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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1938 | |
| 2 | 1939 | |
| 3 | 1940 | |
| 4 | 1941 | |
| 5 | 1942 | |
| 6 | 1943 | |
| 7 | 1944 | - 1944: France - D-Day landings
- 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
- 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
- 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
- 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
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| 8 | 1945 | |
| 9 | 1946 | |
| 10 | 1947 | |
| 11 | 1948 | - 1948: 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.
- 1948: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Airlift
- 1948: UK - Big Bang Theory Formulated
- 1948: India - Gandhi Assassinated
- 1948: South Africa - Policy of Apartheid Begun
- 1948: Israel - State of Israel Founded
- 1948: USA - The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- 1948: USA - Velcro® invented by George de Mestral.
- 1948: USA - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox
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| 12 | 1949 | |
| 13 | 1950 | |
| 14 | 1951 | |
| 15 | 1952 | |
| 16 | 1953 | |
| 17 | 1954 | |
| 18 | 1955 | |
| 19 | 1956 | |
| 20 | 1957 | |
| 21 | 1958 | |
| 22 | 1959 | |
| 23 | 1960 | |
| 24 | 1961 | |
| 25 | 1962 | |
| 26 | 1963 | |
| 27 | 1964 | |
| 28 | 1965 | |
| 29 | 1966 | |
| 30 | 1967 | |
| 31 | 1968 | |
| 32 | 1969 | |
| 33 | 1970 | |
| 34 | 1971 | |
| 35 | 1972 | |
| 36 | 1973 | |
| 37 | 1974 | |
| 38 | 1975 | |
| 39 | 1976 | |
| 40 | 1977 | |
| 41 | 1978 | |
| 42 | 1979 | |
| 43 | 1980 | |
| 44 | 1981 | |
| 45 | 1982 | |
| 46 | 1983 | |
| 47 | 1984 | |
| 48 | 1985 | |
| 49 | 1986 | |
| 50 | 1987 | |
| 51 | 1988 | |
| 52 | 1989 | |
| 53 | 1990 | |
| 54 | 1991 | |
| 55 | 1992 | - 1992: Waco, TX, USA - Cult Compound in Waco, Texas Raided
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| 56 | 1993 | |
| 57 | 1994 | |
| 58 | 1995 | |
| 59 | 1996 | |
| 60 | 1997 | |
| 61 | 1998 | - 1998: UK - Titanic Most Successful Movie Ever
- 1998: USA - U.S. President Clinton Impeached
- 1998: USA - Viagra on the Market
- 1998: Europe - The Euro the New European Currency
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| 62 | 1999 | |
| 63 | 2000 | |
| 64 | 2001 | |
| 65 | 2002 | |
| 66 | 2003 | |
Abt 1536 - Yes, date unknown