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Queen Victoria dies
First powered airplane flight by Orville Wright
Over 3000 people die as a result of the San Francisco earthquake
Robert Peary purportedly reaches North Pole
Roald Amundsen reaches geographic South Pole
Sinking of RMS Titanic
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Battle of the Somme
Two Russian revolutions overthrow the Tsar aristocracy, leading to a communist government
Treaty of Versailles signed
First meeting of League of Nations
Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
The Wall Street crash leading to the Great Depression
First football World Cup
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
Hindenburg disaster
Hitler invades Poland
Evacuation of Dunkirk
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Creation of the State of Israel
George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' is published
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mount Everest
James Dean dies
The Suez crisis
The Russians send the first dog to orbit the earth in space
Cuban Missile Crisis
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of Malcolm X
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
First man on the moon
Nine Israeli athletes are taken hostage and killed by a Palestinian terrorist group at Olympics
Elvis Presley dies
Islamic Revolution in Iran
John Lennon is shot dead in New York
First Pope John Paul II assassination attempt
Chernobyl disaster
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nelson Mandela is released from prison
Formal dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Rwandan genocide
Death of Princess Diana
President Clinton is impeached after the Lewinsky scandal
The euro is introduced into world financial markets
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