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1925 - The year Paul Newman, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Angela Lansbury, Johnny Carson, and Sammy Davis Jr are all born. Neat!
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1924 - Mercedes-Benz is formed by the merging companies owned by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
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1923 - Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker) is born. Loved her in All in the Family, because she reminded me of my Grandma.
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1922 - DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
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1921 - Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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1920 - "Not a woman here could vote, no matter what age. Then the Nineteenth Amendment struck down that restrictive rule!"
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1919 - Prohibition in the United States is authorized by Congress
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1918 - wow a lot of interesting things happened but I chose two things:
#1 - World War I Ends!
#2 - May 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third year in a row by a tornado. Coincidentally, all three tornadoes hit on May 20, 1916, 1917, and 1918 respectively.
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1917 - Mata Hari is arrested for spying.
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1916 - The Boeing company is founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington.
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1915 - Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
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1914 - World War I. Nuff said.
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1913 - The US Constitution is amended twice: The sixteenth legalized the federal income tax; the seventeenth established the direct election of US Senators.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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1912 - New Mexico and Arizona became 47th and 48th State respectively, while the tragedy struck as the Titanic sunk.
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1911 - The first Monte Carlo races (Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) are held.
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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1910 - Mark Twain, who said he would go out with Halley's Comet, remained true to his word.
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1909 - The city of Barcelona experienced a workers' uprising that became known as "Tragic Week."
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1908 - the end of the Penny Indian (1 cent penny)
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1907 - Oklahoma is admitted to the union as the 46th state. It was another 36 years before it opened on Broadway. 
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1906 : the Great Earthquake struck San Francisco on April 18, resulting in Fires and many deaths. (of course I am from the Bay Area and they are doing the celebration on that every year. ) 
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1905 - Albert Einstein formalizes his theory of special relativity. Thank you, Wakko Warner.
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1904- The Russo-Japanese War begins, in which Russia's loss surprised and shocked the Western world.
Go with the good and you'll be like them; go with the evil and you'll be worse than them.- Portuguese Proverb
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1903 - Kitty Hawk. Wright Brothers. Nuff said.
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1902 - The first ever Rose Bowl (that's for American football, y'all) is hosted in Pasadena.
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1901 - Assassination of President William S. McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
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