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470 BCE
Socrates
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher who came up with the Socratic technique. -
1162
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was the mongol leader. he was also known for unifying the Mongolian steppe under a massive empire. -
Jan 6, 1412
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc led the French army to victory at Orléans in 1429. -
Napoleon
Napoleon was a French military leader who conquered most of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon also invented the civil code, which is also know as the Napoleonic code. -
Beethoven
Beethoven was one of the greatest composers of all time. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States and served from 1861 to 1865. -
Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett was a frontiersman, soldier, politician, congressman and prolific storyteller. -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was known for being the founder of psychoanalysis. -
Billy the Kid
Billy the kid became an outlaw for the killing of Sheriff Brady during the Lincoln County War. -
Eisenhower
Eisenhower was an American military officer and politician who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle led the Free French forces in resisting capitulation to Germany during World War II and became provisional president of France in the immediate aftermath of the war. Later he was an architect of the Fifth Republic and was president from 1958 to 1969. -
Prokofiev
Prokofiev was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. -
Juan Peron
Juan Peron was army colonel who became president of Argentina. -
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell was a U.S. journalist and broadcaster -
Chou En-Lai
Chou En-Lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China (As a diplomat). Zhou served as the Chinese foreign minister from 1949 to 1958. -
Studebaker
Studebaker was an automobile company. -
Malenkov
Malenkov was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union. -
Belgians in the Congo
Belgian Congo, French Congo Belge, former colony in Africa, ruled by Belgium from 1908 until 1960. -
Joe McCarty
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. -
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio was an American professional baseball player -
Nasser
Nasser was an Egyptian politician who served as the second President of Egypt from -
Liberace
Liberace was an American pianist, singer, and actor. -
Campanella
Campanella was an American baseball player, primarily as a catcher. -
Kerouac
Kerouac was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. -
Doris Day
Doris Day was an American singer and motion-picture actress. -
Marciano
Marciano was an American professional boxer and held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956. He is the only heavyweight champion to have finished his career undefeated. -
Brando
Brando was was an American actor and film director. -
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress. -
Castro
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008 -
Johnnie Ray
Johnnie Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. -
Television
the television is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images. -
Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn was an American lawyer who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army. -
mafia
mafia is a highly organized Italian-American criminal society and criminal organization. The organization is often referred to by its members as Cosa Nostra and by the American government as La Cosa Nostra. -
James Dean
James Dean was an American actor. -
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle was a professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees. -
Bardot
Bardot was a French film actress -
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll -
North Korea and South Korea
Korea was split along the 38th parallel and divided it into North Korea and South Korea -
Bernie Goetz
Goetz shot four Black and unarmed young men on the New York City subway. he came to symbolize New Yorkers' frustrations with the high crime rates of the 1980s. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential election. -
Space monkey
Albert II became the first monkey and the first primate in space -
Red China
Red China is when leader Mao Zedong declared The “fall” of China to communism. -
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. -
H-Bomb
the H-Bomb was the worlds first hydrogen bomb. -
Santayana death
Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher, poet, and humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary criticism. -
Panmunjom
Panmunjom was a village where the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean War was signed. -
Salk's vaccine
Salk's vaccine was a vaccine developed in the early 1950s by American physician Jonas Salk. -
Communist Bloc
Communist Bloc was created in 1953 when the Soviet Union allied with its satellite countries. -
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a Disney animated film -
joseph Stalin death
joseph Stalin was a secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June, 1953 in Westminster Abbey -
Rosenbergs
Rosenbergs were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Dien Bien Phu
The French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. -
Dacron
Dacron was a new wonder-material released in 1954. Dacron was made out of Polyethylene terephthalate. It was mainly a trademark for synthetic polyester fabric. -
Rock Around the Clock
Rock Around the Clock is a song by Bill Hayley And The Comets. -
Brooklyn dodgers win world series
Brooklyn dodgers win world series in 1955 -
Disneyland
Disneyland is a theme park that opened in 1955. -
Einstein's death
Einstein was a physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. -
The King and I
The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. -
Budapest
Nagy tried to restore peace and asked the Soviets to withdraw their troops so On November 4, 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, the national uprising. -
Princess Grace gets married
Princess Grace was an American film actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III -
Peyton Place
Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by American author Grace Metalious. The novel describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, -
Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis was when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
Little Rock
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. -
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. -
Toscanini
Toscanini was an Italian conductor, considered one of the great virtuoso conductors of the first half of the 20th century. -
sputnik
sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. -
hula hoops
hula hoops were a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958 -
California baseball
The Giants and Dodgers stagger the sports world by relocating to California, where growing metropolises greet them with record-breaking attendance figures. -
South Pacific
South Pacific was a musical composed by Richard Rodgers. -
Starkweather homicide
Starkweather homicide was when a 19-year-old high-school dropout from Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would ultimately leave 10 people dead. -
Chubby Checker first song
Chubby Checker is an American Rock and roll singer and dancer. -
Ben Hur
Ben Hur is a story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman who was falsely accused and convicted of an attempted assassination of the Roman governor of Judaea and consequently enslaved by the Romans. -
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly was an American singer and songwriter who produced some of the most distinctive and influential work in rock music. -
children of thalidomide
A drug prescribed to many pregnant women in order to relieve pregnancy nausea. It was later found that thalidomide caused irreversible damages to the fetus and thousands of children were born with severe congenital malformations. -
U-2 incident
The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 -
Psycho
Psycho is a 1960 American murder mystery psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. -
Payola
Payola is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing this information. -
Birth control
five years after the pill was approved for use as a contraceptive in 1960, birth control became legal nationwide in the U.S. -
Edsel
the Ford Motor Company introduced the 1958 model Edsel automobile on September 4, 1957, but it was discontinued in 1960 -
Rockefeller
Rockefeller was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. -
Pasternak
Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago, a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. -
Berlin
Berlin crisis of 1961, Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. It culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert. -
Hemingway
Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. -
British Beatlemania
Beatlemania was the fanaticism surrounding the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s. The group's popularity grew in the United Kingdom throughout 1963 -
John Glenn
John Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. -
Eichmann
Eichmann was a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust -
Liston beats Patterson
Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in two minutes, six seconds. For the first time in history, a world heavyweight champion had been knocked out in the first round. -
Ole Miss
Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, Mississippi to prevent the enrollment of the first African American student to attend the university. -
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel. -
Alabama
the Governor of Alabama, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the entry of two African American students: Vivian Malone and James Hood. -
british politician sex
British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute. -
Kennedy death
Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
JFK assassination
JFK was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam -
Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee was a South Korean politician and dictator who was the founder and served as the first President of South Korea, from 1948 to 1960. -
Palestine
Israelis establish settlements on occupied West Bank. -
Richard Nixon back again
Richard Nixon ran for the presidency again in 1968 and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close election. -
Moonshot
two American astronauts walked on the Moon. It was a stunning achievement that boosted American confidence and prestige at home and around the world. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. -
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent. He was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century. -
Khrushchev death
Khrushchev led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. -
Watergate
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. -
punk rock
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group -
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin that debuted in 1975. -
terror on the airline
In 1976 and 1977, there were numerous airplane hijackings. The most famous of the hijackings was that of Air France Flight 139 on June 27, 1976, which, according to NPR, was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Faction Army. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was an American popular singer widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll”. -
Pope Paul
Pope Paul was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini's leadership. -
Egypt–Israel peace treaty
The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was signed 16 months after Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in 1977, after intense negotiations. The agreement notably made Egypt the first Arab state to officially recognize Israel. -
Russians in Afghanistan
the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. -
crack
in the United States there was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s -
AIDS
AIDS is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body's ability to fight infection and disease. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. -
Lebanon
two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon. -
homeless vets
An epidemic of homeless Vietnam War veterans surfaces. -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. She was an astronaut on a space shuttle mission. Her job was to work the robotic arm. She used the arm to help put satellites into space -
heavy metal suicide
Heavy metal was implicated in two separate incidents of suicide that occurred in 1984 and 1985. The first was the case of 19 year old John McCallum, who shot himself to death while listening to Ozzy Osbourne's song “Suicide Solution”. -
Rock and roller cola wars
Coke and Pepsi are both trying to become the best-selling soda company and have been for over a century. -
Hypodermics on the shore
Between 1987 and 1988, both New Jersey and New York were finding tons of medical waste on their shores. Many beaches closed because of the risk of people stepping on the medical waste and injuring themselves -
China's under martial law
During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray was an American professional boxer -
Foreign debts
When Mexico informed the United States and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it wouldn't be able to pay its debts, "which at that point totaled $80 billion," it set off a chain reaction that resulted in a total of 27 countries worldwide defaulting on their sovereign debts.