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Date |
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1 | 1898 | - 1898—1898: Spanish-American War
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2 | 1906 | - 1906—1906: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3,000.
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3 | 1914 | |
4 | 1919 | - 1919—1933: Prohibition of alcohol occurs in the United States.
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5 | 1929 | - 1929—1940: The Great Depression
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6 | 1939 | |
7 | 1949 | - 1949—1949: Establishment of the defense alliance NATO.
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8 | 1950 | |
9 | 1955 | - 1955—1975: The Vietnam War
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10 | 1958 | - 1958—1958: NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958
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11 | 1962 | - 1962—1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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12 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963—22 Nov 1963: John F. Kennedy assassination
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13 | 1964 | - 1964—1964: The first successful Minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation 12-bit PDP-8, is marketed.
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14 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969—20 Jul 1969: Apollo 11, the first human spaceflight lands on the Moon
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15 | 1971 | - 1971—1971: The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation
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16 | 1974 | - 1974—1974: President Richard Nixon resigns as President
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17 | 1980 | - 1980—1980: Famous former Beatles musician John Lennon was assassinated
- 18 May 1980—18 May 1980: Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington
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