For more than a hundred years, we have witnessed some of the deepest adjustments in human history.
Between pandemics, wars, technological developments, advances in civil rights and clinical and medical advances, the old order has been swept away, giving way to a freer, bureaucracy-free government.
Centuries-old empires collapsed when new ideologies, from communism to fascism, took root in many parts of the world.The wars of the early twentieth century led to the end of the colonial world and gave rise to new nations.millions of lives and billions of dollars.These are the ultimate wars in American history.
Over the past century, technological inventions have reshaped our lives in a way we never dream of.Progressive concepts also emerged that replaced the global as women, African Americans and the LGBTQ network demanded and gained equivalent rights, starting with 19th-century ratification.Amendment in the United States to the legalization of same-sex marriage in many countries.Still, recent civil rights protests tell us that the fight for equivalence is not over.
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The COVID-19 pandemic that is ravaging the world in 2020 reminds us that, despite all our clinical advances, we are still vulnerable to deadly viruses that can shut down economies and disrupt society.People hope that science can save Earth from a devastating Replace climate that continues to threaten our planet’s ecosystems.In the coming years, herbal mistakes can play a vital role in the course of history.Here are 26 climate replacement crisis scenarios.
To determine the ultimate vital occasion in the year you were born, Tempo 24/7 relied on study articles and media resources to compile its list.Deciding on the ultimate vital occasion of a given year is inherently a subjective exercise.To make our decisions, we chose the occasion that had the greatest impact, it may not have been the most outstanding occasion in a given year.
1920: women to vote
Date: August 26
Location: Washington, D.C.
Aleven, although the United States was founded on democratic principles, only a minority of its population (initially only white landowners over the age of 21) can vote, but after the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, women nevertheless get a vote and the right to vote, even though the struggle for the right to vote was far from over for many African-American women , especially in the South.
1921: Rise of the Chinese Communists
Date: July 1
Location: Beijing
In a prequel to the rise of Mao Zedong and Red China, the Communist Party of China was founded and 3 weeks later convened its first National Congress in which Mao participated. It would be another 28 years before the ROC became the People’s Republic. from China.
1922: British Empire shrinks
Date: February 28
Location: London
The British Empire peaked towards the end of World War I, with an estimated world population of 570 million people, or about a quarter of the world’s population at the time.The extension of the empire began to decline in 1920, when Britain declared Egypt’s limited indefinition, which led to complete indefinition two years later.
1923: Great Kanto earthquake
Date: September 1
Location: Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan
The Great Kanto earthquake, also known as the Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake, struck the mainland of Japan at noon on September 1, 1923, with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale, and the death toll is estimated at 140,000.The force of the earthquake destroys thousands of houses that collapse or are enfulfed by fire.The earthquake triggered a tsunami that reached nearly 40 feet in Atami in the Gulf of Sagami, killing 60 other people there.The significant result of the crisis is that rebuilding Tokyo would be a trendy metropolis.
1924: Lenin to Stalin
Date: January 21
Location: Moscow
After Vladimir Lenin’s death on January 21, the new leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, promptly began a purge of political rivals, some are simply transferred to other positions, while others, such as Leon Trotsky, Lenin’s alleged successor, Stalin’s paranoia grows as he takes the nation, and with it the point of violence and murder of anyone perceived as a risk to his strength and Array.
Scopes Monkey Essay (1925)
Date: July 10
Location: Dayton, Tennessee
After training the theory of evolution in one of Tennessee’s top schools, the state sued science instructor John Thomas Scopes because state law prohibits such training because it opposes biblical beliefs.The famous attorney Clarence Darrow.The jury ruled against Scopes, forcing him to pay a $100 fine (approximately $1498 in 2020 dollars).It would be 43 years before the U.S. Supreme Court regulates that legislation that punishes others who teach evolution violates the First Amendment.
1926: U.S. launches numbered network
Date: November 11
Location: United States
As a precursor to the modern interstate formula, the federal government introduced a national road numbering formula to standardize roads, i.e. local roads and trails whose names are not familiar to foreigners.Car owners perceive how to get from a city to the city and will pave the way for the wonderful American culture of road trips.
1927: Lindbergh in Paris
Date: May 21
Location: New York to Paris
When the Spirit of St.Louis monoplane landed at Bourget Field in Paris on the night of May 21, Charles Lindbergh became the first user to fly nonstop over the Atlantic Ocean, making him one of the heroes of the time.lights the eye of the minds of the hovering aviators about the odds of advertising flight.Lindbergh would remain on the news, but for unfortunate reasons.A strong supporter of American aispositionism in the 1930s, he criticized for his admiration for the aviation industry of Nazi Germany and, moreover, his young son died in a failed kidnapping attempt in 1932.
1928: Earhart crosses the Atlantic
Date: June 17-18
Location: Wales
Amelia Earhart has become the first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Wales, making her an American national hero and feminist icon who will continue to set aviation records.He would later set some other record as the first user, man or woman.women – to fly alone from Hawaii to the Americas.Earhart and his co-driver Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during Earhart’s attempt to go around the world.Recent evidence has emerged that Earhart would possibly have sent signs of misery after surviving an accident, in all likelihood on the remote Gardner Island in the western Pacific Ocean.
1929: Fall of Wall Street
Date: October 24-29
Location: New York
The “Mad Years” ended on Black Tuesday in October 1929, when inventories plummeted, contributing to the Great Depression.The reasons for the worst economic recession in U.S. history are the only reason for the us to do so.But it’s not the first time They come with exaggerated loans through underregulated banks, above the maximum inventory valuation prices, too many inventories purchased on the sidelines, rampant exuberance that sends millions of other people to turn their savings into inventories, a credit crunch through the Federal Reserve and an agricultural drought.
1930: Ho Chi Minh city goes to Vietnam
Date: February 2
Location: Hanoi
On one occasion that would have repercussions on American foreign policy decades later, Vietnamese independence fighter Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist Party of Vietnam as part of his efforts to overthrow French colonial occupiers.”Uncle Ho”, as his many supporters called him, Encouraged through the Russian Bolsheviks, who oppose Tsarist autocracy, seeing parallels between this struggle and the struggle opposed to the foreign occupiers of their country.
1931: Empire State Building Completed
Date: May 1
Location: New York
U.S. President Herbert Hoover inaugurated the final touch of the Empire State Building on May 1.It has become the tallest structure on Manhattan’s iconic skyline until the structure of the World Trade Center towers was completed in 1973.thirteen months to build, with structure from March last year.
1932: German Hitler
Date: February 25
Location: Germany
Seven years after Adolf Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship, some other member of the Nazi party discharged him from a post in the low-level government, which is accompanied by automatic citizenship, paving the way for him to run for office.a party activist, Hitler only takes two years to unload his citizenship prestige to Germany’s leader.
1933: FDR chosen
Date: March 12
Location: Washington D.C.
While the Great Depression sent millions of Americans to charity canteens and continued with the paintings they could find, newly elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his weekly “informal discussions” while Americans were hungry for recommendations and convenience.FDR’s first radio convention explains to U.S. citizens in undeniable language why it ordered the temporary closure of banks at other times in other parts of the country.the banking system.
1934: Hitler consolidates his power
Date: June 30
Location: Berlin
The Germans, who had suffered a disastrous economic crisis in 1929-30, began adopting the concepts of the Nationalist Socialist Workers’ Party, the Nazi party, which became the largest party after the 1932 elections.In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany.After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler purged members of his own party – the bloody night of long knives – with the help of the infantrymen of the Nazi typhoon and has become Germany’s undisputed leader.
1935: FDR launches new contract
Date: August 14
• Location: Washington D.C.
President Roosevelt, who suffered from the Great Depression, signed his Social Security Act, a law that created the country’s first pension security system.Earlier that year, as a component of his “New Deal” policy, the president created the Works Progress Administration, a major economic stimulus program, millions of Americans paintings on building the country’s public infrastructure.
1936: Owens mocks the Nazis
Date: August 3
Location: Berlin
While the concept of purity and racial superiority ruled Germany in the 1930s, African-American sprinter Jesse Owens of Oakville, Alabama, showed them who was the master of the race.At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and under the gaze of Adolf Hitler, Owens won four Olympic gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter sprints, long jump and 400-meter relays.
1937: UAW adjusts industry
Date: February 11
Location: Flint, Michigan
Nearly two years after the creation of United Automobile Workers (UAW), the union achieved a victory in the primaries in Flint, Michigan.General Motors Fisher’s number one plant workers deposit their equipment and occupy the plant, it is not easy to trade union representation, a fair minimum wage, safer operating situations and not outsource to non-unionized plants Despite the efforts of GM and the local police to remove them from the plant , add heat outages, food cuts and attacks that injured 16 employees and 11 policemen, the strike lasted 44 days and resulted in an agreement between GM and UAW, which included a 5% pay increase and permission to speak in the dining room.
1938: outbreaks of anti-Semitism
• Date: November 9
Location: Germany, Austria, Sudetenland
The developing anti-Semitic scapegoat amid Germany’s paralyzing economic situation culminates in the Kristallnacht, or “Night of Damaged Glasses,” a pogrom provoked through a speech by German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.Typhoon soldiers and other Nazi teams were ordered to attack and attack.destroy Jewish businesses, houses and places of worship. On a night of attacks in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking Sudetes region of Czechoslovakia, dozens of Jews were killed and tens of thousands accumulated and sent to concentration camps.
1939: World War II Begins
Date: September 1
Location: Westerplatte, Poland
Under the canopy of darkness before dawn, a German battleship floats silently in the center of Dantzig Harbour and opens the chimney at a Polish castle in Westerplatte, the first plans of World War II.In the following weeks, Nazi forces, adding 2,000 tanks and 1,000 aircraft, would break Polish defenses and surround Warsaw, which they would do 26 days after the attack on Dantzig Harbour.
1940: McDonald’s Foundation
Date: May 15
Location: San Bernardino, California
Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald open the place to eat McDonald’s fried fish, featuring ribs, red meat sandwiches and 23 other menu items.Eight years later, they would restructure their popular local business into burgers, smoothies and soft drinks, with an emphasis on speed, an undeniable menu and low prices.In the 1950s, businessman Ray Kroc bought the brothers and made McDonald’s one of the largest restaurant chains in the world.
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Date: December 7
Location: Oahu, Hawaii
Knowing that the United States was preparing to interact with them at the Pacific Ocean Theater of World War II, Japan deployed a major airstrike on U.S. Navy ships stationed at Pearl Harbor.The astonishing attack of 353 Japanese aircraft killed 2,403 people, adding 1,177 sailors.aboard the evil USS Arizona, one of 19 ships broken or destroyed in the attack.About 330 aircraft were also broken or destroyed. The United States declared war on Japan the next day and three days later opposing Germany and Italy.
1942: GIs arrive in Europe
Date: January 26
• Location: Northern Ireland
The first U.S. troops to fight in Europe in the world’s largest war arrived in Northern Ireland, which led to the start of an army uprising that would lead to the invasion of France more than two years later.best friend across the Atlantic, while building what President Roosevelt called the “arsenal of democracy” in anticipation of America’s inevitable access to war in Europe.
1943: invention of LSD
Date: April 19
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman had studied the possible medicinal price of lysergic compounds when accidentally exposed to LSD-25, which he had created years earlier in his laboratory.It was the first vacation to LSD, a quarter of a century before it approved counterculture.the hallucinogenic compound. Hoffman describes “non-unpleasant” delight as “an uninterrupted flow of fantastic images, ordinary shapes with an intense, kaleidoscopic color scheme.”Hoffman takes a momentary dose and writes an article about his discovery.the drug in infantry soldiers on numerous occasions from 1955 to 1967, in short, seeking to use the LSD as a weapon to disorient enemy infantry soldiers in combat.
1944: D-Day
Date: June 6
Location: Normandy France
The plan for the largest one-day army crusade in history, the Allied invasion of Normandy to drive the Nazis out of France, secretly crafted a year earlier.The plan conceived at the Quebec Conference through Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt.The invasion began at 6:30 a.m. on five beaches, and over the next 24 hours some 4900 Allied infantrymen died, many of them when the gates of their Higgins ships were opened directly to German Device Pistol Shot.
1945: World War II ends
Date: September 2
Location: multiple
Japan marked the end of World War II amid one of the most tumultuous years of the 20th century.At the beginning of the year, the leaders of 3 nations – Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler – died and Nazi Germany ed.Japan is inevitable, the prospect of a horrific allied attack on the Japanese continent convinces the United States to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Atomic bombings, as well as the Soviet Union’s access to the war against Japan, forced the Japanese to organize
1946: Baby begins
Date: January 1
Location: United States
More young American children were born – 3.4 million – in 194 than in any year in U.S. history until then.The number of births reached four million, consistent with 1954 to 1964, the last year of the baby boomers generation, the largest generation at that time in history.
1947: Independence of India
Date: August 15
Location: Washington, D.C.
The sun set on the British Empire in India in 1947, when the Asian country has become the largest democracy in the world.of British colonialism. The transition to independence comes at a price.The subcontinent is divided into two countries, Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.Violence erupts between Hindus and Muslims as Hindus migrate to India and Muslims move to Pakistan.An estimated one million people die from migration.
1948: Birth of Israel
Date: May 15
Location: Middle East
After Israel declared independence following a UN resolution, neighboring Arab states with troops from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Transjordan (now Jordan), Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are attacking the former Palestinian mandate under BritishArray The Arab-Israeli war ended with an armistice that left Israel with some territories, with Egypt and Jordan retaining the Gaza Strip and the West Bank Respectively.
1949: NATO Foundation
Date: April 4
Location: Washington, D.C.
With the worsening Cold War, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear bomb and temporarily exerted its influence on Eastern Europe, trying to do the same in Western Europe, which is still recovering from the mass destruction of World War II.In reaction to the Soviet threat, allies in the United States and Western Europe shaped the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Basically, NATO simply claims that an attack on a NATO member would be seen as an attack on all NATO members.later that year, when the Communists seized China, the world’s most populous nation.
1950: Korean War begins
Date: June 25
Location: Korea
The North Korean People’s Army is crossing the 38th parallel in South Korea, prompting an almost swift reaction from US President Truman and sparking the Korean War, a proxy war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Three years later, a ceasefire ended the war The complicated relations between North and South Korea have lasted a long time.
1951: Rosenberg convicted
Date: March 29
Location: New York
Husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage for their contribution to the transmission of atomic secrets to the Soviet Union and after World War II, and were executed two years later.Not everyone is convinced of your participation in the program.Supporters claim they are scapegoats swept away by Cold War-era hysteria.Documents revealed decades later would show the detailed scope of Julius Rosenberg’s involvement in the spy network, although Ethel’s involvement in the scheme remains inconclusive.
1952: First hydrogen bomb test
• Date: November 1
Location: Marshall Islands
The United States effectively detonated its first hydrogen bomb, a second-generation thermonuclear device, in the Marshall Islands as a component of Operation Ivy, one of a series of nuclear bombs.From 1946 to 1958, the United States used the remote Marshall Islands in the Pacific as a nuclear weapons site, detonating a total of 67 nuclear.
1953: The DNA
Date: February 28
Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cambridge University scientists James Watson and Francis Crick say they have discovered the basic behavior and double helix design of DNA.Although scientists have known DNA since the 1860s and its role in genetic inheritance since 1943, Watson and Crick were the first to discover how DNA works to reflect and transmit genes from one generation to the next.
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
Date: May 17
Location: Washington, D.C.
In a landmark case involving Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas, who had to cross a railroad to succeed in an all-black elementary school, although an all-white school was closer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the separate school formula was unconstitutional on the basis of the equivalent coverage clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.The clause would be reused through the courts to revoke racial segregation practices and orders at the state level.
1955: Parks launches a movement
Date: December 1
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus.Park’s arrest for insisting on sitting led to a boycott of buses and the emergence of a young pastor named Martin Luther King, Jr., as a local activist leader to promote the cause of civil rights.A successful NAACP federal trial opposed to the city led to the elimination of segregation from the bus formula on December 21 of the following year.
1956: Suppression of Hungary
Date: November 4
Location: Budapest
Cold War tensions intensified as Hungarians took to the streets to call for democratic reforms.Three days later, Red Army troops invaded Hungary, killing thousands of people.Nine days after the raid, Budapest occupied through Soviet troops in one of the Soviet Union’s highest vital and competitive movements since the end of World War II.
1957: The Little New Rock
Date: September 24
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered federal troops to protect nine top-tier African-American academics when they began ranks at Little Rock Central High School, all white, in Arkansas. to racial segregation at the state level.
1958: U.S. launches first satellite
Date: January 31
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
The United States effectively introduced Explorer 1, 3 months after the Soviet Union introduced its first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit.The two superpowers would continue to send more satellites to arrays creating a Cold War race to build increasingly complicated orbital communication devices.
1959: Castro takes control of Cuba
Date: January 1
Location: Havana
U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Havana as a fidel Castro force complex in the Cuban capital; A few days later, the rebels led by Ché Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos entered the city, followed two days later by Castro’s forces, who temporarily consolidated their strength in Cuba., a communist government in the largest country in the Caribbean.
1960: Sitting at the lunch counter.
Date: February 1
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
When 4 African-American academics – Ezell A.Blair, Franklin E.McCain, Joseph A.McNeil and David L.Richmond – at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and they ask for service, are rejected.refused to leave, which led to a larger six-month demonstration that led to the removal of segregation from the lunch counter that summer.The Greensboro Woolworth closed in 1993, and the lunch counter component will be donated to the Smithsonian.
1961: construction of the Berlin Wall
Date: August 13
Location: Berlin, East and West Germany
In late summer 1961, the loss of professional staff, such as teachers, engineers and doctors, moved to the West to obtain crisis degrees in East Germany.On August 12, 2,400 East Germans crossed West Berlin, the maximum on a single day.The next day, with the approval of Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, East Germany built a 43-kilometre wall through Berlin, dividing families and friends over the next 28 years.The wall would serve as a lasting symbol of the Cold War, used by Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan to motivate a divided city.
1962: Cuban missile crisis
Date: October 16-28
Location: multiple
When the United States learned that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile facilities 90 miles south of Miami in communist Cuba, the Kennedy administration introduced a naval blockade around the island, which was tested, and Kennedy called for the missile to be withdrawn.it is widely known as the closest to the two nuclear superpowers to a direct military confrontation.New heads prevail. The Soviet Union proposes to withdraw the missiles in exchange for a guarantee that the United States will not invade Cuba.In secret, management also agreed to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
1963: JFK killed
Date: November 22
Location: Dallas
As President John F.Kennedy prepared for re-election, he embarked on a multi-state tour starting in September 1963.He fired through a sniper shot through Lee Harvey Oswald around 12:30 p.m.as his caravan passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.Oswald himself was killed two days later through nightclub owner Jack Ruvia.
1964: “War on Poverty” through LBJ
Date: January 8
Location: Washington, D.C.
Stuck in the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B.Johnson struggles to move away from the war to focus on his stated goals of reducing poverty, ending segregation, and building the social systems that many Americans depend on this day, adding the hugely popular Medicare program.During his confrontation over the state of the War on Poverty Union on 8 January 1964, LBJ emphasized the country’s desire to reduce poverty, end racial discrimination and meet fitness needs.the elderly and other progressive purposes. The subsequent achievements of the LBJ administration are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Social Security Amfinishments of 1965.
1965: Violent civil rights
Date: March 7
Location: Selma, Alabama
Protester Jimmy Lee Jackson’s fatal shooting through an Alabama state soldier sparked a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.Hundreds of civil rights activists march the so-called “Bloody Sunday.”Police would face protesters, led by John Lewis (who would serve as Democrats at the House of Georgia) and others.As militants crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, police attacked protesters with tear fuel and clubs, hospitalizing 50.Lewis will die in July 2020, his mark crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the last time in a horse-drawn carriage.
1966: Mao purges rivals
Date: August 13
Location: Beijing
After a week-long consultation with the Communist Party Central Committee of the People’s Republic of China, President Mao Zedong condemned political elites and called on young Chinese to oppose the political insurgency rooted in the political hierarchy.Revolution that fundamentally transformed Chinese society. Intellectuals, members of the former nationalist government and others related to Western powers are persecuted, sent to re-education labour camps or killed through Red Guard factions formed as a result of Mao’s call to action.
1967: Six-day war
Date: June 5
Location: Middle East
Amid escalating tensions with its neighbors, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike that destroyed most of Egypt’s air force. Syria, Jordan and Iraq are also attacking Israel. As the war continues, Israel brings the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula into Egypt, captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, and, in heavy fighting, captures the Golan Heights from Syria. A ceasefire went into effect on June 10.
1968: The Murdered King
Date: April 4
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., fatally shot him through James Earl Ray when the civil rights icon was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, a tragedy that caused racial unrest across the country.King’s influence on words and movements touches and not only the nation, but the world, and it still resonates today.Two months later, on June 4, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F.Kennedy and brother of John F.Kennedy, is shot dead through Sirhan Sirhan, a Christian Arab from Jerusalem, who believes Kennedy is “instrumental” in oppressing the Palestinians.
1969: Landing on the Moon
• Date: July 20
Location: Moon
President Kennedy’s purpose of a manned lunar landing before 1970 was fulfilled six years after his assassination.Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins take off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 a.m. aboard the Saturn V rocket.After 3 days of travel, Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface while Collins remained in lunar orbit to fly the module.On their return to Earth, the three astronauts are quarantined for 21 days to make sure they don’t bring any lunar contagion.
1970: Expands in Asia
Date: April 29
Location: Eastern Cambodia
Although the United States is expected to have U.S. troops in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon approved an operation with the South Vietnamese to invade Cambodia and expel North Vietnamese forces.Cambodian incursion ignites anti-war protests in the United States as an escalation of U.S. Army Involvement in Southeast Asia.
1971: Pentagon documents
Date: February 8
Location: Laos
The Pentagon Papers, a US Department of Defense examination of the country’s involvement in the Vietnam War, was published and published first in the New York Times and later in other newspapers. The documents reveal several missteps and how various administrations misled the American public about the war in Vietnam. They also reveal an expanded crusade in Cambodia and Laos, namely clandestine bombardments in Laos, which is now the heaviest bombing in history.
1972: Nixon visits China
Date: February 21
Location: Beijing
President Richard Nixon, a virulent anti-communist early in his political career, surprised American audiences by visiting Beijing, China, during a week of talks, a historic first step toward normalization between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.the United States and communist China were de facto enemies, waging wars for powers on the Korean Peninsula in the 1950s and in South Vietnam at the time of Nixon’s visit.
1973: Roe Wade
• Date: January 22
Location: Washington D.C.
In a 7-2 historical ruling that will be known as Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court says that under the due procedure clause of the 14th Amendment, states cannot absolutely prohibit a woman’s resolution to terminate her pregnancy.However, the court adds that as pregnancy develops, the state can balance a woman’s right to privacy with her interest in preserving the “potentiality of human life.”As a result, states would possibly ban abortion in the third trimester, in cases where a pregnancy affects a woman’s health.
1974: Nixon resigns
Date: August 8
Location: Washington, D.C.
President Richard Nixon announces his resignation amid a political trial process stemting from the Watergate scandal and his administration’s attempt at a Congressional investigation.The scandal shows white house abuses of force after five thieves were overthrown at the Headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate labor compound in Washington.DCNixon has become the only president in American history to resign.
1975: Saigon Falls
Date: April 30
Location: South Vietnam
Two years after the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, North Vietnam’s communist troops captured Saigon, ending nearly two decades of relentless warfare in the rice fields and jungles of this Southeast Asian nation.America’s final death count in the war is 58,202.
1976: Concorde adjusts air transport
Date: January 21
Location: London and Paris
Two Concorde supersonic aircraft take off, one from London to Bahrain, operated through British Airways, and the other from Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, Senegal, operated through Air France, marking the first time that paying passengers enjoy a faster advertising adventure than although the adventure of one of the 16 Concords ever put into service would possibly halve New York’s travel time to London, the highest maintenance charge, rising ticket prices and a fatal turn of destination in 2000, sealed the plane’s destination with a narrow, sloping nose.
1977: THE PC’s
Date: January
Location: Chicago
Personal computers for the house began to emerge in the 1970s, but early versions looked like calculators connecting to televisions.However, in 1977, the house’s desktop computer began to resemble its most modern versions, with an attached or separate computer screen and a magnetic tape or garage device on a floppy disk.The Commodore PET was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago that year, while the first Apple II and Radio Shack TRS-80 went on sale.
1978: The Mass Suicide of worship
Date: November 18
Location: Jonestown, Guyana
More than 900 people die in one of the worst acts of suicide and mass murder related to a cult after most of those who suffered it and the perpetrators drank a powdered drink with a dose of cyanide.Jim Jones, a former Methodist-trained preacher who formed a suite and drove the herd to Guyana.Among the dead are 276 young people who drink the poison.A small number of cult deserters were killed through armed men from the People’s Temple who also killed California Congressman Leo Ryan, who had gone to Guyana to investigate Jonestown.
1979: Islamic Republic born in Iran
Date: February 11
Location: Tehran
Worsening economic conditions, increased discontent with the government, and broad support from the devoted leader in exile, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ended the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.The Shah and his circle of relatives fled Iran in January 1979.On February 11, the monarchy disbanded and on April 1, Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic republic.With the nation’s clergy and many followers, he began to rebuild Iranian society on the basis of conservative Shia devout principles.
1980: Reagan elected
Date: November 4
Location: Washington, D.C.
With the United States mired in economic unrest and the Iranian hostage crisis hampering Jimmy Carter’s presidency, Ronald Reagan chose the fortieth president in a crushing way.American politics, ushering in an era of conservative leadership.During his tenure, he brought a more competitive technique to the Soviet Union and increased defense spending.Reagan persuaded Congress to cut taxes, a resolution that many economists attributed at the start of an economic boom in the 1980s.
1981: AIDS affects America
Date: June 5
Location: Los Angeles
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been in the process ofBut it’s not the first time They publish a report on five gay men who had been diagnosed by local doctors with a rare form of pneumonia, the first cases reported in the US.But it’s not the first time Of what would later become known as HIV/AIDS.By the end of 1982, 500 Americans had died from what the CDC now calls Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS.An estimated 35 million people worldwide will die of AIDS-related diseases since the start of the epidemic.
1982: Mexico triggers regional debt crisis
Date: August 12
Location: Mexico City
Global economic stagnation in the 1970s and early 1980s, and excessive indebtedness among Latin America’s largest economies, occurred when Mexico’s finance minister Jess Silva-Herzog told the U.S. Federal Reserve that his country may no longer pay its $80 billion debt.With the announcement, lenders realize that virtually every Latin American country, led by Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, cannot repay their loans.The crisis would lead to years of wage erosion, low to negative economic growth, incredibly high unemployment., serious measures of austerity and political instability, known as the “lost decade” in Latin America.
1983: Internet born
Date: January 1
Location: multiple
The Internet as we know it today – a probably endless collection of Internet sites hosted on servers scattered around the world – is still in over a decade.But in early 1983, the Network of Advanced Research Project Agencies (ARPANET) – a small network for academics and researchers – was changed to the popular TCP/IP protocol of the World Wide Web.The protocol would be the cornerstone and technical basis of the Internet because it expands the coverage area and decentralizes the network, thus expanding accessibility as well.
1984: Chemicals kill in India
Date: December 2
Location: Bhopal, India
Bhopal’s chemical crisis is still considered the worst commercial crisis in history.Approximately 30 tons of methyl isocyanate, a commercial fuel used to make pesticides, are released at a Union Carbide Corp plant.Approximately 600,000 deficient citizens in nearby slums are exposed to a highly poisonous compound that kills another 15,000 people and countless farm animals, according to Indian government estimates.Calamity leads to a generation of birth defects.Locals say the now abandoned site is riddled with poisonous fabrics left through Union Carbide, which was acquired through Dow Chemical in 2001.
1985: Reagan, gorbachev
Date: November 19
Location: Geneva
Despite his bellicose complaint from the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan agreed to meet with his counterpart, Soviet Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, in Geneva for the first assembly between the leaders of the two Cold War enemies in nearly a decade.In essence, he initiated a closer relationship between the two men, who seemed determined to diminish the nuclear arms race between the two nuclear superpowers.
1986: Shuttle Tragedy
Date: January 28
Location: off the coast of Florida
The 25th project of the U.S. space shuttle program ends with the tragic loss of seven astronauts when space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after the takeoff of Cape Canaveral, Florida, including Christa McAuliffe, who is believed to have been the first instructor in space.. The fault later known as a challenge with the so-called O-rings used to shape a gasket in the joints of the shuttle’s external fuel tanks.
1987: Stock exchanges
• Date: October 19
Location: Global
October 19, 1987 is called Black Monday because that day the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 508 points, or more than 22%.The fall is worse than the 1929 crisis.It is also worse than the market crash following the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 currency crisis.Among the reasons given for this reduction are rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, worrying about emerging interest rates and confidence that the bull market is ending.Computerized trade, relatively new at the time, accelerated industry demands, speeding up the market crash.In the wake of the collapse, the exchanges placed so-called circuit breakers intended to stop trading when stocks fall too fast.This measure is designed to give investors an era of reflected image and avoid panic.
1988: When the United States armed Iran
Date: March 16
Location: Washington D.C.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States for their involvement in the so-called Iran-Contra case.of U.S. hostages, and then move the product of the sale to fund nicaraguan cons, a flexible association of right-wing militias.North convicted, but his conviction overturned and overturned, while Poindexter’s convictions were also overturned on appeal.
1989: Berlin Wall Falls
Date: November 9
Location: Berlin, East and West Germany
Cracks in the Soviet monolithic bloc began to appear in the 1980s, and the very symbol of communist repression collapsed in November, when the Berlin Wall broke, ending a 28-year-old department of the city.The East Berlin Party said that from that day on, the citizens of East Germany are on the loose to cross the country’s borders.Almost immediately, the Berliners began to hit the wall with axes and masses.As night falls, the party becomes what an observer calls.”the largest street party in the history of the world” and the city gathers.East and West Germany would meet a year later.
1990: Democracy in Poland
Date: January 28
Location: Poland
With the loosening of control of the Soviet Union and communism in Eastern Europe, Poland’s ruling Communist Party voted for dissolution and moderation.In the following elections, Lech Wasa, leader of the Solidarity Movement and winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, won the election.and I’ve become president.
1991: An American goes to war in the Middle East
Date: January 17
Location: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
After Saddam Hussein’s invasion and profession of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the United States sent forces to preserve neighboring Saudi Arabia from invasion and its important oil resources as a component of Operation Desert Shield.With Saudi Arabia secure, the United States is implementing Operation Desert Storm to push Iraqi forces across the border into Kuwait in an army operation that will last until a ceasefire takes effect in April.
1992: Cold War ends
• Date: February 1
Location: Camp David, Maryland
Just a few weeks after the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, US President George HWBush and his Russian counterpart, Boris Yeltsin, met at Camp David to officially claim the end of the Cold War, which began soon after.The end of the Second Mundial.La assembly comes days after the two countries announced that they would avoid directing nuclear missiles to others.Russia claims that its 11 former communist satellite republics, from Armenia to Uzbekistan, are indefinite.
1993: The reality of the EU
Date: November 1
Location: Brussels
The Treaty on European Union, also known as the Maastricht Treaty, enters into force in November following a series of political disputes which, among other concessions, allow the United Kingdom and Denmark to withdraw from the usual euro.abolishing border controls between Member States and invitations to new members to join the Union.
1994: birth of Amazon.com
Date: July 5
Location: Seattle
With the initial purpose of installing an online bookstore, Jeff Bezos and a handful of angel investors are launching Amazon.com as e-commerce is about to take off.In 2020, after moving from the books to the so-called “Store of Everything”.and by creating a corporate promotion cloud for corporations like Netflix and Instagram, Bezos would be the richest guy in the world.
1995: inner terror moves Oklahoma
Date: April 19
Location: Oklahoma City
In the deadliest national terrorist attack in U.S. history, anti-government radicals Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the alfred P federal building.Murrah in Oklahoma City, they scheduled a truck bomb attack on a weekday morning to maximize casualties.At least 168 people, adding 19 young people who were in a nursery in the building, and injuries from heaps of others, an unmescencesed mcVeigh executed by fatal injection on June 11, 2001.Nichols is serving a life sentence, with no parole option.
1996: Cloning
Date: July 5
Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Dolly the Sheep enters the annals of bioengineering when scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland become not only the first to effectively clone a mammal, but also the first to do so using an adult mobile than an embryonic mobile.which created 29 embryos, the groups controlled to reshape a mobile of the udder into a nearly complete biological carbon copy of the sheep from which it came.
1997: Machine Tops Chess Champion
Date: May 11
• Location: New York
Artificial intelligence and device learning have been serious examination (and exaggeration) spaces for over 60 years.In 1997, one of the ultimate victories in silicon logic came here when IBM’s Deep Blue became the first device to beat a world chess champion.The refrigerator-sized computer beat Garry Kasparov twice and tied him three times in a six-game game.
1998: Google’s begins
Date: September 4
Location: Menlo Park, California
With the seed capital of Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, Stanford University’s PhD, students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launch Google’s search engine The digital advertising giant Google Inc., now Alphabet Inc., is a $1.1104 billion company with several subsidiaries, adding youTube’s video sharing platform; Independent automotive progression company Waymo; and X, the corporate and progression division.
1999: NATO’s first attack
Date: March 24
Location: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
To expel Serbian forces from Kosovo during the Kosovo war, NATO forces introduced their first military crusade opposed to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Montenegro and Serbia) without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council, while Russia and China opposed the attack.NATO airstrikes aim to prevent an attack on ethnic Albanians through the government of Slobodan Milosevic.NATO’s attacks lasted approximately 3 months and culminated in the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
2000: International Space Station Opens
Date: November 2
Location: Low Earth orbit
Commanders Bill Shepherd of the United States and Yuri Gidzenko of Russia, as well as Russian flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, have become the first transient citizens of the International Space Station two years after the first component of the study center was placed in Earth’s orbit drops by about 400 km.above sea level. Since that first crew, there have been 229 other visitors to the ISS, some of them several times, aimed at 146 from the United States and 47 from Russia.
2001: September 11
Date: September 11
• Location: multiple
In the worst attack on U.S. soil since the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, 19 hijackers encouraged through Islamist extremism killed nearly 3000 other people after crushing 3 passenger-laden advertising aircraft in the Towers of the World Trade Center in the decline of Manhattan and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.A fourth aircraft, United Airlines 93, crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew attempted to recover the plane to Washington, DC
2002: national security
Date: November 25
Location: Washington, D.C.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Congress and President George W.Bush enacted the National Security Act, the largest government reorganization of national security efforts since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.Homeland Security, which is for everything from the protection infrastructure, from cyberattacks to the management of the new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE).
2003: U.S. crushes Iraq
Date: March 19
Location: Iraq
With the help of British forces and other allies, the United States began its invasion of Iraq with an immediate “Shock and Fear” bombing crusade to destroy Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction; You never find weapons.Coalition forces temporarily overthrew Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, but had to fight rebel forces for years.
2004: from Facebook
Date: February 4
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mark Zuckerberg, a 23-year-old Harvard University student, creates “The Facebook,” a local social networking site named after orientation webs that feature academics and faculty and provide first-year scholars. Sixteen years later, Facebook has an $ 843.6 billion virtual advertising giant, so important to the lives of many that it has been criticized for helping foreign powers and propagandists influence the American political system.
2005: Katrina overwhelms New Orleans
Date: August 29
Location: U.S. Gulf Coast
After spending four days in the Gulf of Mexico with a category five hurricane, Katrina crashed into New Orleans, flooded the city and generated a weeks-long humanitarian crisis.At least 1,833 more people on the way to the typhoon died and the typhoon inflicted $161 billion in damage to the region, the most expensive typhoon in American history.
2006: Hussein executed
Date: December 30
Location: Baghdad
Three years after U.S. infantrymen pulled him out of a hole on the floor where he had been hiding, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is hanged after being convicted of crimes opposed to humanity, specifically for ordering the blood bath of 148 Shiites in 1982 after a failed murder.opposed to him.
2007: The iPhone
Date: January 9
Location: San Francisco
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died in October 2011, first shows one of the most popular electronic client devices in history, the iPhone.Since Jobs presented the first-generation phone on the Consumer Electronics Show that year, there have been 18 versions.the cellular device, and more than 1.2 billion devices have been sold worldwide in 2017, only Samsung’s Galaxy smartphone is approaching this volume.
2008: Dow sinks
Date: September 29
Location: New York
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 issues after Congress rejected a large bailout of US banks worth $700.The invoice would be approved a few days later.caused by the collapse of the US sub-risk lending market.But it’s not the first time
2009: First African-American President of the United States
Date: January 20
Location: Washington, D.C.
After defeating Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona by amassing 365 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote, Barack Obama is sworn in as america’s first African-American president.Obama inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, until now with most of his party in any of the chambers of Congress at the time, the president was able to pass a stimulus package and his signing of the Affordable Care Act in March 2010.
2010: Catastrophic oil spill
Date: April 20
Location: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana
Eleven staff members were killed and 17 injured after an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.The explosion was the biggest environmental crisis in US history.But it’s not the first time British oil company BP says prices have risen to $65 billion in accident claims, adding a $1.7 billion rate it took as recently as the fourth quarter of 2017.
2011: Bin Laden killed
Date: May 2
Location: Abbottabad, Pakistan
In an intense night shooting that lasted 40 minutes, 25 U.S. Navy SEALs, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Navy were 25But it’s not the first time Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was persecuted and killed in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.known with DNA and then buried in the sea.
2012: The “God particle” is (probably) discovered
Date: July 4
Location: near Geneva
About six hundred feet below the Franco-Swiss border at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a foreign team of scientists is finding a new component widely known as the elusive Higgs boson, known as the “God component,” which is consider a building block. The Higgs boson has been a vital component of component physics theory for decades, yet until 2012 there was no physical evidence for its existence.
2013: Secrets of Snowden
Date: June 6
Location: Hong Kong
After sufully giving up his homework at Booz Allen Hamilton, a computer security consultant, Edward Snowden met secretly with hounds Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong, showing the first in a series of secrets about U.S. and European government surveillance operations.Brave whistleblower and privacy advocate through some, and a traitor who has compromised counter-terrorism efforts through others, the American now lives in exile in Moscow.
2014: Russia bites Ukraine
Date: March 16
Location: Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrates the annexation of the Crimean peninsula, exploiting political unrest in Ukraine.This action triggers the condemnation of world leaders and a series of economic sanctions opposed to Moscow.This strategically vital and predominantly Russian-speaking region of the Black Sea has been coveted by the Russians as a component of their strategic efforts to expand NATO along Russia’s western border.
2015: NASA flies through Pluto
Date: July 14
Location: billions of miles from Earth
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to fly over and practice the dwarf planet Pluto.New Horizons returns stunning photographs of this enigmatic and remote member of the solar system, adding photographs of a variety of mountains and huge icebergs floating in frozen nitrogen.New Horizons is now on its way to the Kuiper Belt, a huge asteroid belt on the edge of the solar system.
2016: Trump elected
Date: November 8
Location: United States
Operating on a populist agenda, Donald Trump is elected the 45th president of the United States and the fifth president in U.S. history (the moment since 2000) to win despite the loss of the popular vote.on a platform to put “America first” in global industry and foreign policy negotiations and take strong action against undocumented immigrants.
2017: Triple blow of the hurricane
Date: August-September
Location: multiple
In just 4 weeks, 3 major hurricanes – Harvey, Irma and Maria – hit Texas, Florida and the Caribbean, killing 228 people, causing a total of $265 billion in damage and displacing millions of homeowners.Puerto Rico, which is already fighting economic insolvency.
2018: wildfires
Date: November
Location: Northern California
Wildfires devastated Northern California in November, the deadliest in the state’s history.The crisis claimed the lives of 88 other people and the chimney destroyed 18,500 homes and businesses.State and federal officials estimated they would charge $3 billion to clear the debris.Replacement activists have said conflagrations are evidence that global warming is no longer a remote fear and it is now.
2019: Protests in Hong Kong
Date: March
Location: Hong Kong
Residents of Hong Kong’s small economic power, which has been given special administrative prestige as a condition for their transfer to China from Britain, protested in March against an extradition bill, resulting in other mass protests in Hong Kong during the year.China sought to erode Hong Kong’s autonomy.
The popular force has also manifested itself in protests in countries in 2019, with protests that led to the dismissal of presidents in Algeria and Sudan.
2020: COVID-19
Date: March
Location: Global
A new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which caused COVID-19 disease, first detected in Wuhan, China, at the expiration of 2019, spread to Europe and the United States in early 2020 and declared a pandemic through the World Health Organization.On March 11 The epidemic has affected virtually every country in the world, leading to national closures, mass layoffs, company closures and school closures.As of August 26, the pandemic had killed more than 820,000 people worldwide, adding some 179,000 COVID-19 has become the worst pandemic since Spanish influenza in 1918.
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