1922 BBC Radio Service
1923 First talking movies
Time Magazine Founded
1924 First Olympic Winter Games
1926 John Logie Baird invented the television
1927 BBC founded
First talking movie, The Jazz Singer.
1928 First Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Penicillin discovered1929 Car radio invented,
First academy awards.
1931 Dracula and Frankenstein films released for first time
1936 TV broadcasting started
1937 Beano and Dandy launched
1938 Broadcast of The War Of The World.
1939 World War 2 started.
1940 Battle Of Britain
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
1945 First computer built, called the ENIAC
End of WW2.
1947 Polaroid camera and transistor radio are invented.
1948 Gandhi Assassinated
1950 First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
1951 Colour TV introduced.
1955 ITV launched, an alternative to BBC with adverts
1956 TV remote control created.
1959 Sound Of Music opened on Broadway.
First Tamla Motown records produced
US quiz shows are found to be fixed.
1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is released
1961 Soviets launch first man into space.
1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead
Andy Warhol exhibits Campbell’s soup can.
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 JFK assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr makes his “I have a dream” speech.
1964 Beatles become popular in US.
First ‘Pirate Radio Station’, Radio Caroline, started broadcasting
1965 Japan’s Bullet Train is introduced
Malcolm X assassinated.
1966 Star Trek TV series begins.
1967 Che Guevara killed.
BBC Radio split into 4 channels creating Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Radios Leicester, Sheffield and Merseyside became the first regional radio stations
1968 Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy both assassinated.
1969 ARPANET an early version of the Internet is created
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon
The first rock and roll concert at Woodstock
Sesame Street first airs.
1970’s Rap music or hiphop started
1970 The Beatles break up
First computer floppy discs are created.
1972 M.A.S.H. TV show premiers
Pocket calculators are introduced.
1973 US pulls out of Vietnam
The Exorcist is released
1974 US president Nixon resigns.
1975 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win Wimbledon
Microsoft founded.
1977 Elvis is found dead
The mini series Roots airs
First Star Wars movie is released.
1978 First test tube baby is born
John Paul 2nd becomes Pope
The Jonestown Massacre took place.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain
Mother Theresa awarded the Nobel Peace prize
Sony introduced the Walkman.
1980’s Start of music videos. Imax.
1980 John Lennon is assassinated
Mount St. Helens erupted
Rubik’s cube became popular.
1981 Assassination attempts on President Regan and the Pope
AIDS is identified as a plague
Pac-Man became extremely popular
IBM introduces personal computers (PCs)
Millions watch the royal wedding of Lady Diana and Prince Charles on TV.
1982 E.T., the movie is released
King Henry VIII ship, the Mary Rose is raised after 437 years
Michael Jackson releases Thriller
Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 2075 couples at Madison Square Gardens
Channel 4 launched.
The Poltergeist released.
1983 Cabbage Patch Kids became popular
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
1984 A huge poison gas leak happened in Bhopal, India
Indira Gandhi, India’s prime minister, is killed
Vietnam War memorial is opened in Washington, DC
The rating PG-13 is created.
1985 Hole in the ozone layer discovered
Famine in Ethiopia
The wreck of the Titanic is found.
1986 Challenger space shuttle exploded
Chernobyl nuclear accident happened
US bombed Libya,
USSR launched Mir Space Station.
1987 DNA first used to convict criminals
New York stock exchange suffers huge drop on Black Monday.
1988 Terrorists bomb Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
US shot down Iranian airliner.
1989 Berlin wall falls.
The Exxon Valdez spilled millions of gallons of oil on coastline and
Students are massacred in China’s Tiananmen Square.
1980’s and 1990’s Indie label - Creation Records
1990 Hubble telescope launched into space
Lech Walesa became the first president of Poland
BskyB launched
1991 A Bronze Age man is found frozen in a glacier
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Operation Desert Storm.
1992 End of the Cold War
Riots in Los Angeles.
1993 Use of the Internet grew
World Trade Centre destroyed
1994 Channel tunnel opened connecting Britain and France
Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa.
1995 Gas attack in Tokyo subway
Oklahoma city bombings.
1996 Mad cow disease hits Britain
Two royal divorces.
1997 Pathfinder sends back images of Mars
Princess Diana dies in car crash
Scientists clone sheep.
Channel 5 is launched.
1998 India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons.
Titanic is most successful movie ever made.
1999 The Euro, a new European currency is created.
JFK junior killed in plane accident.
Killing spree at Columbine High School.
2000 Dr. Harold Shipman was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of at least 15 of his patients.
Air France Concorde crashes after take off from Paris killing all 109 passengers and 5 people
on the ground
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic stands trial on war crimes charges
Israeli troops withdraw from Lebanese security zone after 22 years of occupation
Northern Ireland Parliamentary powers restored
58 illegal immigrants suffocate in Dutch truck in England.
Russian nuclear submarine went down, all 118 crew members on board perished when the
Kursk exploded and sank
2001 The Gujarat earthquake coincided with the 51st celebration of Indian Republic Day.
Gun battle in the Indian Parliament, 12 killed
The World Trade Centre in New York was destroyed and the Pentagon in Washington
seriously damaged when hijacked airliners deliberately flew into them (9/11).
Beatle George Harrison dies
2002 At least 183 people killed in two Bali nightclubs, bombs linked to al Qaeda terror network
2003 US launches war against Iraq
In Europe millions join in peace protests
In France 10,000 die in heat wave
2004 Rail blast kills 200 in Spain
Most powerful earthquake in 40 years and resulting tsunamis left thousands injured, thousands missing and hundreds of thousands homeless in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand
European Union welcomes 10 new members
2005 Pope John Paul II dies
London bombs kill 52
In Pakistan major earthquake kills thousands
Virgin Media launched
2006 Hezbollah kidnapping prompts Israel to move inside the Lebanon
Australian 'Croc Hunter' dies in stingray attack
Saddam Hussein hanged in Baghdad
2007 Harry Potter final book goes on sale
Mortgage concerns hit US markets and World markets fall after US losses
Pakistan’s leader Benazir Bhutto is assassinated
2008 In Southern China Quake death toll 50,000.
Irish reject EU treaty
Barrack Obama wins presidential election.
British teacher found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after allowing her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad
2009 Lockerbie bomber returns to Libya after being freed from prison on compassionate grounds
Swine flu kills 60 in Mexico
By Paddy Johnson 10s1
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