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DAVE Release: May 93 - Review: 18 Feb 06
DRAGON: THE BRUCE
LEE STORY Release: May 93 - Review: 24 Jun 05
JURASSIC
PARK Release: Jun 93 - Review: 10 Apr 07
A
PERFECT WORLD Release: Nov 93 - Review: 24 Jul 06
PHILADELPHIA Release:
Dec 93 - Review: 29 Apr 10
TOMBSTONE Release: Dec 93 - Review: 22 May 08
TRUE ROMANCE Release: Sep 93 - Review: 18 Mar 10
TOP
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• Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
• Koresh's Branch Davidians raided in Waco TX
• US and Russia sign START II to reduce nukes |
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BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA Release: Nov 92 - Review: 8 Jan 11
CHAPLIN Release: Dec 92 - Review: 12 Apr 11
FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST Release: Apr 92 - Review: 11 Apr 10
HARD BOILED Release: Apr 92 - Review: 10 Mar 10
MALCOLM X Release: Nov 92 - Review: 11 Feb 09
PASSENGER 57 Release: Nov 92 - Review: 2 Feb 10
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE Release: Aug 92 - Review: 23 Apr 11
UNFORGIVEN Release: Aug 92 - Review: 22 Apr 06 >>>
UNLAWFUL ENTRY Release: Jun 92 - Review: 17 Jan 10
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• Los Angeles Riots after LAPD acquitted on Rodney King beating
• President Bill Clinton elected
• Charles P. Ginsburg "father of the VCR" dies
• Howard Stern 1st to have #1 radio show in New York and Los Angeles simultaneously
• Isaac Asimov dies |
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JOE
VERSUS THE VOLCANO Release: Mar 90 - Review: 23 Nov 05
PRETTY WOMAN Release: Mar 90 - Review: 2 Feb 11
TOP
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• Nelson Mandela freed
• Hubble Telescope launched
• Tom Cruise marries Nicole Kidman |
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CROCODILE
DUNDEE II Release: May 88 - Review: 13 Aug 06
DIE HARD Release: Jun 88 - Review: 15 Apr 09
RAMBO III Release: May 88 - Review: 7 Nov 10
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• President George HW Bush elected
• The drug "crack" appears
• Stephen Hawking publishes "A Brief History of Time"
• Hubble Space Telescope begins operation
• Prozac introduced
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ALIENS Release: Jul 86 - Review: 28 Apr 08
CROCODILE
DUNDEE Release: Sep 86 - Review: 20 May 06
HIGHLANDER Release: Mar 86 - Review: 24 Aug 05
JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS Release: Mar 86 - Review: 30 Nov 09
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME Release: Nov 86 - Review: 30 Apr 08
TOP
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• Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
• Statue of Liberty centennial
• Halley's Comet
• Def Leppard's Rick Allen debuts one-armed drumkit at Monsters of Rock, Donington
• Willie Nelson's Farm Aid |
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THE BREAKFAST CLUB Release: Feb 85 - Review: 4 Jan 09
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II Release: May 85 - Review: 20 Feb 12
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• 1st Blockbuster Video store opens Dallas Texas
• VH-1 broadcasting debut
• Live Aid staged by Bob Geldorf, Midge Ure
• "We Are the World" recorded by USA for Africa
• Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win $100m
• Symbolics.com 1st internet domain name
• Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
• "Tetris" created by Alexey Pazhitnov from traditional game "Pentomino" |
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2010:
ODYSSEY TWO Release: Dec 84 - Review:
9 Apr 06
THE KARATE KID Release: Jun 84 - Review: 16 Oct 10
PURPLE RAIN Release: Jul 84 - Review: 9 Mar 10 >>>
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK Release: Jun 84 - Review: 7 Aug 09
STREETS OF FIRE Release: Jun 84 - Review: 1 Mar 11
THE TERMINATOR Release: Oct 84 - Review: 24 May 09
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• First integrated CGI, THE LAST STARFIGHTER
• French scientists isolate AIDS virus
• "Thriller" Best-Selling Album of all Time
• "Do They Know It's Christmas?" recorded by Band Aid
• Michael Jackson buys Beatles catalog $47m
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THE
BIG CHILL Release: Sep 83 - Review: 6 Nov 05
JAWS 3 Release: Jul 83 - Review: 7 Apr 11
STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI Release: May 83 - Review: 27 Jun 09
SUPERMAN III Release:
Jun 83 - Review: 8 Jul 10
TOP
4
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• KISS unmasked on MTV
• Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video
• "Australia II" winged keel wins America's Cup
• 1st consumer camcorder by Sony
• Final MASH episode most-watched in history |
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ARTHUR Release: Jul 81 - Review: 9 Dec 11
CHARIOTS OF FIRE Release: Oct 81 - Review: 7 Nov 09
DAS BOOT Release:
Sep 81 - Review: 13 May 10
GALLIPOLI Release: Aug 81 - Review: 4 Jul 07
OUTLAND Release: May 81 - Review: 11 Oct 11
SUPERMAN
II Release: Jul 81 - Review: 9 Dec 06
TOP
6
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• First Space Shuttle flight, Columbia
• MTV launched
• 1st American test-tube baby born
• Sandra Day O'Connor 1st US female Justice |
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ALTERED STATES Release: Dec 80 - Review: 14 Mar 09
ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN Release: Dec 80 - Review: 14 May 08
THE BLUE LAGOON 1980 Release: Jul 80 - Review: 6 Sep 10
CADDYSHACK Release: Jul 80 - Review: 13 Nov 10
THE CHANGELING Release: Mar 80 - Review: 11 Oct 10
COSMOS Release: Sep 80 - Review: 20 Jul 11
FRIDAY THE 13TH Release: May 80 - Review: 1 Nov 09
STAR WARS V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Release: May 80 - Review: 18 Jun 07 >>>
TOP
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• John Lennon shot
• President Ronald Reagan elected
• Iranian Hostage Crisis in Tehran
• Eruption of Mount St Helens
• Martina Navratilova wins 9th Wimbledon
• Arnold Schwarzenegger wins 7th Mr. Olympia
• Iran-Iraq war begins
• Bjorn Borg wins record 5th Wimbledon in row |
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CAPRICORN ONE Release: 1978 - Review: 4 Oct 05
THE DRIVER Release: Jul 78 - Review: 16 Jul 08
EVERY
WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE Release: Dec 78 - Review: 20 Jan 07
HALLOWEEN Release: Oct 78 - Review: 6 Nov 09
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 1978 Release: Dec 78 - Review: 6 Apr 09
JAWS 2 Release: Jun 78 - Review: 23 Feb 09
SUPERMAN Release: Dec 78 - Review: 11 Jul 06
THE WIZ Release: Oct 78 - Review: 16 Jul 11
TOP
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• DALLAS debuts
• "Space Invaders" video game released
• Sweden 1st to ban aerosols for ozone layer
• Jim Jones instructs Guyana cult to suicide
• Illinois Bell creates 1st cell phone system |
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THE GAUNTLET Release: Dec 77 - Review: 20 Jun 09
STAR WARS IV: A NEW HOPE Release: May 77 - Review: 16 May 07
TOP
2 |
• Activist Steve Biko killed
• Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched
• Elvis Presley dies
• David Bowie, Bing Crosby duet "Little Drummer Boy" |
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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN Release: Apr 76 - Review: 18 Dec 09
KING KONG 1976 Release:
Dec 76 - Review: 1 May 08
MIDWAY Release: Jun 76 - Review: 5 Jul 11
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME Release: Oct 76 - Review: 24 Nov 10 >>>
TOP
4 |
• Hank Aaron retires with 755 home runs, beating Babe Ruth's record
• Steadicam introduced by Garrett Brown
• The Who at 126dB, Guinness Loudest Band |
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JAWS Release:
Jun 75 - Review: 7 May 09
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL Release: Mar 75 - Review: 4 Aug 07
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Release: Nov 75 - Review: 25 Mar 11
TOMMY Release: Mar 75 - Review: 29 Jul 06
TOP
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• Industrial Light & Magic founded by Lucas
• USA pulls out of Viet Nam
• First consumer VCR sold by Sony
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" recorded by Queen
• "Thrilla in Manila" Ali v Frazier |
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DEATH WISH Release: Jul 74 - Review: 24 Nov 10
TOP
1 |
• Nixon quits during Watergate scandal
• Rubik's Cube invented, Ernő Rubik
• Gerald Ford becomes US president
• Barcodes introduced as retail tool |
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HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER Release: Apr 73 - Review: 21 Apr 08
JESUS
CHRIST SUPERSTAR Release: Aug 73 - Review: 28 Dec 05
SLEEPER Release: Dec 73 - Review: 18 Apr 10
THE WICKER MAN Release: Dec 73 - Review: 7 Dec 09
TOP
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• Pink Floyd release "Dark Side of the Moon"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd record "Freebird"
• Roe v. Wade decision by US Supreme Court |
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THE
GODFATHER Release: Mar 72 - Review: 13 May 06
JOE KIDD Release: Jul 72 - Review: 17 Aug 10
RED SUN Release: Jun 72 - Review: 1 Jan 11
TOP
3 |
• "Smoke On The Water" recorded by Deep Purple
• Deep Purple at 117 dB, Guinness Loudest Band
• Munich Olympics hostages and massacre
• "Pong" video game released by Atari
• Nixon's Watergate scandal |
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KELLY'S
HEROES Release: Jun 70 - Review: 1 Mar 06
TOP
1 |
• The Beatles break up
• Kent State shootings, Ohio
• Apollo 13 Moon mission aborted
• 1st Earth Day celebrated
• Peru earthquake kills 67,000
• US invades Cambodia
• Alvin Toffler publishes "Future Shock"
• Film colorization invented by Wilson Markle
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TRUE GRIT Release: Jun 69 - Review: 17 Feb 11
THE VALLEY OF GWANGI Release: 1969 - Review:
7 Aug 05
TOP
2 |
• Apollo 11 lands on Moon
• Moammar al-Qaddafi military coup in Libya
• Woodstock
• Manson Family murders
• "My Way" recorded by Frank Sinatra |
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2001:
A SPACE ODYSSEY Release: Apr 68 - Review: 31 May 06
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Release: Oct 68 - Review: 1 Nov 09
TOP
2 |
• Modern MPAA film ratings created
• President Richard M. Nixon elected
• Martin Luther King assassinated
• My Lai massacre in Viet Nam
• Bobby Kennedy shot
• Women's Lib burns bras during Miss America
• Pope Paul VI bans Pill for Catholics
• Zodiac killer begins
• Black power salute at Olympics
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? Release: Dec 67 - Review: 21 Sep 09
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Release: Oct 67 - Review: 1 Jun 10
SHE FREAK Release: May 67 - Review: 2 Apr 12
TOP
3 |
• First successful human heart transplant, by Dr. Christiaan Barnard
• 1st "Rolling Stone" Magazine published
• 1st Super Bowl: Green Bay Packers (win 35-10) vs Kansas City Chiefs
• Suez Canal closed until 1975
• Monterey Pop Festival |
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THE CREEPING TERROR Release: 1964
- Review: 18 Nov
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT Release: Aug 64 - Review: 5 Aug 10
TOP
2 |
• Abolition of the death penalty in UK
• 1st Ford Mustang made
• Final Looney Tune "Señorella and the Glass Huarache" as WB shuts Cartoon Division
• Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York. |
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THE HAUNTING Release: Sep 63 - Review: 25 Nov 09
TOP
1 |
• John F. Kennedy assassinated
• Alcatraz penitentiary closes
• Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream"
• Lyndon B. Johnson becomes US president
• Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space |
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Release: Dec 62 - Review: 30 Dec 09
TOP
1 |
• Rolling Stones form in London
• John Glenn orbits Earth in Friendship 7
• Marilyn Monroe dies |
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KING
OF KINGS Release: Oct 61 - Review: 24 Jun 06
TOP
1 |
• Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth in Vostok 1
• Kennedy vows to send a man to the moon
• Berlin Wall begins construction |
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INHERIT
THE WIND Release: Nov 60 - Review:
9 Dec 05 >>>
THE LOST WORLD 1960 Release:
Jul 60 - Review: 26 Jan 10
TOP
2 |
• The Beatles form in Liverpool
• Jerry Lewis creates 1st video monitor for directors
• Johnny Cash 1st prison concert, San Quentin CA
• 1st fully mechanized post office, Providence RI
• Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
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THE BLOB Release: Sep 58 - Review: 18 Sep 11
TOP
1 |
• Oral contraceptive pill available
• Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
• Bobby Fisher wins US Chess Championship at 14yo
• 9000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
• RIAA certifies 1st ever Gold Record to Perry Como, "Catch A Falling Star" |
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PATHS OF GLORY Release:
Oct 57 - Review: 20 Jun 09
TOP
1 |
• Russians launch Sputnik 1 into orbit
• Toyota starts selling cars in US
• Radar guns first used for speed limits
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MOBY DICK Release: Jun 56 - Review: 3 Dec 09
TOP
1 |
• First hard disk (5MB) invented by IBM
• Suez Crisis
• Britain and France attack Egypt
• Alabama Bus segregation declared illegal
• Pele (16yo) joins Brazil's Santos team
• Rocky Marciano retires undefeated
• Black-and-white portable TV |
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REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE Release: Oct 55 - Review: 15 Oct 11
TOP
1 |
• Disneyland opens, Anaheim CA
• Salk polio vaccine available to the world
• Quiz show "$64,000 Question" airs in U.S.
• Nabokov's "Lolita" published in Paris |
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APACHE Release: Jul 54 - Review: 7 Aug
05
TOP
1 |
• 1st nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus
• Hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in Pacific
• "Rock Around The Clock" recorded by Bill Haley & The Comets
• "Under God" added to US Pledge of Allegiance.
• William Golding publishes "Lord of the Flies"
• 1st Hyatt Hotel built Los Angeles, 1st hotel in world built outside of an airport
• The TV dinner introduced by Gerry Thomas.
• 1st Burger King opens Miami FL |
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THE
BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS Release: Jun 53 - Review: 28 Jul 05
TOP
1 |
• Sir Edmund Hillary first to summit Everest
• "Playboy" magazine started by Hugh Hefner |
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HIGH NOON Release: Jul 52 - Review: 9 Oct 11
TOP
1
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• Polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk
• Elizabeth II takes British throne |
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL Release: Sep 51 - Review: 14 Dec 08
A STREETCAR
NAMED DESIRE Release: Sep 51 - Review: 3 Oct 05
TOP
2 |
• The Pill invented by Luis E. Miramontes
• US gets direct dial coast-to-coast phones
• Libya gains independence from Italy
• First nuclear bomb tests at Nevada site
• "Rock N Roll" coined by DJ Alan Freed
• CBS launches 1st color TV broadcast. |
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SANDS
OF IWO JIMA Release: Dec 49 - Review: 24 Nov 06
TOP
1 |
• People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
• Don Bradman retires from Australian cricket with Test batting average 99.94 |
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GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT Release: Feb 48 - Review: 24 Aug 09
TOP
1 |
• Mahatma Gandhi assassinated
• Orwell publishes "1984"
• Cable TV created by John & Margaret Walson |
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THE OX-BOW INCIDENT Release: May 43 - Review: 24 Dec 09
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE Release: Dec 43 - Review: 27 Jul 08
TOP
2 |
• Marine Corps Women's Reserve created
• Office of War Information censors US movies
• Vicodin first produced in Germany
• Mengele is Auschwitz chief medical officer |
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MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON Release: Oct 39 - Review: 31 Oct 09
THE WIZARD OF OZ Release: Aug 39 - Review: 23 May 11
TOP
2 |
• Germany invades Poland
• World War II begins
• Spanish Civil War ends
• Heinkel 178, 1st jet-powered aircraft |
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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS Release: Dec 37 - Review: 17 Jul 11
TOP
1 |
• Hindenburg blows up
• 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie MODERN TIMES
• Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize "Gone With the Wind"
• Aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappears over Pacific |
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KING
KONG Release: Apr 33 - Review: 26 Dec 05 >>>
TOP
1 |
• Adolph Hitler Chancellor of Germany
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins his 12-year US Presidential term
• Jansky detects radio waves from galaxy center
• Phonograph records go stereo
• 1st drive-in theater opens New Jersey |
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CITY LIGHTS Release: Mar 31 - Review: 17 Oct 11
DRACULA Release: Feb 1931 - Review: 8 May 08
TOP
2 |
• Empire State Building opened
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" adopted as US national anthem
• German millionaires support Nazi Party
• Exposure meters on sale to photographers
• Al Capone sentenced 11 years for tax evasion |
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THE KID Release: Feb 1921 - Review: 14 Apr 11
TOP
1 |
• Hermann Rorschach designs inkblot tests
• Carl Jung publishes "Psychological Types" delineating introvert and extrovert
• The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (later The Motion Picture Association of America) is created.
• Karel Čapek's play Rossum's Universal Robots coins word "robot"
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION Release: Mar 1915 - Review: 16 Feb 10
TOP
1 |
• General Theory of Relativity published by Einstein
• US Coast Guard created
• Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
• First stone of Lincoln Memorial laid |
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Release: Dec 1903 - Review: 8 Apr 11
TOP
1 |
• Harry Houdini escapes jail in Amsterdam
• Cuban state Guantanamo leased to USA
• Niagara Falls runs dry due to drought
• Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
• Pepsi Cola Co forms
• Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
• Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre/Marie Curie |
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A TRIP TO THE MOON Release: Oct 1902 - Review: 9 Apr 11
TOP
1 |
• 1st Rose Bowl game, Pasadena California
• "Hunchback of Notre Dame" opera premieres Monte Carlo
• Dr Harvey Cushing 1st US brain surgeon, performs 1st brain operation
• Census Bureau forms
• Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
• Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US |
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