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The Boston molasses disaster
The Great Molasses Flood, This flood killed 21 people and injured 150 people. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour. Since this happened it has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses. I think this event is important because a lot of people died and still has an efects on today. -
18th amendment
The 18th Amendment called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. This is known as national Prohibition, the Eighteenth Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors” with the exception of those used for religious rites. I think this event is important because it changed the economy on sails -
women granted the right to vote in u.s ( 19th amendment )
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lennins dies
In Moscow shock and near-hysterical grief greets the news that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik movement that toppled the czarist regime in 1917 and head of the first government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), had died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage. this evant is important because he was there leader and his death changed a lot of things -
hitler's mein kampf published
It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. Hitler began composing his tome while sitting in Landsberg prison, convicted of treason for his role in the infamous Beer Hall Putsch in which he and his minions attempted to stage a coup and grasp control of the government in Bavaria. this event is important becaues this is what really sparted hitler to become hitler -
Valentine's Day Massacre
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the great depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. this event is important because this killed a lot of people and hurt us bad and was hard to get out of -
salt march
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japan invades china
Japan, eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and seeing her obvious weakness, invaded and occupied Manchuria. It was turned into a nominally independent state called Manchukuo, but the Chinese Emperor who ruled it was a puppet of the Japanese. this is an important event because they became independnt sate -
spanish civil war
