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| 1 | 1842 | - 1842: Long uses ether as first anesthetic
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| 2 | 1859 | - 1859: Darwin's On the Origin of Species;Lenoir buids the first practical internal combustion engine
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| 3 | 1862 | - 1862: Pasteur's experiments lead to germ theory; Salon des Refuses introduces impressionism
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| 4 | 1867 | - 1867: Japan ends 675-year shogun rule
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| 5 | 1876 | - 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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| 6 | 1879 | - 1879: Thomas Edison invents the electric light
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| 7 | 1880 | - 1880: Europe begins colonizing the African continent
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| 8 | 1885 | - 1885: World's first skyscraper built in Chicago
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| 9 | 1893 | - 1893: New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the vote
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| 10 | 1895 | - 1895: Lumiere brothers introduce motion pictures; Marconi sends first radio signals
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| 11 | 1897 | - 1897: Herzl launches Zionist movement
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| 12 | 1900 | - 1900: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
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| 13 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright brothers fly first motorized airplane
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| 14 | 1905 | - 1905: Einstein announces the theory of relativity
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| 15 | 1907 | - 1907: Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon introduces cubism
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| 16 | 1911 | - 1911: Rutherford discovers structure of atom
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| 17 | 1913 | - 1913: Henry Ford develops first moving assembly line
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| 18 | 1914 | |
| 19 | 1916 | - 1916: Sanger founds international birth control movement
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| 20 | 1917 | - 1917: Lennin leads the Bolshevik Revolution
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| 21 | 1918 | - 1918: Global "Spanish flu" epedimic
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| 22 | 1922 | - 1922: Joyce's Ulysses published
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| 23 | 1927 | - 1927: Farnsworth demonstrates working model of a television; Lemaitre proposes big bang theory
- 1927: Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in the season, record stands for next 34 years
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| 24 | 1928 | - 1928: Fleming discovers penicillin
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| 25 | 1929 | - 1929: Hubble proposes theory of expanding universe; U.S. stock market crash precipitates global depression
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| 26 | 1936 | - 1936: Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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| 27 | 1939 | - 1939: Hitler invades Poland, World War II begins
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| 28 | 1941 | - 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor on December 7, brings U.S. into World War II
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| 29 | 1942 | - 1942: Nazi leaders at Wannsee Conference coordinate "final solution to the Jewish question", known as the Holocaust
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| 30 | 1944 | - 1944: Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6)
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| 31 | 1945 | - 1945: Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; first electronic computer is built(ENIAC); Arab League launches modern pan-Arabism
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| 32 | 1946 | - 1946: First meeting of U.N. General Assembly; Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech marks beginning of cold war
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| 33 | 1947 | - 1947: Ghandi's civil disobedience movement leads to an independent India
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| 34 | 1949 | - 1949: Communist victory in China under Mao Zedong
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| 35 | 1950 | - 1950: Abstract expressionism introduced
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| 36 | 1953 | - 1953: Watson, Crick, and Franklin discover DNA's structure
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| 37 | 1954 | - 1954: Brown v. Board of Education begins unraveling of U.S. racial segregation
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| 38 | 1957 | - 1957: Russia launches first satellite, Sputnik I
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| 39 | 1959 | - 1959: Mary and Louis Leakey uncover hominid fossils
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| 40 | 1962 | - 1962: Lt Col John H Glenn, Jr. is first American to orbit earth
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| 41 | 1963 | - 1963: Martin Luther King delivers "I have a Dream" speech (Aug 28); President John F Kennedy assassinated (Nov 22)
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| 42 | 1964 | - 1964: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
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| 43 | 1969 | - 1969: Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon; Internet (ARPA) goes on line
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| 44 | 1972 | - 1972: President Nixon makes unprecedented eight-day visit to Communist China and meets with Mao Zedong
- 1972: Watergate scandal starts (June 17)
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| 45 | 1974 | - 1974: President Ricard M Nixon resigns office (Aug 8), the first President to do so, following the House Judiciary Committee adopting three articles of impeachment
- 1974: Patricia Hearst, 19 year old daughter of publisherr Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (Feb5)
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1921 - 1975 (54 years)