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| 1 | 1914 | - 1914—1918: WAR: World War I.Triple Alliance - Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente - Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
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| 2 | 1917 | - 17 Jul 1917—1917: ROYAL: House of Windsor name adopted. .
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| 3 | 1918 | - 1918—1918: HISTORY: .Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
- 1918—1919: EPEDEMIC: Influenza pandemic.The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as Spanish Flu or La Grippe the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
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| 4 | 1919 | - 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
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| 5 | 1920 | - 1920—1920: HISTORY: Tommy Gun patented by John T Thompson..
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| 6 | 1921 | - 1921—1921: HISTORY: Artificial life begins .The first robot built.
- 1921—1921: POLITICAL: Woodrow Wilson, President.
- 4 Mar 1921—31 Jul 1921: POLITICAL: Warren Harding, President.Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
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| 7 | 1922 | - 1922—1922: HISTORY: .Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
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| 8 | 1923 | - 1923—1923: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
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| 9 | 1924 | - 1924—1924: HISTORY: .Dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
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| 10 | 1925 | - 1925—1925: HISTORY: .Mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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| 11 | 1926 | - 1926—1926: HISTORY: .Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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| 12 | 1927 | - 1927—1927: HISTORY: .JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
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| 13 | 1928 | - 1928—1928: HISTORY: Penecillin Developed.Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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| 14 | 1929 | - 1929—1929: HISTORY: .American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- 1929—1929: POLITICAL: .Calvin Coolidge president of the USA. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
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| 15 | 1931 | - 1931—1931: HISTORY: .Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
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| 16 | 1932 | - 1932—1932: HISTORY: .Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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| 17 | 1933 | - 1933—1933: HISTORY: .Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- 1933—1933: POLITICAL: .Herbert Hoover president of the USA.
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| 18 | 1934 | - 1934—1934: HISTORY: .Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
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| 19 | 1935 | - 1935—1935: HISTORY: .Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
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1917 - 1935 (18 years)
