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| 1 | 1918 | - 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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| 2 | 1919 | - 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
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| 3 | 1920 | - 1920—1920: HISTORY: Tommy Gun patented by John T Thompson..
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