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USA - Apollo 11 launched and successfully lands man on the Moon

UK - Voting age lowered from 21 to 18

USA - ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, is Created

USA - Charles Manson and 'Family' Arrested

Woodstock, NY, USA - Rock-and-Roll Concert

Palestine - Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

USA - Richard Nixon president 1969-1974.

USA - The artificial heart invented.

UK - The ATM invented.

USA - The bar-code scanner is invented.

USA - Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims

UK - Severe flooding

Rome, Italy - Pope's encyclical condemns all artificial forms of birth control

USA - Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated

Czechoslovakia - Prague Spring

UK - Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

Vietnam - Tet Offensive

Stanford, CA, USA - The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart

USA - The first computer with integrated circuits made.

USA - Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).

UK - John Lennon returns OBE due to government's support of Vietnam War

FL, USA - Three astronauts killed in fire during launch pad test

UK - First colour TV in Britain

South Africa - First human heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard

Cuba - Che Guevara Killed

Middle East - Six-Day War

USSR - Stalin's Daughter Defects

USA - The first handheld calculator invented.

Paris, France - Student riots

UK - Private theatre clubs lose immunity from censorship

London, UK - World Cup won by England at Wembley (4-2 in extra time v West Germany)

Aberfan, Wales - Aberfan disaster - slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children

USA - Black Panther Party Established

China - Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution

USA - Mass Draft Protests

USA - Star Trek TV Series Airs

UK - Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.

Vietnam - The United States begins air raids in Vietnam, committing 190,000 U.S. troops there by year's end.

UK - Cigarette ads banned

Japan - Bullet Train Opens

Los Angeles, CA, USA - Los Angeles Riots

UK - Astroturf invented.

UK - Soft contact lenses invented.

USA - NutraSweet invented.

USA - The compact disk invented by James Russell.

USA - The Beatles Become Popular

UK - Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion

USA - Civil Rights Act Passes

USA - Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure

South Africa - Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison

UK - Acrylic paint invented.

UK - Permanent-press fabric invented.

USA - BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.

Dallas, TX, USA - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald

USA - Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique

USA - Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His I Have a Dream Speech

USA - Lyndon B. Johnson president 1963-1969. Vice president under John F. Kennedy, he is sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.

UK - The first videodisc invented.

USA - Movie Actress Marilyn Monroe dies of an overdose of sleeping pills.

New York, NY, USA - Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can

Cuba - Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin, Germany - First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall

USA - Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring

USA - The audio cassette invented.

Japan - The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.

USA - Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.

USA - Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.

Hague, Netherlands - Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust

Cuba - Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin, Germany - Berlin Wall Built

USA - Peace Corps Founded

Baikonaur, USSR - Yuri Gagarin is First Man in Space

USA - John F. Kennedy president 1961-1963.

UK - Valium invented.

UK - Non-dairy creamer invented.

UK - Launch of Coronation Street

USA - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released

Brazil - Capital moved to a brand new city called Brasília

Vietnam - Vietnam War Begins

USA - The halogen lamp invented

Edinburgh, Scotland - Beyond the Fringe debuts

Cuba - Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator

Antarctica - International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve

UK - Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev

USA - The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway

USA - U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed

UK - The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.

UK - Barbie Doll invented.

USA - UNIMATE is first industrial robot

UK - Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize

China - Mao Zedong Launches the Great Leap Forward

USA - Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian

UK - Lego Toy Bricks First Introduced

USA - NASA Founded

UK - The modem is invented.

USA - Gordon Gould invents the laser.

USA - The Hula Hoop is invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur 'Spud' Melin.

CA, USA - The integrated circuit is invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.

USSR - The Space Age begins with the launch of Sputnik 1 - the first satellite

USA - Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat

Europe - European Economic Community Established

USSR - Laika Becomes the First Living Animal in Space

USA - Fortran (computer language) invented.

UK - Eurovision Song Contest starts

USA - Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's TV Show

Monaco - Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco

Hungary - Hungarian Revolution

USSR - Khrushchev Denounces Stalin

UK - Suez Crisis - Britain, Israel and France invade Egypt

UK - TV Remote Control Invented

UK - The first computer hard disk used.

UK - The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.

USA - Bette Nesmith Graham invented Mistake Out, later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.

UK - ITV formed

USA - Disneyland Opens

USA - James Dean Dies in Car Accident

USA - Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus

UK - Warsaw Pact Signed

UK - Optic fiber invented.

USA - Raymond Kroc buys McDonald's franchise rights and begins the global proliferation of the golden arches.

UK - Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman

USA - First Atomic Submarine Launched

UK - Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer

UK - Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile

USA - Segregation Ruled Illegal

UK - Oral contraceptives invented.

UK - The first non-stick pan produced.

UK - The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.

Paris, France - Waiting for Godot debuts

Cambridge, UK - DNA Discovered

UK - Hillary and Norgay Climb Mount Everest

USSR - Joseph Stalin Dies

USA - Dwight Eisenhower president 1953-1961.

UK - Radial tyres invented.

USA - The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.

USA - Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.

London, UK - The Mousetrap opens. It will become the world's longest-running play

UK - Elizabeth II, ruler of England 1952-present. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Elder daughter of George VI

UK - Car Seat Belts Introduced

UK - Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship

UK - Polio Vaccine Created

UK - Mr. Potato Head patented.

USA - The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.

USA - The first diet soft drink, the No-Cal Beverage, a ginger ale sold by Kirsch.

USA - Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.

USA - The word brainwashing is coined

USA - Color TV Introduced

South Africa - Citizens Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race

USA - Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending World War II

UK - Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister

UK - Super glue invented.

USA - Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.

USA - Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).

UK - Drivers cheer end of fuel rations.

UK - UK's longest running soap, The Archers, first airs on BBC Midlands Home Service

USA - First Modern Credit Card Introduced

UK - First Organ Transplant

USA - First Peanuts Cartoon Strip

Korea - Korean War Begins: United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China 1950-1953.

USA - Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt

USA - President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

USA - The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.

China - Mao Zedong proclaims Peoples Republic of China - China Becomes Communist

First Non-Stop Flight Around the World

UK - George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four

USA - NATO Established

USSR - Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

USA - Cake mix invented.

USA - Life magazine makes painter Jackson Pollock an overnight celebrity by devoting a three-page spread with color photographs to him and his paintings under the headline, Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?; Abstract Expressionism becomes a subject of widespread popular ridicule.

Berlin, Germany - Berlin Airlift

UK - Big Bang Theory Formulated

India - Gandhi Assassinated

South Africa - Policy of Apartheid Begun

Israel - State of Israel Founded

USA - The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.

USA - Velcro® invented by George de Mestral.

USA - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox

USA - Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

Egypt - Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered

UK - Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British

USA - Marshall Plan

UK - British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed holography

USA - Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.

USA - Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.

USA - ENIAC computer makes 5,000 additions in one second

USA - Bikinis Introduced

UK - Dr. Spock Publishes The Common Book of Baby and Child Care

Argentina - Juan Perón Becomes President

Nuremberg, Germany - Nazi War crime Trials

UK - Winston Churchill Gives His Iron Curtain Speech

UK - The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.

Germany - Allied troops liberate Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau (January 26), Buchenwald (April 11), and Dachau (April 24), providing the world with the first photographic evidence of the horrific atrocities committed there

Berlin, Germany - Hitler Commits Suicide

Germany - Germans Surrender

USA - United Nations Founded

Japan - The Atomic Age begins with atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II

USA - Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.

France - D-Day landings

France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired

Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt

USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.

USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.

USA - Autism identified

France - French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed

Italy - Italy Joins the Allies

Poland - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

USA - Richard James invents the slinky.

USA - James Wright invents silly putty.

USA - Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.

UK - Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.

USA - Battle of Midway

Stalingrad, USSR - Battle of Stalingrad

USA - Japanese-Americans Held in Camps

UK - Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death

USA - T-shirt Introduced

USA - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built an electronic digital computer.