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John O'Hara, novelist (Appointment at Samarra), was born in Pottstown, Penn.
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Ayn Rand is Born in St. Petersburg
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For the Mukden campaign of the Russo-Japanese War, began. In one of the largest battles ever fought up to that time, some 750,000 Japanese and Russian soldiers engaged in the battle for Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War. The 3-week battle pitted 400,000 Ja
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US Forest Service formed
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Nicholas II falls under the spell of Rasputin, a Siberian peasant who pretended to be a healer and a prophet
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Congress granted statehood to Oklahoma.
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The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, W.Va.
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William Howard Taft became the 27th President of the US.
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Thomas Edison demonstrated the first "talking" pictures using a phonograph in his New Jersey laboratory.
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Ayn Teaches Self to Read
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Ayn decides to be a writer
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Union Station in Kansas City, Mo., opened
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World War I breaks out in the Balkans, pitting Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia, USA and Japan against Austria, Germany and Turkey (400,000 Russian soldiers die in 1914 alone)
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Battle of Jutland Island: American Joins WWI
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Bending to riots by women, striking workers and defecting soldiers, Czar Nicholas II abdicates, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty ("february revolution")
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Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their children are killed by the secret police of the Bolsheviks
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WWI Ends
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The civil war ends with Lenin's victory (millions have died of starvation, the population of Petrograd has dropped from 2.5 million in 1917 to 0.6 in 1920)
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Ayn Graduates from high school
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The American Pro Football Association was renamed "National Football League."
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Ayn Graduates from Leningrad State University
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“Pola Negri” pamphlet published in Moscow and Leningrad Written by Ayn
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Ayn Receives permission to leave USSR
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Ayn Sails from Le Havre, France, for America on the De Grasse
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Ayn arrives in Hollywood, also meets Frank O’Connor on set of The King of Kings
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Ayn is hired by DeMille as junior screen writer
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Stalin orders the persecution of "kulaks" (capitalist farmers), 15 million peasants are deported to the Arctic regions and 6.5 million die
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Ayn marries Frank O’Connor
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Ayn becomes U.S. citizen
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Ayn sells “Red Pawn” to Universal Pictures
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Stalin's main advisor, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated, prompting Stalin to begin the "great purge" of the Communist Party (thousands of communists are deported to "gulags")
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Ayn's first play, Woman on Trial, opens in Hollywood
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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened. It cost $78 million and was the longest bridge ever attempted.
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2.5 million Soviet citizens are arrested and 700,000 are executed during the "great purges"
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Ayn receives last communication from parents in USSR
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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U.S. Joins WWII after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Daylight bombings of Germany
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Aayn's "The Fountainhead" is publised
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Bob Marley (d.1981), reggae superstar, was born in Jamaica.
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Ayn moves back to New York City
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The official propaganda reveals the Jewish conspiracy against the Soviet Union
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President Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb
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Soviet troops crush democratic movement in Hungary killing 2,800 people
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Ayn delivers first major campus talk, “Faith and Force: Destroyers of the Modern World,” at Yale University
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The Soviet Union builds a wall between East and West Berlin
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Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module. It carried astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made 151 Earth orbits over 10 days.
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Ayn witnesses launch of Apollo 11
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an outbreak of smallpox in Aralsk (Kazakstan) caused by a military program of biological weapons kills dozens of people
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NY Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to Hall of Fame
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Nora Drobysheva (Ayn Rand’s sister) arrives for visit from USSR
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Pope John Paul II visits Poland and supports the anti-communist movement
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Frank O’Connor dies Ayn's husband
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The first implantable cardioconverter defibrillator (ICD) was implanted at John Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins.
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Ayn delivers last public lecture, “The Sanction of the Victims,” in New Orleans
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Brezhnev dies
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A draft of Air Force history reported that the U.S. secretly sprayed herbicides on Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Ayn dies in New York City
