Can you name the years of the 20th Century that these events took place?

created by wiggytitch
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  • The 20th Century lasted from 1901-2000. Each year is used exactly once.
  • Inspired by hscer's wonderful 200 Year Quiz.
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EventYear
Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
The Russian Revolution destroys the Tsarist government.
Microsoft releases Windows 2.1.
'I Want to Hold Your Hand' becomes The Beatles' first US #1 single.
Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel.
Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.
The Summer Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles for the second time.
US President Richard Nixon resigns following the Watergate Scandal.
French engineer Louis Réard invents the bikini.
Prohibition begins in the United States.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes San Francisco.
'Titanic' wins 11 Academy Awards, equalling the record set by Ben-Hur.
Brazil wins its first FIFA World Cup in Sweden.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 breaks apart and collides with Jupiter.
The RMS Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage.
Disney's The Jungle Book is released.
Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated.
The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls.
Queen Victoria dies after almost 64 years on the throne.
Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as US President.
The rock band Led Zeppelin forms.
Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia.
The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan and North America.
Eleven Israeli athletes are shot dead at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich.
The first issue of The Beano is published.
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister for the first time.
Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
Kyrgyzstan gains independence.
John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope. He dies 33 days later.
Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
The Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of oil after running aground.
The first issue of Time Magazine is published.
EventYear
J.R.R Tolkien dies.
Hawaii is admitted as the 50th US State.
World War I begins.
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour.
The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency.
Canada adopts its current national flag.
Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon.
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.
Beatrix Potter dies.
Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse and is killed.
George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
'Heartbreak Hotel' becomes Elvis Presley's first number one single.
John Lennon is assassinated in New York.
The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
Apache leader Geronimo dies.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to summit Mt. Everest
Meher Baba begins his 44 year silence.
The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made.
Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile.
The Korean War begins.
The Wall Street Crash leads to the Great Depression.
Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's first female prime minister.
Spain and Portugal join the European Union.
After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan.
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.
Roald Amundsen beats Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole by 35 days.
Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
The most powerful earthquake on record strikes Chile.
US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall.'
The League of Nations is founded in Paris.
I Love Lucy makes its television debut.
The first resident crew enters the International Space Station.
Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres.
EventYear
The Spanish Civil War begins.
The United Nations is formed.
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated.
The Falklands War between Argentina and the UK.
The Khmer Rouge sieze power in Cambodia.
The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.
Chelsea FC is founded.
George V ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom.
Persia is renamed Iran.
Robert Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
India and Pakistan gain independence from the British Empire.
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
'Video Killed the Radio Star' is the first video shown on MTV.
The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor.
The Siege of Sarajevo begins.
Albert Einstein dies aged 76.
Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years behind bars.
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic.
Jimi Hendrix dies in London of drug related complications.
The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland.
The original King Kong film is released.
The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat.
US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
The first Winter Olympic Games are held in Chamonix, France.
The Spanish Flu becomes pandemic.
Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie.
The Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed.
Harry Houdini dies of a ruptured appendix.
NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
The Nazi concentration camp Treblinka II opens. Around 850,000 people are killed.
eBay is founded.
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The 20th Century Quiz

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