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Hint
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Year
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September 11 attacks
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2001
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End of WW2 with the surrender of Japan
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1945
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End of WW1 in the Treaty of Versailles
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1918
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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1991
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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1968
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Soviet Union tests its first nuclear bomb
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1949
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Nazi Germany
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1933
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Mao Zedong declares the the People’s Republic of China
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1949
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English settlers land in Jamestown
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1607
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Fall of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II
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1453
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Inauguration of George Washington
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1789
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Execution by guillotine of Maximilien Robespierre
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1794
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Election of Abraham Lincoln
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1861
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Start of the Meiji Restoration
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1868
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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1915
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Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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1922
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Beginning of the Holodomor
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1932
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Hundreds of thousands killed in the Nanjing Massacre
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1937
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United States tests its first hydrogen bomb
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1949
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Sputnik becomes the first artificial Earth satellite
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1957
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The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring
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1968
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Roe v. Wade is passed, protecting women’s abortion rights
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1973
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Fall of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam
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1975
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Watergate break-in scandal leads to Nixon resigning
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1972
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Tiananmen Square Massacre
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1989
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China joins the World Trade Organization
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2001
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Xi Jinping becomes the president of China
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2013
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Release of OpenAI o1 model
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2024
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Charlemagne is crowned as the Holy Roman Empire
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800
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The Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Castille
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1494
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Luther publishes his Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg
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1517
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Defenestration of Prague catalyzed the Thirty Year’s War
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1618
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Glorious Revolution overthrows King James II of England
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1688
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Intolerable Acts passed after the Boston Tea Party
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1774
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The Articles of Confederation are ratified
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1781
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Haiti wins its independence from France
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1804
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Missouri Compromise
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1820
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Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as president of the US
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1829
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Treaty of Nanking ends the First opium War
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1842
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The Communist Manifesto is published by Marx and Engels
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1848
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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1848
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First War of Indian Independence / Sepoy Rebellion
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1857
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Treaty of Tientsin ends the Second Opium War
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1858
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Battle of Antietam is the deadliest one-day battle in the US
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1862
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Transcontinental Railroad is completed
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1869
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Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War
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1870
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Great Chicago Fire
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1871
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April Uprising, a Bulgarian revolt in the Ottoman Empire
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1876
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Satsuma Rebellion against the modernization of Japan
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1877
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Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom against Liliuokalani
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1893
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Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the First Sino-Japanese War
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1895
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Landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896
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Start of the Russo-Japanese War in Port Arthur
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1904
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Xinhai Revolution ends the Qing Dynasty
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1911
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Theodore Roosevelt creates the Progressive Party
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1912
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends the Eastern front in WW1
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1918
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Johnson-Reed Act limits immigration with nation quotas
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1924
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Shanghai Massacre ends the First United Front
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1927
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Trotsky is exiled from the USSR after a political struggle
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1929
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May 15 incident, an attempted coup d’etat in Japan
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1932
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Huey Long delivers his “Share Our Wealth” speech
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1934
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Xi’an Incident kidnapping leads to the Second United Front
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1936
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Invasion of Indochina by Japan
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1940
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Race riots in Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, etc.
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1943
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Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States
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1944
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George Orwell publishes 1984
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1949
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Death of Stalin
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1953
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Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” condemns the rule of Stalin
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1956
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Start of the Great Leap Forward
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1958
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Peak of the Great Chinese Famine
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1960
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Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
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1962
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Passage of the Civil Rights Act, outlawing segregation
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1964
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Hart-Celler Act shifts US immigration to Latin America, Asia
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1965
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Miranda v. Arizona leads to the Miranda rights
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1966
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Liu Shaoqi dies in imprisoned after being purged by Mao
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1969
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The US leaves the gold standard as the Nixon Shock
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1971
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Okinawa is returned to Japanese sovereignty
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1972
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India develops its first nuclear bomb, the Smiling Buddha
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1974
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Deng Xiaoping becomes the paramount leader of the PRC
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1978
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Iranian Revolution creates the Islamic Republic
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1979
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Gwangju Uprising is suppressed by South Korean military
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1980
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Shenzhen becomes China’s first Special Economic Zone
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1980
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Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as president of the US
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1981
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
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1985
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The Dow Jones plummets 22.6% on Black Monday
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1987
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June Democratic Struggle leads to democracy in Korea
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1987
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End of the Shōwa era in Japan
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1989
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1989
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Start of Gulf War to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation
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1990
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Maastricht Treaty is signed, creating the European Union
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1992
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North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect
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1994
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Sampoong Department Store collapse
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1995
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USA PATRIOT Act expands surveillance
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2001
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Invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein’s regime
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2003
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Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in Rawalpindi
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2007
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Belt and Road Initiative launched by Xi Jinping
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2013
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Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage
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2015
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60 killed in Las Vegas shooting in the Route 91 Harvest
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2017
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Start of the invasion of Ukraine
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2022
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