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Anasazi culture thrives
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c. A.D. 600-1300
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Christopher Columbus arrives
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1492
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U.S. Revolutionary War
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Industrial Revolution begins
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c. 1820
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U.S. Civil War
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1861-1865
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Transcontinental Railroad is completed
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1869
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U.S. African-American voting rights secured
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1870
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Klondike Gold Rush begins
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Aug 17, 1896
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Halifax explosion
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Dec. 6, 1917
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms enacted
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1982
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Immigration’s Big Wave
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1870-1914
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World War I
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1914-1918
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Russian Revolution
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1917
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Canadian women win the right to vote
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1918
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U.S. women win the right to vote
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1920
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Jazz is born
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c 1920
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Statute of Westminster passes
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1931
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World War II
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1939 - 1945
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Pearl Harbor attacked
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December 7, 1941
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First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
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August 6, 1945
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Watson & Crick discover DNA’s double helix structure
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1953
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20th century Civil Rights Movement begins
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c 1954
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Berlin Wall built
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1961
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President John F. Kennedy assassinated
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1963
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Vietnam War
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1965 - 1973
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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
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1968
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Robert F. Kennedy assasinated
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1968
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Apollo 11, man walks on the moon
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1969
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Watergate break-in
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1972
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President Richard M. Nixon resigns
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1974
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Art Fry and Spencer Silver of 3M Corp. invent 1980 Post-Its®
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1980
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Canada Act passed
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1982
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Berlin Wall demolished
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1989
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Tim Berrners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
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1989
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First successful cloning (sheep)
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1996
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Google™ Internet search engine is launched
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1998
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Terrorists attack and destroy New York’s World Trade Center
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September 11, 2001
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