| Event | Year |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |
| Soviet Union collapse | |
| Formation of the European Union | |
| Signing of the US Declaration of Independence | |
| Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years | |
| Start of the October War (The Yom Kippur War) | |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | |
| | Event | Year |
| Formation of the United Nations | |
| Battle of the Alamo | |
| Formation of the Canadian territory Nunavut | |
| Vladimir Putin becomes President after Yeltsin steps down | |
| Columbia explodes after reentry | |
| Indian Ocean Tsunami claims more than 230,000 victims | |
| The Canadian Constitution Act brings together four provinces to form 'Canada' | |
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