Top News Stories of the 20th Century
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08/29/2016
Here is a list of some the top news stories of the 20th century...
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1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the first powered airplane -
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1906 Earthquake hits San Francisco -
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1912 'Unsinkable' Titanic, largest man-made structure, sinks -
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1917 U.S. enters World War I -
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1920 Women win the vote -
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1925 Teacher John Scopes' trial pits creation against evolution in Tennessee -
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1933 Adolf Hitler named Chancellor of Germany: Nazi Party begins to seize power -
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1939 Television debuts in America at New York World's Fair -
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1945 Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico -
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1946 UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications -
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1953 Structure of DNA discovered -
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1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott begins after Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person -
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1961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space -
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1963 President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas -
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1974 President Richard M. Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal -
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1978 Louise Brown, first "test-tube baby," born healthy -
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1981 Deadly AIDS disease identified -
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1989 Berlin Wall falls as East Germany lifts travel restrictions -
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1995 People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson -
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1997 Pathfinder lands on Mars, sending back astonishing photos
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