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The Wright brothers fly the first powered aeroplane
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World War I begins in Europe
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Women in the USA given the right to vote
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The US stock market crashes.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. USA enters World War II
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Nazi concentration camps exposed_
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The end of racial segregation in US schools
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President John F, Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
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First man walks on the moon