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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