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Dorothy Electra KING

Female 1917 - 2010  (93 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1917 
1918 
  • 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
  • 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
  • 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
  • 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
  • 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
  • 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
  • 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
  • 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
1925 
10 1926 
11 1927 
12 1928 
13 1929 
14 1930 
15 1931 
16 1932 
17 1933 
18 1934 
19 1935 
20 1936 
21 1937 
22 1938 
23 1939 
24 1940 
25 1941 
26 1942 
27 1943 
28 1944 
  • 1944: France - D-Day landings
  • 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
  • 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
  • 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
29 1945 
30 1946 
31 1947 
32 1948 
33 1949 
34 1950 
35 1951 
36 1952 
37 1953 
38 1954 
39 1955 
40 1956 
41 1957 
42 1958 
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44 1960 
45 1961 
46 1962 
47 1963 
48 1964 
49 1965 
50 1966 
51 1967 
52 1968 
53 1969 
54 1970 
55 1971 
56 1972 
57 1973 
58 1974 
59 1975 
60 1976 
61 1977 
62 1978 
63 1979 
64 1980 
65 1981 
66 1982 
67 1983 
68 1984 
69 1985 
70 1986 
71 1987 
72 1988 
73 1989 
74 1990 
75 1991 
76 1992 
  • 1992: Waco, TX, USA - Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
77 1993 
78 1994 
79 1995 
80 1996 
81 1997 
82 1998 
  • 1998: UK - Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever
  • 1998: USA - U.S. President Clinton Impeached
  • 1998: USA - Viagra on the Market
  • 1998: Europe - The Euro the New European Currency
83 1999 
84 2000 
85 2001 
86 2002 
87 2003