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1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the first airplane
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur flies a glider in earlier tests. Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. This is important because it was the first airplane flown. -
1905: Leon Trotsky presents the theory of "Permanent Revolution"
The theory of the permanent revolution now demands the greatest attention from every Marxist, for the course of the class and ideological struggle has fully and finally raised this question from the realm of reminiscences over old differences of opinion among Russian Marxists. -
1908: Ford introduces the Model T
It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. This vehicle was produced on a mass scale that made it affordable. -
1912: The "Titanic" sinks in the Atlantic ocean
The RMS Titanic sane early on April 15th, 1912 in the North Atlantic. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. -
1913: Ford installs the first assembly line
The assembly line was able to mass produce items making them cheaper and abundant. -
1918: The first World War ends
The war ended with the surrender of Germany and forced reparations upon Germany. The Treaty of Versailles resulted in the end of the war to punish Germany. -
1924: Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin seizes power in the Soviet Union
After the death of Lenin, Stalin was able to take control of the soviet union and take total control. -
1927: Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris
Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic alone. Starting from Rhode Island and landing in Paris. -
1929: Stock markets crash around the world and beginning of the "Great Depression"
With an overproduction of food and no knowledge of credit. The stock Market crash tipped the economy over the edge creating less jobs and more debt. -
1933: President Franklin Roosevelt launches the "New Deal"
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and -
1933: Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazist party, is appointed chancellor of Germany
Hitler is appointed chancellor and later uses that to gain control of Germany and create a single party state. -
1939: World War II breaks out pitting Germany, Italy and Japan against Britain
Beginning of WWII the war began in Europe without the US. The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937,or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. -
1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) and the USA enters World War II
The bombing of pear harbor brought the US to enter WWII. This proved to be a bad decision because the US troops were to strong and helped defeat the axis powers. -
1945: The USA drops two atomic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and World War II ends
The splitting of the atomic bomb proved to be devastating. The US used this to their advantage as they dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan and ended WWII. -
1949: NATO is formed by western European countries and USA
Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
1955: Martin Luther King organizes non-violent protests against racial segregation
By using the practices of Gandhi, King b3lieved in non violence and proved to society that you can be heard. -
1955: The first McDonald's restaurant opens near Chicago
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1957: The Soviet Union launches the Sputnik, the first artificial satellite
The first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. -
1961: Soviet troops build a wall to isolate West Berlin and discourage people from fleeing Eastern Germany
The soviet union built the Berlin Wall to divide east and west Berlin. This was to keep communism alive in Germany. -
1962: The Soviet Union and the USA risk a nuclear war over Cuba
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1969: USA astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon
He was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. This topped the Soviet Union in the space race. -
1972: Nolan Bushnell invents the first videogame, "Pong", an evolution of Magnavox's Odyssey, and founds Atari
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1974: Richard Nixon is forced to resign after the Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis. -
1979: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
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1980: Ted Turner launches CNN, the first cable tv devoted to world news
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1983: The USA, under president Reagan, engages the Soviet Union in a nuclear-arms race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons, though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. -
1988: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan creates Al Qaeda, a worldwide alliance of Islamic fighters
A global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other militants, at some point between August 1988 and late 1989, with origins traceable to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army[46] and an Islamist, extremist, wahhabi, jihadist group -
1994: Nelson Mandela wins the first free elections in South Africa and becomes its first black president
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1995: Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world
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1995: The Sony Playstation is introduced
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2000: British and USA biologists decipher the entire human DNA
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2001: Arab terrorists affiliated with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization blow up the World Trade Center, and the USA bombs the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan
Devastating the US and killing thousands of citizens. This is the worst terrorist act on US soil to this day. -
2008: Barack Obama, a black man, is elected president of the USA