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Date |
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| 1 | 1901 | - 1901: Willis H. Carrier invented the industrial air conditioner
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| 2 | 1903 | - 1903: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright achieved flight in a manned, gasoline power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.
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| 3 | 1906 | - 1906: San Francisco Earthquake
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| 4 | 1908 | - 1908: Henry Ford created the Model T automobile
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| 5 | 1912 | - 1912: The Sinking of the Titanic 1,515 people lose their lives.
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| 6 | 1914 | - 1914: First World War starts, Panama Canal opens.
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| 7 | 1916 | - 1916: Coca-Cola introduces its now famous & distinctive Coke bottle
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| 8 | 1923 | - 1923: Talking Movies Invented
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| 9 | 1927 | - 1927: Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record
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| 10 | 1929 | |
| 11 | 1931 | - 1931: Empire State Building Completed
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| 12 | 1932 | - 1932: Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
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| 13 | 1933 | - 1933: Prohibition Ends in the U.S
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| 14 | 1937 | - 1937: Hindenburg airship crash broadcast coast to coast in US
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| 15 | 1939 | - 1939: Second World War starts
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| 16 | 1940 | |
| 17 | 1941 | - 1941: Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
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| 18 | 1942 | |
| 19 | 1944 | - 1944: D-Day Invasion of France
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| 20 | 1945 | - 1945: The Atomic Age begins with atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II
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| 21 | 1947 | - 1947: Invention of the Transistor.
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| 22 | 1948 | |
| 23 | 1950 | |
| 24 | 1951 | - 1951: Color TV Introduced
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| 25 | 1952 | - 1952: Polio Vaccine Created
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| 26 | 1954 | - 1954: Raymond Kroc buys McDonald's franchise rights
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| 27 | 1957 | - 1957: The Space Age begins as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1
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| 28 | 1963 | - 1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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| 29 | 1965 | - 1965: The United States begins air raids in Vietnam
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| 30 | 1967 | - 1967: Six-Day War in the Middle East
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| 31 | 1968 | - 1968: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
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| 32 | 1973 | - 1973: U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
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| 33 | 1974 | - 1974: U.S. President Nixon Resigns
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| 34 | 1980 | - 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts
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| 35 | 1981 | - 1981: Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
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| 36 | 1982 | - 1982: Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina
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| 37 | 1986 | - 1986: U.S. Bombs Libya
- 1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
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| 38 | 1989 | |
| 39 | 1990 | - 1990: Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
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| 40 | 1991 | - 1991: Operation Desert Storm
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| 41 | 1997 | - 1997: Hong Kong returned to China
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| 42 | 1998 | |
1897 - Yes, date unknown