Abt 1928 - Abt 1942 (14 years)
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 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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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1938 | - 1938: UK's first weekly radio comedy series, Band Wagon
- 1938: Biro brothers invent ballpoint pen
- 1938: Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' Causes Panic
- 1938: Chamberlain Announces 'Peace in Our Time'
- 1938: Extinct Fish Found
- 1938: Hitler Annexes Austria
- 1938: The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
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| 12 | 1939 | - 1939: Second World War starts
- 1939: First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic
- 1939: German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed
- 1939: Helicopter Invented
- 1939: Refugees on the St. Louis Refused Entry Everywhere
- 1939: World War II Begins
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| 13 | 1940 | - 1940: London Blitz
- 1940: Igor Sikorsky invented the heliocopter
- 1940: Disney's 'Fantasia'
- 1940: Battle of Britain
- 1940: Leon Trotsky Assassinated
- 1940: Nylons on the Market
- 1940: Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France
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| 14 | 1941 | - 1941: Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
- 1941: Jeep Invented
- 1941: Manhattan Project Begins
- 1941: Mount Rushmore Completed
- 1941: Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission
- 1941: Siege of Leningrad
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| 15 | 1942 | - 1942: Battle of Midway
- 1942: Battle of Stalingrad
- 1942: Japanese-Americans Held in Camps
- 1942: Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death
- 1942: T-shirt Introduced
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