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A conflict between Spain and the U.S. that ended the colonial rule if Spain in America.
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On this day Australia oficially became a federation, their first Prime minister was Edmun Barton.
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On this date oil was discovered for the first time in Iran.
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The US president William McKinley is shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in New York by Leon Czolgosz.
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The Wright Brothers finally acheive manned flight on an airplane that they invented.
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The Russo-Japanese War was a conflict between Russia and Japan over posession of Korea and Manchuria. It ended in 1905 with the victory of Japan.
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The Chinese Revolution was caused by a group of revolutionalries from Southern China who rose up against the Qing Dynasty.
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Australia join WWI but instead of fighting under the British flag, Australia for the first time fights under their own flag.
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The Prime Minister of Australia, Billy Hughes, signs the Treaty of Versailles.
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The 19th amendment in the U.S. constitution grants universal women's suffrage, allowing then to vote.
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Edith Cowan becomes the first woman to be elected into parliment in Australia.
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the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was establiched in 1922 succeeded the the Russian empire.
