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Death of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Cuba gains independence from the United States
First Tour de France held
Construction begins on the Panama Canal
Norway achieves independence from Sweden
Deadly earthquakes in San Francisco, USA and Valparaiso, Chile
First elections with female candidates are held in Finland
Model T Ford is released
Bosnian crisis ends with Ottoman occupation of Bosnia
Beginning of the Mexican revolution
Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Foundation of the African National Congress
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring premiers in Paris
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
First use of poison gas at the Battle of Nueve Chapelle
Easter Rising in Ireland
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
Austro-Hungarian Empire officially dissolved
Alcock and Brown make first non-stop Transatlantic flight
Mexican Revolution ends
Georgia is incorporated into the Soviet Union following a Russian invasion
Tutankhamen's tomb discovered
Great Kanto earthquake in Japan
Death of Vladimir Lenin
Publication of Hitler's biography, Mein Kampf
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
The Jazz Singer , the first talking movie, is released
Penicillin discovered by Aleander Fleming
Beginning of the Great Depression
First FIFA World Cup held in (and won by) Uruguay
Yangtze river floods in China, killing millions
BBC World Service begins broadcasting
President Roosevelt launches the New Deal in the USA
Night of the Long Knives cements Hitler's power in Germany
Haile Selassie exiled after Abyssinian defeat to Italy
Spanish Civil War begins
Japanese invasion of China
Superman makes his first appearance
World War Two begins with German invasion of Poland
Nazi Blitzkrieg conquest of Western Europe
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brings USA into WW2
Manhattan project begins
Tehran conference between the Allied leaders
D-Day landings in Normandy
United Nations founded
Nuremberg trails to convict Nazi leaders
Sound barrier broken for the first time
Assassination of Mohandas Ghandi
Partitions of Germany and Kashmir
Beginning of the Korean War
Abdication of King Leopold of Belgium
Queen Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom
General Nasser leads a coup in Egypt
Brown v. Board of Education leads to the end of racial segreation in American schools
Signing of the Warsaw Pact
Suez Crisis
Launch of Sputnik 1
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament founded
Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro
The first birth control pill becomes comercailly available
Construction of the Berlin Wall completed
Algerian War ends with the independence of Algeria
Launch of the first geostationary satellite
FARC begin millitary operations in Colombia
Up to 500,000 people are killed in an anti-communist purge in Indonesia
Beginnign of the Cultural Revolution in China
Dissappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Muammar Gaddafi overthrows King Idris of Libya
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is ratified
Bangladesh secedes from Pakistan
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland
Israel defeats its neighbours in the Yom Kippur War
World population reaches 4 billion
Fall of Saigon ends the Vietnam war
First outbreak of the ebola virus
Tenerife disaster - worst aviation accident in history
Jonestown massacre
Iranian Revolution deposes the Shah as leader
Formation of Solidarność in Poland
Wedding of Prince Charles to Diana Spencer
Princess Grace of Monaco killed in car accident
Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom
Sino-British joint declaration agrees return of Hong Kong to China
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Beginning of the First Intifada
End of the Iran-Iraq War
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Unification of Yemen
First publicly-available website launched
Maastricht Treaty creates the European Union
Eritrea becomes independent from Ethiopia
Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa
Srebrenica massacre
Dolly the sheep becomes the first cloned mammal
Lottery Uprising in Albania
Signing of the Good Friday Agreement ends The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Introduction of the Euro
International Space Station begins operations
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