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End of the Bóers war
The Second Boer War (Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit. 'Second Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict which was fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902. -
Beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
The Mexican Revolution was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". -
Fascist march of the "black shirts" on Rome.
The Voluntary Militia for National Security, commonly called the Blackshirts or squadristi, was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party, known as the Squadrismo -
Invention of the electrostatic particle accelerator by the American R. J.
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying electric field. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention. -
World War II: Atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
The Korean War begins.
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic -
John F. Kennedy gets assasinated
On Friday, November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife -
The Beatles break up
The separation of The Beatles refers to the events that led to the dissolution of the group considered the most influential in the history of music. -
Boycott of the Olympic Games
There were two major boycotts in the Olympic Games of the decade in the context of the Cold War, the 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, the United States as a result of the Soviet presence in the War in Afghanistan. -
Marioś 64 launches for the N64
on 29 september 1996 Nintendo launches the first ever 3d Super Mario Bros game, this game being one of the best seller games on the decades of the 90's that to this day is enjoyed by fans and contains one of if not the biggest video game myth, it being, "2021 L is real" that whilst thought it referred to 2021 coins to unlock Luigi it ended up being the revelation of a Luigi model in Mario 64 on the year 2021 25 years after the release of the game