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Prohibition is signed into law. Prohibition made the private ownership and consumption of alcohol illegal.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly to Europe. He also wrote an autobiography.
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Pan american is created, a company that air mails small deliveries.
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The radio was one of the most popular inventions of the 1920s. It was sort of a luxury, but many families had one.
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On Black tuesday, the stock market crashed. It crashed following a series of drops. It marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
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The Dust Bowl was a period in which there were fierce dust storms in the midwest. Farmers were left hopeless, as there was no good soil to grow their crops. The dust storms left many people sick.
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Japan staged an attack on Pearl Harbr in Hawaii. It caused us to enter the war, eventually bomb them, causing them to surrender.
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The US invaded Normandy, France, marking the beginning of the US front in Europe.
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Hitler supposedly killed himself either with hydrogen cyanide, a gun, or both, while in a bunker nearing invasion from troops.
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The Korean War's ceasefire was signed on this date.
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The Berlin wall was erected on this date, to keep west germans from leaving the communist west germany.
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The wall seperating the two halves of Germany fell on this date.
