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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1865 | - 31 Jan 1865—31 Jan 1965: Slavery abolished
Congress passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
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| 2 | 1914 | - 18 Jun 1914—1918: WW1
The Habsburg and Ottoman empires collapse; maps of Europe and the Middle East are redrawn.
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| 3 | 1915 | - 1 Jan 1915—1 Jan 1915: NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
NYC’s first female cabbie gets behind the wheel
- 25 Jan 1915—25 Jan 1915: 1st Transatlantic phone call
Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st transcontinental phone call
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| 4 | 1929 | - 1929—1929: Stock Market Crash
“The chief business of the American people is business,” U.S. Pres. Calvin Coolidge said in 1925. And with the American economy humming during the “Roaring Twenties” (the Jazz Age), peace and prosperity reigned in the United States…until it didn’t. The era came to a close in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, setting the stage for years of economic deprivation and calamity during the Great Depression.
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| 5 | 1939 | - 1939—1945: WW2
Outbreak of Second World War: 50 million die worldwide from 1939-45 in the world’s largest and most deadly conflict, which ends the long age of imperialisms.
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| 6 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941—7 Dec 1941: Peal Harbor Attacked
Peal Harbor Attacked
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| 7 | 1944 | - 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D Day
D Day
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1913 - 1944 (30 years)
