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the panama canal is constructed
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Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission
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The Wright Brothers build the firsy working airplane
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot and killed by the Serbian Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. Thus starting wwI
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The transformation of the Russian Empire to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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A importain meeting between the allied countries after ww1
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In 1927 Heisenberg's principle is one of the most confusing theories in physics. it tells how the sun shines, why atoms don’t implode, and the vacuum of space isn’t empty.
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On “Black Tuesday” the stock market crashed. This brought the whole economy down. Businesses had to close and many people had lost their jobs and could not afford much.
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Adolf Hitler’s party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi), comes to power over Germany
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Chinese Communists had to flee a planned attack on them ordered by Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese fought Nationalist forces during the Long March and went over many different terrains and geography.
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The second world war begins
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President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill issued the “United Nations.” The “United Nations” was a declaration signed by representatives from 26 different countries
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain invent the transistor
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The german democratic government began to construct a stone wall. The wall was mostly used for the cold war. It lasted until november 9, 1989
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two humans to walk on the moon.
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19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States.
