Highlights of these years?

Question: Highlights of these years!?

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1911
1927
1935
1942
1955
1963
1965
1968
1973Www@QuestionHome@Com

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1911
--Mexican Revolution
--Sep 25: Groundbreaking for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts begins!.
--November 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T

1927
--January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call is made: New York City to London!.
--April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom!.
--October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era!.

1935
--February 15 - The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk!.
--March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty!.
--April 14 - Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads"!. The hardest hit areas were in Eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma!.

1942
--WW2/Holocaust
--May 20 - First African-American seamen taken into US Navy
--August 8 - Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), which led to the start of a historical civil disobedience movement across India!.

1955
--January 18 - Battle of Yijiangshan started in China!. Fighting lasted until January 20 with a Communist victory!.
--April 5 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom!.
--May 14 - Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact!.
--July 17 - Disneyland opens, in Anaheim, California!.
--August 28 - Emmett Till is killed in Money, Mississippi
--November 5 - Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in US interstate commerce!.
--December 1 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins!.

1963
--February 27 - Female suffrage is enacted in Iran!.
--April 12 - Martin Luther King, Jr!., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit"!.
--June 21 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope!.
--July 26 - NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite!.
--August 28 - Martin Luther King, Jr!. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom!.
--November 22 - John F!. Kennedy assassination
--November 24 - Alleged assassin of John F!. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television!.

1965
--February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, allegedly by Black Muslims!.
--March 8 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam!.
--March 21 - Martin Luther King, Jr!. leads 3,200 Civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery!.
--May 5 - The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board!.
--August 15 - The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York

1968
--January 21 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8!.
--April 4 - Martin Luther King, Jr!. is shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee!. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward!.
--April 23 - Surgeons at the H?pital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain!.
--June 5 - U!.S!. presidential candidate Robert F!. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan!. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day!.
--July 25 - Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae, condemning birth control!. Many American Catholics defy it!.

1973
--January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union!.
--January 22 - Roe v!. Wade: The U!.S!. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion!.
--January 23 - U!.S!. President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1911 Wright bros fly
1927 prohibition ends
1935 Roosevelt takes office
1942 Battle of Midway
1955 Chevy V-8
1963 Kenedy assn!.
1965 escalation Viet Nam
1968 MLK assn/R!. Kenedy assn!.
1973 US withdrawal from Viet NamWww@QuestionHome@Com