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| 1 | 1908 | - 1908: Henry Ford created the Model T automobile
- 1908: Electric iron and toaster patented
- 1908: Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000
- 1908: Ford Introduces the Model-T
- 1908: Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China
- 1908: Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire
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| 2 | 1909 | - 1909: French Engineer Louis Bleriot is first to cross the English Channel in an airplane
- 1909: Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
- 1909: 800 million postcards sold in England
- 1909: Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated
- 1909: Plastic Is Invented
- 1909: Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
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| 3 | 1910 | - 1910: Georges Claude discovered that electricity conducted through a tube of the rare inert gas, neon, gives a bright red glow and that other gases gave off other colors, e.g., argon gives blue, helium gives yellow and white, etc.
- 1910: First live opera broadcast
- 1910: Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance
- 1910: The Tango Catches On
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| 4 | 1911 | - 1911: British National Insurance Act lays foundation for health and unemployment insurance
- 1911: The Chinese Revolution
- 1911: Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom
- 1911: Greenwich Mean Time Adopted
- 1911: The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered
- 1911: Mona Lisa Is Stolen
- 1911: Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole
- 1911: Standard Oil Company Broken Up
- 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire
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| 5 | 1912 | - 1912: The Sinking of the Titanic 1,515 people lose their lives.
- 1912: Parachutes Invented
- 1912: Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered (Fraud)
- 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
- 1912: The Titanic Sinks
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| 6 | 1913 | - 1913: Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as 'formica'.
- 1913: First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
- 1913: The "Armory Show," an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City; it arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
- 1913: First Crossword Puzzle
- 1913: Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line
- 1913: Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S.
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| 7 | 1914 | - 1914: First World War starts
- 1914: Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated
- 1914: Battle of the Marne
- 1914: Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp
- 1914: First Traffic Light
- 1914: Panama Canal Officially Opened
- 1914: World War I Begins
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| 8 | 1915 | - 1915: Armenian Genocide
- 1915: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released
- 1915: Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon
- 1915: Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat
- 1915: Second Battle of Ypres
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| 9 | 1916 | - 1916: Navy employs animal trainer 'Captain' Joseph Woodward's music hall sea lions for U-boat sabotage.
- 1916: Coca-Cola adopts a distinctive bottle which identifies the company internationally
- 1916: Battle of the Somme
- 1916: Battle of Verdun
- 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland
- 1916: First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.
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| 10 | 1917 | - 1917: Bolshevik revolution in Russia installs a new government headed by V.I. Lennin
- 1917: French artist Marcel Duchamp submits a porcelain urinal, signed "R. Mutt" and titled "Fountain," to the New York Independents Exhibition; it is rejected.
- 1917: First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded
- 1917: Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy
- 1917: Russian Revolution
- 1917: U.S. Enters World War I
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| 11 | 1918 | - 1918: Influenza Epidemic
- 1918: Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed
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| 12 | 1919 | - 1919: Eddington and Frank W. Dyson measured the bending of starlight by the gravitational pull of the sun, thus confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity
- 1919: Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
- 1919: Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
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| 13 | 1920 | - 1920: Bubonic Plague in India
- 1920: League of Nations Established
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| 14 | 1921 | - 1921: Stage debut of John Gielgud
- 1921: Extreme Inflation in Germany
- 1921: Irish Free State Proclaimed
- 1921: Lie Detector Invented
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| 15 | 1922 | - 1922: BBC launched as limited company
- 1922: Kemal Atat?rk Founds Modern Turkey
- 1922: Tomb of King Tut Discovered
- 1922: Michael Collins Killed in Ambush
- 1922: Mussolini Marches on Rome
- 1922: The Reader's Digest Published
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| 16 | 1923 | - 1923: Electrolux produced the first electric refrigerator
- 1923: Kodak introduces home movie equipment
- 1923: Charleston Dance Becomes Popular
- 1923: Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup
- 1923: Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces
- 1923: Talking Movies Invented
- 1923: Teapot Dome Scandal
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| 17 | 1924 | - 1924: First Olympic Winter Games
- 1924: Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom
- 1924: V.I. Lenin Dies
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| 18 | 1925 | - 1925: Flapper Dresses in Style
- 1925: Hitler Publishes 'Mein Kampf'
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| 19 | 1926 | - 1926: General Strike in UK
- 1926: The first automatic traffic light was installed in Wolverhampton, England. It remained in service until 1968
- 1926: A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh
- 1926: Houdini Dies After Being Punched
- 1926: Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket
- 1926: A Woman Swims the English Channel
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| 20 | 1927 | - 1927: The Jazz Singer - first film talking movie released
- 1927: Philo Farnsworth and John Logie Baird demonstrate television
- 1927: Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record
- 1927: BBC Founded
- 1927: The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer
- 1927: Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic
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| 21 | 1928 | - 1928: George Eastman devises a process for color photography; it leads to the first successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers when it appears in 1935 as Kodachrome (for slides) and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942.
- 1928: First Mickey Mouse cartoon
- 1928: Bubble Gum Invented
- 1928: First 'Mickey Mouse' Cartoon
- 1928: First Oxford English Dictionary Published
- 1928: Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War
- 1928: Penicillin Discovered
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| 22 | 1929 | - 1929: First UK television broadcast
- 1929: Frank Whittle, combining the concepts of rocket propulsion and gas turbines, invented jet propulsion. Independently, Hans von Ohain put together the same combination in 1933
- 1929: Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
- 1929: Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole
- 1929: Car Radio Invented
- 1929: First Academy Awards
- 1929: New York Stock Market Crashes
- 1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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| 23 | 1930 | - 1930: Gandhi's Salt March
- 1930: Pluto Discovered
- 1930: Sliced Bread Available
- 1930: Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
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| 24 | 1931 | - 1931: Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion
- 1931: Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere
- 1931: Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop
- 1931: Empire State Building Completed
- 1931: U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem
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| 25 | 1932 | - 1932: Air Conditioning Invented
- 1932: Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
- 1932: Scientists Split the Atom
- 1932: Zippo Lighters Introduced
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| 26 | 1933 | - 1933: First Mars bar
- 1933: Singing telegrams introduced
- 1933: Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
- 1933: FDR Launches New Deal
- 1933: First Nazi Concentration Camp Established
- 1933: Loch Ness Monster First Spotted
- 1933: Prohibition Ends in the U.S.
- 1933: Wiley Post Flies Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
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| 27 | 1934 | - 1934: Konrad Zuse built a series of computers, Z1 through Z4, utilizing binary arithmetic and stored programs. Along the way he invented the first programming language and began to analyze methods by which a computer could play chess
- 1934: The first comic books appear on newsstands, beginning in the United States.
- 1934: Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police
- 1934: Cheeseburger Created
- 1934: The Dust Bowl
- 1934: Mao Zedong Begins the Long March
- 1934: Parker Brothers Sells the Game 'Monopoly'
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| 28 | 1935 | - 1935: First 'Kit Kat' sold in UK
- 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
- 1935: Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws
- 1935: John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
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| 29 | 1936 | - 1936: BBC starts regular TV broadcasts
- 1936: Carnegie Publishes 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'
- 1936: King Edward VIII Abdicates
- 1936: Nazi Olympics in Berlin
- 1936: Spanish Civil War Begins
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| 30 | 1937 | - 1937: German planes, aiding insurgents in the Spanish Civil War, bomb the historic Basque town of Guernica in Northern Spain, killing women and children and inflaming world opinion against facism.
- 1937: Hindenburg airship crash broadcast coast to coast in US
- 1937: Amelia Earhart Vanishes
- 1937: Golden Gate Bridge Opened
- 1937: The Hindenberg Disaster
- 1937: Japan Invades China
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