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End of Slave Trade
The slave trade ends and abolition of slavery.
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The Suffrage Movement
Women begin to fight for their right to vote.
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X-rays are Discovered
X-rays begin to emanate from crookes tubes.
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First Aircraft
The Wright brothers invent the first aircraft.
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Chinese Revolution
The Chinese Revolution begins.
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World War 1
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution begins.
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Influenza
A global Influenza epidemic proceeds to kill millions.
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Adolf Hitler
The rise of Adolf Hitler begins.
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Television Is Invented
Television transmissions by John Logie Baird appear.
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Global Depression
The stock market crashes and the great depression begins.
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World War 2
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United Nations
The United Nations is formed.
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DNA
Advances in medicine happen as the double helical DNA structure is discovered.
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First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
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John F. Kennedy is Assassinated
John F. Kennedy gets assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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Digital Revolution Starts
The first desktop is made.
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Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movements get bigger after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to land on the moon.
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9-11
Al Qaeda terrorists destroy World Trade Towers.
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