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Jan 3, 1897

Dorothy Arnzer's birth date

http://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-arzner-9190257
Jan 1, 1903

The Great Train Robbery, first silent film

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/trainrobbery.htm
Dec 1, 1913

Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling
Jan 1, 1914

Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies

https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
Jun 28, 1914

Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-ferdinand-assassinated
Aug 2, 1914

WWI

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
May 7, 1915

Sinking of the Lusitania

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/lusitania
May 18, 1917

Passage of the Selective Service Act

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-selective-service-act
Jul 28, 1917

War Industries Board established to regulate production in WWI

http://warathomewwi.weebly.com/war-industries-board.html
Aug 10, 1917

Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover

http://histclo.com/essay/war/ww1/cou/us/food/w1cus-usfa.html
Oct 1, 1917

Russia withdraws from WWI

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml
Nov 6, 1917

Russian Communist Revolution Begins

http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution
Jan 1, 1918

Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million

http://www.history.com/topics/1918-flu-pandemic
Jan 8, 1918

Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1324.html
May 16, 1918

Espionage and Sedition acts passed by congress

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-congress-passes-espionage-act
Nov 11, 1918

Armistice ends World War l

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends
Jun 28, 1919

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles
Aug 18, 1920

U.S. Constitution is ratified prohibiting any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on sex

http://www.usconstitutionday.us/p/19th-amendment.html
Jul 29, 1922

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/benito-mussolini
Jan 1, 1926

Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hirohito
May 20, 1927

Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp
Nov 6, 1928

Herbert Hoover elected President

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/herbert-hoover
Oct 1, 1929

Bank failures begin

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html
Oct 24, 1929

The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/stock-market-crashes
Jan 1, 1930

Dust Bowl

http://www.history.com/topics/dust-bowl
Jan 1, 1931

Boulder Dam Projects begin

http://www.history.com/topics/hoover-dam
Sep 18, 1931

Japan conquers Manchuria

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm
Sep 18, 1931

Japan Invades Northern China

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/sino-japanese-war
Mar 1, 1932

Hoover disbands the Bonus Army

http://www.ushistory.org/us/48c.asp
May 21, 1932

Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earhart-completes-transatlantic-flight
Jan 1, 1933

Hitler sets up Dachau

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/dachau
Jan 30, 1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany

https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
Mar 1, 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps

http://www.history.com/topics/civilian-conservation-corps
Mar 12, 1933

First Fireside Chat by FDR

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5199/
May 12, 1933

Agriculture Adjustment Act

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html
Dec 5, 1933

Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/prohibition-ends
Apr 8, 1935

Works Progress Administration established

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wpa-established-by-congress
Aug 14, 1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act

https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html
Jan 29, 1936

Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner become the first inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/baseball-hall-of-fame-inducts-first-members
Jul 17, 1936

Civil War in Spain

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spanish-civil-war-breaks-out
Aug 6, 1936

Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/owens-wins-4th-gold-medal
May 6, 1937

Hindenburg disaster

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hindenburg-disaster
Oct 30, 1938

Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation
Nov 9, 1938

Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)- Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods

http://www.history.com/topics/kristallnacht
Aug 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/german-soviet-nonaggression-pact
Sep 1, 1939

Germany Invades Poland

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germans-invade-poland
Sep 3, 1939

Germany invades Poland Britain and France Declare War

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany
Oct 1, 1939

Congress creates the SEC

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/basics/role-sec
Jan 1, 1940

Lend Lease Act

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act
Sep 27, 1940

Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-tripartite-pact-is-signed-by-germany-italy-and-japan
Mar 1, 1941

Marvel Comics introduces superhero Captain America

The websites were blocked because of the word "comic".
Jun 22, 1941

Hitler invades the Soviet Union

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/operation-barbarossa
Dec 8, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor-U.S. enters WWll

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor
Jan 12, 1942

National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-recreates-the-national-war-labor-board
Jan 16, 1942

WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt

http://www.conservapedia.com/War_Production_Board
Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Internment Camps begin

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Jun 3, 1942

Battle of Midway

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
Jun 1, 1944

D-Day Invasion

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
Nov 7, 1944

FDR elected President-once-twice-three-four times

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-wins-unprecedented-fourth-term
Dec 16, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
Jan 1, 1945

Seven Year occupation of Japan by United States

https://www.britannica.com/event/occupation-of-Japan
Feb 1, 1945

Yalta Conference

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference
Feb 1, 1945

Iwo Jima

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima
May 8, 1945

V-E Day and V-J Day

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/ve-and-vj-days-1945
Aug 6, 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Nov 20, 1945

Nuremburg War Trails

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nuremberg-trials
Jan 1, 1946

Department stores begin selling Tupperware®

http://www.tupperwarecollection.com/v2/tw_index.php?page=home_parties_history
Aug 19, 1946

Bill Clinton's birth

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-clinton-9251236
Jan 3, 1959

Alaska became a state

https://www.reference.com/history/did-alaska-hawaii-become-states-d5e10d774c5d525f
Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall was Constructed

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/berlin-wall-built
Oct 7, 1989

San Francisco Earthquake

http://www.history.com/topics/1989-san-francisco-earthquake
Jan 1, 2016

German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rommel-in-africa