Can you name the years when the following things happened (progressive difficulty)?

created by cairo140
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EventYear
Election of Barack Obama to President of the United States
End of World War I (by armistice)
Terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers
Christopher Columbus lands in the New World
Death of Michael Jackson
US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Black Tuesday starts the Great Depression
Invasion of Normandy in WWII
Israeli Declaration of Independence
US Declaration of Independence Adopted
Apollo 11 - first manned mission to the moon
George Orwell's dystopian future (fictional)
US Invasion of Iraq (second time)
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Cuba Missile Crisis
EventYear
Magna Carta issued
Euro introduced as accounting currency in Europe
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Sinking of the Titanic
American Civil War Starts
Beginning of French Revolution (Bastille Day)
Recording of Abbey Road
Formation of the Roman Empire (Julius' appointment as dictator for life, Marc Antony's defeat, or the declaration of Augustus all acceptable)
Hawaii joined the United States (the most recent state to do so)
Peace of Westphalia
Chinese civil war resulting in foundation of modern China
First Council of Nicaea, unifying Christianity
Black Death
Publication of Issac Newton's Principia Mathematica
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  • Created Oct 13, 2009 in History
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