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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1924
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This future president is born, the first to be born in a hospital
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Jimmy Carter
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1925
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This book is written by Adolf Hitler in prison and later published
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Mein Kampf
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1926
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The North Side Gang attempted to assassinate this man by shooting thousands of machine gun rounds into a cafe where he was sitting. However, he escaped unharmed
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Al Capone
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1927
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This woman is born. The next day would be her first meeting with Jimmy Carter (Use maiden name)
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Rosalynn Smith
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1928
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This type of food was invented, many describe it as the "best thing"
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Sliced bread
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1929
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Douglass Fairbanks hosted the first of this award show, in a 15 minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel
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Academy Awards
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1930
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A mixture of drought, high temperatures, and poor agricultural practices started this natural/manmade disaster
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The Dust Bowl
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1931
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This car brand was founded in Stuttgart, Germany
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Porsche
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1932
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This "war" starts in Australia, because of rising tensions started by one side continuously eating the grain off of the fields of the members of the other side
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Emu War
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1933
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The United stopped basing their currency on this system
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The Gold Standard
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1934
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This couple is killed in a shootout with police near Sailes, Indiana
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Bonnie and Clyde
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1935
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Heinrich Hertz, Christian Hülsmeyer, and Robert Watson-Watt discover this technology that is used to help pilots navigate in fog
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Radar
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1936
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This British monarch abdicates the throne, making him the first and only to do so
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Edward VIII
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1937
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This Zeppelin went down in New Jersey, killing 35
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Hindenburg
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1938
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German troops enter this region of Czechloslovakia
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Sudetenland
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1939
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This major global conflict is started
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World War 2
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1940
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This football team beat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the worst defeat in NFL history
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The Chicago Bears
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1941
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This Hawaiian naval base was attacked, which cause the United States to enter the war
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Pearl Harbor
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1942
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This young girl went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam
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Anne Frank
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1943
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This boat, run by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy was run down by a Japanese Destroyer, Amagiri
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PT-109
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1944
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This large volcano, located in Naples, erupted for the last time
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Mount Vesuvius
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1945
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This organization was founded. It seeks to maintain peace across the globe
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United Nations
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1946
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This form of female swimwear was invented
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Bikini
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1947
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The first of this form of media was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann
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Video Games
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1948
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This man was assassinated in New Delhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
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1949
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This George Orwell book set in a dystopian world warning of the dangers of authoritarianism
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1984
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1950
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A referendum in Belgium is held in which the population votes to return this monarch to power, days later the Belgian government fell apart.
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Leopold III
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1951
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This married couple was tried and convicted for espionage
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Rosenbergs
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1952
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This longest reigning Queen of the UK took the throne
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Elizabeth II
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1953
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Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay become the first two people to reach the top of this mountain
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Mount Everest
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1954
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These two words were added to the pledge of alleigence
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Under God
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1955
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This woman refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery
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Rosa Parks
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1956
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The court cases Slochower v. Board of Education and Cole v. Young greatly weakened this institution
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McCarthyism
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1957
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The Soviet union sent this object up to space, the first of its kind
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Sputnik 1
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1958
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This president of Cuba has to flee the country after the fall of Santa Clara
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Fulgencio Batista
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1959
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A plane goes down and kills two popular singers, which has since been called this
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The Day the Music Died
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1960
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This band was formed in Liverpool
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The Beatles
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1961
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This military operation was unsuccessfully carried on the south coast of Cuba
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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1962
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The first store of this large superstore was opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
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Wal-mart
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1963
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This man recorded the assassination of John F Kennedy
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Abraham Zapruder
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1964
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This man won his first world championship, in heavyweight boxing, his first of 3 separate times
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Cassius Clay Jr.(Muhammad Ali)
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1965
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This man fled Cuba to go around South America and Africa to incite revolutions in many countries
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Che Guevara
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1966
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This former actor is elected governor of California
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Ronald Reagan
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1967
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This future presidential candidates plane is shot down over Vietnam, and held as a prisoner of war for the next 5 years
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John McCain
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1968
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These two men were assassinated months apart, one at a hotel, and one at a motel
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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These two men were assassinated months apart, one at a hotel, and one at a motel
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Robert Kennedy
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1969
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Humans landed on this celestial body for the first time
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The Moon
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1970
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This Beatles member filed a lawsuit against the band
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Paul McCartney
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1971
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This number increased by 2.7% from the last year, the highest increase in history
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Population
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1972
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This event happened in which British soldiers massacred protesters in Northern Ireland
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Bloody Sunday
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1973
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This horse wins the 1973 Belmont stakes, man consider it the most impressive horse race win of all time
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Secretariat
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1974
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This puzzle toy was created in Hungary
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Rubik's cube
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1975
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This type of vehicle was invented by Bob Chandler
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Monster Truck
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1976
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Jimmy Carter won the election for this office
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The Presidency
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1977
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This type of execution was used for the last time in France
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Guillotine
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1978
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The first edition of this comic strip goes into nationwide syndication
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Garfield
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1979
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This country's president was assassinated by the director of their intelligence agency
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South Korea
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1980
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This event, to be held in Moscow, was boycotted by the United States
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The Olympics
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1981
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Hostages were finally released from this city
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Tehran
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1982
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Argentina invaded this British Territory
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The Falkland Islands
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1983
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The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP occurred, and is believed to have been the beginning of this
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The Internet
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1984
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Apple released this product, which popularized the use of the mouse
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The Macintosh
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1985
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This video game was released, popularizing the side-scrolling genre
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Super Mario Bros
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1986
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The Carter Center started their goal to end this disease
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Guinea worm
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1987
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Rick Astley released this most popular song of his
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Never Gonna Give You Up
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1988
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This type of natural disaster occurred in the US and Canada
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Drought
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1989
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This structure, constructed in 1961, is destroyed
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The Berlin Wall
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1990
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The Soviet Union elected a leader through this process for the first time
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Democracy
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1991
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This country started to fall apart as a result of the fall of communism is Eastern Europe and civil war
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Yugoslavia
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1992
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The Church of England votes to allow this group of people to become priests
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Women
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1993
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This Colombian drug lord was gunned down by police
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Pablo Escobar
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1994
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This company was founded by Jeff Bezos
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Amazon
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1995
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This first completely computer animated feature length film was released
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Toy Story
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1996
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A sheep was the first mammal to be born from this process
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Cloning
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1997
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This woman is killed in a car crash in Paris
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Princess Diana
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1998
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This sitcom airs its final episode, after 9 seasons
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Seinfeld
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1999
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This currency is established, now one of the biggest in the world
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Euro
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2000
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The final comic in this strip is published, after a 50 year long run
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Peanuts
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2001
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This group lost control of Afghanistan
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The Taliban
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2002
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Jimmy Carter wins this award
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Nobel Peace Prize
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2003
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This former president of Iraq is captured by the United States Army
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Saddam Hussein
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2004
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This series airs its final episode after 10 seasons
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Friends
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2005
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The first video was published on this website
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YouTube
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2006
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This celestial body loses its status as a planet
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Pluto
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2007
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This reality show airs its final episode after 44 years
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The Price is Right
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2008
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The first movie of this major film series was released
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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2009
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This territory of Denmark becomes autonomous
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Greenland
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2010
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The tallest building in the world was opened in this city
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Dubai
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2011
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This country, the newest to this date, gains independence
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South Sudan
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2012
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This type of event was scheduled for late December, but never happened
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Extinction
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2013
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This video game was released by Rockstar Games, which went on to sell 190 million copies
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Grand Theft Auto 5
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2014
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This region was formally annexed by Russia
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Crimea
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2015
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The United States allowed this type of couple to wed for the first time
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Same-Sex
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2016
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The United Kingdom voted to perform this action against the EU
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Brexit
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2017
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A new species of this animal was discovered in Indonesia
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Orangutan
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2018
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This rapper was shot in Deerfield Beach, Florida
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XXXTentacion
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2019
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This disease started in Wuhan, China
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Covid-19
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2020
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This disease was eradicated in Africa
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Polio
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2021
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This rapper held a concert where 10 people died from injuries
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Travis Scott
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2022
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This website was created and released by OpenAI
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ChatGPT
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2023
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A submarine under this name imploded, killing all five people on board
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Titan
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2024
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This popular animation entered the public domain
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Steamboat Willie
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