Alfred Jodl. Alfred Jodl signed the German WWII surrender on May 7, 1945.

Czar Nicholas II. The Bolshevik murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family signaled the end of the 300-year reign of the House of Romanov.

October 2005. Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first First Lady to be elected to the U.S. Senate and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in October 2005.

Physics. Pierre and Marie Curie won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work with radioactivity.

World War I. It occurred in 1914 with a lot of advancement in technology.