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1900s

1900s: 1900 - 1909  

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2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Daimler cars develop a new brand using the name Mercedes, that of the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek
1910s

1910s: 1910 - 1919  

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2012
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
1920s

1920s: 1922 - 1929  

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2012
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere
1930s

1930s: 1930 - 1939  

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2012
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
1940s

1940s: 1940 - 1949  

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2012
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History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York
1950s

1950s: 1950 - 1959  

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2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial
1960s

1960s: 1960 - 1969  

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2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
UK prime minister Harold Macmillan, in Cape Town, warns the white settlers of Africa that 'the wind of change' is blowing through their continent
1970s

1970s: 1970 - 1979  

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2012
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History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1980s

1980s: 1980 - 1989  

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2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer
1990s

1990s: 1990 - 1999  

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2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, is captured by US troops and taken to Miami on drug trafficking charges

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