1830-1860: | | | | Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US from before birth until age 3 |
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1837-1901: | | | | Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 44 |
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1852-1859: | | | | 3rd Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 |
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1857: | | | | Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 0 |
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1857-1866: | | | | Transatlantic cable laid from age 0 to age 9 |
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1857-1860: | | | | James Buchanan president of US from age 0 to age 3 |
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1858: | | | | India bill transfers government of India to England at age 1 |
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1858: | | | | Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 1 |
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1859: | | | | Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 2 |
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1859: | |
1859: | | | | Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 2 |
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1860: | | | | South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 3 |
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1860: | | | | Rifled barrel invented at age 3 |
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1861: | | | | Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 4 |
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1861: | | | | The Apache Declare War on the US at age 4 |
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1861-1865: | | | | Confederate States of America Exist from age 4 to age 8 |
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1861: | | | | Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 4 |
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1861: | | | | South Dakota organized as a territory at age 4 |
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1861-1865: | | | | Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 4 to age 8 |
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1861: | | | | North Dakota organized as a territory at age 4 |
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1861: | | | | Gold rush in New Zealand at age 4 |
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1861-1865: | | | | Civil War from age 4 to age 8 |
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1861: | | | | Nevada organized as a territory at age 4 |
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1861: | | | | Colorado organized as a territory at age 4 |
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1862: | | | | US Homestead act at age 5 |
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1863: | | | | West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 6 |
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1863: | | | | Battle of Gettysburg at age 6 |
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1863: | | | | Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 6 |
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1863: | | | | Idaho organized as a territory at age 6 |
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1863: | | | | Arizona organized as a territory at age 6 |
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1863-1879: | | | | 4th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 22 |
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1864: | | | | Louisiana organized as a territory at age 7 |
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1864: | | | | Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 7 |
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1865: | | | | Ku Klux Klan founded at age 8 |
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1865: | | | | Lister invents Disinfection at age 8 |
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1865: | | | | President Lincoln assassinated at age 8 |
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1866: | | | | Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 9 |
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1866-1868: | | | | Andrew Johnson president of US from age 9 to age 11 |
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1867: | | | | Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 10 |
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1867: | |
1867: | | | | Confederation of Canada at age 10 |
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1867: | | | | Alaska purchased from Russia at age 10 |
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1867: | | | | Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 10 |
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1868-1878: | | | | War between Cuba and Spain from age 11 to age 21 |
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1869: | | | | Suez canal opened at age 12 |
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1869: | | | | Cutty Sark built at age 12 |
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1869: | | | | Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 12 |
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1869-1876: | | | | Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 12 to age 19 |
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1869: | | | | Trans-continental railroad completed at age 12 |
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1870: | | | | 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 13 |
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1870-1871: | | | | Franco-Prussian war from age 13 to age 14 |
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1870: | | | | US black men can vote at age 13 |
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1871: | | | | Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 14 |
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1873: | | | | Color Photographs at age 16 |
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1873-1878: | | | | Depression, banks fail from age 16 to age 21 |
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1876: | | | | Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 19 |
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1876: | | | | American Centennial at age 19 |
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1876: | | | | Little Big Horn - Battle at age 19 |
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1876: | | | | Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 19 |
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1877-1880: | | | | Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 20 to age 23 |
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1877: | | | | Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 20 |
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1878: | | | | 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 21 |
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1879: | | | | Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 22 |
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1879: | |
1881-1896: | | | | 5th Cholera pandemic from age 24 to age 39 |
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1881: | | | | James A Garfield president of US at age 24 |
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1881: | | | | President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 24 |
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1881-1885: | | | | Chester Arthur president of US from age 24 to age 28 |
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1884: | |
1884: | |
1885: | |
1885-1888: | | | | Grover Cleveland president of US from age 28 to age 31 |
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1886: | | | | Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 29 |
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1887: | | | | X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 30 |
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1888: | | | | 70...77 rpm musical records at age 31 |
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1888: | | | | Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 31 |
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1889: | | | | Montana enters the union - 41st at age 32 |
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1889: | | | | Holerith invents the punch card at age 32 |
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1889: | | | | South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 32 |
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1889: | | | | Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 32 |
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1889-1892: | | | | Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 32 to age 35 |
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1889: | | | | North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 32 |
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1890: | | | | Battle of Wounded Knee at age 33 |
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1890: | | | | Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 33 |
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1890: | | | | Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 33 |
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1890: | | | | Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 33 |
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1891: | | | | Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 34 |
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1893-1897: | | | | US Financial panic, depression from age 36 to age 40 |
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1893: | | | | New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 36 |
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1893-1896: | | | | Grover Cleveland president of US from age 36 to age 39 |
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1893: | |
1893: | | | | Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 36 |
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1894: | | | | Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 37 |
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1894-1895: | | | | Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 37 to age 38 |
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1896: | | | | Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 39 |
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1896: | | | | Utah enters the union - 45th at age 39 |
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1897-1901: | | | | William McKinley president of US from age 40 to age 44 |
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1898: | | | | Spanish American 1-year war at age 41 |
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1899-1923: | | | | 6th Cholera pandemic from age 42 to age 66 |
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1899-1902: | | | | Boer war from age 42 to age 45 |
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1900: | | | | Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 43 |
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1900: | | | | Hawaii organized as a territory at age 43 |
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1900: | | | | Boxer rebellion in China at age 43 |
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1901-1908: | | | | Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 44 to age 51 |
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1901: | | | | First British submarine launched at age 44 |
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1901-1910: | | | | Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 44 to age 53 |
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1901: | | | | Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 44 |
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1901: | | | | Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 44 |
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1901: | | | | Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 44 |
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1901: | | | | Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 44 |
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1901: | | | | US President William McKinley assassinated at age 44 |
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1903: | |
1903: | | | | Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 46 |
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1904-1905: | | | | Russian-Japanese war from age 47 to age 48 |
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1904: | |
1907: | | | | Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 50 |
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1907: | |
1908: | | | | Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 51 |
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1909: | | | | North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 52 |
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1909: | | | | Union of South Africa formed at age 52 |
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1909-1912: | | | | William Howard Taft president of US from age 52 to age 55 |
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1910: | | | | Japan annexes Korea at age 53 |
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1910: | |
1910-1936: | | | | Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 53 to age 79 |
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1911: | | | | South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 54 |
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1912: | | | | Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 55 |
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1912: | | | | Alaska organized as a territory at age 55 |
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1912: | | | | New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 55 |
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1912: | |
1913-1920: | | | | Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 56 to age 63 |
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1914: | |
1914-1919: | | | | World War I from age 57 to age 62 |
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1915: | | | | Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 58 |
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1916: | |
1916: | | | | Irish Easter Rebellion at age 59 |
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1917: | | | | Russian revolution at age 60 |
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1917: | |
1918-1933: | | | | Prohibition from age 61 to age 76 |
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1918-1920: | | | | Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 61 to age 63 |
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1919: | | | | League of Nations instantiated at age 62 |
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1919: | | | | Shortwave Radio at age 62 |
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1920: | | | | Palestine established at age 63 |
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1920: | | | | Women receive right to vote in USA at age 63 |
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1920-1929: | | | | Roaring 20's from age 63 to age 72 |
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1921-1924: | | | | Warren G Harding president of US from age 64 to age 67 |
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1922: | | | | Insulin made available to diabetics at age 65 |
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1925: | | | | Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 68 |
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1925-1928: | | | | Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 68 to age 71 |
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1926: | | | | Sound in Movies at age 69 |
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1927: | | | | 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 70 |
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1927: | | | | Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 70 |
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1928: | |
1928: | | | | Video Recordings at age 71 |
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1928: | |
1928: | | | | Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 71 |
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1929-1932: | | | | Herbert Hoover president of US from age 72 to age 75 |
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1929-1939: | | | | Great Depression from age 72 to age 82 |
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1929: | | | | Stock Market Crash at age 72 |
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1930: | | | | Pluto Discovered at age 73 |
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1931-1933: | | | | Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 74 to age 76 |
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1933: | | | | Radio Astronomy at age 76 |
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1933-1945: | | | | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 76 to age 88 |
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1933: | | | | Soviet communist party purge at age 76 |
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1933: | | | | Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 76 |
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1934: | | | | Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 77 |
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1935-1936: | | | | Abyssinian war from age 78 to age 79 |
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1935: | |
1936: | |
1936-1952: | | | | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 79 to age 95 |
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1936: | | | | Spanish Civil War at age 79 |
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1936: | | | | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 79 |
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1937-1945: | | | | Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 80 to age 88 |
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1937: | | | | Nylon (by DuPont) at age 80 |
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1938: | | | | Germany annexes Austria at age 81 |
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1939: | | | | Digital Computer at age 82 |
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1939-1945: | | | | World War II from age 82 to age 88 |
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1939: | | | | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 82 |
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1940: | | | | 1st black general in US army at age 83 |
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1940: | | | | Color Television at age 83 |
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1941-1945: | | | | Manhattan Project from age 84 to age 88 |
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1942: | | | | Magnetic Recording Tape at age 85 |
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1942: | | | | Nuclear Reactor at age 85 |
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1945-1952: | | | | Harry S Truman president of US from age 88 to age 95 |
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1945: | | | | United Nations formed at age 88 |
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1945: | |
1945: | | | | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 88 |
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1946: | |
1946-1989: | | | | The Cold War from age 89 until after line end |
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1947: | | | | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 90 |
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1947: | | | | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 90 |
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1947: | |
1948: | |
1948: | | | | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 91 |
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1948: | | | | Israel inaugurated as state at age 91 |
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1948: | | | | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 91 |
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1949: | | | | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 92 |
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1949: | | | | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 92 |
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1949: | | | | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 92 |
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1950: | | | | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 93 |
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1950-1954: | | | | McCarthyism from age 93 to age 97 |
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1950: | | | | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 93 |
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1950-1953: | | | | Korean War from age 93 to age 96 |
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1951: | | | | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 94 |
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1952-2050: | | | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 95 until after line end |
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1952: | | | | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 95 |
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1953-1960: | | | | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 96 until after line end |
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1954: | | | | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 97 |
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1955: | | | | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 98 |
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1955: | | | | Warsaw pact formed at age 98 |
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1955: | | | | Invention of Velcro at age 98 |
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1955: | | | | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 98 |
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1956: | | | | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 99 |
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1957: | | | | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 100 |
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