Here are the dates for a series of events. As you can see, some of the dates are missing.
What are the missing dates. And what happened at these dates?
$~~~????,~ 1914,~ ????,~ 1939,~ 1958,~ ????,~ 1978,~ 1978,~ 2005,~ 2013$
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Sign up to join this communityHere are the dates for a series of events. As you can see, some of the dates are missing.
What are the missing dates. And what happened at these dates?
$~~~????,~ 1914,~ ????,~ 1939,~ 1958,~ ????,~ 1978,~ 1978,~ 2005,~ 2013$
These years - ???, 1914, ???, 1939, 1958, ???, 1978, 1978, 2005, 2013 - are the years of
"Sede Vacante" (or: the starting years of new popes).
More precisely,
1903 Pius X
1914 Benedict XV
1922 Pius XI
1939 Pius XII
1958 John XXIII
1963 Paul VI
1978 John Paul I
1978 John Paul II
2005 Benedict XVI
2013 Francis
The answer is
1899, 1915 and 1950
All those years are
the beginning years of all wars in 20th and 21st centuries involved by USA.
Philippine-American War(1899-1902)
World War I(1914-1918)
Armenian Genocide(1915-1918)
Word War II(1939-1945)
The Korean War(1950)
Vietnam War/Lebanon crisis(1958)
Afghan War (1978)
South Lebanon conflict(1978)
Iraq Crisis(2005)
Syrian Civil War(2013)