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Our Family History and Ancestry
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 1874 - 1968 (94 years)
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| 1 | 1893 | - 1893: World's Columbian Exposition
Columbian Exposition World's Fair in Chicago.
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| 2 | 1905 | - 30 Jun 1905: Theory of Relativity Established
Albert Einstein finds the Theory of Relativity, explaining how gravity functions and actually bends space.
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| 3 | 1906 | - 18 Apr 1906: San Francisco Earthquake
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The resulting fires devastated the city, causing major relocation of its population.
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| 4 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
World War I. The United States entered the war in 1917.
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| 5 | 1918 | - 1918—1920: Spanish Flu Pandemic
Spanish Flu Pandemic
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| 6 | 1920 | - 1920—1933: Prohibition
Prohibition in the U.S.
- 18 Aug 1920: Women can vote
The 19th Amendment is ratified, allowing women the right to vote.
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| 7 | 1929 | - Oct 1929: Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was followed by The Great Depression of the 1930s.
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| 8 | 1933 | - 1933—1934: Century of Progress Exposition
Century of Progress World's Fair, Chicago.
- 1933—1936: Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent wind erosion.
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| 9 | 1939 | - 1939—1945: World War II
World War II. Nazi invasion of Poland, 1 Sep 1939. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941. German surrender, 8 May 1945. Formal surrender of Japan, 2 Sep 1945.
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| 10 | 1950 | - 25 Jun 1950—27 Jul 1953: Korean War
Korean War.
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| 11 | 1955 | - 12 Apr 1955: Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk announces first polio vaccine.
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| 12 | 1965 | - 1965—1973: Vietnam War
U.S. Involvement in Vietnam War. The Vietnam War occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, at the time of the Tet Offensive. U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress. The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.
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| 13 | 1967 | - 21 Apr 1967: Tornado
On Friday afternoon April 21, 1967 the Chicago area suffered a tornado outbreak of at least 10 tornadoes, 3 of which were violent F4 tornadoes. What has been called The Oak Lawn tornado was an F4 that traveled 16 miles and killed 33.
See maps: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/lot/severe/OakLawn_map.pdf
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