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The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was killed.
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
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Germany declares war on France and Russia.
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Japan declares war on Germany.
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First Zeppelin raid on Great Britain.
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First German use of chemical weapons.
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Italy and Russia declare war on Bulgaria.
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The Battle of Somme ends with enormous casualties and no winner.
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HMHS Brittanic sinks after hitting a German mine.
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Henry Asquith resigns and is succeeded by David Lloyd George
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Grigori Rasputin, Russia's éminence grise, is assassinated.
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U.S. enters war.
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The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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Germany signs the Armistice of Compiègne. End of fighting at 11 a.m..[
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Yugoslav independence proclaimed.
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League of Nations holds first meeting.
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Women granted the right to vote.
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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The Lincoln Memoria is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
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Time Magazine published for first time.
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President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge.
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The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France
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J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming.
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The Grand Ole Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.
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The NBC Radio Network is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA, opening with twenty-four stations.
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Work on the sculpture at Mount Rushmore began.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
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In Chicago, Illinois, gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivals in the act known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash.
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The London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed into law by the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Japan.
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The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover. It's effective rate hikes would slash world trade.
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The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is approved by President Hoover and Congress as the national anthem.
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Construction is completed on the Empire State Building in New York City and it opens for business.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business.
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The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent President Hoover in the presidential election for his first of an unprecedented four terms.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.
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The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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Babe Ruth retires from Major League Baseball.
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The Santa Fe Railroad inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train service between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
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William Henry Hastie is appointed to the federal bench, becoming the first African-American to become a federal judge.
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is enacted within the federal legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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The United States declares its neutrality in the European war after Germany invaded Poland, effectively beginning World War II.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Italy enters the war.
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The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States.
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Axis forces in Tunisia surrender to the Allies, ending the North African campaign.
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British and U.S. troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Declared V-E Day
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
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United Nations formed.
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Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Truman ends racial segregation in the military.
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The Korean War begins.
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Color tv introduced in U.S.
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops.
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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NASA selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, first astronauts of the United States. The Mercury Seven included John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepherd, and Deke Slayton.
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Disneyland, opens in Anaheim, California, with the backing of the new television network, ABC.
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting the boycott and NAACP protect that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court.
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The United States recognizes the new Cuban government under rebel leader Fidel Castro. Castro becomes the Premier of Cuba on February 16.
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Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States.
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The fifty star flag of the United States is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reflecting the admission of Hawaii into the union in 1959.
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The presidential race to succeed two term president Dwight D. Eisenhower is won by Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate from Massachusetts, over incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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The Cuban Missile Crises begins.
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom culminates with Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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John F. Kennedy is assasinated by Lee Harvery Oswalt.
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1960 Olympic champion Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) wins the World Heavyweight Championship in Boxing from current champ Sonny Liston.
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Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins.
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The National Historic Preservation Act is made law. It expanded the National Register of Historic Places to include historic sites of regional, state, and local significance.
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony by James Earl Ray.
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Presidential candidate, the Democratic Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy, is shot at a campaign victory celebration in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian, after primary victories, and dies one day later.
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The New York Jets win Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts after a bold prediction by quarterback Joe Namath. This is the first victory in the National Football League for a former American Football League team.
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The Apollo program completes its mission. Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral. His Apollo 11 colleague, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. accompanies him.
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