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The Great Famine and the Coffin Ships (1845)

1845

The Polio Panic (1916)

1916

1918 Flu

1918

Irish Free State Treaty Signed (1921)

December 7, 1921

Charles Lindenberg (1927)

May 27, 1927

Hindenburg (1937)

May 6, 1937

London Blitz Begins on Civilian Targets (1940)

September 7, 1940

Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

December 7, 1941

Atomic Bomb (1945)

August 6,1945

Indian Independence (1947)

August 15, 1947

Arab- Israeli Conflict (1948)

May 1948

The Berlin Airlift (1948)

June 30, 1948

Communism in China (1949)

October 1, 1949

Mother Teresa (1950)

1950

Korean War (1950)

June 25, 1950

Brown vs. Board of Education (1951)

1951

French Surrender at Dien Bien Phu (1954)

May 7, 1954

Crisis and Conciliation at Suez (1956)

1956

Soviets Crush Rebellion in Hungary (1956)

November 4, 1956

Yuri Gargarin is First Man in Space (1961)

April 11, 1961

Berlin Wall Seals Iron Curtain (1961)

August 20, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

October 28, 1962

Dr. King's Dream (1963)

August 28, 1963

Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963)

November 22, 1963

The SIx- Day War Begins (1967)

June 5, 1967

Man on the Moon (1969)

July 21, 1969

Bloody Sunday Death in Northern Ireland (1972)

January 30, 1972

Munich Olympics Massacre (1972)

September 5, 1972

Oil Crisis (1973)

1973

Nixon Resigns in Watergate Scandal (1974)

August 8, 1974

Palestine Paramilitary Organizations (1976)

1976

The Death of a Disease (1978)

1978

Khomeini Returns to Iran (1979)

February 1, 1979

IRA Kills Mountbatten (1979)

August 27, 1979

Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)

November 4, 1979

El- Sadat Assassination (1981)

October 6, 1981

British Task Force... Falklands (1982)

April 3, 1982

Ethiopian Famine (1984)

October 23, 1984

Challenger Explodes (1986)

January 28, 1986

Chernobyl (1986)

April 27, 1986

Lockerbiem Pan- Am Jet Explodes (1988)

December 21, 1988

Exxon Valdez (1989)

March 24, 1989

Tiananmen Square Uprising (1989)

June 4, 1989

Fall of Berlin Wall (1989)

November 9, 1989

Nelson Mandela Freed (1990)

February 11, 1990

Operation Desert Storm (1990)

August 2, 1990

Rodney King Beating and Riots (1992)

1992

The Chunnel (1994)

1994

Dolly the Sheep (1997)

February 24, 1997

Clinton Impeachment (1999)

February 12, 1999

9/11

September 11, 2001

The Darfur Genocide (2003)

February 26, 2003

Beslan School Siege (2004)

September 1, 2004