1917 - 1919 (2 years)
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| 1 | 1917 | - 1917: Bolshevik revolution in Russia installs a new government headed by V.I. Lennin
- 1917: French artist Marcel Duchamp submits a porcelain urinal, signed "R. Mutt" and titled "Fountain," to the New York Independents Exhibition; it is rejected.
- 1917: First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded
- 1917: Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy
- 1917: Russian Revolution
- 1917: U.S. Enters World War I
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| 2 | 1918 | - 1918: Influenza Epidemic
- 1918: Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed
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| 3 | 1919 | - 1919: Eddington and Frank W. Dyson measured the bending of starlight by the gravitational pull of the sun, thus confirming Einstein's general theory of relativity
- 1919: Prohibition Begins in the U.S.
- 1919: Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
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