1918

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Top Female Names: Mary, Helen, Dorothy

Top Male Names: John, William, James

Notable Event: The 1918 flu pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide, killing 50 to 100 million of them. The total number of people lost equated to between three and five percent of the world's population at the time.


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