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Warren G. Harding is elected president.
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The Chinese Communist Party is founded in Shanghai.
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Benito Mussolini was appointed prime minister of Italy.
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President Harding dies and Calvin Coolidge becomes president.
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Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union dies at age 54 of a brain hemorrhage.
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A. Phillip Randolph organizes the Bortherhood of Car Porters.
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Brithish Laborers declare a general strike.
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Henry Ford introduces the Model A.
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Herbert Hoover is elected president.
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Stock Market Crashed,
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Army officers led by Jose uriburu seize control of the government of Argentina.
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Jane Addams shares the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president.
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From Prison, Mohandas K. Gandhi leads a protest against British policies in India.
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Congress creates the SEC to regulate the stock market.
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British Parliament passes the Government of India Act.
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Civil War begins in Spain.
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Labor unions begin using sit-down strikes.
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Route 66 is completed, linking Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
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Germany invades Poland.
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German Troops Invade Denamark and Norway.
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British Forces Land into Norway.
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Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded by Germany. British troops enter Belgium. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill becomes new Prime Minister.
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Soviet Union renews pact with Germany.
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Over 62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia. Between June & July.
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Britain and the United States declare war on Japan. Japan invades Malaya.
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By order of FDR, Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast are transferred to internment camps in the interior of the country
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U.S. sends troops to Korea
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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U.S. Explodes First Hydrogen Bomb.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy alleges Communist involvement in U.S. Army.
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Elvis Presley made his first TV appearence
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French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
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Soviets launch Sputnik.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is established.
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Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba.
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Seventeen African countries gain independence.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in outer space.
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U.S. Launches the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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The drug thalidomide is pulled from the market after it is found responsible for thousands of birth defects in Europe.
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U.S. and USSR face off in the Cuban missile crisis,
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President Kennedy is assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president.
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U.S. Troops enter Vietnam.
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Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.
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Israel wins Arab territories in the Six Day War.
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Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated; promises "peace with honor" to end the Vietnam War
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Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
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United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
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London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
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Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
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Watergate Scandal Begins
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Paul Getty Kidnapped
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Sears Tower Built
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Terracotta Army Discovered in China
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U.S. President Nixon Resigns
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Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia
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Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
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North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
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Elvis Found Dead
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South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
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First Test-Tube Baby Born
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John Paul II Becomes Pope
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Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
