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Child: Mamie June Streit
Mamie Elizabeth Moser (1891 - 1985)
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Ethiopia - Famine shocks the world
Antarctica - Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered
USSR - Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
UK - Wreck of the Titanic Found
Seattle, WA, USA - Windows operating system created by Microsoft
Libya - US bombing of Libya
Bhopal, India - Huge Poison Gas Leak from Union Carbide chemical plant
India - Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards
UK - The CD-ROM invented.
CA, USA - The Apple Macintosh invented.
UK - BBC launches EastEnders as soap rival to Coronation Street
UK - £1 coin goes into circulation
USA - Ronald Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars
USA - Soviet Union Shoots Down a Korean Airliner
Grenada - United States Intervention
UK - Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
USA - First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
USA - Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term virtual reality.
UK - Miners' strike - High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
UK - Unemployment reaches 3 million
Berkshire, UK - Women's peace protests against cruise missiles begin at Greenham Common
USA - E.T. Movie Released
UK - King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised from seabed After 437 Years
New York, NY, USA - Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden
UK - Margaret Thatcher wins landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209
UK - Worst April blizzards of 20th century
London, UK - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
UK - Assassination Attempt on Pope John Paul II
USA - Ronald Reagan president 1981-1989.
USA - Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan
UK - AIDS Identified
UK - Pac-Man is Extremely Popular
USA - Personal Computer (PC) Introduced by IBM
Seattle, WA, USA - MS-DOS invented.
Falkland Islands - Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Tehran, Iran - Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
New York, NY, USA - John Lennon Assassinated
USA - Mount St. Helens Erupts
UK - Rubik's Cube Popular
Atlanta, GA, USA - Ted Turner Establishes CNN
UK - The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA - First US Space Shuttle (Columbia) launched
UK - Public sector strike paralyses country
Tehran, Iran - Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
Tehran, Iran - Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
Stockholm, Sweden - Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Japan - Sony Introduces the Walkman
UK - Cellular phones invented.
USA - Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
USA - Scott Olson invents roller blades.
London, UK - Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies after an assassin stabs him with a poisoned umbrella at a London bus stop.
Rome, Italy - Pope John Paul II elected by cardinals: first non-Italian for 450 years
UK - The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
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  • 1893: USA - Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zip to help a friend with a stiff back who could not bend over to do up his shoes
  • 1893: UK - Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords
  • 1893: New Zealand - First nation to grant women the right to vote
  • 1893: France - Car number plates introduced
  • 1893: USA - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
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  • 1894: UK - Rosebery takes power with his minority Liberal government
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  • 1912: North Sea - The Sinking of the Titanic: 1,515 people lose their lives.
  • 1912: UK - Parachutes Invented
  • 1912: UK - Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered but later revealed as a fraud
  • 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
  • 1912: UK - Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
  • 1912: UK - The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
  • 1912: USA - Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy
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  • 1913: USA - Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as Formica
  • 1913: Detroit, MI, USA - First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
  • 1913: New York, NY, USA - The Armory Show, an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory. It arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
  • 1913: USA - Personal Income Tax introduced
  • 1913: Washington, DC, USA - Woodrow Wilson president 1913-1921.
  • 1913: UK - The crossword puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
  • 1913: USA - The Merck Chemical Company patented what is now known as ecstasy.
  • 1913: USA - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
  • 1913: USA - Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
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  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
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  • 1944: France - D-Day landings
  • 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
  • 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
  • 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
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  • 1948: USA - Life magazine makes painter Jackson Pollock an overnight celebrity by devoting a three-page spread with color photographs to him and his paintings under the headline, Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?; Abstract Expressionism becomes a subject of widespread popular ridicule.
  • 1948: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Airlift
  • 1948: UK - Big Bang Theory Formulated
  • 1948: India - Gandhi Assassinated
  • 1948: South Africa - Policy of Apartheid Begun
  • 1948: Israel - State of Israel Founded
  • 1948: USA - The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
  • 1948: USA - Velcro® invented by George de Mestral.
  • 1948: USA - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox
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