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| x Eastern Front |
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Jun 22, 1941 | May 8, 1945 |
The Eastern Front of World War II (German: die Ostfront 1941–1945, der Rußlandfeldzug 1941–1945 (Russian campaign) or der Ostfeldzug 1941-1945 (Eastern Campaign)) was a theatre of war between the European Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary,...
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| x Attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Dec 7, 1941 |
The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters) was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor,...
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| x World War I |
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Aug 1914 | Nov 11, 1918 |
World War I (abbreviated as WW-I, WWI, or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, the World War (prior to the outbreak of the Second World War), and the War to End All Wars, was a military conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 which...
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| x Battle of Jutland |
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May 31, 1916 | Jun 1, 1916 |
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle of World War I (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak) and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on May 31–June 1, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the...
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| x Mechanical sequence control invented | 60 C.E. |
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| x Battle of Verdun |
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Feb 21, 1916 | Dec 18, 1916 |
The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from 21 February to 18 December 1916 around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. It remains one...
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| x Allied forces invade German Togoland | Aug 7, 1914 | Aug 26, 1914 |
On 7 August, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland. Togo was captured with the surrender of German forces on 26 August 1914.
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| x Abacus invented | 2400 B.C.E. |
The abacus, the first known calculator, was invented by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic around this date. This laid the foundations for positional notation and later computing developments.
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| x First known use of zero | 500 B.C.E. |
First known use of zero by mathematicians in ancient India around this date.
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| x Grammar of Sanskrit formulated | 500 B.C.E. |
Indian grammarian Panini formulated the grammar of Sanskrit (in 3959 rules) known as the Ashtadhyayi which was highly systematised and technical. Panini used metarules, transformations, and recursions with such sophistication that his grammar had...
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| x Binary number system described | 300 B.C.E. |
Indian mathematician/scholar/musician Pingala first described the binary number system which is now used in the design of essentially all modern computing equipment. He also conceived the notion of a binary code similar to the Morse code.
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| x Abacus invented | 300 B.C.E. |
The Chinese invented the suanpan (Chinese abacus) which was widely used until the invention of the modern calculator, and continues to be used in some cultures today.
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| x Operation Barbarossa |
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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km (1,800...
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| x Battle of Stalingrad |
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Aug 21, 1942 | Feb 2, 1943 |
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 17 July 1942 and 2...
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| x First Battle of Kharkov |
The 1st Battle of Kharkov so named by Wilhelm Keitel was the 1941 tactical Wehrmacht battle for the city of Kharkiv (Ukrainian SSR) during the final phase of Operation Barbarossa by the German 6th Army of the Army Group South on October 20, 1941....
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| x Second Battle of Kharkov |
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The Second Battle of Kharkov, so named by Wilhelm Keitel, was an Axis counteroffensive against the Red Army Izium bridgehead offensive conducted from May 12 to May 28, 1942, on the Eastern Front during World War II. Its objective was to eliminate...
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| x Third Battle of Kharkov |
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The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of offensive operations on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the city of Kharkov (Russian: Харьков; Ukrainian: Харків), between 19...
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| x Fourth Battle of Kharkov |
The Fourth Battle of Kharkov was part of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev, the Red Army's counter-offensive following the Battle of Kursk.
It was fought on in the morning of August 23, 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By 12:00 the...
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| x Battle of Lenino |
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The Battle of Lenino was a tactical World War II engagement that took place from 12 October to 13 October 1943 as part of the Spas-Demyansk offensive operation in the Duki-Ilovets direction near the town of Dribin, north of the village of Lenino in...
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| x Battle of the Somme |
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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name . The...
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| x First Battle of Ypres |
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The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders (French: 1re Bataille des Flandres), was a First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres in western Belgium. The German and Western Allied attempts to secure the...
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The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force (Canadians) pushed back a major European power (Germans) on European soil,...
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| x First operational use of jet fighter aircraft |
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2007 | 1944 | 1945 |
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") was the world's first operational turbojet fighter aircraft. It was produced in World War II and saw action starting in 1944 as a multirole fighter/bomber/reconnaissance/interceptor warplane for...
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| x OSCON 8 | Aug 22, 2008 | Jul 21, 2008 | Jul 25, 2008 |
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.
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| x BlogHer |
BlogHer refers to a group blog and online community, and to an annual blogging conference for women. Three of the 2005 conference organizers, Elisa Camahort, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone, began a company, Blogher LLC, which in 2006 also began a...
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| x OSCON 1 | Aug 22, 2007 | Jul 22, 2001 | Jul 26, 2001 |
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. It is organized by the publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States.
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| x September 11, 2001 attacks |
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The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger...
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| x Flourish | Apr 6, 2007 | Apr 7, 2007 | |||
| x Vietnam War |
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by...
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| x Hue |
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Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically (in the CIECAM02 model), as “the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,” (the unique...
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| x Ho Chi Minh City |
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh pronunciation (help·info) is the largest city in Vietnam. It was once known as Prey Nokor, an important Khmer seaport prior to annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century.
Under the...
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| x Artificial uterus developed | Nov 10, 2007 |
An artificial womb as described in science fiction such as
'Brave New World' is a device to support the life and maturation of a
human embryo, replacing normal natural pregnancy and childbirth. It may
eventually be less risky for both mother and...
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| x Men redundant? Now we don't need women either | Nov 10, 2007 | Feb 10, 2002 |
Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow
outside a woman's body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in
treating the childless.
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| x Artificial Wombs |
A fetus lives in a world of
bubbles. In its earliest days, it’s shaped like one. Later, it floats
in one—the squishy, enveloping amniotic sac. And eventually, if all
goes well, the fetus releases one bubble of fluid, then another and
another, like...
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| x First Battle of the Marne |
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The Battle of the Marne (French: 1re Bataille de la Marne) (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a First World War battle fought between 5 and 12 September 1914. It resulted in a Franco-British victory against the German Army under Chief of...
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| x Second Battle of the Marne |
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The Second Battle of the Marne (French: 2e Bataille de la Marne), or Battle of Reims (15 July to 6 August 1918) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. It failed when an Allied counterattack led by French...
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| x Battle of the Dardanelles |
The naval Battle of the Dardanelles took place on 10 -11 May 1807 during the Russo-Turkish War (1806-12, part of the Napoleonic Wars). It was fought between the Russian and Ottoman navies near the Dardanelles Strait. The Russians were victorious.
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| x First Battle of the Aisne |
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The First Battle of the Aisne (French: 1re Bataille de l'Aisne) was the Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army (led by Alexander von Kluck) & Second Army (led by Karl von Bülow) as they retreated after the First...
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| x Third Battle of the Aisne |
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The Third Battle of the Aisne (French: 3e Bataille de L'Aisne) was a battle of the German Spring Offensive during World War I that focused on capturing the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the American Expeditionary Force could arrive completely in...
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| x Battle of Craonne |
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The Battle of Craonne was fought on March 7, 1814, and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon I against Russians and Prussians under General Blücher.
Craonne is a village on the Chemin des Dames, in the département of Aisne.
Marshal Blucher had...
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| x Festival of Britain |
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May 1, 1951 |
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May. The principal exhibition site was on the South Bank Site, London of the River Thames near Waterloo Station....
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| x Second Battle of the Aisne |
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The Second Battle of the Aisne (French: La bataille du Chemin des Dames, or French: Seconde bataille de l'Aisne), was the massive main assault of the French military's Nivelle Offensive or Chemin des Dames Offensive in 1917 during World War I....
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