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(2) Henry Ford introduces the Model T
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(6) Southern Italy Tsunami
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(5) Founding of NAACP
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(4) Indianola Junior High School in Columbus OH
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(3) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire leads to improved working conditions for women
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(6) The Spanish Flu claims the lives of more than 50 million worldwide
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(6) Puerto Rico earthquake and resulting Tsunami kill 116
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(2) The flip-flop circuit is invented. wil help computers count.
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(3) American consumer buys on credit or installments
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(4) Teachers Salary $970
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(5) Great Migration of Blacks from south to urban centers in north
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(4) Children must finish elementary school before working
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(3) Stock Market Crash starts depression
[Read NY Times article from Black Thursday (pdf file)](graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/.../black-thursday-10-24-1929.pdf) -
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(4) Dick and Jane books and primers first published
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(5) Paramount Theatre opens on the heels of the depression
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(5) Prohibition ends, beer sales predicted to boost economy
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(6) India earthquake over 10,000 dead
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(2) Generators at the Hoover Dam transmit electricity used in Los Angeles
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(3) The Wagner Act protects workers right to unionization
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(4) Case leads to first Black graduate of University of Marland's Law School
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(5) US Census reports 131,669,275 people
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(4) Dr. Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published
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(2) Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer
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(5) Executive order 9981 ends segregation in the military
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(6) Flood in Guatemala claims 40,000 lives
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(5) life expectancy of men 65.6 of women 71.1
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(5) Bomb shelter plans are in the government pamphlet "You can survive"
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(4) The Conflict of Education by Robert Hutchins is published
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(2) Theodore Maiman invents ruby laser
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(3) Minimum Wage is $1.00
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(5) Assasinations of JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X
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(6) Valdivia, Chile has strongest earthquake in world history
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(2) The Flintstones air on T.V. and give way to Barney and Dora
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(2) Telephone uses fiber optics, and you thought we weren't patient then...
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(4) Kent State Shootings--protesting on campus leads to national guard killing four students
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(6) The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale is developed
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(5) The Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale is developed
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(5) Five men arrested trying to bug the Democratic Nat'l Convention at Watergate Hotel
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(5) Last two Americans killed in helicopter crash leaving Vietnam War
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(3) Bakke versus California Affirmative Action working against the majority
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(4) UCLA study by ACE reports students more interested in power and status than ever before
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(4) Both exit exams and teacher exams were birthed in this decade
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(5) Sandra Day O'Conner named first female to Supreme Court
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(5) Nancy Reagan campaigns a war against drugs with the slogan "Just Say NO!"
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(2) Time names the personal computer its "Man of the Year (1982)"
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(3) United Airlines loses lawsuit to 475 flight attendants who were fired for getting married.
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(3) Stock market reached all time high, bubble, dot-com
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(5) Rodney King is beat by police, who are acquitted, resulting in riots
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(5) 168 dead in the bombing of Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City
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(6) A heatwave hit Chicago that claimed 739 lives
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(4) School Shootings at Columbine 13 dead including the shooters
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(2) Cell phones change the way we communicate, learn, and more
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(4) Video teleconferencing is a way to have face-to-face meetings without travel
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(2) People feared that technology would fail as 1999 turned into 2000. Nothing happened.
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(5) World Trade Center and Pentagon are attacked by Terrorist, thousands die
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(5) 9/11 Prompts the Global War on Terrorism
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(6) more than 250,000 die in this tragedy caused by underwater earthquake
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Independent Age
I project a fourth wave will peak around 2015, the independent age, where students will learn from home and parents will work from home and families will shop, spend, and trade from home..All via the computer with Internet access.
