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| 1908 |
| January
15th |
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US
physicist Edward Teller was born In Hungary. He worked on the
Manhattan
Project during WWII, and is known as the 'Father' of
the Hydrogen bomb. |
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| June
30th |
|
The Tunguska Impact occured in Siberia. A meteor entered the
Earth's atmosphere and exploded above ground and caused devastation. |
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| August
22nd |
|
French
photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, known as the'eye of the
century', was born near Paris. He documented some of the major
events of the 20th century, Spanish Civil War, liberation of
Paris, the fall of Beijing to Mao's communists and the death
of Mahatma Gandhi. |
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| August
27th |
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Futrue President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson was
born. |
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| September
2nd |
|
Valentin
Petrovich Glushko was born. Engines developed under Glushko
were installed on all early Soviet launch vehicles including
variants of the R-7, which launched the Sputnik and Vostok
missions. |
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| October
1st |
|
Henry
Ford introduced the Model T car. Price, $850. |
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| October
5th |
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Bulgaria
gained independence from Turkey. |
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| October
6th |
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Austria
annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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| November
15th |
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Belgium
took over the Congo from King Leopold. |
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| November
15th |
|
Empress
Zi Xi (Tz'-hsi) of China died. |
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| December
28th |
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An earthquake destroyed Messina, Sicily and Calabria and killed
over 75,000 people. |
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| December
31st |
|
Simon Wiesenthal was born in Austria. Wiesenthal was imprisoned
by the Nazi's during WWII and survived. He then became well
known as an active hunter of Nazi War criminals. |
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