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Orville & Wilbur, fly first powered air plane
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North Pole reached by Rober Peary & Matthew Henson
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Ernest Rutherford discovers the sturcture of the atom
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Titanic sinks on maiden voyage; over 1,500 drown
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Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; nearly 20 mil. are dead
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First woman governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross
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Gertrude Ederle is first woman to swim English Channel
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Georges Lemaitre proposes Big Bang Theory
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Great Depression begins w/ stock market crash
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Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo
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Hitler appointed German chancellor
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World War ll begins
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Pearl Harbor attack
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Chuck Yeager becomes first person to break sound barrier
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James W., Francis C., & Rosalind F. discover structure of DNA
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Sputnik I is launched
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Explorer I launched into orbit
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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President Kennedy shot
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Shirley Anita first African Americn elected into the U.S. Congress
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Apollo 11 astronauts walk on moon
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Mysterious desease claims 29 lives @ an American Legion
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Apple Inc. introduces Apple ll
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Microsoft Windows 1.0, independent version released
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Tim Berners writes first web client-server protocol
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Becky Palmquist's Birthday
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Larry Page & Sergey Brin create Google
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Columbine High School Shooting
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Global pandemic for H1N1
