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1923 Hitler sent to prison for treason
1924 Lenin dies of a stroke
Hitler writes the first volume of Mein Kampf
King Tut's tomb is opened
1925 Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough on quantum mechanics is published
Art Deco style is introduced
1926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket
Henry Ford institutes the five-day, 40-hour work week
1927 TV makes its first U.S. long-distance broadcast
Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop across the Atlantic
1928 Penicillin discovered
Amsterdam Summer Olympics are first to include women's events
1929 Stock market collapses; the Great Depression begins
1930 Gandhi starts non-violent civil disobedience campaign against British salt tax
1931 Harold Urey discovers heavy hydrogen
1932 Yellow fever vaccine is announced
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across Atlantic
1933 Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1934 Revolutionary Augustino Sandino assassinated in Nicaragua
Mao begins Long March campaign
1935 Hitler strips Jews of German citizenship
Alcoholics Anonymous founded
1936 Italy conquers Ethiopia
Civil war erupts in Spain
Jesse Owens disproves Hitler's claim of Aryan supremacy by winning four gold medals at Berlin Olympics
1937 Britain's King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1938 Kristallnacht, the night Nazis ravage Jewish communities throughout Germany
First major commercial discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia
1939 Hitler invades Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany; World War II begins
DuPont begins commercial production of nylon thread
1940 The Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
1941 Hitler invades Russia
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1942 Nazi leaders meet outside Berlin to plan extermination of Jews
U.S. forces destroy Japan's first-line carriers in the Battle of Midway
1943 Jewish resistance fight deportation to death camps during Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Allies decide war must end with "unconditional surrender
German Army surrenders in Stalingrad
1944 D-Day: Allies invade Normandy
1945 Hitler commits suicide
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
1946 ENIAC, the first electronic computer, debuts
Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
1947 India gains independence from Britain; Pakistan is created
Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
1948 Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated
Israel declares independence
1949 The U.S. and its European allies form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism
The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic weapon, the nuclear arms race begins in earnest
In Beijing, Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People's Republic of China; Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army flees to Taiwan
1950 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg found guilty of stealing U.S. atomic secrets
1951 First mechanical heart valve used in a human
U.S. tests first hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands
1952 Francis Crick & James Watson discover the structure of DNA
Stalin dies
1953 Elvis Presley records first hit, That's All Right Mama
Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile
1954 The first of Ray Kroc's McDonald's restaurants is opened in Des Plaines, Ill
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the civil rights movement
1955 Khrushchev denounces Stalin
1956 Russia launches first space satellite Sputnik
1957 The first U.S.-built commercial jet, the Boeing 707, goes into service, helping to revolutionise air travel
1958 Castro takes over in Cuba
The Dalai Lama flees to exile in India, escaping from a decade of Chinese rule in Tibet
1959 The U.S. spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union
Israelis North Korean Communist forces invade South Korea
1960 capture Nazi chief executioner Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1961 Russia's Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit the earth The Berlin Wall is erected
1962 Cuban Missile crisis erupts when U.S. discovers Soviet Union placed nuclear arms in Cuba
The Beatles release their first single, Love Me Do
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech
JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link is opened
1964 South Africa's apartheid government sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison
Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law
1965 Malcolm X assassinated
1966 Mao launches China's "Cultural Revolution"
1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world's first successful human heart transplant
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Robert F. Kennedy murdered in Los Angeles
U.S. soldiers massacre Vietnamese villagers in My Lai
1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are first to set foot on moon
Stonewall riots mark beginning of gay rights movement
1970 U.S. invades Cambodia
The Beatles break up
1971 Greenpeace founded
Intel introduces the first microprocessor chip
1972 Eleven Israeli athletes killed at Munich Olympic Games
1973 U.S., South Vietnam and North Vietnam sign Paris peace treaty
OPEC imposes oil embargo against U.S.
1974 Scientists report that freon gases are destroying the ozone layer
1975 U.S. evacuates from Vietnam; Saigon falls to Communists
Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft
1976 Nadia Comaneci awarded first perfect score in Olympic history
Unmanned U. S. spacecraft lands on Mars
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer
1977 Gary Gilmore is first person executed in U.S. since 1967
1978 Birth of first child conceived by in vitro fertilization
1979 Ayatullah Khomeini returns to Tehran
Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq & U.S. embassy in Tehran seized; 66 hostages taken
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1980 John Lennon murdered
Solidarity trade union founded in Poland
1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassinated
Reagan inaugurated; hostages released from Iran
1982 The name AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is given to a mysterious fatal disease
Margaret Thatcher crushes Argentina's attempt to take Falkland Islands
1983 Ferdinand Marcos rival Benigno Aquino assassinated in the Philippines
U.S. invades Grenada to overthrow Marxist military council
Reagan denounces Soviet Union as an "evil empire
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated
1985 Reagan Administration begins selling arms to Iran, diverts money to Nicaraguan contras
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
1986 Nuclear reactor explodes at Chernobyl power plant
Ferdinand Marcos is overthrown; Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines
The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
Iranian parliament speaker discloses Iran-Contra transaction
1987 Reagan and Gorbachev sign first treaty eliminating entire class of nuclear weapons
1988 Osama bin Laden founds al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to lead an Islamic nation
Soviet troops begin pullout from Afghanistan
Libyan terrorists blow up a Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland
1989 The Berlin Wall is torn down
Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini calls for assassination of British novelist Salman Rushdie
U.S. troops invade Panama to overthrow Manuel Noriega
Romania's Communist dictator Ceausescu is executed in popular uprising
1990 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years in prison
Iraq invades Kuwait and seizes oil reserves
First World Wide Web page debuts
1991 Gulf War begins
The Soviet Union officially collapses
The Maastricht Treaty establishes the European Union
1992 Yugoslav republic breaks up
1993 World Trade Center bombed
1994 Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa
Paula Jones accuses Clinton of sexually harrassing her while he was governor of Arkansas
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
1996 Taliban Muslim fundamentalists capture Kabul
1997 Scientists announce existence of Dolly the sheep, the result of first cloned adult mammal
China regains control of Hong Kong from Great Britain
Pathfinder probe lands on Mars, transmits live images
1998 Clinton publicly denies having sexual relationship with "that woman," Monica Lewinsky
Clinton is impeached
1999 Student shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo
Microsoft is ruled a monopoly
2000 Supreme Court ruling ensures the election of George W. Bush
Slobodan Milosevic is overthrown in Serbia
Human Genome program announces rough map of human genome has been created
2001 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four planes and attack New York City and Washington D.C.
U.S. and allied forces launch a bombing campaign on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and al-Qaeda camps in the country
2002 George Bush identifies an axis of evil that will be focus of America's vigilant attention: Iraq, Iran and North Korea
Al-Jazeera airs a message from Osama bin Laden praising attacks in Yemen and in Bali and promising more attacks against the West
Twelve nations among the 15 members of the European Union adopt the Euro
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