The 1900s 1901 Australia Federates 1903 Man Flies 1905 The Theory of Relativity is Proposed 1907 Picasso Gives Birth to Modern Art

The 1910s 1912 RMS Titanic Sinks 1912 Republic of China Established 1917 Bolshevik Revolution – Communist Russia is born 1914 World War I Begins The 1920s 1920 Prohibition Begins 1922 Tomb of Tutankhamen is Found 1925 Television is Invented 1929 On With the Show – first 100% color, 100% sound movie The 1930s 1930 The First Full Length Color/Sound Cartoon Appears 1930 Mohandas Gandhi Leads Satyagraha Movement in India 1931 Empire State Building Opens 1939 World War II Begins The 1940s 1944 Colossus – First Fully Electronic Computer 1945 First Atomic Bomb Built 1945 First Secretary General of the Newly Formed United Nations 1946 Cold War Begins

The 1950s 1950 Korean War Begins 1953 DNA First Accurately Modeled 1954 Rock Aound The Clock takes Rock and Roll International 1957 Sputnik 1 – First artificial satellite put into geocentric orbit The 1960s 1962 Spacewar! The First Computer Game is Invented 1962 Pope John XXIII Starts the Vatican II Council 1967 Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara is Executed in Bolivia 1969 Man walks on the moon The 1970s 1973 Embargoes from the OPEC nations cause an oil Crisis in nations supporting Israel 1973 American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders 1979 Dame Margaret Thatcher Becomes the First Female UK Prime Minister 1979 Khomeini Takes Power in Iran The 1980s John Lennon is Shot 1984 The First Commercially Successful Graphic Interface PC Arrives with the Apple Macintosh 1986 The Chernobyl Disaster Occurs 1988 The Commercial Internet Begins The 1990s 1990 The Gulf War Begins 1991 The Soviet Union Collapses 1996 Dolly The Sheep is Cloned December 31, 1999 The Second Millennium Since the Birth of Christ Closes (some prefer Dec 2000)

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