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Date |
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| 1 | 1865 | - 31 Jan 1865—31 Jan 1965: Slavery abolished
Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
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| 2 | 1905 | - 1905—1905: Theory of special relativity published
Einstein’s theory of special relativity published. It transforms the nature of modern physical knowledge
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| 3 | 1914 | - 18 Jun 1914—1918: WW1
The Habsburg and Ottoman empires collapse; maps of Europe and the Middle East are redrawn.
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| 4 | 1915 | - 1 Jan 1915—1 Jan 1915: NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
- 25 Jan 1915—25 Jan 1915: 1st Transatlantic phone call
Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call
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| 5 | 1929 | - 1929—1929: Stock Market Crash
“The chief business of the American people is business,” U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge said in 1925. And with the American economy humming during the “Roaring Twenties” (the Jazz Age), peace and prosperity reigned in the United States…until it didn’t. The era came to a close in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, setting the stage for years of economic deprivation and calamity during the Great Depression.
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| 6 | 1939 | - 1939—1945: WW2
Outbreak of Second World War: 50 million die worldwide from 1939-45 in the world’s largest and most deadly conflict, which ends the long age of imperialisms.
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| 7 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941—7 Dec 1941: Peal Harbor Attacked
Peal Harbor Attacked
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| 8 | 1944 | - 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D Day
D Day
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| 9 | 1945 | - 1945—1945: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Having again stayed out of the initial stages of another worldwide conflict, the U.S. entered World War II on the side of the Allies following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941). In August 1945, with the war in Europe over and U.S. forces advancing on Japan, U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman ushered in the nuclear era by choosing to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in the hope that the terrible destruction unleashed would prevent an even greater loss of life that seemed likely with a protracted island-by-island invasion of Japan.
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| 10 | 1949 | - 1949—1949: Communist China founded
China is created as a single territorial unit with a common administration and a modernizing economy.
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| 11 | 1950 | - 1950—1950: Korean War
Korean War
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1904 - 1954 (49 years)
