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1 | 1864 | - 1864—1864: NATIVE AMERICAN: Colonel Kit Carson sent to deal with Comanches at first battle of Adobe Walls with Ute and Jicarilla Scouts, Carson left after 4 day battle and never again returned to Texas to fight Comanches..
- 1864—1864: NATIVE AMERICAN: Five days after Carson's battle, Chivington's Colorado volunteers attacked a sleeping Cheyenne village.Sand Creek in southern Colorado mutilating 300 Cheyenne, mostly women and children.
- 31 Oct 1864—1864: POLITICAL: Nevada statehood.
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2 | 1865 | - 1865—1865: NATIVE AMERICAN: Council held with Confederates & Plains Tribes at Washita River 2 weeks after Lee had surrendered..
- 1865—1865: NATIVE AMERICAN: Little Arkansas Treaty signed with the Comanche and other Plains Tribes..
- 1865—1865: WAR: Civil War.
- 1865—1869: POLITICAL: Andrew Johnson, President.Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
- 14 Apr 1865—1865: POLITICAL: Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the next day..
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3 | 1866 | - 1866—1866: HISTORY: .Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
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4 | 1867 | - 1867—1867: HISTORY: .Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
- 1867—1867: NATIVE AMERICAN: EPEDIMIC Cholera strikes Comanche tribes.
- 1867—1867: NATIVE AMERICAN: Treaty of Medicine Lodge signed by Comanche Tribes, Quohada band refused to sign under Chief Quanah..Treaty of Medicine Lodge signed by Comanche Tribes, Quohada band refused to sign under Chief Quanah.
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5 | 1868 | - 1868—1868: HISTORY: .J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche bands that signed treaty moved to Fort Cobb only to leave again in summer to return home to the Plains..
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche raids target Texas and Kansas, all tribes are then ordered to Oklahoma..
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Custer's Last Stand.George Armstong Custer and the 7th Cavalry attacks a southern Cheyenne village on the Washita in November.
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Major Andrew Evans attacks a Comanche village at Soldiers Spring on Christmas Day..
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6 | 1869 | - 1869—1869: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche-Kiowa agency was relocated to Fort Sill and the Cheyenne-Arapaho agency to Darlington..
- 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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7 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
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8 | 1871 | - 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: KIOWA RAIDS GENERAL WILLIAM SHERMAN's WAGON TRAIN.AND ALMOST KILLS THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY.A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station.
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kiowa raids General William Shermans wagon train and almost kills the Supreme Commander of the American Army..
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station..
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Randell Mackenzie and his black buffalo soldiers fight Quanah for 2 years on the Plains..
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9 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: HISTORY: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Combined Comanche and Kiowa raids in Texas kills 20 in Texas, at same time Texans steal 1,900 + horses from tribes at Ft. Sill Ok..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mackenzie attacks a Comanche Village at McClellan Creek he takes 130 women and children hostage and imprisons them at Ft. Concho. 200 or more lodges destroyed..
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10 | 1873 | - 1873—1873: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet & Yellow Fever.Memphis, TN; PA; NY; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: GENERAL RANDALL MACKENZIE AND HIS BLACK BUFFALO SOLDIERS FIGHT THE KWAHADA BAND OF COMANCHES FOR 2 YEARS ON THE PLAINS..
- 1873—1873: HISTORY: .Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche hostages released and forced to go to Ft. Sill..
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11 | 1874 | - 1874—1874: HISTORY: .American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cheyenne hunters report that there are dead buffalo all over the Plains.Violence erupted at Wichita and Darlington Agencies and put down by federal troops.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Large Groups of Cheyennes leave the reservation for the Plains..
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: A large Comanche-Cheyenne war party attacked 23 buffalo hunters camped in the Texas Panhandle at the site of Carson's 1864 battle at Adobe Walls..
- 1874—1874: WAR: Red River War or Buffalo War begins, this is the last Great Indian War in the Plains..
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12 | 1875 | - 1875—1875: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - North American & Europe.
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Miles attacks a group of Cheyenne near McClellan Creek..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Mackenzie attacks and burns 5 Comanche villages in Palo Duro Canyon and massacres women and children and destroys over 1400 Comanche horses..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: Winter time brings starvation to the Indians and they start to return to the reservation after relentless pursuit by Federal Troops..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: In April 200 Kwahada, who had never submitted, surrendered at Fort Sill.. In June the last 400 Kwahada with Quanah Parker surrendered.
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13 | 1876 | - 1876—1876: HISTORY: .Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
- 1876—1876: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - Worlwide.(one of the worst recorded)
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14 | 1877 | - 1877—1877: HISTORY: .Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
- 24 Mar 1877—3 Mar 1881: POLITICAL: Rutherford Hayes, President .
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15 | 1878 | - 1878—1878: HISTORY: .Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electric light bulb.
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16 | 1879 | - 1879—1879: NATIVE AMERICAN: The Buffalo of the Great Plains were gone, over 15 million destroyed by white hunters..Estimation taken this year was less than 1500 buffalo left in the Great Plains.
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17 | 1880 | - 1880—1880: HISTORY: .Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
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18 | 1881 | - 1881—1881: HISTORY: David Houston patents the roll film for cameras..
- 1881—1885: POLITICAL: Chester A. Arthur, President.Vice President under James Garfield, sworn in as president upon the death of Garfield.
- 4 Mar 1881—19 Sep 1881: POLITICAL: James Garfield, President.
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19 | 1884 | - 1884—1884: HISTORY: .James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
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20 | 1885 | - 1885—1885: HISTORY: .Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine.
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21 | 1886 | - 1886—1886: HISTORY: .John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
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22 | 1887 | - 1887—1887: HISTORY: .German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
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23 | 1888 | - 1888—1888: HISTORY: John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire..
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24 | 1889 | - 1889—1889: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
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25 | 1890 | - 3 Jul 1890—1890: POLITICAL: Idaho statehood.
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26 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: HISTORY: .Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
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27 | 1892 | - 1892—1892: HISTORY: .Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
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28 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: HISTORY: .American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
- 1893—1893: POLITICAL: Benjamin Harrison, President.
- 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: POLITICAL: Grover Cleveland, President.
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29 | 1895 | - 1895—1895: HISTORY: .Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
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30 | 1896 | - 1896—1896: HISTORY: .American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
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31 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: EPEDEMIC: YELLOW FEVER - .PHILADELPHIA, PA
- 1897—1897: POLITICAL: Grover Cleveland, President.
- 1897—1901: POLITICAL: William McKinley, President.William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
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32 | 1898 | - 1898—1898: HISTORY: Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster..
- 1898—1898: WAR: Spanish-American War.United States vs Spain.
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33 | 1899 | - 1899—1899: HISTORY: J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner..
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34 | 1900 | - 1900—1900: HISTORY: .Zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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35 | 1901 | - 1901—1901: HISTORY: .King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- 1901—1901: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE RESERVATION IS BROKEN UP DUE TO GOVERNMENT PRESSURE TO OPEN THE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT..
- 1901—1901: NATIVE AMERICAN: The Comanche reservation is broken up due to Government pressure to open the land for settlement..
- 1901—1901: ROYAL: .Victoria. Ruler of England. House of Hanover - Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
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36 | 1902 | - 1902—1902: HISTORY: .Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
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37 | 1903 | - 1903—1903: HISTORY: .Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
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38 | 1904 | - 1904—1904: HISTORY: .Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
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39 | 1905 | - 1905—1905: HISTORY: Albert Einstein.Published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
- 1905—1905: POLITICAL: Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Comanche.Rides in President Roosevelt's inaugural parade in Washington, DC.
- 1905—1905: POLITICAL: President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Chief Quanah at Star House.Quanah and the President go on a wolf hunt in April.
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40 | 1906 | - 1906—1906: HISTORY: .William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
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41 | 1907 | - 1907—1907: HISTORY: .Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
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42 | 1908 | - 1908—1908: HISTORY: .Gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
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43 | 1909 | - 1909—1909: HISTORY: .Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
- 1909—1909: POLITICAL: Theodore Roosevelt, President.Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President under William McKinley, sworn in as President upon death of McKinley.
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44 | 1910 | - 1910—1910: HISTORY: Thomas Edison .Demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
- 1910—1910: NATIVE AMERICAN: Quanah buries his mother Cynthia Ann Parker.December 4 at Post Oak Cemetery.
- 1910—1910: ROYAL: .Edward VII. Ruler of England. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Eldest son of Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
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45 | 1911 | - 1911—1911: HISTORY: .Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
- 1911—1911: NATIVE AMERICAN: Quanah Parker, Last Chief recognized by the U.S Government dies. .Over 2000 attend his funeral and many people mourn nationwide.
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46 | 1912 | - 1912—1912: HISTORY: .Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
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47 | 1913 | - 1913—1913: HISTORY: .Crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
- 1913—1913: POLITICAL: William Taft President.
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48 | 1914 | - 1914—1914: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
- 1914—1918: WAR: World War I.Triple Alliance - Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente - Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
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49 | 1915 | - 1915—1915: HISTORY: .Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
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50 | 1916 | - 1916—1916: HISTORY: .Radio tuners invented that received different stations.
- 1916—1916: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE WARRIORS VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE, CODE TALKERS ARE UTILIZED BY UNITED STATES FORCES..
- 1916—1916: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Warriors volunteer for service in WWI. Comanche Code talkers are utilized by United States Forces..
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51 | 1917 | - 17 Jul 1917—1917: ROYAL: House of Windsor name adopted. .
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52 | 1918 | - 1918—1918: HISTORY: .Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
- 1918—1919: EPEDEMIC: Influenza pandemic.The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as Spanish Flu or La Grippe the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.
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53 | 1919 | - 1919—1919: HISTORY: .Pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
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54 | 1920 | - 1920—1920: HISTORY: Tommy Gun patented by John T Thompson..
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55 | 1921 | - 1921—1921: HISTORY: Artificial life begins .The first robot built.
- 1921—1921: POLITICAL: Woodrow Wilson, President.
- 4 Mar 1921—31 Jul 1921: POLITICAL: Warren Harding, President.Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921.
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56 | 1922 | - 1922—1922: HISTORY: .Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
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57 | 1923 | - 1923—1923: HISTORY: .Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
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58 | 1924 | - 1924—1924: HISTORY: .Dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
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59 | 1925 | - 1925—1925: HISTORY: .Mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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60 | 1926 | - 1926—1926: HISTORY: .Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
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61 | 1927 | - 1927—1927: HISTORY: .JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
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62 | 1928 | - 1928—1928: HISTORY: Penecillin Developed.Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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63 | 1929 | - 1929—1929: HISTORY: .American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
- 1929—1929: POLITICAL: .Calvin Coolidge president of the USA. Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies.
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64 | 1931 | - 1931—1931: HISTORY: .Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
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65 | 1932 | - 1932—1932: HISTORY: .Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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66 | 1933 | - 1933—1933: HISTORY: .Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
- 1933—1933: POLITICAL: .Herbert Hoover president of the USA.
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67 | 1934 | - 1934—1934: HISTORY: .Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
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68 | 1935 | - 1935—1935: HISTORY: .Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon (polymer 6.6.).
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69 | 1936 | - 1936—1936: HISTORY: .Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- 1936—1936: ROYAL: .George V. Ruler of England.
- 20 Jan 1936—10 Dec 1936: ROYAL: Second son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck..Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
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70 | 1937 | - 1937—1937: HISTORY: .Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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71 | 1938 | - 1938—1938: HISTORY: .Ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
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72 | 1939 | - 1939—1939: HISTORY: .Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
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73 | 1940 | - 1940—1940: HISTORY: .Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
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74 | 1941 | - 1941—1941: NATIVE AMERICAN: COMANCHE WARRIORS AGAIN VOLUNTEER FOR SERVICE IN EUROPE, CODE TALKERS USE THE COMANCHE LANGUAGE IN D-DAY INVASION AND PATTON's TANK BATTALION TO SECURE VICTORY FOR ALLIED FORCES DURING WWII..[more]
- 1941—1941: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche Warriors again volunteer for service in Europe, Code Talkers use the Comanche Language in D-Day Invasion and Patton's tank battalion to secure victory for allied forces during WWII..
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75 | 1943 | - 1943—1943: HISTORY: .Richard James invents the slinky.
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76 | 1944 | - 1944—1944: HISTORY: .Kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
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77 | 1945 | - 1945—1945: HISTORY: .Atomic bomb invented.
- 1945—1945: POLITICAL: .Franklin Roosevelt president of the USA.
- 1945—1945: WAR: World War II .Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers - United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia.
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78 | 1946 | - 1946—1946: HISTORY: .Microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
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79 | 1948 | - 1948—1948: HISTORY: .Frisbee invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
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