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| 1910 |
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World population surpasses 1.5 billion people, 850 million of whom live in Asia. |
| 1911 | Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association | |
| April: Chinese revolution begins against the Manchu dynasty, which ruled for three centuries | ||
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Dec 14: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole | |
| 1912 | International Radio-Telegraph Conference adapts the Morse Code signal S.O.S. -- 3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots -- as the universal signal of distress | |
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April 14-15: The Titanic, strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage and sinks within hours; 1,517 of 2,100 passengers drown | |
| 1913 | June 29: Women granted equal electoral rights in Norway, the first European nation to enact permanent universal suffrage for women | |
Oct. 10: Panama Canal opens | ||
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July 28: World War I begins with Austria Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia |
| 1915 | Southern Blacks begin migrating to northern cities when war industries seek employees; between 1910 and 1930 almost one million leave the South in what becomes known as the Great Migration | |
| Oct. 21: First transatlantic radio-telephone call is made between Arlington, Virginia and Paris, France | ||
| 1917 | April 6: President Woodrow Wilson signs a declaration of war against Germany, bringing the U.S. into World War I | |
| Nov. 7: Vladimir Lenin leads a Bolshevik rebellion to successfully oust the post-czarist Russian provisional government | ||
| 1918 |
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A pandemic of Spanish influenza sweeps the globe killing more than 21 million people -- over 1% of the world's population |
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Nov. 11: World War I ends with a declared armistice at 11:00 am |
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