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What Year Is This?

By:  Nicole Oldham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxCx7GilbQ

The Seeing Eye is established with the

mission to train dogs to assist the blind in Nashville Tennessee

Turkey and Persia sign a friendship

treaty

World News

Grand Teton National Park is

created

The population reaches 120 million

US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the

first person to fly over the South Pole

U.S colonial Charles Lindbergh leaves on a 3,500 mile flight from Detroit to Cope

Horn

Flight Innovation

The first car radio is made by Motorola

Sam Foster begins selling sunglasses from his counter in Woolworths on the

boardwalk in Atlanta

Technology

The first public phone booth appears

in London

Andreas Stihl, a Swiss engineer

begins manufacturing the first gasoline powered chainsaw

A total of over 200,000 die from the Influenza

Epidemic

Sir Alexander Fleming discovers

Penicillin 

State of Health

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are started

Popeye the Sailor Man first appeared in a newspaper comic

strip

Pop Culture

The soft drink 7-up is invented

Museum of Modern Art opens in New

York

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in

Cleveland, Ohio

Guy Lombardo plays Auld Lang Syne for the first time

Audrey Hepburn

Anne Frank

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Born This Year

What Year Is This?

A. 1932

B. 1926

C. 1929

D. 1927

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