconstituted, with its 1937 borders, but divided into four zones of control, American, British, French, and Soviet.
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oseph Stalin makes his Election Speech where he states that capitalism and imperialism make future wars inevitable.
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The Philippines gains independence from the United States, and begins fighting communist Huk rebels
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French landings in Indochina begin the First Indochina War. They are resisted by the Viet Minh communists who want national independence.
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The widely accepted theory of the creation of the universe is the Big Bang Theory.
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United Nations forces engage North Korean forces for the first time, in Osan. They fail to halt the North Korean advance, and fall southwards, towards what would become the Pusan Perimeter
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China intervenes in Korea with 300,000 soldiers, catching the United Nations by surprise. However, they withdraw after initial engagements
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Nikita Khrushchev delivers the speech "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences" at the closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU. The speech marks the beginning of the De-Stalinization.
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Eisenhower falls ill with an inflammation of the small intestine. He undergoes surgery the next day
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The Soviets reach the moon with an unmanned spacecraft, spurring Americans' fears that the Russians are leading in the so-called "space race
