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Arnold Schoenberg
He was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name Arnold Schoenberg, and this is how he usually appears in English-language publications and around the world. -
The beginning of the 20th century
The German airship Zeppelin makes its maiden voyage in Switzerland. -
The theory of relativity
The theory of relativity includes both the theory of special relativity and that of general relativity, formulated mainly by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century, which sought to resolve the incompatibility between Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism. -
Sinking of the titanic
On the night of April 12, the majestic ocean liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an Iceberg, after having been presented to the world as a definitive and indestructible ship. -
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The first World War
The First World War, also called the Great War, was a global military conflict, although centered in Europe, that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the conditions of the armistice. -
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The Second World War
The Second World War was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. Most of the nations of the world were involved in it. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb
The United States Army dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb on civilians, and devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later another was launched on the city of Nagasaki. -
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ETA
ETA was a Basque nationalist terrorist organization that proclaimed itself pro-independence, nationalist, socialist and revolutionary. -
Grease movie publication
Is a 1978 American musical film set in the 1950s directed by Randal Kleiser and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
In November 1989, peacefully and without shedding blood or firing a gun, the German population tore down the Berlin Wall. -
The end of the 20th century
Ended with the appearance of the euro, the current currency