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Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous • Last Ice Age
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1900–1999
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'20s: 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929
'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949
'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969
'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989
2000–present
In the real world
- Willis O'Brien begins work on his film Creation. It is ultimately cancelled by RKO in favor of Merian C. Cooper's King Kong.
January
- 28 January: Sakyo Komatsu is born Minoru Komatsu in Osaka, Japan.
February
March
- 2 March: Yu Fujiki is born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan.
- 30 March: Yoshimitsu Banno is born in Ehime, Japan.
April
- 11 April: Construction of the Empire State Building is completed.
- 28 April: Hajime Tsuburaya, firstborn son of Eiji Tsuburaya, is born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan.
May
- May 1: The Empire State Building opens to the public.
July
- 6 July: Robert Dunham is born in Maine, USA.
- 10 July: Nick Adams is born in Pennsylvania, USA.
August
- 15 August: Haneda Airport opens to the public.
October
- 24 October: Ken Utsui is born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan.
November
- 1 November: Shunsuke Kikuchi is born in Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan.
- 15 November: Yoshitami Kuroiwa is born in Japan.
In fiction
- King Kong's rampage and subsequent death in New York City occurs. This event is recounted years later by Tim Howller, who witnessed it as a child. (After King Kong Fell)
- The explorer Sir Robert Ashmore Wallace discovers Skull Island, two years prior to Carl Denham's expedition to the island. (Skull Island: Reign of Kong)
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