Every major event that I can think of in the 20th centurys 100 years. 1900- Galveston Hurricane destroys Galveston Texas 1901- William McKinley Assassinated 1902- Mont pele in martinque erupts 1903- Wright brothers become the first in manned flight 1904- henry ford sets the land speed record at 94mph 1905- the worlds biggest diamond is mined 1906- the san Francisco earthquake 1907- first Japanese animie short at 4 seconds long 1908- Tunguska explosion when a meteor explodes in Siberia it levels the forests for 100 mile radius 1909- Tel Aviv is founded 1910- Frankenstein movie released 1911- Titanic is built 1912- Titanic Sinks 1913- The Woolworth building in NYC is completed 1914- World War 1 starts 1915- RMS Lusitania sunk by German U-Boat 1916- Battle of the Somme WW1 1917- USA enters WW1 1918- World war 1 ends 1919- Red sox baseball world series fix 1920- Women gain the right to vote 1921- Immigration quota act 1922- Christopher lee is born 1923- Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan 1924- Lois Armstrong arrives in Chicago 1925- First electrical music recording 1926- Hurricane devastates Miami 1927- Mississippi Flood 1928- Steamboat Willie is released 1929- Stock market Crash Great Depression begins 1930- Uruguay wins the first world cup 1931- Empire State Building is finished 1932- The new deal 1933- Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 1934- Nuremburg Rally 1935- Emilia Earhart flies from Hawaii 1936- Hoover Dam is completed 1937- Snow white and the seven dwarfs is released to universal acclaim 1938- Niagara falls bridge falls due to ice. 1939- WW2 Starts 1940- Pinocchio is released 1941- pearl Harbor 1942- Battle of Stalingrad 1943- Battle of the bismark sea 1944- D-Day 1945- WW2 ends with the drop of the atom bomb 1946- Nuremburg Trails 1947- India gains independence from the British tyranny 1948- Israel is formed 1949- Peoples Republic of China is formed 1950- hurricanes are now named 1951- Alice in wonderland is released 1952- East Germany announces its own army 1953- Eisenhower becomes president 1954- Castle Bravo is detonated in the pacific archipelago of bikini atoll 1955- Deb Hickman is born 1956- Mel Gibson is born 1957- Racial tensions boil in little rock Arkansas with the little rock 9 1958- Spunik returns to earth 1959- Fidel Castro reigns 1960- The strongest earthquake ever recorded strikes chile 1961- Kennedy becomes president 1962- Cuban missile crisis 1963- Kennedy is murdered 1964- The beatles invade America YAY! 1965- Drive ins becomes the main movie experience 1966- England wins the world cup 1967- The summer of love 1968- Napalm attacks in Vietnam 1969- Neil Armstrong lands the moon 1970- Isle of wight festival in England 1971- Diamons are forever is released 1972- Munich massacre 1973- The exorcist is released 1974- Worker at Disneyland dies after being crushed by a rotating wall 1975- Jaws is released 1976- Concorde takes flight 1977- Two jumbo jets collide in Tenerife killing 583 people 1978- Argentina wins the world cup 1979- Saturn is photographed for the first time 1980- Mt st Helens erupts 1981- First space shuttle 1982- Number of the beast by iron maiden is released 1983- US Music festival 1984- Nelma Corrêa is born 1985- My brother is Born 1986- Chernobyl 1987- The living daylights is released 1988- Cannibal corpse is formed 1989- The berlin wall falls 1990- Germany will the world cup in Italy 1991- The Soviet union falls 1992- I AM BORN! 1993- WTC bombing 1994- Shawshank Redemption is released 1995- Oklahoma city bombing 1996- The internet is born 1997- Hong Kong is returned to china after 150 years of colonial rule by the British 1998- France wins the world cup at home 1999- Columbine High School Massacre 2000-The 2nd millennium and 20th century ends HAPPPY NEW YEAR!
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