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He was assassinated in the starting of world war 1.
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World war 1 started July 28, 1914 and ended November 11, 1918
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German troops swept Belgium.
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Germans stop Russian Advance
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Allies stop German advance on Paris.
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Allied forces defeated in bid to establish a supply route to Russia.
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Germans use chemical weapons for the first time
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U- Boat sank off the coast of Ireland.
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French hold the line in longest battle of the war
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Disastrous British offensive
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Democrats renominated Wilson and Republicans renominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Even Hughes.
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Congress passed the resolution
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Congress passed the selective service act
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United states launched 95 ships
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Alvin York became famous.
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Kaiser gave up the throne.
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NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
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18th Amendment went into affect.
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Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
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China joins the League of Nations
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They were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guarg in South Braintree Massachussets.
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Palmar appointed J. Edgar Hoover as his assistant.
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In US a big panic began to arise after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the Czanist regime.
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New York Population- 5.6 Million
Chicago- 3 Million
Philadelphia- 2 Million
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President Warren Harding elected; women get their first vote
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Lectures in New York about his theory of relativity
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Wage cuts and massive unemployment causes an increase on violence.
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First Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City
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Margaret Sanger forms a birth control league
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President Harding dies
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KKK reaches 4.5 Million people.
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The first talking movie was released.
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The Great Depression had begun.
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Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
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The first TV commercial was aired in Boston
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It became our national anthem.
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World's tallest building.
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33% of Amercians were unemployed
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The Dow Jones reaches it's lowest average of the depression, 41.22 points
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Prohibition is lifted in the US
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Hitler becomes Germany's Fuhrer
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Iceland becomes the first nation to legalize abortion
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Gone With the Wind is published
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The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance is formed
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The Hindenburg was destroyed by fire over Lakehurst, NJ
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Adolf Hitler is Time magazine's man of the year
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Minimum wage is established in the US to help the economy
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Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting World War Two
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CBS television begins transmitting
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German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels
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Allied air raid on Neurenberg
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Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
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US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
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US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines
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World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
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KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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"Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
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Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June
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Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
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US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
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Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
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Carlo Terrons "Giuditta," premieres in Milan
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Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep
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Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
