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Sinking of the Titanic (1912)
Everything seemed to be going perfectly until the presence of an iceberg hindered the crossing at 11:40 p.m. on April 14 and caused the sinking of a ship in which 1,517 people of the 2,223 passengers traveling on board perished, a figure that includes 68% total casualties. The famous 1997 film Titanic resurrected curiosity about the ocean liner while becoming the second highest-grossing film in history. -
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World War I and Nazi Holocaust
However, neither of them had the presence of the German empire, whose colonial, technological and economic dominance increased considerably until it became a clear competition.
The persecution of more than 6 million Jews by the Nazi army led by Adolf Hitler and their subsequent confinement in concentration camps became the culmination of the Führer's rise to power during the 1930s that unleashed an even bloodier Second World War. -
The theory of relativity and Penicillin and antibiotics
German scientist denied studies came up with the theory that would forever change the world of science: the theory of relativity, whose definition lies in the confirmation that the realization of physical events in time and space are relative to the state of motion of the observer and can vary depending on the speed. Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, antibiotics revolutionized medicine by providing an effective way to treat bacterial infections. -
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Atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
In response to the attack by the Japanese on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Americans planned their revenge by dropping atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. In this way, they caused 246 thousand deaths that triggered other terrible consequences such as the presence of the hibakushas, survivors affected by the effect of the bombs whose wounds and traumas marginalized them from their own society. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
he also known as the "wall of shame" was erected in the early 1960s and established a 45-kilometer separation between Soviet Berlin and that dominated by the Allied victors of World War II. For twenty-eight years, the German city remained divided and the inhabitants of both sides were imprisoned without the possibility of escaping or crossing to the other side until on November 9, 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall marked a change, a transition towards the Europe we know today. -
11s and creation of the euro
It was September 11, 2001 when four planes were hijacked by members of al Qaeda to attack buildings emblematic of United States power. With 2,996 deaths, 9/11 was and is the largest attack on American soil in history and its consequences are still felt. And On January 1, 2002, the new currency began to circulate, on January 3, 96% of ATMs in the euro area were already dispensing euro banknotes and a week after the launch, more than half of cash transactions They were made in euros.