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- 1913 – Henry Ford's entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line, dropping the necessary time to build one "Model T" from 12-1/2 hours to 93 minutes in one year. This allowed him to achieve his dream of producing an automobile everyone could afford.
- 1949 - East Germany comes into existence.
- 2001 - The US-led attack on Afghanistan begins.