Wednesday 14 November 2012

Ten Decades of the 20th Century


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

Australian Coat Of Arms
1901 Australia Federates
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1903 Man Flies
Einstein

1905 The Theory of Relativity is Proposed

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1907 Picasso Gives Birth to Modern Art

The 1910s
Stöwer Titanic

1912 RMS Titanic Sinks
Xinhai Revolution In Shanghai

1912 Republic of China Established
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1917 Bolshevik Revolution – Communist Russia is born
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1914 World War I Begins

The 1920s
Prohibition

1920 Prohibition Begins

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1922 Tomb of Tutankhamen is Found
John Logie Baird, Apparatus

1925 Television is Invented

On-With-The-Show
1929 On With the Show – first 100% color, 100% sound movie

The 1930s
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1930 The First Full Length Color/Sound Cartoon Appears
Gandhi Studio 1931

1930 Mohandas Gandhi Leads Satyagraha Movement in India
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1931 Empire State Building Opens
Adolfhitler-1

1939 World War II Begins

The 1940s
Colossus

1944 Colossus – First Fully Electronic Computer

Fat Man
1945 First Atomic Bomb Built

Trygve Lie Bio Photo
1945 First Secretary General of the Newly Formed United Nations


1946 Cold War Begins
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The 1950s
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1950 Korean War Begins
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1953 DNA First Accurately Modeled
Rock Around The Clock

1954 Rock Aound The Clock takes Rock and Roll International

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1957 Sputnik 1 – First artificial satellite put into geocentric orbit

The 1960s

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1962 Spacewar! The First Computer Game is Invented

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1962 Pope John XXIII Starts the Vatican II Council
Che Guevara

1967 Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara is Executed in Bolivia
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1969 Man walks on the moon

The 1970s
Potlatch Gas

1973 Embargoes from the OPEC nations cause an oil Crisis in nations supporting Israel
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1973 American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders
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1979 Dame Margaret Thatcher Becomes the First Female UK Prime Minister
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1979 Khomeini Takes Power in Iran

The 1980s
John Lennon Biography

John Lennon is Shot
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1984 The First Commercially Successful Graphic Interface PC Arrives with the Apple Macintosh
Chernobyl Disaster

1986 The Chernobyl Disaster Occurs
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1988 The Commercial Internet Begins

The 1990s
800Px-Usaf F-16A F-15C F-15E Desert Storm Edit2

1990 The Gulf War Begins
1991 Coup Yeltsin-1

1991 The Soviet Union Collapses

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1996 Dolly The Sheep is Cloned

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December 31, 1999 The Second Millennium Since the Birth of Christ Closes (some prefer Dec 2000)

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