

August 22, 1910

Empire of Japan

annexes Korea



World War I

Summer 1914

Nov. 11, 1918



December 6, 1921

Anglo-Irish Treaty

establishes Ireland

as a Free State

June 6, 1944 - D-Day May 8, 1945 - V-E Day Aug 14, 1945 - V-J Day



Jan. 8, 1959

Castro leads

Communists

Cuban Civil War

October 16-28, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

WW3 nearly begins over

Soviet missiles in Cuba



1974 - IRA

bombings

England,

Ireland

1982 - 1983

Israeli troops

invade Lebanon





Nov 95 - Jan 96

Budget Disputes

twice shut down

US Government June 26, 2003

Sodomy Laws ruled

unconstitutional by

US Supreme Court China - 1900

Boxer Rebellion Oct 1911 - Feb 1912

Chinese Revolution

Manchu Dynasty to

Republic of China August 10, 1920

Treaty of Sevres

- Allies & Turkey -

Ottoman Empire ends Jan 10, '46

UN General

Assembly

1st session October 1, 1949

Chinese Civil War ends

People's Republic of China

formed by Communists and

Chairman Mao Tse-Tung 1972 - Nixon

visits China 1973

Middle East oil embargo

U.S. energy crisis begins 1992 - MTV's

"Rock the Vote"

rallies 18-25

demographic January 29, 1993

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Clinton lifts ban on

"gays in military" Nov. - Dec. 2000

Presidential Election

Fla. Recount Scandal February 14, 1919

League of Nations

formed - predecessor

of United Nations Feb 25, 1933 - Japan

Oct 14, 1933 - Germany

- future Axis powers split

from League of Nations 1948

South Africa

Apartheid begins 1961 - Soviet Union builds Berlin Wall

dividing Europe into East & West Blocs November 9, 1989 - Berlin Wall falls

ending the Eastern Communist Bloc Amelia Earhart 1932 - 1st woman 2nd person

to fly solo across the Atlantic

- first to fly the Atlantic twice January 11, 1935

1rst person to fly solo

from Hawaii to California July 2, 1937

disappeared over S Pacific

near Howland Island

in round world attempt Oct. 6-24, 1973

Yom Kippur War

Isreal vs Egypt & Syria RU-486 - Mifepristone - "The Abortion Pill" 1980 - antiprogestins invented in France September 2000 - approved by the US FDA



2001

Mad Cow Disease

Britain and Europe 1930 - MIT develops

first Modern Computer

"Differential Analyser" 1972

Munich Olympics

PLO murders 11

Israeli athletes March

28, '79

Three

Mile

Island

nuclear

accident May 18, 1980

Mt. St. Helens

volcanic eruption 2000 - DNA sequencing

Human Genome Project



2001

Power crisis

& blackouts

in California Oct '99 - April '02

Second Boer War

British South Africa

Great Floods of '27

Mississippi Valley,

Galicia, Poland &

Kiu-Siu Is. Japan

1956-57 - Suez Crisis

Egypt, USSR vs Isreal,

UK, France, US & UN

June 5-10, 1967

Six Day War

Isreal vs Egypt







April 26, 1986

Chernobyl USSR

nuclear accident 1995

Chicago

Heat Wave

800 dead

Dec. '04 - Jan '05

El Nino causes

California landslides

