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Princess Diana
Born 1961, Death 1997 (car crash)
Her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer in 1975
She married the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, on July 29, 1981. Because of her global humanitarian efforts she's remembered as "People's Princess" -
Cuba Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Civil Rights Act
The Act banned discrimination in public facilities including private companies offering public services like lunch counters, hotels and theaters; provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Tlatelolco
Students were demanding justice, and the president at the time, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, ordered to kill them. There where a lot of casualties including students, police officers and random people that had nothing to do with the movement. -
Neil Armstrong
First moon landing from the US, sent from NASA. -
Sexual Liberation
Increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, monogamous relationships.The normalization of contraception and the pill, public nudity, pornography, premarital sex, homosexuality, and alternative forms of sexuality, and the legalization of abortion all followed. -
Chess Championship
Bobby Fischer (US) vs. Boris Spassky (SU)
Took place in Iceland; rated as the match of the century
Played during the Cold War. -
Mao Tse-tung DIES
Led Chinese Communist Party from 1935 until his death, "Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution were ill-conceived and had disastrous consequences. -
Decolonization of Africa
Britain had colonies in Africa. Africa lost sovereignty and control of natural resources such as gold and rubber. By 1977, 54 African countries had seceded from European colonial rulers. -
Falklands War
Conflict between Argentina and England -
AIDS
People begin to be worried about a strange disease that is sexually transmitted -
STEVE JOBS
Presented his first Macintosh -
Cold War
Geopolitical tension after WW2 between powers in the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc -
Mexico's Earthquake
More than 40,000 casualties, magnitude of the earthquake: 8.1MW -
Perestroika
Reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the Communist Party -
Bill Gates
Introduced Microsoft to the public -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall, constructed by the German Democratic Republic in 1961 to separate West from East Berlin. (1985) President Ronald Reagan established a rapport which allowed the United States and the USSR to improve relations. Berlin Wall fell, which symbolized the end of the Cold War. -
Gulf War
International conflict triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait -
Treaty on European Union
Creation of euro, kept "sound fiscal policies, with debt limited to 60% of GDP and annual deficits no greater than 3% of GDP"
