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👑 🎂 #QueenElizabeth turns 96 today — she was born on April 21, 1926.

The world was a different place the year the Queen was born. Take a look.👇
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🌎 The world's population was almost 2 billion people, nearly a quarter of the population today.

And the average life expectancy was around 50 years old in the US and 70 years old in the UK.
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💸 The economy was very different too. A loaf of bread cost just 9 cents and the average American worker earned 75 cents an hour.
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🇺🇸 Calvin Coolidge was halfway through his term as US president.

🇬🇧 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, meanwhile, was in his second term in the United Kingdom.
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🗳️ 🇺🇸 Women had only recently won the right to vote in US elections.

🗳️ 🇬🇧 In the UK, women didn’t get the same voting rights as men until 1928 — two years later.
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✊🏿 In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson started "Negro History Week."

In 1970 it was declared #BlackHistoryMonth, and it has been recognized and celebrated widely ever since.
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📺 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of a television.

🚀 Scientist Robert Goddard launched the first successful liquid-fuel rocket.
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Bizarrely, some things sound familiar…

🦠 In 1926, a viral epidemic known as the “sleeping sickness” was coming to an end.
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🔍 Discover more about the world when #QueenElizabeth was born.

Read the full article at @thisisinsider. 👇
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