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Hawaii becomes U.S territory - 1900
Major League Basebell is formed - 1901
Cuba gains independence from the U.S. - 1902
Wright brothers pioneer aviation - 1903
Luna Park opens in Coney Island, NY - 1903
The first teddy bear is created by Morris Michtom - 1903
The first New Year's Eve celeberation in Times Square, New York City - 1904
Las Vegas, Nevada is founded - 1905
Theodore Roosevelt begins his 2nd term as President of the U.S. - 1905
1906 San Francisco earthquake - 1906
Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan - 1907
Tungunska event occurs in the Russian Empire - 1908
North Pole (Robert Peary, Matthew Henson) - 1909
Henry Ford reaches 10,000 sales in automobiles - 1910
M1911 pistol comes into miltary service - 1911
The RMS Titanic sinks, taking over 1,500 lives with it - 1912
Grand Central reopens becoming the world's largest train station - 1913
WWI begins - 1914
Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks begin - 1915-18
The light switch is invented - 1916
Russian Revolution begins - 1917
WWI Ends, 16 million + dead - 1918
Warner Bros. is founded - 1918
League of Nations is founded - 1919
Prohibition institutionalized 1920-33
Use of automobiles become mainstream - 1920s
Adolf Hitlers becomes the Führer of the Nazi Party - 1921
Soviet Union forms from Russian Civil War - 1922
Hitler's revolution fails and is sentenced to prison - 1923
Ottoman Empire ends, Republic of Turkey succeeds - 1923
The Walf Disney Company is founded - 1923
Vladimir Lenin dies, Joseph Stalin rises to dictator - 1924
Benito Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy - 1925
Hitler's Mein Kampf is published - 1925
New York City becomes the largest city in the world - 1925
Queen Elizabeth II is born - 1926
Charles Lindbergh flies successfully from New York to Paris - 1927
Coca Cola spreads to Europe - 1928
U.S. stocks plummet, the Great Depression begins - 1929
Nazis gain political power in Germany - 1930
Looney Tunes sets the bar for the Golden Age of American animation - 1930-69
Al Capone jailed, Star Spangled Banner - 1931
Amelia Earheart flies the Atlantic - 1932
King Kong - 1933
Hitler rises to German chancellor, dictatorship begins - 1933
Hitler becomes führer of Germany - 1934
Comic books - late 1930s to 1970s
Parkers Brothers acquire monopoly - 1935
Nazi influence and power spreads - 1935-1938
Italy under Mussolini annexes Ethiopia - 1936
Great Purge is enacted, 1 million + political dissidents persecuted and killed - 1936-1938
H.P. Lovecraft dies - 1937
Orson Welle's broadcasts War of the Worlds on radio - 1938
German invasion of Poland, World War II begins - 1939
Gone with the Wind - 1939
The Wizard of Oz - 1939
Nazis invade other European countries - 1940
North African Campaign begins - 1940
First McDonald's opens in San Bernardino, CA - 1940
Tom and Jerry animations begin production - 1940
Pearl Harbor, U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan and join WW2 - 1941
Citizen Kane - 1941
Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union - 1941
Casablanca - 1942
Systematic genocide of Jewish people per order of the Final Solution - 1942
Fascist Italy ends, Mussolini removed from power - 1943
Allies attack Normandy on D-Day - 1944
FDR dies at age 63 - 1945
Hitler commits suicide as WWII falls into Allies favor - 1945
U.S. uses atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945
Japan surrenders ending World War II, 50-70 million deaths - 1945
United Nation established - 1945
Cold War begins - 1945
Nuremburg trails begin, Nazis leaders tried and executed for war crimes - 1946
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is published - 1947
India declares independence from the United Kingdom - 1947
Ak-47 is developed by Mikhail Kalashnikov - 1947
Peaceful independence leader Gandhi is assassinated - 1948
NATO established, Soviets successfully test atomic weapons - 1949
Mao Zedong declares the Communist People's Republic of China, East Germany goes to Soviet rule - 1949
Apartheid in South Africa takes effect - 1949
North Korea invades South Korea, Korean War begins - 1950
Colo television - 1951
The Catcher in the Rye - 1951
Jazz music - 1950s
West Germany harbors 8 million refugees - 1952
James Bond is created by Ian Fleming - 1953
Stalin dies - 1953
Korean War ceasefire is signed. North Korea and South Korea remain separated by the DMZ - 1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Mount Everest - 1953
Racial segregation banned in public schools - 1954
Warsaw Pact is signed giving Eastern Europe a treaty of mutual defense - 1955
Rosa Parks' actions start the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin Luther King Jr. sparks the Civil Rights movement - 1955
Conflict in Vietnam begins leading to the Vietnam War - 1955-1975
Albert Einstein dies at age 76 - 1955
Khrushchev condemns Stalin's actions - 1956
Suez Crisis begins - 1956
Sputnik 1 is the first satellite to orbit earth, launched by the USSR. Space Race begins - 1957
The Little Rock Nine attend an Arkansas high school. Troops sent by Eisenhower to protect them - 1957
Khrushchev becomes premier of the Soviet Union - 1958
U.S. launches Explorer I - 1958
50+ Million are killed in genocides under Mao Zedong - 1958-61, 1966-69
Castro becomes President of Cuba - 1959
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states - 1959
To Kill a Mockingbird is published - 1960
Psycho is directed by Alfred Hitchcock - 1960
Nazi refugee Lt. Col. Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina - 1960
JFK is sworn in as the 35th President of the U.S.- 1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space - 1961
U.S. invasion of Cuba fails at Bay of Pigs - 1961
John Glenn orbits the Earth - 1962
Marilyn Monroe dies at age 36 - 1962
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
Martin Luther King makes famous "I have a dream" speech at Washington - 1963
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated - 1963
Hippie subculture gains prominence - mid 1960s
Beatlemania begins - 1964
The Jackson 5 forms - 1964
Macolm X is assassinated - 1965
Winston Churchill dies at 90 - 1965
Soviet probe Venera 3 lands on Venus making it the first space craft to land on another planet - 1966
A Fistful of Dollars - 1967
Superbowl I Green Bay Packers - 1967
Pueblo incident between U.S., and North Korea occurs - 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis - 1968
Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey is released - 1968
Richard Nixon becomes the 37th President of the U.S. - 1969
Woodstock - 1969
The early Internet (ARPA) is developed as a defense system by the U.S. military - 1969
U.S. invades Cambodia - 1970
Rock music becomes mainstream and many bands form - 1970-1980s
Ping Pong Diplomacy thaws relations between U.S. and China - 1970s
Disco - middle to late 1970s
Communist China is seated at the UN, replacing Taiwan - 1971
Nixon meets Mao Zedong visits to China - 1972
The Godfather - 1972
Warfare in Southeast Asia ceases - 1973
Nixon resigns, VP Gerald Ford becomes the 38th President of the U.S. - 1974
Vietnam War offically ends - 1975
Microsoft is founded - 1975
Spielberg's Jaws - 1975
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge seize control of Cambodia - 1975
The Khmer Rouge enacts a cleansing genocide of brutal executions and torture resulting in 1.5-2.5 million casaulties - 1975-1979
Jimmy Carter is elected 39th U.S. President - 1976
Apple Inc. is founded - 1976
Mao Zedong dies - 1976
VHS is released - 1976
Rocky debuts - 1976
Nuclear proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries - 1977
Atari 2600 is released - 1977
Star Wars IV: A New Hope is released - 1977
Evlis Presley dies at age 42 - 1977
John Paul II becomes the first Polish Pope - 1978
Pol Pot's regime collapses - 1979
Three Mile Island accident occurs in Pennsylvania - 1979
Soviet war in Afghanistan begins - 1979
Smallpox is eradicated - 1980
Iran-Iraq War begins - 1980
John Lennon is shot dead - 1980
Reagan becomesthe 40th President of the U.S. - 1981
AIDS is identified - 1981
Mario makes his first appearance in Donkey Kong - 1981
First permanent artifical heart is implanted - 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial tops the charts - 1982
Compact discs become commercially available - 1982
Grenada is invaded by the U.S. and its Caribbean allies - 1983
Use of crack cocaince spreads in the U.S. - 1984
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet President and attempts reforms - 1985
Back to the Future - 1985
Hip/Hop and rap scenes grow in popularity - early 1980s to late 1990s
Challenger explodes at Cape Canaveral - 1986
Meltdown at Chernobyl power station - 1986
The Simpsons first appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show - 1987
George H. W. Bush wins the presidential elections - 1988
Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaskan coast - 1989
Protests at Tianenmen Square for democracy - 1989
Berlin Wall falls - 1989
Soviet war in Afghanistan ends - 1989
Console Wars - 1990s
Jurassic Park - 1990
World Wide Web is launched - 1990
East and West Germany reunify - 1990
North Korea experiences severe famines - early 1990s
Cell phones rise in popularity - 1990s
Iraq invades Kuwait, the Gulf War begins - 1990-91
Soviet Union dissolves after Gorbachev's resignation forming 15 separate republics and ending the Cold War - 1991
Yugoslav Wars 1991-95
Boris Yeltsin becomes First becomes first President of the Russian Federation - 1991
Hurricane Andrew hits the United States causing billions in property damage - 1992
UN agrees to intervene in Somalian Civil War - 1992
Czechoslovakia splits peaceful into the Czech Republic and Slovakia - 1993
Bill Clinton becomes the 42nd President of the U.S. - 1993
European Union is established - 1993
Doom popularizes first person shoot games - 1993
Schindler's List - 1993
Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa, apartheid ends - 1994
O.J. Simpson is brought to trial for murder - 1994
Forrest Gump
Russian government attacks the separist Republic of Chechnya - 1994
Timothy McVeigh blows up the Oklahoma City federal building - 1995
eBay is founded - 1995
DVD is invented - 1995
Toy Story - 1995
World Trade Organization is founded - 1995
Taliban forces capture Kabul, Afghanistan - 1996
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal to be cloned - 1996
Pokémon franchise is created - 1996
Clinton is re-elected for a 2nd term as President - 1997
Princess Diana is killed at age 36 in a car crash in Paris - 1997
Mother Theresa dies at age 87 - 1997
Russia and Chechnya sign a peace treaty - 1997
Harry Potter is first published - 1997
Personal computers become a common household appliance - Early to late 1990s
Kosovo War - 1998-99
Saving Private Ryan - 1998
Viagra is approved by the FDA - 1998
Pakistan and India stage nuclear tests - 1998
Russia in financial deficit - 1998
Google Inc. is founded - 1998
Blogging begins - late 1990s, early 2000s
Hurricane Mitch hits Central America. Estimated deaths: 18,000 - 1998
International Space Station project begins - 1998
World reaches six billion people - 1999
The Euro is instituted as commmon currency in the Eurozone - 1999
Columbine High School massacre leaves 13 dead - 1999
Napster debuts - 1999
Boris Yeltsin signs, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting President of Russia - 1999
Y2K scare - 2000
Text messaging becomes popular - early 2000s
George W. Bush becomes the 43rd President of the United States - 2001
3,000 civilians are killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania in terrorist airplane hijacks - 2001
Anthrax attacks begin circulating in the U.S. mail system - 2001
War in Afghanistan begins - 2001-present
USA PATRIOT Act comes into effect - 2001
iPods released by Apple - 2001
Wikipedia is launched - 2001
Lord of the Rings film trilogy is produced - 2001-03
No Child Left Behind Act is approved - 2002
East Timor's independence is restored - 2002
Famous cartoonist Chuck Jones die at age 89 - 2002
Chechen fighters hold a theater hostage in Moscow - 2002
Anti-war protests are held in response to the imminent invansion of Iraq - 2003
Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island kills 100 people - 2003
Hu Jintao become President of China
Iraq War begins - 2003-present
NATO assumes control of peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan - 2003
Former Preisdent of Iraq, Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. Forces - 2003
Call of Duty is released - 2003
Myspace - 2003
MMORPGS increase in popularity - early 2000s
Facebook - 2004
10 countries join the European Union - 2004
NATO expands allowing 7 countries into the organization - 2004
Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal is exposed - 2004
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami kills over 230,000 people - 2004
Protests in New York City are held in response to George W Bush's administration - 2004
Pilot of Lost airs - 2004
Taipei 101 opens as the tallest skyscraper of its time - 2004
George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term - 2005
Northa Korea declares possession of nuclear wepaons - 2005
Pope John Paul II dies at age 84 - 2005
Hurricane Katrina causes $80 billion in property damage and over 1,800 deaths - 2005
Saddam Hussein is put on trial - 2005
Kyoto Protocol goes into force - 2005
Pope Benedict XVI becomes the 265th pope - 2005
YouTube launced - 2005
North Korea declares its first nuclear test was conducted - 2006
Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed by Iraqi courts - 2006
Pluto is demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet leaving only 8 planets in the solar system - 2006
North Korea closes its nuclear faciilities in exchange for foreign aid - 2007
Global financial crisis begins - 2007-10
Petroleum reaches $100 per barrel - 2008
Kosovo declares independence from Serbia - 2008
Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba - 2008
2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing - 2008
Barack Obama becomes the 44th and first African American President of the United States - 2009
Iceland's government and ecomonic system are crippled - 2009
North Korea allegedly conducts its second successful nuclear test - 2009
H1N1 influenza is dubbed "Swine Flu" and is considered a global pandemic - 2009
Michael Jackson dies at age 50 causing worldwide mourning - 2009
Kim Jong-il pardons two American journalists who had been detained for illegal entry after former President Bill Clinton makes an impromptu visit with him - 2009
Twitter enters mainstream - 2009
Senator Ted Kennedy dies at age 77 - 2009
Haiti is devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which kills over 230,000 people - 2010
Burj Khalifa skyscraper opens in Dubai, UAE at 2,717 feet, making it the tallest man-made structure ever built - 2010
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan is forced into exile due to riots. New interim government in implemented - 2010
President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski and 95 others are killed in an airplane crash in Russia - 2010
Volcanic activity in Iceland disrupts air traffic throughout Europe - 2010
Deepwater Horizon explodes in the Gulf of Mexico making it one of the worst environmental disasters in history - 2010
Ethnic clashings continue in Kyrgyzstan - 2010
Spain wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa - 2010
Over 90,000 classified reports about U.S. involvement in the War Afghnistan are leaked - 2010
World Health Organization declares the Swine Flu pandemic over - 2010