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First fully automatic gun
Maxim machine gun, first fully automatic machine gun (q.v.), developed by engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim in about 1884, while he was residing in England. It was manufactured by Vickers and was sometimes known as the Vickers-Maxim and sometimes just Vickers. These guns were used by every major power. -
Chester A. Arthur Is president
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Roundhay Garden Scene
It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest surviving film in existence. -
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Grover Cleveland Is president
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First semiautomatic pistol
The “first” semi-automatic pistol was patented July 11, 1891, by Salvator Dormus. Fifty were made and 30 tested by the Austrian military in 1896/97. After its rejection, there was no further production. -
William McKinley Is president
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Radium and polonium is discovered
Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris. In 1898, the Curies discovered the existence of the elements radium and polonium in their research of pitchblende. -
Theodore Rosavelt is president
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First airplane
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights. -
Woodrow Wilson Is president
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Archduke Ferdinand assassinated
The political objective of the assassination was to free Bosnia of Austria-Hungarian rule and established of a common South Slav state. The assassination precipitated the July crisis which lead to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and the start of the First World War. -
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Ww1
The First World War or the Great War started after the archduke of Austria was assassinated -
Woodrow Wilson is still president
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The Treaty of Versailles
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Herbert Hoover Is president
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Dust bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
The economy began to rise after the Great Depression
After showing early signs of recovery beginning in the spring of 1933, the economy continued to improve throughout the next three years, during which real GDP (adjusted for inflation) grew at an average rate of 9 percent per year. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Is president
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Ww2
On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. -
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Holocaust
Jews aware rounded up and put in concentration camps -
Harry S. Truman Is president
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Ford introduced the Ford thunderbird
The car made its first public appearance on February 20, 1954 at Detroit's first auto show following World War II. The first 1955 model Thunderbird rolled off the Ford Motor Company's assembly line in Dearborn on September 9, 1954. It officially went on sale the following month. -
First console releases
The Odyssey was manufactured by Magnavox and released in North America in September of 1972. It stands as the very first home video game console. The system was developed by Ralph Baer, a German-American engineer who created the ping-pong style gameplay that the Odyssey offered. -
Richard Nixon Is president
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Computers start to becom common
Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user. -
Jimmy Carter Is president
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Nintendo release the nes in japan
The Nintendo console, or Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), was released as the Famicom in Japan on July 15, 1983. The Famicom offered the ability to play popular arcade games such as Donkey Kong on a home television set and was extremely well received. -
George W. Bush Is president
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The twin towers fall
Both of the twin towers fall -
Flat screen and hdtm TVs become affordable
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Crypto curncy increased
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Donald Trump is president
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Crypto curncy crashes
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Donald trump is president
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Covid
Pandemic