We have now moved in to the 21st century, but for virtually everyone reading here, the 20th century was our century. In this post I am taking images of 4 significant events for each decade of the 20th century. A picture paints a thousand words, so here they are:
The 1900s
1901 Australia Federates
1903 Man Flies
1905 The Theory of Relativity is Proposed
1907 Picasso Gives Birth to Modern Art
The 1910s
1912 RMS Titanic Sinks
1912 Republic of China Established
1917 Bolshevik Revolution – Communist Russia is born
1914 World War I Begins
The 1920s
1920 Prohibition Begins
1922 Tomb of Tutankhamen is Found
1925 Television is Invented
1929 On With the Show – first 100% color, 100% sound movie
The 1930s
1930 The First Full Length Color/Sound Cartoon Appears
1930 Mohandas Gandhi Leads Satyagraha Movement in India
1931 Empire State Building Opens
1939 World War II Begins
The 1940s
1944 Colossus – First Fully Electronic Computer
1945 First Atomic Bomb Built
1945 First Secretary General of the Newly Formed United Nations
1946 Cold War Begins
The 1950s
1950 Korean War Begins
1953 DNA First Accurately Modeled
1954 Rock Aound The Clock takes Rock and Roll International
1957 Sputnik 1 – First artificial satellite put into geocentric orbit
The 1960s
1962 Spacewar! The First Computer Game is Invented
1962 Pope John XXIII Starts the Vatican II Council
1967 Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara is Executed in Bolivia
1969 Man walks on the moon
The 1970s
1973 Embargoes from the OPEC nations cause an oil Crisis in nations supporting Israel
1973 American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders
1979 Dame Margaret Thatcher Becomes the First Female UK Prime Minister
1979 Khomeini Takes Power in Iran
The 1980s
John Lennon is Shot
1984 The First Commercially Successful Graphic Interface PC Arrives with the Apple Macintosh
1986 The Chernobyl Disaster Occurs
1988 The Commercial Internet Begins
The 1990s
1990 The Gulf War Begins
1991 The Soviet Union Collapses
1996 Dolly The Sheep is Cloned
December 31, 1999 The Second Millennium Since the Birth of Christ Closes (some prefer Dec 2000)
