| 1914 |
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Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies |
| 1917 |
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Death of Buffalo Bill Cody (showman) |
| 1917 |
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Chicago takes over from New Orleans as capital of jazz |
| 1917 |
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US enters First World War - balance tips in Allies' favour |
| 1919 |
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Prohibition of alcohol in North America |
| 1925 |
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Art Deco movement at its height |
| 1927 |
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Charles Lindburgh makes first solo flight of Atlantic |
| 1927 |
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First "talkie" movie - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson |
| 1928 |
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Walt Disney introduces character of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie" |
| 1928 |
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Bessie Smith recording first Blues songs |
| 1929 |
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Valentines Day Massacre - Al Capone gains control of Chicago underworld |
| 1929 |
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US Stock Market Crash |
| 1930 |
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Pluto (last planet) discovered by Clyde Tombaugh |
| 1933 |
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End of Prohibition of alcohol |
| 1933 |
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FD Roosevelt becomes US President |
| 1934 |
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Bonnie Parke and Clyde Barrow ("Bonnie and Clyde") killed in Louisiana |
| 1935 |
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Count Basie leads his Big Band Orchestra |
| 1936 |
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Joe Louis becomes heavyweight boxing champion |
| 1941 |
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Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbour brings US into WW2 |
| 1942 |
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Manhattan Project established to develop atomic bomb |
| 1945 |
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Jackson Pollock pioneers action painting |
| 1945 |
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US drops first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1945 |
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Germany and Japan surrender - end of Second World War (45m killed) |
| 1945 |
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ENIAC considered to be first functional computer |
