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 Wright Brother's first flight
 St. Louis World's Fair
 Russian Mutiny on Battleship Potemkin 
 San Francisco earthquake-500 dead
 2nd Hague Convention adopts rules of war
 Earthquake in Italy & Sicily-150,000 dead
 North Pole reached by R. Peary & M. Henson
 Boy Scouts of America incorporated
 Sun Yat-sen Pres. of new Chinese Republic
 Titanic strikes iceberg & sinks-1,500 dead
 Federal Reserve System established 
 World War I begins-Panama Canal opened
 U.S. protests German submarine actions
 Pres Wilson reelected-"Kept US out of war"
 U.S. declares war Apr 6-Russian Revolt
 Russian Revolt--World-wide flu epidemic
 Versailles Treaty signed-Prohibition In
 1st League of Nations meeting at Geneva
 Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti convicted
 Mussolini forms Fascist government
 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails
 Lenin dies-Stalin wins power struggle
 Scopes convicted in Tenn. "Monkey Trial"
 U.S. marines dispatched to Nicaragua
 Lindbergh flies solo cross the Atlantic
 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
 U.S. stock market crash-Depression begins
 Naval powers sign disarmament treaty
 Al Capone sentenced for tax evasion
 Lindbergh kidnapping-Roosevelt elected
 Hitler is Chancellor-U. S. Prohibition ends
 Hitler made Fuhrer-Quints born in Canada
 Italy invades Ethopia-Hitler annexes Saar
 Hitler annexes Rhineland-Axis formed
 Earhart lost in Pacific on world flight
 Hitler occupies Austria & Czech.
 Germany attacks Poland--WW II begins
 U.S. & Britian agree to Lend-Lease pact
 Pearl Harbor Bombed--U.S. enters WWII
 Japan occupies Singapore & Phillipines
 Mussolini deposed-Italy surrenders
 D-Day Normandy invasion-Battle of Bulge
 Germany & Japan surrender--WWII ends
 Churchill Warns of "Iron Curtain" 
 US sets Marshall Plan & Truman Doctrine
 Gandhi assassinated by Hindu fanatic 
 Truman announces Soviets have A-bomb
 Brinks Car Robbery--Korean War starts
 Color Television Introduced in U.S.
 Queen Elizabeth of England crowned
 Eisenhower inaugurated--Stalin dies
 Jonas Salk starts Polio innoculations
 AFL-CIO merger-Argentina ousts Peron
 Egypt siezes Suez--Bikini H-bomb test
 Russians launch Sputnik--1st satellite
 U.S. puts Explorer I satellite into orbit
 Castro heads Cuba--China takes Tibet
 U-2 Spy-plane shot down over Russia
 JFK sworn in--Shepard Mercury launch 
 Glenn is first American to orbit earth
 JFK assassinated in Dallas--LBJ is Pres
 Mississippi Civil Rights workers killed
 Watts Riots--Medicare program starts
 De Bakey implants artificial heart
 Apollo Crew Killed In Fire
 RFK Shot--N. Korea seizes Pueblo
 Nixon inaugurated--U.S. lands on Moon
 Kent State riot ends in 4 student deaths
 N. Y. Times publish Pentagon Papers
 Nixon In China--Israeli athletes killed
 V.P. Agnew resigns--Vietnam Peace Pact
 Nixon resigns--Patty Hearst kidnapped
 U.S. Apollo & U.S.S.R. Soyuz meet in space
 U.S. 200th!!!--Israelis Entebbe Rescue 
 Carter sworn in--Insulin from bacteria
 Camp David accord: Carter, Begin & Sadat
 Shah flees Iran--Thatcher Prime Minister
 Moscow Olympic Games boycotted by U.S.
 Reagan inaugurated--Charles & Diane wed
 1st Shuttle launch--UK wins Falklands
 Pioneer 10 launch--USSR downs KAL747
 Nude shots cost Vanessa Miss America

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