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1900-1910s

First Flight by the Wright Brothers
First Model-T by Henry Ford
Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein
Boxer Rebellion
San Francisco Earthquake
Burgeoning of the silent movie industry
Introduction of the Teddy Bear
Tunguska Event in Siberia
World War I
Beginning of Prohibition - USA
Russian Revolution
NYC's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The Titanic sinks
Spanish Flu
Dada Movement - Armory Show
Introduction of Oreo's
First Crossword Puzzle

1920s

1900-1910s

A booming stock market
Speakeasies
Short Skirts
The Charleston
Jazz
19th Amendment - Woman got to vote
Archaeology - discovery of King Tut's Tomb
First Talking Film
Babe Ruth hits 60 HR's in a season
First Mickey Mouse cartoon

1930s

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Great Depression
Nazi come to power in Germany
Open first concentration camp and persecution of Jews
Invade Poland starting World War II
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow go on a crime spree
Al Capone - imprisoned for tax evasion

1940s

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World War II continues until 1945
Start of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Beginning of Apartheid in South Africa

1950s

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Invention of the color television
Polio vaccine is discovered
Disneyland opens in California
Elvis Presley - gyrates his hips on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Space Race heats up between the United States and the Soviet Union
Segregation ruled illegal in the United States
Beginning of the Civil Rights movement

1960s

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Vietnam War
Woodstock Concert
Hippies
Drugs
Protests
Rock 'n Roll
Stonewall Riots
Beginning of the gay rights and the Women's Lib movement
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - makes his "I Have a Dream" speech
The Beatles become popular
The Berlin Wall is built
Soviet Union launch the first man into space
Assassinations - President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy

1970s

Vietnam War continued
Peru - deadliest earthquake
The Jonestown massacre
The Munich Olympics massacre
Taking of American hostages in Iran
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
Disco becomes popular
M*A*S*H* premiers on TV
Star Wars hit theaters
Roe v. Wade - made abortion legal
Watergate - President Richard Nixon resigns

1980s

1970s

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's policies begin the end of the Cold War
The Berlin Wall is torn down
Eruption of Mount St. Helens
The oil spill of the Exxon Valdez
Ethiopian famine
Live Aid concert - last performance of Freddy Mercury
Farm Aid concert - raise money for family farmers in the US
Poison gas leak in Bhopal
AIDS epidemic
Rubik's Cube
Pac-Man video game
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video
CNN debuts - first 24-hour cable news network
Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland
Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands
Arab-Israeli conflict
Tiananmen Square protests in the People's Republic of China
Canada,, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Australia gain official independence from the United Kingdom
The Ronald Reagan Administration declares the War on Drugs through the Just Say No campaign featuring First Lady Nancy Reagan
The Loma Prieta earthquake strikes the San Francisco area during Game 3 of the World Series
El Nino brings destructive weather to most of the world
The Chernobyl disaster - nuclear meltwon in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
The Hillsborough disaster occurs during a FA Cup Semi-Final in Sheffield, England crushing football fans
John Lennon was assassinated in NYC
Ronald Reagan and his press secretary James Brady were shot by John Hinckley
First surrogate pregnancy of an unrelated child took place
Genetically modified crops, tobacco plants are grown in China
The Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 7800 System, Genesis are introduced
The World Wide Web and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) were propsed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
The Space Shuttle Challenger including teacher Christa McAuliffe explodes in the air

1990s

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Nelson Mandela released from prison
The internet changes life
Oklahoma City bombing
The Columbine High School massacre
Genocide in Rwanda
The Yugoslav Wars - breakup of Yugoslavia after the republics of Croatia and Slovenia declare independence
Oka Crisis - armed standoff between the people of the Mohawk nation and the Canadian military
The Los Angeles riots occur - results of the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King case
The World Trade Center bombing
AMIA bombing at their headquarters in Buenos Aires
IRA sets off bomb in Manchester, England
Namibia gains independence from South Africa
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - allows free trade zone between Canada, USA and Mexico
Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal
California passes Proposition 215 to legalize cannabis for medicinal purposes
North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen
Margaret Thatcher resigns as Prime Minister
Pablo Escobar "The King of Cocaine" is killed in Medellin, Columbia
Tejano pop singer Selena is shot by fan club president Yolanda Saldivar
Popular rap artists Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. are shot dead in Las Vegas and Los Angeles
Gianni Versace was assassinated by Andrew Cunanan
Personal computers and cell phones owned by the wealthy
Y2K spread fear as the decade came to a close
E-Commerce websites pop up - Amazon.com, eBay, AOL and Yahoo!
Dolly the sheep becomes the first cloned mammal
Hubble Space Telescope was launched
The Global Positioning System (GPS) becomes fully operational
Construction started on the International Space Station
Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in a car accident in Paris
Mother Teresa dies at the age of 87
The O.J. Simpson murder case
John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash
Michigan doctor, Jack Kevorkian, charged with multiple counts of homicide of his terminally ill patients
Jonbenet Ramsey murder case - still unsolved
Lorena Bobbitt - charged for cutting off her husbands John Bobbitt's penis
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Jeff Gillooly, husband of Tonya Harding

2000s

1990s

9/11 Terrorist Attack
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
War in Darfur
Suddham Hussein is overthrown
Mars exploration Rovers launched
Hurricane Katrina
Train bomb in Mumbai
Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet
Start of the Great Recession
Barack Obama is election President of the United States
DVD replaces the VCR as the most popular prerecorded device
Avatar - released and becomes the world's highest grossing film
Ipod and the IPhone are introduced
Crash of American Airlines Flight 587
Earthquake in Gujarat, India on Republic Day
African Union is founded
Bali bombing
Euro enters circulation
Steve Fossett - first to fly solo around the world
SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk
East Timor gains independence
The First Ivorian Civil War begins
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon reentry
The Station nightclub fire
The Human Genome Project is completed
The Second Congo War and Second Liberian Civil Wars end
Final flight of the SST (Supersonic Transport) Concorde
Facebook, YouTube, Reddit and Twitter are founded
Madrid train bombing
The Second Battle of Fallujah occurs
Disappearnce of Madeleine McCann
Boxing day Tsunami occurs in Indian Ocean
7/7 attacks on London Underground
Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first female Chancellor
Virginia Tech shooting
Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
Tesla Roadster launched - first mass production of lithium-ion battery electric cars
Death of Michael Jackson
Bitcoin is launched
Swine flu pandemic begins in North America

2010s

2000s

2010s

European sovereign debt crisis - Greece and Republic of Ireland's financial crisis
FIFA World Cup held in Africa for the first time
President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski - killed in airplane crash
Burj Khalifa in Dubai becomes tallest structure in the world at 829.8m (2,722ft)
iPad is introduced
Instagram and Snapchat are launched
Osama bin Laden is killed
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Occupy movement inspires worldwide protests
9.0 earthquake in Japan triggers a tsunami and the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
The Danyang-Kushan Grand Bridge, the world's longest, opens in China
Space Shuttle program is officially ended
Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia for the third time
US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars and finds evidence of an ancient streambed of water
Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colorado shootings
Shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida
Pope Benedict XVI resigns, Pope Francis is elected - first from Latin America
Terrorist attacks occur in Boston and Nairobi
Edward Snowden releases classified documents
President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d'état.
Croatia becomes a member of the European Union
Nelson Mandela death
Uruguay becomes the first country to fully legalize cannabis
Ebola epidemic in West Africa
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears while en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur
ISIS begins its offensive in northern Iraq
Shooting of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray by police leads to violent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland
Terrorist attacks in Paris
China ends the One-child policy after 35 years
El Chapo is recaptured after escaping from a high-security prison in Mexico
The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel is completed
Pokémon Go is released
Supreme Court of the United States determines that same-sex couples can marry
The people of the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union
Donald Trump becomes President of the United States
Shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida
Chicago Cubs win the World Series
Women's March - response to inauguration of Donald Trump
Terrorist Bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England
Far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for the removal of Confederate statues in the US
Mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas
Allegations of sexual abuse against film producer Harvey Weinstein
Solar eclipse passes throughout the contiguous United States
March for Our Lives occurs in 900 locations worldwide in response to Parkland shooting
Saudi Arabi allows women to drive
Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Event Horizon Telescope takes the first ever image of a black hole
Wildfires spike in Brazil and Australia
Fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
Avengers: Endgame released - becomes highest grossing film
US President Donald Trump is impeached
Covid-19 pandemic begins in Wuhan, China

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Covid-19 pandemic continues - Omicron varient is prevalent
Donald Trump is acquitted by the US Senate in first impeachment trial
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
Killing of George Floyd sparks protests worldwide
Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States
Kamala Harris becomes the first female and first black VP of the United States
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at the age of 87
Civil rights icon John Lewis dies
Kobe Bryant and eight others are killed in a helicopter crash.
Harry and Meghan said goodbye to royal life.
Korean-language film "Parasite" won a historic Best Picture Oscar.
Harvey Weinstein is convicted of criminal sexual act and rape in the third degree
Celebrity Deaths: Chadwick Boseman, Eddie Van Halen, Sean Connery, Little Richard, Alex Trebek, Diego Maradona, Ray Liotta, Sidney Poitier, Guy Lafleur, Pele, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI
Brushfires devastated Australia
Antarctica saw its highest temperature on record of 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
Wildfires burned more than 8.2 million acres in American West.
SpaceX began a new era of spaceflight.
Astroworld Festival Tragedy
Hideki Matsuyama wins the 2021 Masters Tournament, becoming the first man from Japan to win a major golf championship
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, killing more than 2,100 people
The 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency
The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccination
Facebook changes its name to Meta
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Major global brands halt sales in Russia (McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Visa, Mastercard)
Gabriel Broic is sworn in as President of Chile.
The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact is reported by paleontologists.
Inflation at an all-time high
Monkeypox outbreak: first case reported in London, UK
Roe vs. Wade overturned by 6-3 vote by U.S. Supreme Court
Hurricane Ian
Aaron Judge hits 62 HR's in a season - new AL record
2022 World Cup in Qatar - first in an Asian country (Winner: Argentina)
Death of Queen Elizabeth II at age of 96. Prince Charles III becomes King.
Elon Musk complestes his $44 billion acquisiton of Twitter
158 people killed and another 197 injured in a crowd crush during Halloween festivites in Seoul, South Korea
The collapse of suspension bridge in Gujarat, India leaves at least 141 dead
The world population hits 8 billion
Spain wins the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
Wildfires on Maui destroy the town of Lahaina
Tropical Storm Hilary makes landfall in California
Lionel Messi signs with Inter Miami of the MLS.
Israel and Hamas conflict

"HISTORY CANNOT GIVE US A PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE, BUT IT CAN GIVE US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES, AND OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY, SO THAT WE CAN BETTER FACE THE FUTURE."

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"HISTORY CANNOT GIVE US A PROGRAM FOR THE FUTURE, BUT IT CAN GIVE US A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF OURSELVES, AND OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY, SO THAT WE CAN BETTER FACE THE FUTURE."

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