Josh Nowlin By JoshN. Feb 11, 1700 Industrial Revolution Feb 11, 1712 1st Successful steam engine is built Feb 11, 1812 Mexico declares Independence Feb 11, 1831 Michael Faraday’s dynamo Feb 11, 1850 Taiping rebellion Feb 11, 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India Feb 11, 1867 Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” Feb 11, 1868 The Meiji Restoration Feb 11, 1898 Spanish-American War begins Jun 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand is killed Feb 12, 1917 U.S. joins WWI Feb 12, 1919 Mussolini’s Fascist Party in Italy Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles is signed Feb 11, 1922 Russia becomes the USSR Feb 12, 1924 Stalin’s rule in the USSR begins Feb 12, 1929 Black Tuesday Stock Market crash Jun 12, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Dec 7, 1941 Japans attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 U.S. declares war on Japan Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 12, 1945 Nuremberg trials are held Aug 6, 1945 . U.S. drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima Feb 12, 1950 Korean War is fought Feb 11, 1987 Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution in Russia