A Brief List Of Events Since I Was Born...
This Don't Even Account For 2000-2o20
When Almost Everything Was Invented!!
Before perusing this incomplete list, I need to, once again,
display my heartfelt thanks for your lovely birthday witches!
Begin perusing, folks!
Just highlight events hard to read...thank you!
| 1951 | American post-war occupation of Japan ends | |
| 1952 | George VI dies - Elizabeth II takes British throne | |
| 1952 | Bolivian Revolution | |
| 1952 | Death of Eva Perón ("Evita") in Argentina | |
| 1952 | Huge collectivization push in rural China | |
| 1952 | Samuel Beckett develops Theatre of the Absurd - "Waiting for Godot" | |
| 1952 | Dwight Eisenhower becomes US President | |
| 1953 | New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary first to reach summit of Everest | |
| 1953 | Death of Sergey Prokofiev (composer) | |
| 1953 | Death of Josef Stalin - Nikita Khruschev becomes Premiere | |
| 1953 | Crick and Watson demonstrate double-helix structure of DNA | |
| 1953 | Soviets successfully test hydrogen bomb | |
| 1953 | Mau Mau Rebellion breaks out in Kenya | |
| 1953 | Korean War ends after involving China, US and several other countries | |
| 1954 | End of First Indochina War - Vietnam partitioned | |
| 1954 | Laos and Cambodia recognized as independent | |
| 1954 | Rock'n'Roll music becomes popular - Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, etc | |
| 1954 | Anti-Communist McCarthyism censured in US | |
| 1955 | Coup deposes dictator Juan Perón in Argentina | |
| 1955 | Warsaw Pact signed by USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Albania | |
| 1955 | Death of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist | |
| 1956 | Suez Crisis - Britain and France invade Egypt | |
| 1956 | Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egyptian Republic | |
| 1956 | Hungarian revolt brutally suppressed by Soviets | |
| 1956 | "My Fair Lady" popular musical | |
| 1957 | Sir Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister | |
| 1957 | Death of Jean Sibelius (Swedish composer) | |
| 1957 | Russian Sputnik sattelite launched | |
| 1957 | European Economic Comunity (EEC) established | |
| 1957 | Ghana first African colony to gain independence from Britain | |
| 1957 | India claims state of Kashmir | |
| 1958 | Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese persecution | |
| 1958 | Charles de Gaulle given extensive powers in France | |
| 1958 | Ayub Khan becomes military leader of Pakistan | |
| 1958 | Oral contraceptive pill becomes available | |
| 1958 | Great Chinese Famine of 1958-61 kills an estimated 36 million | |
| 1959 | Terrorist organization ETA founded to fight for Basque independence | |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro establishes communist dictatorship in Cuba | |
| 1959 | Communist North Vietnam starts war against Capitalist South | |
| 1960 | Construction of Aswan High Dam in Egypt begins | |
| 1960 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) established | |
| 1960 | DH Lawrence's 1928 book "Lady Chatterley's Lover" legally published in the UK | |
| 1960 | Congo gains independence from Belgium | |
| 1961 | Cuban Missile Crisis after US-backed anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion fails | |
| 1961 | Berlin Wall built between East and West Germany | |
| 1961 | Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space | |
| 1961 | South Africa declares republic and leaves British Commonwealth | |
| 1961 | Portugal loses its territories in Goa, India | |
| 1961 | Death of Ernest Hemingway (writer) | |
| 1962 | Georges Pompidou takes over after vote against Charles de Gaulle | |
| 1962 | Yemenese Civil War | |
| 1962 | Sino-Indian Border Conflict between China and India | |
| 1962 | Death of Marilyn Monroe (actress) | |
| 1962 | Rachael Carson's book "Silent Spring" launches environmental movement | |
| 1963 | The Beatles rise to popularity | |
| 1963 | US President John F Kennedy shot | |
| 1964 | Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) formed | |
| 1964 | Nelson Mandela jailed for campaigning against apartheid in South Africa | |
| 1964 | Kenya becomes republic under Jomo Kenyatta | |
| 1964 | Indian Prime Minister Jahawarlal Nehru dies | |
| 1964 | Military dictatorship established in Brazil | |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act passed in US | |
| 1964 | US becomes involved in Vietnam War | |
| 1965 | White government declares independence in Southern Rhodesia | |
| 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of Philippines | |
| 1966 | Cultural Revolution begins in China | |
| 1967 | Sir Francis Chichester first to sail around world single-handed | |
| 1967 | Che Guevara, Cuban revolutionary leader, killed in Bolivia | |
| 1967 | First Arab-Israeli (6-Day) War | |
| 1967 | General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) formulated | |
| 1967 | Nigerian Civil War - Biafra famine | |
| 1967 | General Suharto of Indonesia wrests power from President Sukarno | |
| 1967 | First human heart transplant performed in South Africa | |
| 1967 | "Flower Power" at its height in California | |
| 1968 | C Day Lewis becomes British Poet Laureate | |
| 1968 | Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact for ideological reasons | |
| 1968 | Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia crushed by Soviets | |
| 1968 | Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada | |
| 1968 | Black rights campaigner Martin Luther King assassinated | |
| 1969 | British supersonic aircraft Concorde makes maiden flight | |
| 1969 | Border disputes between China and Russia | |
| 1969 | Provisional IRA, terrorist offshoot of IRA, formed | |
| 1969 | Catholic vs Protestant "Troubles" resume in Ireland | |
| 1969 | Willi Brandt becomes German Chanceller | |
| 1969 | Moammar al-Qaddafi (Gadafi) leads military coup in Libya | |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on Moon | |
| 1969 | US involvement in Vietnam War peaks | |
| 1970 | Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path") Maoist guerrilla group founded in Peru | |
| 1971 | Death of Igor Stravinsky (composer) | |
| 1971 | Revolution in Ethiopia overthrows Haile Selassie | |
| 1971 | United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar become independent from Britain | |
| 1971 | Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India | |
| 1971 | Indo-Pakistan War - Bangladesh declared independent republic | |
| 1971 | Rapprochement between US and China - Richard Nixon's visit | |
| 1971 | Hugo Banzer leads military coup in Bolivia and becomes dictator | |
| 1972 | "Bloody Sunday" massacre in Ireland | |
| 1972 | British impose direct rule on Northern Ireland | |
| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola's movie "The Godfather" released | |
| 1972 | Treaty recognizes East and West Germany as sovereign states | |
| 1972 | "Detente" - Strategic Ams Pact between Russia and the West | |
| 1972 | European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) | |
| 1972 | President Idi Amin expels Asians from Uganda | |
| 1972 | Ceylon becomes independent Republic of Sri Lanka | |
| 1973 | Britain joins European Economic Community | |
| 1973 | General Augusto Pinochet ousts democratic Allende government in Chile | |
| 1973 | Second Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur) War | |
| 1973 | Saudi Arabia leads huge oil price increases - world economy slows | |
| 1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf becomes King of Sweden | |
| 1973 | Death of Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist) | |
| 1973 | US launches Pioneer II to explore outer planets | |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger becomes US Secretary of State | |
| 1974 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn deported to the West | |
| 1974 | Turkey intervenes in Cyprus | |
| 1974 | PLO under Yasser Arafat recognized as representing Palestine | |
| 1974 | Portugal overthrows dictatorship - António de Spinola President | |
| 1974 | Portugal grants independence to Mozambique, Angola and other colonies | |
| 1974 | South Africa voted out of UN for apartheid policies | |
| 1974 | India explodes first nuclear device | |
| 1974 | Watergate Scandal - Richard Nixon quits as President | |
| 1975 | Birmingham Pub Bombings by IRA | |
| 1975 | Christian vs Muslim war in Lebanon | |
| 1975 | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated | |
| 1975 | Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after Franco's death | |
| 1975 | Civil war breaks out in Angola | |
| 1975 | US pulls out of Vietnam War | |
| 1975 | Communists finally triumph in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia | |
| 1976 | Punk (rebel music cult) develops - Sex Pistols, Clash, etc | |
| 1976 | Death of Sir Benjamin Britten (composer) | |
| 1976 | Mao Tse-Tung dies - Gang of Four arrested | |
| 1976 | Giulio Andreotti leads minority government in Italy | |
| 1976 | Baader-Meinhof Gang (leftist terrorists) active in Germany | |
| 1976 | Free elections re-established in Spain | |
| 1976 | Military coup in Argentina and start of state-sponsored "Dirty War" (until 1983) | |
| 1977 | Israel under Menachem Begin starts West Bank settlements | |
| 1977 | Activist Steve Biko dies in custody in South Africa | |
| 1977 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto executed after coup in Pakistan | |
| 1978 | Aldo Moro assassinated by leftist Red Brigade terrorists | |
| 1978 | ETA (Basque seperatist group) active in Spain | |
| 1978 | Radical reorganization of Cambodia by cruel Pol-Pot regime | |
| 1978 | Muhammed Zia Ul-Haq becomes hard-line Muslim President of Pakistan | |
| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister | |
| 1979 | Military coup in Bolivia | |
| 1979 | Somoza regime in Nicaragua ousted by leftist Sandinistas | |
| 1979 | Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | |
| 1979 | Iranian Revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims Islamic Republic | |
| 1979 | Camp David Agreement brokers peace between Israel and Egypt | |
| 1979 | Idi Amin forced out of Uganda | |
| 1979 | "Boat People" start to flee Communist regime in Vietnam | |
| 1979 | President Park Chung Hee of South Korea assassinated | |
| 1979 | Three Mile Island nuclear reactor incident in US | |
| 1980 | Robert Mugabe leads first black government in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) | |
| 1980 | John Lennon (singer) shot | |
| 1980 | Social Democratic Party formed | |
| 1980 | Deng Xiao-Ping becomes Chairman of China | |
| 1980 | Relations between East and West Germany deteriorate | |
| 1980 | Military coup in Turkey under Kenan Evren | |
| 1980 | Iran-Iraq War begins | |
| 1980 | Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland - Lech Walesa forms Solidarity | |
| 1980 | Tito dies - Yugoslavia's six states begin to argue | |
| 1980 | Iranian Hostage Crisis - hostages held in US Embassy in Tehran | |
| 1980 | Eruption of Mount St Helens (60 killed) | |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan becomes US President | |
| 1981 | Black youths riot in British cities | |
| 1981 | IRA prisoners go on hunger strike - 10 die | |
| 1981 | François Mitterrand becomes first Socialist President of France | |
| 1981 | Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spenser | |
| 1981 | President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt assassinated by Muslim fundamentalists | |
| 1981 | Greece votes in Socialist Andreas Papandreou | |
| 1981 | AIDS becomes major health threat throughout world | |
| 1982 | Britain regain Falklands Islands (Malvinas) after Argentinian occupation | |
| 1982 | Israel invades Lebanon - Israel-Lebanon War | |
| 1982 | Martial law in Poland ended by Solidarity action | |
| 1983 | Bettino Craxi leads Italian coalition government | |
| 1983 | Helmut Kohl becomes German Chancellor | |
| 1983 | End of Israel-Lebanon War | |
| 1983 | Norway's Gro Harlen Brundtland establishes WCED | |
| 1983 | Socialist government headed by Mário Soares in Portugal | |
| 1983 | Coloureds and Asians allowed vote in South Africa | |
| 1983 | Philippino opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated | |
| 1984 | Death of Sir John Betjeman (poet) | |
| 1984 | Miners' Strike in Britain | |
| 1984 | Drought and famine in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan | |
| 1984 | Indira Ghandi assassinated by Sikhs - violence erupts in India | |
| 1984 | Bhopal industrial disaster in Madhya Pradesh (4,000 - 25,000 killed) | |
| 1985 | Brazil returns to democratic civilian rule | |
| 1985 | Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia claims 25,000 lives | |
| 1985 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Russian Premiere - "Glasnost" and "Perestroika" | |
| 1985 | Enver Hoxha dies - Albania gradually relaxes foreign relations | |
| 1985 | Pro-Solidarity Father Jerzy Popieluzsko assassinated in Poland | |
| 1985 | Tamil separatist resurgence in Sri Lanka | |
| 1986 | Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister | |
| 1986 | Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, contaminating most of Europe | |
| 1986 | Marcos flees country and Corazon Aquino takes power in Philippines | |
| 1987 | Russia and West sign first of several treaties to reduce nuclear arms | |
| 1987 | Iran-Contra Affair - arms for aid scandal | |
| 1987 | Intifada - Palestinian opposition to Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank | |
| 1988 | End of Iran-Iraq War | |
| 1988 | US and Canada sign free trade agreement | |
| 1989 | Pro-democracy protest in Tianenmen Square, Beijing, brutally crushed | |
| 1989 | Akihito succedes his father Hirohito as Emperor of Japan | |
| 1989 | Russians pull out of costly war in Afghanistan | |
| 1989 | European Monetary System (EMS) establishes move towards single currency | |
| 1989 | Death of Salvador Dalí (Spanish artist) | |
| 1989 | Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska | |
| 1989 | Overthrow of communist rule in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria | |
| 1989 | Non-violent Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia | |
| 1989 | Violent overthrow of Ceausescu's communist regime in Romania | |
| 1989 | Berlin Wall demolished | |
| 1990 | Margaret Thatcher resigns - John Major takes over as British PM | |
| 1990 | Alberto Fujimori elected President in Peru | |
| 1990 | East and West Germany unite as Federal Republic of Germany | |
| 1990 | Neslon Mandela released - end of apartheid in South Africa | |
| 1990 | Hubble Space Telescope launched | |
| 1991 | USSR breaks up into constituent countries - end of Soviet era | |
| 1991 | Official dissolution of Warsaw Pact | |
| 1991 | Persian Gulf War starts after Iraq invades Kuwait | |
| 1991 | Ethiopian Civil War ends - Eritrea becomes independent | |
| 1991 | Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi killed by Tamil suicide bomber | |
| 1992 | Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina starts | |
| 1993 | Bill Clinton elected US President | |
| 1993 | New York World Trade Center bombing | |
| 1993 | Salvatore Riina, reputed Mafia leader, arrested | |
| 1993 | European Union (EU) formed by former EEC members | |
| 1993 | Violent constitutional crisis in Russia after Boris Yeltsin dissolves legislature | |
| 1994 | Jean Chrétien becomes Canadian Prime Minister | |
| 1994 | Rwandan genocide of ethnic Tutsis by Hutus | |
| 1994 | "Chunnel", rail tunnel between England and France, inaugurated | |
| 1994 | IRA announce unconditional cease-fire - lasts until 1996 | |
| 1994 | Construction starts on China's Three Gorges Dam | |
| 1994 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) established | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela becomes first black President of South Africa | |
| 1994 | Sovereignty of Quebec narrowly defeated in referendum | |
| 1995 | The Great Hanshin earthquake hits Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 | |
| 1995 | World Trade Organization (WTO) established to replace GATT | |
| 1995 | End of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
| 1995 | Russian war in Chechnya (ends in 1996) | |
| 1996 | Prince Charles divorces Princess Diana | |
| 1996 | Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister | |
| 1997 | Tony Blair becomes British Prime Minister | |
| 1997 | Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule | |
| 1997 | US spacecraft begins exploration of Mars | |
| 1997 | Princess Diana killed in Paris car accident | |
| 1997 | Asian financial crisis | |
| 1997 | Catholic nun Mother Teresa dies after nearly 50 years work in India | |
| 1998 | Male impotence drug Viagra licensed for use in USA | |
| 1998 | Good Friday Accord (Belfast Agreement) signed by Ireland and Britain | |
| 1998 | Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power | |
| 1998 | German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder | |
| 1999 | Bill Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial | |
| 1999 | Euro launched on international currency markets | |
| 1999 | King Hussein of Jordan dies after ruling for 46 years | |
| 1999 | Columbine High School murders | |
| 1999 | Nelson Mandela retires as president of South Africa - succeeded by Thabo Mbeki | |
| 1999 | Military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf overthrows Pakistani government | |
| 1999 | China launches first spacecraft | |
| 1999 | Vladimir Putin becomes acting Russian President after Yeltsin resigns |
Now you have an inkling how old we septuagenarians really are, right?
sep·tu·a·ge·nar·i·an
/sepCHo͞oəjəˈnerēən/
noun
- a person who is from 70 to 79 years old.
Have a SUPER weekend, gang!!!
