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The Titanic sinks

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1912

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Hilary and Norgay climb Everest

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1953

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A.A. Milne publishes Winnie the Pooh

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1926

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The BBC is founded

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1927

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Incan City of Machu Picchu is rediscovered

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1911

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Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole

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1911

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Great Train Robbery in England

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1963

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Great Depression begins after stock market crash

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1929

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Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison

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1964

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Mein Kampf is published

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1925

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Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered by Howard Carter

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1922

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Great Chilean Earthquake. Most powerful ever recorded, 9.5 on moment magnitude scale.

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1960

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Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space

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1961

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Mao Tse Tung launches the Cultural Revolution

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1966

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

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The Great Smog affects London

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1952

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Che Guevara killed by CIA

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1967

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Emily Davison steps in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby

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1913

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Nicolae Ceausescu comes to power in Romania

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1965

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19
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Women in US gain right to vote

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1920

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20
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Harry Houdini dies after being punched

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1926

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Korean War begins

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1950

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The Jazz Singer is released

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1927

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23
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Prohibition begins in US

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1920

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24
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Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka

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1972

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25
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The teddy bear is introduced

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1902

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Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion results in deaths of an estimated 7,000

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1986

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27
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Oklahoma City bombing kills 168

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1995

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28
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Berlin Wall is built

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1961

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President Roosevelt sails to the Panama Canal Zone, becomes first US president to travel abroad while in office

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1906

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30
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Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles

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1932, 1984

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32
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First Nobel Prizes awarded

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1901

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33
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Uruguay wins football World Cup in Brazil

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1950

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34
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Women in the UK (over age of 30) win right to vote

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1918

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35
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Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, U.S.A.

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1904

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36
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Israel achieves statehood

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1948

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37
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Enigma code is broken

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1941

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39
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Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first Baseball World Series

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1903

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40
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Summer Olympics held in London

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1908, 1948, 2012

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41
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Queen Victoria dies, Edward VII becomes King

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1901

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42
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King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza

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1900

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43
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Marilyn Monroe found dead

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1962

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44
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IBM is founded

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1924

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45
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Berlin Wall comes down

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1989

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45
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Marconi sends first radio wave across the Atlantic

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1901

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46
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Battle of Verdun

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1916

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47
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Earthquake in Tabgshan, China kills over 240,000 people

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1976

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48
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William McKinley is assassinated by Leon Czolgosz

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1901

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49
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Chinese Boxer Rebellion begins

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1900

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50
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Women’s Social and Political Union is founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester

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1903

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) founded

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1958

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52
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USS Pueblo is captured by North Korea (they’ve still got it)

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1968

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53
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Nelson Mandela freed from prison

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1990

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54
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Australia becomes a Commonwealth

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1901

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55
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Max Plank first reveals his revolutionary Quantum Theory

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1900

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56
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Summer Olympics held in Paris, France

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1900, 1924

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57
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Wright Brothers make first powered flight at Kitty Hawk

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1903

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58
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Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II

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1981

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59
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Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil) resigns as Prime Minister (Conservative). His nephew Arthur Balfour succeeds.

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1902

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60
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The Red Army undergo The Long March

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1934

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61
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Leon Trotsky is assassinated by Ramón Mercader, under Stalin’s orders, with an ice axe in Mexico City

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1940

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62
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Mount Pelée erupts on Martinique, killing 30,000

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1902

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63
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The Empire State Building is completed

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1931

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64
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Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi

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1948

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65
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Entente Cordiale

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1904

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66
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Freud publishes ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’

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1905

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67
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Évian Conference takes place to discuss plight of Jewish refugees

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1938

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68
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21st Amendment brings an end to the Prohibition era

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1933

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69
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Boer War ends

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1902

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70
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Martin Luther King jr is assassinated in Memphis

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1968

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71
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Klaus Barbie is sentenced to life in prison

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1987

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72
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Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

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1906

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73
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Messina Earthquake in Italy kills over 100,000

74
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Shippingport Atomic Power Station becomes first of its kind in Pennsylvania

75
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Battle of the Somme

76
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Cuba gains independence from the U.S.

78
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The Great Train Robbery is released, first full length feature film

79
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Ownership of Panama Canal returned to Panama

80
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Police gun down black crowd at Sharpeville Massacre

81
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Reunification of Germany

82
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Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic

83
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Summer Olympics held in Berlin

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1916, 1936

84
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South Africans have to start carrying racial ID cards

85
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Arthur Balfour resigns as Prime Minister, Henry Campbell-Bannerman succeeds

86
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San Francisco suffers devastating earthquake and fire

87
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U-Bahn (Berlin underground system) opens

88
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Louise Brown becomes first test tube baby

89
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Orson Welles’ broadcast of War of the Worlds causes havoc as listeners believe it to be true

90
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Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

90
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Teapot Dome Scandal

90
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Finland becomes first European country to give women the vote

91
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Winter of discontent in UK

92
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HMS Dreadnought is launched, revolutionises naval power

93
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Jack Johnson becomes first black world heavyweight boxing champion

94
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Katyn Forest Massacre

96
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Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium

97
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South Africa formally adopts Apartheid Policy

98
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Soviet fighter jets shoot down a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace

99
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The floppy disk is invented

100
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The Pittsburgh agreement: Czechs and Slovaks agree to unite into one country

101
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The Channel Tunnel opens

101
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Mother Teresa is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

102
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Kellogg’s starts selling Corn Flakes

103
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CIA carry out Guatemalan coup d’état and overthrow President Jacobo Árbenz Guzman, installing a military regime in place

104
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Korea divides into North and South halves

105
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Russo-Japanese War ends in defeat for Russia and Treaty of Portsmouth

106
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Mao Zedong launches The Great Leap Forward

107
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‘Bloody Sunday’; Russian Revolution

108
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Iran-Contra affair hits the headlines

109
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Gulf of Tonkin incident

110
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Construction begins on Panama Canal

111
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DNA is discovered by Francis Crick and John Watson

112
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Decimal Day: The UK adopts a decimal currency

113
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Einstein introduces Theory of Relativity

114
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Ethiopia declared independent in a tripartite pact; country is divided into French, English and Italian spheres of influence

115
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

116
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Bonnier and Clyde are killed in a police ambush

117
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Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman on the US Supreme Court

118
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Edward VIII abdicates

119
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Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer

120
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Six-Day War

121
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Kellogg-Briand Pact attempts to outlaw war

122
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Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran from exile in France

123
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USSR disbands

124
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Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister is assassinated

125
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Sears Tower is completed

126
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Three Mile Island disaster

127
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Bonus Army march is brutally suppressed in Washington, D.C.

128
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Saddam Hussein is captured

130
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Brasilia replaces Rio de Janeiro as capital of Brazil

131
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Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie

132
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Anti Apartheid activist Steve Biko is tortured to death

133
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Frances Perkins becomes first woman appointed to US cabinet

134
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Park Geun-hye becomes first female President of South Korea

135
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Mahatma Gandhi leads the Salt March

136
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London Bridge (1831 version) is rebuilt in Lake Havasu City in Arizona

137
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Desmund Tutu is Archbishop of Cape Town

138
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Paul Keating becomes Australian Prime Minister

139
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Former FBI deputy director, Mark Felt, reveals himself to be Watergate informant ‘Deep Throat’

140
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Thaksin Sinawatra is overthrown in military coup

141
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Civil Rights Act passed

142
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Vicente Fox elected president of Mexico

143
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Ray Tomlinson invents e-mail

144
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Marilyn Monroe dies

145
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Ranulph Fiennes becomes first person reach South Pole twice

146
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The Rainbow Warrior is sunk by the DGSE

147
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NASA founded

148
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Boris Pasternak is awarded Nobel Prize for literature but has to decline

149
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Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London

150
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Winston Churchill dies

151
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Alaska becomes 49th American state

152
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First FA Cup Final played at Wembley

153
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Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips

154
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Princess Anne marries Tim Laurence

155
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Samuel Beckett wins Nobel Prize for Literature

156
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold ‘Bed in for peace’ in Amsterdam hotel

157
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El Salvador and Honduras go to war over a football match

158
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Rocky Marciano dies in plane crash

159
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Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman

160
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Dog licences are abolished in Britain

161
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The Satanic Verses is released

162
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Cliff Richard’s Mistletoe and Wine tops the Christmas Charts

163
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33 people die in a train crash at Clapham Junction

164
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Marvin Gaye is shot by his father

165
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Tommy Cooper dies on live TV

166
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Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles

167
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Daylight Saving Time introduced

168
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Spanish Flu pandemic

169
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Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed

170
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Viagra becomes available

171
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Clinton is impeached

172
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Indian and Pakistan test nuclear weapons

173
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Monica Seles is stabbed in the back

174
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Kim Campbell becomes first female Prime Minister of Canada

175
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‘Fatty’ Arbuckle scandal

176
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Irish Free State proclaimed

177
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Extreme inflation in Germany

178
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Roy Orbison dies

179
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The UK, Ireland and Denmark join the EEC

180
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Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup

181
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1988

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  • Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed, crashing into Lockerbie
  • Benazir Bhutto becomes first Islamic Prime Minister (Pakistan)
  • Clapham Junction rail crash, 35 die
  • Summer Olympics held in Seoul (South Korea); Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Canada
  • Netherlands win the European Football Championships
  • Rain Man, Die Hard, A Fish Called Wanda, Big, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Cinema Paradiso, Mississippi Burning, Bull Durham released
  • Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A), It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy), Rattle and Hum (U2), Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth), …And Justice For All (Metallica), Surfer Rosa (Pixies), Green (R.E.M.) released
  • The Satanic Verses is released
  • Andy Gibb, Rob Orbison, Chet Baker, Christina Onassis die
182
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Elvis Presley dies

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