Count down year by year with real world facts!

1928

The year sliced bread was invented!!

Yes, the reference point for things that are the best since sliced bread ... or 1928

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1927

The Coney Island Cyclone (better known as simply the Cyclone) roller coaster was built in this year..... OUT OF WOOD!!! And it's still in use today!!! How scary is that?

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No way you're getting me on a near century old wooden roller coaster no thanks!!
 
1926

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The sudden death of popular Hollywood actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino at the age of only 31 years old caused mass grief and hysteria around the world.

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1925

F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

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1924

Lenin dies:

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And Stalin wins the power struggle to take over Russia!

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1923

Calvin Coolidge became president

-a childhood like Norman Bates in Psycho: raised by his grandmother, frequently locked in the attic, commanded to be perfect at all times
-after his son died he would only allow herds of young boys to visit him at the White House so he could watch them
-The Coolidge Effect in biology/psychology/sexology is named after Calvin Coolidge because of this:

One day, the president and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival, they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens, she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once a day. "Dozens of times," was the reply. "Please tell that to the president," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the president passed the pens and was told about the rooster, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The president nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
 
1921

Hitler became leader of the Nazi party, where he would stay until his death near the end of WWII:

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This is kind of messed up actually, he threatened to resign ... but he was the money and they needed him .... so then he said "Yeah, I'll stick around ... but I gotta lead this shit"

Not exact quote but damn, if they just called his bluff history would have been dramatically different:

By 1921 Adolf Hitler had virtually secured total control of the Nazi party, however this was not to the liking of all Nazis. In July of that year, whilst Hitler was away in Berlin, the discontent members of the party proposed a merger with a like-minded political party in Nuremburg in the hope that this would dilute Hitler's influence. On hearing the news of the proposed merger, Hitler rushed back to Munich to confront the party and threatened to resign. The other members were aware that Hitler was bringing in the lion's share of funds into the organization, from the collections following his speeches at meetings and from other sympathetic sources. Thus they knew they couldn't afford his resignation. Hitler then proceeded to turn the tables on the committee members and forced them to accept him as formal leader of the party with dictatorial powers.

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Time to bump this.

1920

Prohibition begins in America.
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1919

German Farmers Party is formed. nothing to see here folks
 
2013

Pope Benedict XVI just straight up retires, the first time a pope simply quit in 600 years!

Did he really quit cause he was old and tired or was there scandal a foot?

Definitely some sort of pedo ring involved. Why do you think all of a sudden they brought in a pope who loves to wash peasants feet.
 
1918

Russian Revolutionaries execute Tsar Nicholas and his family. Russian Civil War between Reds (the Bosheviks) and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks) begins.
 
1917

Influenza outbreak!!! 20M will die in 3 years.

Honourable mention: US combat troops arrive in Europe, THREE years late
 
1916

Roald Dahl is born!

Roald Dahl was one of the greatest story-tellers of all time. He was born in Llanduff, South Wales, of Norwegian parents, in 1916, and educated in English boarding-schools. Then, in search of adventure, the young Dahl took a job with Shell Oil in Africa. When World War II broke out he joined the RAF as a fighter pilot, receiving terrible injuries and almost dying in a plane crash in 1942.

It was following this “monumental bash on the head” and a meeting with C. S. Forester (author of the famous Captain Horatio Hornblower stories) that Roald Dahl's writing career began, with articles for magazines such as The New Yorker. He wrote successful novellas and short stories for adults, such as Tales of the Unexpected, before concentrating on his marvelous children's stories. The first of these, James and the Giant Peach, in 1960, was followed by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and an unbroken string of hugely successful, best-selling titles.

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1915

Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st long distance phone call, New York San Francisco.

Also my Grandfather was born and he was a pretty cool guy.

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1914

Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut in the comedy short Making A Living
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1913

The Dublin lockout and the formation of the Irish Citizen Army. One of the largest industrial disputes in Irish history the lock out of 1913 pitted 20,000 workers against 300 bosses (Guinness, the largest employer and biggest exporter in Dublin refused to lock out their worker). The Church, of course, came out in support of the bosses denouncing Jim Larkin (one of the main protagonists in the depute) as a Socialist revolutionary while also blocking the 'kiddie scheme' (a plan to temporarily send the starving children of the workers to sympathetic union members families in Britain).

In response to consistent vicious attacks by the Dublin metropolitan police and the murder of several workers by strike breakers James Connolly and Captain Jack White formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA). Originally a workers self defense malitia the ICA would later go on to become a revolutionary organisation dedicated to the creation of a Irish Socialist Republic and played a major part in the easter rising of 1916.

 
1912

The Titanic goes on it's maiden voyage and everything works out fine for everyone involved

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1910

Alan Lemon was the first black man to fly solo across the Atlantic.

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