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The Roaring Twenties in America

100 years ago this year, the United States entered an extremely prosperous decade, with a booming economy, new technology, and great social change for many...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1920 Events

1920 will be remembered as year when the League of Nations was created, the 19th Amendment was passed in America giving women the right to...
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From Boom to Bust: Timeline of the Great Depression, 1930s

While the United States was experiencing economic prosperity throughout the 1920s, it seemed like the good times were never going to end. However, the Wall...
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A Year in History: 1997 Timeline

1997 events are not to be forgotten. From a cult’s mass suicide, a Princess losing her life, and a lone person making it across Antarctica,...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1996 Events

From the first images of Pluto, the introduction of a new computer language to the 26th Olympic Games, 1996 was an eventful year. To learn...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1985 Events

In a year where Coca Cola was reformulated, two star-studded concerts raised over $70 million for African famine and two world leaders met for the...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1982 Events

1982 was an eventful year, with Ozzy Osbourne eating a bat live on stage, the Falkland War taking place and a new British Prince being...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1981 Events

In a year where a 19 inch colour TV cost £399, 1981 events are ones not to forget. From the first London Marathon taking place,...
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A Year in History: 1970 Timeline

In a year where the average price of a house was £4,975 and a gallon of petrol cost just 10.2p, there were a lot of...
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1949 Timeline

Following the end of the Second World War, after battling through many long years of the Great Depression, Britain begins to move back into normality...
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A Year in History: 1987 Timeline

A year where Paul McCartney and George Harrison release singles on the same day, the US Congress convenes for the 100th time and Vincent van...
A Year in History: Timeline of 1950 Events

A Year in History: Timeline of 1950 Events

At the beginning of a new decade, where the average house price was £1,940 and a gallon of petrol cost four shillings and sixpence (22p...
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A History of the Daily Record

The Daily Record is a popular Scottish newspaper published in Glasgow, Scotland. The newspaper is in tabloid format and reports on the latest Scottish, UK...

1949 Cold War Events

Many historians believe the Cold War was inevitable, and there were several major events in 1949 that set it in motion. The 1949 Cold War...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1959 Events

Alaska became America’s 49th state, Hawaii became the 50th state and primates Miss Able and Miss Baker were launched into space for the first time....
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A Year in History: 1939 Timeline

Major 1939 events signalled the coming of the Second World War. The interwar period represented an era of significant global changes. A brief term of...
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A Year in History: Timeline of 1969 Events

What happened in 1969? The war ended. The swinging sixties quivered with change. A chain of famous events in 1969 would change the world for...
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World's First Passenger Railway

Railroads were already in existence for quite some time, used primarily to transport goods, prior to the idea of them being used to transport people...
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