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1913
Aug 4
| 1913 • The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. Although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production. |
1920
Age: 6y
1930
Age: 16y
| 1930 • German election, 1930: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party. |
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Jun
Age: 25y
1939
Jun
Age: 25y
birth of childCharles Lee Smith Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1939 • Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th pope. |
1940
Apr 11
Age: 26y
| 1940 • WWII: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to the then Major-General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. |
1943
Apr 25
Age: 29y
birth of childReta Kay Smith Ottumwa, Iowa, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1943 • Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes the speech "The Ireland That We Dreamed Of", commonly called the "comely maidens" speech, in Dublin Castle. |
2009
May 28
Age: 95y
| 2009 • NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon, the first American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998. |