George Gershwin had his first big hit in nineteen nineteen, when he was twenty-one years old.

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In nineteen nineteen, he published another collection, called "Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp."

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Two films from the year nineteen nineteen were also included in this first shipment from Russia.

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In nineteen nineteen, he hit the ball out of the baseball park twenty-nine times.

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However,Margaret Mead began her studies in nineteen nineteen at De Pauw University in Greencastle,Indiana.

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Pete Seeger was born on May third, nineteen nineteen in New York City.

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She was born in nineteen nineteen in the Shaanxi area of China.

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Veterans Day started as Armistice Day on November eleventh,nineteen nineteen.

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Post finally rode in an airplane in nineteen nineteen.

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Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield,Massachusetts.

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Cigarette production in the United States more than doubled in the ten years between nineteen eighteen and nineteen twenty-eight.

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Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

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In the next seven years, between nineteen-twenty-nine and nineteen-thirty-six, he seemed to re-invent the novel with every book he wrote.

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His distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, began his presidency in nineteen thirty-three and served until his death in nineteen forty-five.

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These comedies, with plenty of songs, were a popular form of entertainment in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties.

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But by the late nineteen seventies and the nineteen eighties, those countries no longer had much money to help farmers.

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Between nineteen fifty-three and nineteen fifty-nine she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies: "How To Marry a Millionaire."

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