Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1910-1919

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Boy Scouts Established in U.S.

Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance

The Tango Catches On

The Chinese Revolution

Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom

The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered

Mona Lisa Is Stolen

Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole

Standard Oil Company Broken Up

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches on Fire

Oreo Cookies First Introduced

Parachutes Invented

Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link," Discovered (Fraud)

The Titanic Sinks

First Crossword Puzzle

Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line

Los Angeles Owens Valley Aquaduct Opened

Personal Income Tax Introduced in U.S.

Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated

Battle of the Marne

Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp

First Traffic Light

Panama Canal Officially Opened

World War I Begins

Armenian Genocide

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released

Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon

Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat

Second Battle of Ypres

Battle of the Somme

Battle of Verdun

Easter Rising in Ireland

First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in U.S.

First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded

Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy

Russian Revolution

U.S. Enters World War I

Daylight Saving Time Introduced

Influenza Epidemic

Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed

Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I

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