Each clue corrisponds to an event that occurred in a specific year in the 20th Century. Figure out that year and find it in the puzzle below. To make it easier, the years are in chronological order
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Last updated: June 4, 2026
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Creation of the Commonwealth of Australia
Cuba gains independence
U.S engineers start working on the Panama Canal
San Fransisco Earthquake strikes
Ford Motor Company releases the Ford Model T
Ronald Amusdesen and his five person team become the first people to reach the south pole
The Treaty of London was signed ending the First Balkan war
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Assasinated, sparking World War 1
Russia officially leaves World War 1
The Treaty of Verseilles was signed, resulting in the end of World War 1
The Communist Party of China was established
Richard Byrd, and Floyd Bennet are the first people to fly over the north pole.
The global stock market hit its lowest of the Great Depression
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuher, combining chancellorship and Presidency.
Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) occurs as Nazi mobs send over 30,000 Jews to concentration camps
The bombing of Pearl Harbor, launch the United States into World War 2
The U.S Navy defeated Japan at the battle of midway
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising occurs as Jewish resistance fighters fight against Nazi deportation efforts.
D-Day occurs as the largest amphibious invasion in history
U.S drops Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forcing Japan to pull out of the war.
The Partition of India took place, granting India and Pakistan independence from British rule
NATO is formed and Germany is divided
President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, legally ending segregation
The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight
Following a genocide, Bangladesh declares independence from Pakistan and wins.
Star Wars: A New Hope was released.
Vietnam launches a full scale invasion of Cambodia, initiating the Cambodian-Vietnamese war
The Shah of Iran was deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini transforms the country into an Islamic state
The WHO declares the official global eradication of small pox
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched, the first reusable manned Spacecraft.
The first 1g mobile cellular network was launched in the United States.
The World Wide Web was invented
The USSR officially dissolved and Boris Yeltsin takes power as the president of the Russian federation
A 100 day genocide occurs in Rwanda causing 800,000 deaths
Cool concept, but unfortunately I could just do it by looking for "19" and immediately highlighting that and the two numbers that follow. Fun puzzle, though.