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1 | 1882 | - 1882: Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
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2 | 1884 | - 1884: Film invented by George Eastman - replaces photographic plates.
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3 | 1885 | - 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
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4 | 1892 | - 1892: First telephone call from New York to Chicago.
- 1892: Ellis Island Opens
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5 | 1901 | - 1901: First transatlantic radio signal. Guglielmo Marconi.
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6 | 1901-1909 | - 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., President; Charles W. Fairbanks, V.P.
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7 | 1903 | - 1903: Wright Brothers - first powered flight.
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8 | 1908 | |
9 | 1913 | - 1913: The Suffragettes. Women struggle for the vote.
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10 | 1914 | - 1914: World War I begins.
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11 | 1916 | - 1916: WW I - The Battle of the Somme. In a bid to help the French, the British launched an assault on the Germans that cost 19,000 dead in the first day.
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12 | 1917 | - 1917: Bolsheviks sieze Russia. Communism reigns for next 70 years.
- 1917: Dec 16th - Halifax Explosion - largest before the atomic bomb, kills 1600 and injures 9000 in Canada's worst disaster.
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13 | 1918 - 191 | - 1918 - 191: The Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 21 million people worldwide.
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14 | 1918 | |
15 | 1919 | |
16 | 1928 | - 1928: Penicillin discovered.
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17 | 1929 | |
18 | 1932 | - 1932: Radio's golden years.
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19 | 1933 | - 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor.
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20 | 1933-1945 | |
21 | 1939 | - 1939: World War II begins - Canada declares war on Germany - 7 days after Britain and France.
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22 | 1940 | - 1940: Battle of Britain.
- 1940: Prime Minister Winston Churchill - "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
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23 | 1941 | - 1941: Pearl Harbor attack.
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24 | 1944 | - 1944: WW II D-Day - Allies land at the beaches of Normandy. The invasions lead to the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation.
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25 | 1945-1953 | - 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman, President; Alben W. Barkley, V.P.
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26 | 1945 | - 1945: 6 Aug - Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. World War II ends.
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27 | 1952 | - 1952: Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens. First bridge to connect Eastern & Western MD.
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28 | 1953-1961 | - 1953-1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower, President; Richard M. Nixon, V.P.
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29 | 1959 | - 1959: St. Lawrence Seaway opens providing transportation from Lake Superior to Montréal.
- Sep 1959: Liverpool Twp. NS was grated to fishermen from Cape Cod. Included Mersey & Medway Rivers.
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30 | 1961-1963 | - 1961-1963: John F. Kennedy, President; Lyndon B. Johnson, V.P.
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31 | 1963-1969 | - 1963-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson, President; Hubert H. Humphrey, V.P.
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32 | 1969-1974 | - 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon, President; Spiro Agnew, Gerald Ford, V.P.
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33 | 1974-1977 | - 1974-1977: Gerald R. Ford, President; Nelson Rockefeller, V.P.
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34 | 1977-1981 | - 1977-1981: James E. Carter, President; Walter F. Mondale, V.P.
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35 | 1981-1989 | - 1981-1989: Ronald W. Regan, President; George H.W.Bush, V.P.
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36 | 1989-1993 | - 1989-1993: George H.W. Bush, President; James D. Quayle III, V.P.
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