THE TENS
A Chronology of Events
Editor: Piero Scaruffi
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1910: There are 7 million telephones in the world
1910: Los Angeles opens the first international airport in the US
1910: First Nickelodeon theaters in Los Angeles (movie theaters)
1911: The antitrust law dissolves Rockefeller's financial empire
1911: Paul Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom
1911: Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu
1912:
- China's imperial dynasty is overthrown by a Republic
1913:
- John Rockefeller is worth $212 billions, 1/44th of the US economy
- First film shot in Hollywood
1914:
- Opening of the Panama canal
- The assassination of a noble Austro-Hungarian by a Serb in Sarajevo starts the first world war
- Massacre of Armenians by Turk soldiers and Kurd tribesmen
1916:
- The US produces one and a half million cars
- Los Angeles has 1700 kms of trolley lines
1917:
- 40% of American households have a telephone
- Lenin seizes power in Russia and installs a communism regime
- Three shepherd children see the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal
1918:
- All German women can vote
- US post office inaugurates "air mail" (between New York and Washington)
- All adult British men can vote
- End of first world war: 2 million Russians, 1.8 million Germans,
1.3 million French, 1.1 million Austro-Hungarians, 0.9 million Britons,
0.6 million Turks and 0.5 million Italians are dead.
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