Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1800s The French and British vied to build the better ironclad battleship. In 1862 the Union's Monitor and the Confederacy's Merrimack clashed in the first battle of ironclads in history. The result was indecisive...
...latest U.S.S. Enterprise was commissioned, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ever built...
...Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal organized a naval academy of engineers, mapmakers and ship's pilots. Borrowing from Arab vessels, they designed the first caravels. Propelled by lateen rigging, the three-masted ships were fast and tacked into the wind...
...Newspapers The first weekly appeared in Antwerp; it would be 1650 before the first daily was published, in Leipzig...
...Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia. Beginning in the late 1960s, he became the founder of the first truly global media empire, with properties ranging from newspapers to a movie studio to cable and broadcast television networks...