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Australia Becomes a Commonwealth Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal Queen Victoria Dies U.S. President McKinley Assassinated
Boer War Ends Mount Pelée Erupts The Teddy Bear is Introduced U.S. Passes the Chinese Exclusion Act
First Flight at Kitty Hawk First Message to Travel Around the World First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery First World Series Plague in India
First Popular American Film Ground Broken on Panama Canal New York City Subway Opens Russo-Japanese War Begins Trans-Siberian Railway Completed
"Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of 1905 Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality
The Dreadnought Launched Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle
Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference First Electric Washing Machine Picasso Introduces Cubism Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time
Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000 Ford Introduces the Model-T SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire
Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated NAACP Is Founded Plastic Is Invented Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole 1910
Boy Scouts Established in U.S. Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance The Tango Catches On
The Chinese Revolution Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole Standard Oil Company Broken Up Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire
Parachutes Invented Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link," Discovered (Fraud) The Titanic Sinks
First Crossword Puzzle Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line Los Angeles Owens Valley Aquaduct Opened Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S.
Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated Battle of the Marne Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp First Traffic Light Panama Canal Officially Opened World War I Begins
Armenian Genocide D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat Second Battle of Ypres
Battle of the Somme Battle of Verdun Easter Rising in Ireland First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.
First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy Russian Revolution U.S. Enters World War I
Daylight Saving Time Introduced Influenza Epidemic Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed
Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I 1920
Bubonic Plague in India First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired Harlem Renaissance Begins League of Nations Established Prohibition Begins in the U.S. Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.
Extreme Inflation in Germany Irish Free State Proclaimed Lie Detector Invented
Kemal Atatürk Founds Modern Turkey Michael Collins Killed in Ambush Mussolini Marches on Rome The Reader's Digest Published
Charleston Dance Becomes Popular Hitler Jailed After Failed Coup Ruhr Occupied by French and Belgian Forces Talking Movies Invented Teapot Dome Scandal Time Magazine Founded
First Olympic Winter Games J. Edgar Hoover Appointed FBI Director Leopold and Loeb Murder a Neighbor Out of Boredom V.I. Lenin Dies
Hitler Publishes Mein Kampf The Scopes (Monkey) Trial
A.A. Milne Publishes Winnie-the-Pooh Houdini Dies After Being Punched Robert Goddard Fires His First Liquid-Fuel Rocket A Woman Swims the English Channel
Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record BBC Founded The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer Lindbergh Flies Solo Across the Atlantic Sacco and Venzetti Executed
Bubble Gum Invented First Mickey Mouse Cartoon First Oxford English Dictionary Published Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War
Byrd and Bennett Fly Over South Pole Car Radio Invented New York Stock Market Crashes St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Gandhi's Salt March Pluto Discovered Stalin Begins Collectivizing Agriculture in the U.S.S.R.
Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere Christ Monument Built on Rio de Janeiro Hilltop Empire State Building Completed Scottsboro Boys Accused of Rape U.S. Officially Gets National Anthem
Air Conditioning Invented Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic Lindbergh's Baby Kidnapped Scientists Split the Atom Zippo Lighters Introduced
Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany FDR Launches New Deal First Nazi Concentration Camp Established Loch Ness Monster First Spotted Wiley Post Flies Around the World in 8 1/2 Days
Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police Cheeseburger Created The Dust Bowl Mao Zedong Begins the Long March Parker Brothers Sells the Game "Monopoly"
Alcoholics Anonymous Founded Germany Issues the Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory Social Security Enacted in U.S.
Carnegie Publishes How to Win Friends and Influence People Hoover Dam Completed Nazi Olympics in Berlin Spanish Civil War Begins
Amelia Earhart Vanishes Golden Gate Bridge Opened Japan Invades China
Broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" Causes Panic Chamberlain Announces "Peace in Our Time" "Extinct" Fish Found Hitler Annexes Austria The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)
First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Signed Helicopter Invented Refugees on the St. Louis Refused Entry Everywhere World War II Begins
Nylons on the Market Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor Jeep Invented Manhattan Project Begins Mount Rushmore Completed Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission Siege of Leningrad
Battle of Midway Battle of Stalingrad Japanese-Americans Held in Camps Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death T-shirt Introduced
French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed Grave of Katyn Forest Massacre Found Italy Joins the Allies Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
FDR Dies First Computer Built Germans Surrender Hitler Commits Suicide Microwave Oven Invented United Nations Founded U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bikinis Introduced Dr. Spock Publishes The Common Book of Baby and Child Care Juan Perón Becomes President of Argentina Nuremberg Trials Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech
Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British Marshall Plan Polaroid Cameras Invented
Berlin Airlift "Big Bang" Theory Formulated "Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Paper Gandhi Assassinated Policy of Apartheid Begun State of Israel Founded
China Becomes Communist First Non-Stop Flight Around the World George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four NATO Established Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb
First Modern Credit Card Introduced First Organ Transplant Korean War Begins Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
Color TV Introduced South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
Car Seat Belts Introduced Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship Polio Vaccine Created Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
DNA Discovered Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest Joseph Stalin Dies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage
Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman First Atomic Submarine Launched Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
James Dean Dies in Car Accident McDonald's Corporation Founded Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus Warsaw Pact Signed
Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco Hungarian Revolution Khrushchev Denounces Stalin Suez Crisis T.V. Remote Control Invented Velcro Introduced
Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat European Economic Community Established Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit
Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward" Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian Hula Hoops Become Popular Lego Toy Bricks First Introduced NASA Founded
Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City First Televised Presidential Debates Lasers Invented
Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Wall Built Peace Corps Founded Soviets Launch First Man in Space
Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can Cuban Missile Crisis First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall Marilyn Monroe Found Dead Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique JFK Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
Beatles Become Popular in U.S. Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S. Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
Japan's Bullet Train Opens Los Angeles Riots Malcolm X Assassinated New York City Great Blackout
Black Panther Party Established Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution Mass Draft Protests in U.S. Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
Che Guevara Killed First Super Bowl Six-Day War in the Middle East Stalin's Daughter Defects Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated Prague Spring Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident Sesame Street First Airs Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
American Soldiers Accused of Murdering Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians Aswan High Dam Completed Beatles Break Up Computer Floppy Disks Introduced Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
London Bridge Brought to the U.S. United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency VCRs Introduced
Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals Pocket Calculators Introduced Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich Watergate Scandal Begins
Abortion Legalized in U.S. Paul Getty Kidnapped Sears Tower Built U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam U.S. Vice President Resigns
Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects Patty Hearst Kidnapped Terracotta Army Discovered in China U.S. President Nixon Resigns
Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon Civil War in Lebanon Microsoft Founded Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia
Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
Elvis Found Dead Miniseries Roots Airs South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death Star Wars Movie Released
John Paul II Becomes Pope Jonestown Massacre
Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island Sony Introduces the Walkman
Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran John Lennon Assassinated Rubik's Cube Popular Ted Turner Establishes CNN
Assassination Attempt on the Pope Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V. New Plague Identified as AIDS Pac-Man is Extremely Popular Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
E.T. Movie Released Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised After 437 Years Michael Jackson Releases Thriller Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden
Cabbage Patch Kids are Popular Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards PG-13 Movie Rating Created Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC
Famine in Ethiopia Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika New Coke Hits the Market Wreck of the Titanic Found
Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds U.S. Bombs Libya U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station
DNA First Used to Convict Criminals Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday" West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
Berlin Wall Falls Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn't Like Broccoli
Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space Lech Walesa Becomes First President of Poland Nelson Mandela Freed
Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier Collapse of the Soviet Union Operation Desert Storm South Africa Repeals Apartheid Laws
Official End of the Cold War Riots in Los Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict
Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially World Trade Center Bombed
Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain and France Lorena Bobbit Takes Brutal Revenge Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder Rwandan Genocide Begins
Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire Gas Attack in Tokyo Subway Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated
Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain Two Royal Divorces Unabomber Arrested
British Au Pair on Trial for Murder Hale-Bopp Comet Visible Hong Kong Returned to China Pathfinder Sends Back Images of Mars Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash Scientists Clone Sheep Tallest Buildings in the World Built in Kuala Lumpur Tiger Woods Wins Masters
India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever U.S. President Clinton Impeached Viagra on the Market
The Euro the New European Currency Fear of Y2K Bug JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Accident Killing Spree at Columbine High School NATO Attacks Serbia Panama Canal Returns to Panama Teri Wilber HeartsWithSoul OurLegacy makes no claims and bears no responsibility as to the originality of any content offered on our webpage regardless of its content. It is the sole responsibility of each person submitting material to HeartsWithSoul to make any necessary and suitable arrangements with respect to copyrights or publication rights as they may have any bearing.
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