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1. Wright brothers' first controlled heavier-than-air flight
2. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
3. John Logie Baird demonstrates first live, working television
4. Germany invades Poland
5. Attack on Pearl Harbor
6. Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
7. Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the UK and Commonwealth nations
8. Launch of Sputnik 1
9. The Beatles release their first album, "Please Please Me"
10. Apollo 11 moon landing
11. Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
12. Fall of the Berlin Wall
13. Maastricht Treaty forms the European Union
14. CERN releases the World Wide Web code to the public domain
15. Nelson Mandela takes office as President of South Africa
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