Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1929
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Dalí and Buñuel collaborate on "Un chien andalou", an example of this artistic movement
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Surrealism
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1928
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Erich Maria Remarque's novel about soldiers' experiences in WWI is published
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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1927
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This science-fiction film about a big city moloch premieres in Berlin
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Metropolis
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1926
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This future Cuban leader is born
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Fidel Castro
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1925
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Adolf Hitler begins publishing this autobiographical manifesto
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Mein Kampf
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1924
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Petrograd adopts this new name
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Leningrad
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1923
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This racing event, spanning a whole day, is first held in a Northern French town
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24 Hours of Le Mans
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1922
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This Empire is partioned after more than 600 years of existence
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Ottoman Empire
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1921
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This party, which will seize power one year later, is founded in Italy
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Fascist National Party
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1920
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Five interlocking rings are introduced as the symbol of this sports event
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Olympics
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1919
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This organization, a prototype of the United Nations, is founded
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League of Nations
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1918
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After more than 100 years of partitions, this country re-emerges as a republic
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Poland
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1917
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This exotic dancer is arrested and executed for spying
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Mata Hari
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1916
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This self-proclaimed healer and friend of the Russian royal family dies
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Rasputin
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1915
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Franz Kafka's novella about a man who wakes up as a vermin is published
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The Metamorphosis
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1914
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Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa, where he acquired this honorific name
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Mahatma
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1913
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Hitler, Stalin and Tito live simultaneously in this city
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Vienna
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1912
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Puyi, this country's last emperor, abdicates
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China
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1911
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This Renaissance painting acquires unprecedented fame after its theft
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Mona Lisa
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1910
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This comet is visible from earth, only reappearing in 1986.
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Halley
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Although Qing Empire is conventionally accepted as just China, I think you should accept Qing instead of China as the official name of the country Puyi lead was Qing, not China and there is a definite difference between Qing and China (Qing was a country established and lead by Manchus, not Chinese)