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World History Timeline: 1951 - 2000 |
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1951-1955 | Sir Winston Churchill forms his first peacetime government in England (1951) | Army officers seize power from Argentinian president Peron (1955) | DNA discovered (1953) Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.(1952) Arco, Idaho becomes the first U.S. town to be powered by nuclear energy. |
Mt Everest conquered for the first time by Tenzing and
Hillary (May 29, 1953)
Death of Stalin in Russia (1953) |
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1956-1960 | Charles de Gaulle brings strong presidential rule to France (1958) | Russians launch Sputniks; Laika, a small dog, becomes
the first living creature in space (1957) The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.(1956) U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I and II, the first earth satellites (1957) NASA established (1958) The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. (1958) |
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1961-1965 | Leonid Brezhnev takes over from Khrushchev as ruler in Russia (1964) | Military leaders seize power in Brazil (1964) | Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space (1961) The audio cassette invented. (1962) The compact disk invented by James Russell. (1965) |
John F. Kennedy is assassinated (1963) | |||||
1966-1970 | U.S. invades Cambodia (1970) |
First human heart transplant operation(1967) The first computer with integrated circuits made.(1968) The arpanet (first internet) invented.(1969) US astronauts land on the Moon (1969)
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1971-1975 | South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam (1975) |
Soviet Salyut 1 space station (1971) The dot-matrix printer invented.(1971) The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.(1971) The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe(1973) The laser printer invented.(1975) |
Death of Picasso (1973)
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1976-1980 | Britain elects first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher (1979) | Soviets lose war in Afganistan (1979 -1988) Civil war in El Salvador(1980-1982) |
Viking 1 & 2 land on Mars (1976) Invention of Personal computer (1978) The ink-jet printer invented.(1976) The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in London (1978) Cellular phones invented.(1979) The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.(1980) |
Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 | |||||
1981-1985 | Falklands War between Argentina and Britain(1982) US Embassy in Beirut bombed (1983) |
Rap music (1984) |
MS-DOS invented.(1981) The first IBM-PC invented.(1981) The CD-ROM invented.(1984) Windows program invented by Microsoft.(1985) |
Assassination attempts on President Reagan and Pope John Paul II (1981) | |||||
1986-1990 | US soldiers invade Panama and depose ruler, General Noriega (1989) | Nuclear power disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine (1986) East and West Germany are unified as one nation (1990) |
A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.(1986) | Berlin Wall dismantled (1989)
Nelson Mandela released from South African prison (1990) |
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1991-1995 | Break-up of the Soviet Union (1991) Gulf War (1991) The Cold War is over (1991) |
Internet expands with World Wide Web (1993) The digital answering machine invented.(1991) The pentium processor invented.(1993) DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.(1995) |
Palestinian leader Arafat and Israeli prime minister Rabin sign peace agreement in United States (1993) | ||||||
1996-2000 | Titanic becomes the highest-grossing film of all time, raking in more than $580 million domestically in USA (1997-98) | NASA spacecraft lands on Mars (1997) Web TV invented.(1996) Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph).(1999) |
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Year | Rulers | War and Politics | Entertainment | Literature | Art and Architecture | Science and Technology | India | Historic Events / Personalities |
World History Timeline : 1901 - 1950 |
World History Timeline : 2001 - Present |
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