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Louis Leakey Archaeologist finds the oldest object now in the British Museum - the chopping tool from about 1.8 million years ago while excavating in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, 1931

Frank Whittle British inventor takes out a patent for a jet engine 1930

Amelia Earhart US aviator lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic 1932

Two British officers Alastair Denniston and Dilly Knox & Jerzy Rozycki, Henryk Zygalski and Marian Rejewski, along with three Polish mathemeticians succeed in breaking some of the Enigma code used by the German military and therefore, aided in saving years of war and counless lives 1933

Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie French chemists who discover artificial radioactivity 1934

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