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The Wright Brothers make the first flight
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Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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World War I
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Women got the vote
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The first talking movie "The Jazz Singer"
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Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Hitler's Nazis invaded Poland, World War II begins
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The doctrine of apartheid ("separateness" in Afrikaans) was made law in South Africa in 1948
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Color TV was introduced
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The launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik
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Lego toy bricks was introduced
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America's Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
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Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon
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Margaret Thatcher became the first woman prime minister in UK
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Mother Teresa is awarded with the Nobel
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The deadliest nuclear accident occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine
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The Berlin Wall fell and Germany reunited after 45 years of separation
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A Copper Age Man was found frozen in a glacier
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Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born
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The euro made its debut as the European currency