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30 Cards in this Set
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1903 |
Wright brothers made the first manned flight |
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1908 |
Henry Ford made the first model T car using an assembly line |
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1912 |
Sinking of Titanic |
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1918 |
Women over 30 get the vote in Britain |
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1918-1919 |
Spanish Flu kills around 20 million people |
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1924 |
Frozen foods invented |
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1928 |
Antibiotics invented |
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1929-1939 |
The Great Depression leads to mass unemployment across the world |
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1930s |
First holiday camps |
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1931 |
Empire State Building, New York opens |
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1948 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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1948 |
Assasination of Mahatma Gandhi |
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1951 |
Birth control pill invented |
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1954 |
First nuclear power station |
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1959 |
The first Mini produced |
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1967 |
Torrey Canyon Supertanker sinks |
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1969 |
First man lands on the moon |
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1969 |
The internet invented |
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1969 |
Everyone over 18 gets the vote |
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1970s |
Mass university education |
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1970s |
Cheap overseas package holidays |
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1973 |
Britain joins the EEC (European Economic Community) |
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1974 |
(Irish Republican Army ) IRA Birmingham pub bumbs |
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1979 |
The Sony Walkman invented |
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1980s + |
HIV/AIDS spread across the world |
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1984-1985 |
Famine in Ethiopia |
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1986 |
Chernobyl nuclear power station explosion |
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1989 |
Berlin wall comes down |
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1990s + |
Concern about high levels of CO2 emisions |
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1990 |
Nelson Mandela freed from prison |
