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73 -- Number of people in file 71 -- Number of events in file ==== PEOPLE -0 George Bernard Shaw 1856 0 1950 0 1 10 -1 Sigmund Freud 1856 0 1939 0 4 2 -2 William II 1859 0 1941 0 4 6 -3 Claude Debussy 1862 0 1918 0 2 12 -4 Sun Yat-sen 1866 0 1925 0 President of provisional republic 11 1 -5 H. G. Wells 1866 0 1946 0 1 10 -6 Nicholas II 1868 0 1918 0 6 6 -7 Mohandas Gandhi 1869 0 1948 0 Developed principles of satyagraha -- non violent resistance 9 5 -8 VladimirIlyich Lenin 1870 0 1924 0 6 1 -9 Bertrand Russell 1872 0 1970 0 1 3 -10 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 0 1943 0 6 12 -11 Herbert Hoover 1874 0 1964 0 3 1 -12 Winston Churchill 1874 0 1965 0 1 1 -13 Maurice Ravel 1875 0 1937 0 2 12 -14 Albert Einstein 1879 0 1955 0 4 2 -15 Josef Stalin 1879 0 1953 0 6 1 -16 Pablo Picasso 1881 0 1973 0 5 11 -17 James Joyce 1882 0 1941 0 7 10 -18 Franklin D Roosevelt 1882 0 1945 0 3 1 -19 Benito Mussolini 1883 0 1945 0 8 1 -20 Franz Kafka 1883 0 1924 0 Prague 20 10 -21 John Maynard Keynes 1883 0 1946 0 1 20 -22 Marc Chagall 1887 0 1985 0 6 11 -23 Chaing Kai-shek 1887 0 1975 0 11 1 -24 Eugene O'Neil 1888 0 1953 0 3 10 -25 T. S. Eliot 1888 0 1965 0 1 10 -26 T. E. Lawrence 1888 0 1935 0 Lawrence of Arabia 1 10 -27 Adolf Hitler 1889 0 1945 0 4 1 -28 Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 0 1964 0 9 1 -29 Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 0 1951 0 4 3 -30 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 0 1969 0 34th President, Supreme Allied Commander, WWII 3 4 -31 Charles de Gaulle 1890 0 1970 0 2 1 -32 Sergei Prokofiev 1891 0 1952 0 6 12 -33 Francisco Franco 1892 0 1975 0 5 1 -34 Mao Zedung 1893 0 1976 0 11 1 -35 Nikita Khrushchev 1894 0 1971 0 6 1 -36 William Faulkner 1897 0 1962 0 3 10 -37 William O. Douglas 1898 0 1980 0 Supreme Court justice, environmentalist 3 3 -38 George Gerswhin 1898 0 1937 0 3 12 -39 Berthold Brecht 1898 0 1956 0 4 10 -40 Al Capone 1899 0 1947 0 3 19 -41 Ernest Hemingway 1899 0 1961 0 3 10 -42 Martin Heidegger 1899 0 1976 0 4 3 -43 Aaron Copland 1900 0 1991 0 3 12 -44 Ayatolah Khomeini 1901 0 1989 0 20 7 -45 Hirohito 1901 0 1989 0 Emperor 20 6 -46 John Dillenger 1902 0 1934 0 Bank robber & 'public enemy #1' 3 19 -47 George Orwell 1903 0 1950 0 1 10 -48 Salvador Dali 1904 0 1989 0 5 11 -49 Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 0 1980 0 2 3 -50 Lillian Hellman 1905 0 1984 0 3 10 -51 Samuel Beckett 1906 0 1989 0 7 10 -52 Hsuan-t'ung 1906 0 1967 0 'Last Emperor' of China, 1908-12 11 6 -53 Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 0 1973 0 3 1 -54 Ronald Reagan 1911 0 1994 1 3 1 -55 Tennessee Williams 1911 0 1983 0 Playwright: 'Streetcar Named Desire', 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 3 10 -56 Richard M. Nixon 1913 0 1994 0 3 1 -57 Albert Camus 1913 0 1960 0 2 10 -58 Jimmy Hoffa 1914 0 1975 1 Teamster president, presumed murdered 3 20 -59 John F. Kennedy 1917 0 1963 0 3 1 -60 Indira Gandhi 1917 0 1984 0 9 1 -61 Leonard Bernstein 1918 0 1991 0 3 12 -62 Jack Kerouac 1922 0 1969 0 'On the Road' beat 3 10 -63 Jimmy Carter 1924 0 1994 1 3 1 -64 George Bush 1924 0 1994 1 3 1 -65 Fidel Castro 1926 0 1994 1 10 5 -66 Elizabeth II 1926 0 1994 1 1 6 -67 Che Guevera 1928 0 1967 0 Guerilla leader; killed in Bolivia 10 5 -68 Martin Luther King 1929 0 1968 0 3 5 -69 Andy Warhol 1930 0 1987 0 3 11 -70 Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 0 1994 1 6 1 -71 Elvis Presley 1935 0 1977 0 3 20 -72 Bill Clinton 1946 0 1994 1 3 1 === EVENTS -0 Dreyfus 1894 0 1906 0 Political and social upheaval in France 5 2 4 -1 X-rays 1895 0 1895 0 Discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen 4 4 4 -2 Radioactivity 1896 0 1896 0 Discovered by Henri Becquerel 4 2 2 -3 Manila Bay 1898 0 1898 0 US captures Manila, winning Spanish American War, and launching US into more active role in world. 1 3 7 -4 Boer War 1899 0 1902 0 British vs Dutch colonists in South Africa 3 1 20 -5 Port Arthur 1904 0 1904 0 Major Japanese victory over Russia 1 5 8 -6 Relativity 1905 0 1905 0 Einstein proposes Special Theory of Relativity, departing from Newtonian physics 4 4 4 -7 Northwest Passage 1906 0 1906 0 Roald Amundsen becomes first European to traverse the northwest passage by ship 13 20 20 -8 Mexican revolution 1911 0 1917 1 Diaz overthrown by Madero 3 12 3 -9 South Pole 1911 0 1911 0 Amundsen reaches South Pole, Dec 14. Scott's party reaches it 35 days later, but die on return. 13 20 1 -10 Titanic 1912 0 1912 0 Sinks on its maiden voyage 20 1 3 -11 Nicaragua I 1912 0 1925 0 US Marines occupy Nicaragua, to quell unrest 3 3 12 -12 WWI 1914 0 1918 0 World War I 1 1 4 -13 Verdun 1916 0 1916 0 German attack fails, but 1 million casualties result 1 2 4 -14 Russian Revolution 1917 0 1922 0 Revolution & Civil War, including interventions from Western powers 3 8 1 -15 19th Amendment 1919 0 1919 0 Extending the vote to women 5 3 3 -16 Sacco-Vanzetti 1920 0 1927 0 Controversial trial & execution, arousing concerns about ethnic origins & anarchist political beliefs 3 3 3 -17 Indian Independence 1920 1 1948 0 Gandhi sparks and leads the non-cooperation and other actions, eventually achieving independence 3 10 1 -18 Chinese Revolution 1921 0 1949 0 Several movements, revolutions and civil war. 3 9 5 -19 Ulysses 1922 0 1922 0 11 11 11 -20 King Tut 1922 0 1922 0 Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen 12 1 20 -21 Teapot Dome 1923 0 1929 0 Major scandal, involving members of the Harding administration 5 3 3 -22 Australopithecus 1924 0 1924 0 Louis & Mary Leakey discover A. africanus, revolutionizing theories of human evolution 4 1 1 -23 Nicargua II 1927 0 1933 0 Second major period of occupation by US 3 3 20 -24 Crash! 1929 0 1929 0 Stock Market crashes 2 3 3 -25 St. Valentine's 1929 0 1929 0 St. Valentine's massacre -- gangland killing by Capone 20 3 3 -26 Lindbergh kidnapping 1932 0 1932 0 20 3 3 -27 3rd Reich 1933 0 1945 0 Hitler takes control of Germany and brings on WWII 5 4 1 -28 Spanish Civil War 1936 0 1939 0 Harbinger of WWI 3 7 4 -29 WWII 1939 0 1945 0 World War II 1 1 4 -30 Stalingrad 1942 0 1942 0 Turning point of the European war 1 4 8 -31 Midway 1942 0 1942 0 Turning point of the Pacific War 1 3 5 -32 Fission 1942 0 1942 0 Fermi & colleagues produce first controlled fission chain reaction 4 3 3 -33 Hiroshima 1945 0 1945 0 Beginning of the nuclear age with the first use of nuclear weapons in combat. 1 3 5 -34 Vietnam I 1945 1 1954 0 Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh resist the French attempt to re-colonize after WWII 1 2 6 -35 United Nations 1945 0 1945 0 Charter founds international organization 5 20 20 -36 Korean War 1950 0 1953 0 1 3 9 -37 DNA 1953 0 1953 0 Watson & Crick propose the double helix model for the structure of genetic material 4 1 3 -38 Rosenbergs 1953 0 1953 0 Executed as spies at the height of McCarthy era anti-communist hysteria. 5 3 8 -39 Algeria 1954 0 1962 0 Algerian war of independence from France 3 2 20 -40 Davy Crockett 1955 0 1955 0 12 3 3 -41 Suez 1956 0 1956 0 Egypt nationalizes the canal; invaded by Israel, England, and France 1 1 13 -42 Vietnam II 1957 1 1975 0 US assumes the French role, then becomes more deeply involved in a new guerilla war. 1 3 6 -43 Sputnik 1957 0 1957 0 Soviets launch 1st artificial satellite, sparking space race ending with American moon landing, 1969 4 8 3 -44 Hula Hoop 1958 0 1958 0 Biggest toy fad in history 12 3 3 -45 Cuba 1959 0 1961 0 Castro's rebels oust Battista and install the first communist government in western hemisphere 3 3 20 -46 Congo 1960 0 1963 0 Independence and civil war show the way for the decades to come, as cold war heats up. 3 20 20 -47 Angola 1961 0 1989 0 War for independence from Portugal (1975) Then civil war 3 20 20 -48 Missile Crisis 1962 0 1962 0 Concern over Soviet missiles in Cuba bring the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war. 5 3 8 -49 Beatles 1964 0 1964 0 12 1 3 -50 Civil Rights Bill 1964 0 1964 0 Legislative end to racial discrimination 5 3 3 -51 Blackout 1965 0 1965 0 Ontario power failure throws entire NE US and Canada into darkness 12 3 20 -52 Nigeria 1966 0 1970 0 Civil war and famine 3 20 20 -53 6 Day War 1967 0 1967 0 Israel takes Jerusalem and the West Bank 1 13 20 -54 Chad 1968 0 1984 0 Civil war 3 20 20 -55 Prague summer 1968 0 1968 0 Liberalization ends when Soviet tanks invade Czechoslovakia 5 8 20 -56 Student Revolts 1968 0 1968 0 Student uprisings in Europe & America, Paris, Democratic Convention, Chicago 5 3 2 -57 Watergate 1972 0 1974 1 Breakin at Democratic HQ sparks scandal and investigations 5 3 3 -58 Roe v. Wade 1973 0 1973 0 US Supreme Court legalizes abortion 20 3 3 -59 Cambodia 1978 0 1990 0 Vietnam invades Cambodia in wake of Khmer Rouge terror, then stay for a decade. 3 6 9 -60 Afghan Civil War 1979 0 1989 0 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. 1989 -- final withdrawal 3 8 20 -61 Sandinista / Contra 1979 0 1990 0 Sandinistas overthrow Somoza, but US backs Contras in Civil War. Ends with Chamorro's election, 1990 3 12 3 -62 Three Mile Island 1979 0 1979 0 Nuclear power plant accident at TMI. 2 3 3 -63 Zimbabwe 1979 0 1979 0 Southern Rhodesia achieves independence from UK 5 1 20 -64 Iran-Iraq war 1980 0 1989 0 1 20 20 -65 Teenage Mutant Ninja 1989 0 1989 0 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12 3 3 -66 Berlin Wall Falls 1989 0 1989 0 Eastern European democracies re-emerge 5 4 8 -67 Split: Yugoslavia 1990 0 1994 0 Civil wars & unrest in former republics comprising Yugoslavia 5 20 8 -68 Soviet Coup 1991 0 1991 0 Failed coup attempt by hardliners leads to breakup and evaporation of USSR 5 8 8 -69 LA Riots 1992 0 1992 0 Riots erupt in wake of police brutality trial verdict (Rodney King) 5 3 3 -70 Big Bang! 1992 0 1992 0 Evidence found supporting Big Bang theory of the start of the universe 4 3 3 === FACTIONS -1 English 6 -2 French 1 -3 American 7 -4 German 2 -5 Spanish 4 -6 Russian 3 -7 Irish 2 -8 Italian 7 -9 Indian 7 -10 Latin American 7 -11 Chinese 7 -12 7 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 Other 7 === OCCUPATIONS -1 Statesman 6 -2 Scientist 2 -3 Philosopher 6 -4 Military 4 -5 Activist 3 -6 Ruler 7 -7 Religious 3 -8 7 -9 7 -10 Poet/ author 2 -11 Artists 2 -12 Composer 2 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 Outlaw 7 -20 Other 7 === GROUPS -1 Military 4 -2 Economic 6 -3 Revolution/Civil War 4 -4 Scientific 2 -5 Political 6 -6 7 -7 7 -8 7 -9 7 -10 Arts 3 -11 Literature 3 -12 Other cultural 3 -13 Exploration 2 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 Other 7 === NATIONS -1 Britain 7 -2 France 1 -3 United States 3 -4 Germany 2 -5 Japan 5 -6 Vietnam 7 -7 Spain 4 -8 Russia/ USSR 4 -9 China 6 -10 India 7 -11 Ireland 2 -12 Latin American 3 -13 Israel 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 Other 7