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On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.
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Unknown actual date, January, 1917
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The Armistice of 11 November 1918
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Ratified on August 18, 1920
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May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island.
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October 24, 1929. On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.
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The New Deal was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 (Unknown technical date)
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On 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
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Munich Pact signed - Sep 30, 1938
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Germans invade Poland - Sep 01, 1939
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Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941
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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945
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A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945.
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Kennan wrote the Long Telegram outlining his opinions and views of the Soviets; "According to Kennan, the Soviets' view of the world came from a traditional 'Russian sense of insecurity...'" It arrived in Washington on February 22, 1946.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
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The Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codenamed First Lightning, on 29 August 1949
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Period: June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
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End date: May 17, 1954
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Period: November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975
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On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
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Period: October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962
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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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July 20, 1969
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Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.
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On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.
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Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (No Specific Dates)
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The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989.
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The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001