 |  We invite you to transform your computer into a time machine. Listed here you will find 31 events that have taken place over the past 100 years. Events which have either shaped our lives or the way we look at the world. Obviously there have been countless events during the last century that have had a profound effect on the world we live in. These just happen to be some of the ones we found most interesting. | |
1900
|  | Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium |
1903
| | Orville and Wilber Wright take to the air |
1905
| | Special theory of relativity announced by Einstein |
1907
| | Creation of Cubism. Picasso and Braque |
1913
| | Ford develops the moving assembly line for mass production |
1914
| | Sanger's book "The Woman Rebel" advocates birth control |
1914 - 1918
| | Nine million people die in World War I |
1917
| | Lenin leads Russia into revolution |
1919
| | Passive resistance movement in India is lead by Gandhi |
1923
| | Formation of the Nazi party in Germany by Hitler |
1927
| | Creation of the TV picture tube by the father of Television, Philo T. Farnsworth |
1928
| | The discovery of penicillin |
1939
| | World War II starts, Germany invades Poland |
1945
| | US detonates atomic bombs in the skies above Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1947
| | India becomes independent |
1949
| | Apartheid comes to South Africa |
1953
| | The structure of DNA is revealed |
1957
| | Russia launches Sputnik; the space race is on |
1962
| | Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" launches the ecology movement |
1963
| | "I Have A Dream" speech is given by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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1966 - 1976
| | China's cultural Revolution |
1969
| | Men walk on the moon for the first time |
1974
| | 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon resigns due to Watergate scandal |
1978
| | First test tube baby born in the UK |
1981
| | Scientists identify AIDS |
1986
| | Nuclear Power Reactor accident in Chernobyl |
1989
| | Fall of the Berlin Wall. Fall of communism in Eastern Europe |
1991
| | Breakup of the U.S.S.R. |
1997
| | Scientists clone a sheep |
1999 | | The world awaits the Y2K bug |
