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CHRONOLOGY
1919 Prohibition begins in USA
1920 Hitler makes first speech
1921 Irish Free State established
1922 Tutankhamen's tomb opened
1923 Autogyro invented
1924 Lenin dies, Stalin takes over
1925 Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf"
1926 General Strike
1927 Lindbergh flies Atlantic solo
1928 Mickey Mouse born
1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre
Stock Market Crash, Wall Street
1930 Pluto discovered
1931 Empire State skyscraper finished
1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapped
1933 Great Depression starts
1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 policemen
1935 Lawrence of Arabia dies in crash
1936 George V dies, Edward VIII abdicates
1937 Bombing of Guernica in Spain
1938 Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia
1939 World War II begins
1940 Battle of Britain
1941 Pearl Harbour attacked by Japan
1942 Singapore surrenders to Japan
1943 Russia beats Germany at Stalingrad
1944 Allies land in France on D-Day
1945 Atom bomb ends World War II
1946 First electronic computer unveiled
1947 Very cold winter in UK
1948 Railways nationalised in UK
1949 Blockade of Berlin
1950 Korean War starts
1951 USA explodes H-bomb
1952 Queen Elizabeth II ascends throne
1953 North Sea floods drown 1,835
1954 Bannister runs 4-minute mile
1956 Suez Canal nationalised
1957 Sputnik launched
1958 Munich Air disaster
1959 Castro enters Havana, Cuba
1961 Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 Beatles first record
1963 President Kennedy assasinated
1964 Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston
1965 Winston Churchill dies aged 90
1966 Vietnamese War starts
1968 Martin Luther King assasinated
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon
1970 Isle of Wight Rock Festival
1971 UK Decimalisation Day
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