Château Bel Air Lagrave 1978

By averyswine

  • The world’s 1st test-tube baby is born

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  • Rioters sack the British Embassy in Terhan

  • Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s 1st female prime minister

  • John Lennon murdered in New York

  • IBM launches the 1st personal computer

  • The 1st British cell phone goes on sale

  • Chernobyl nuclear disaster

  • Work on the channel tunnel begins

  • The Soviet Union begins Perestroika

  • The Berlin Wall falls

  • The Gulf War began

  • Robert Caillian publishes a “Hypertext Project” called World Wide Web

  • The Maastricht Treaty is signed forming the EU

  • Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s 1st black president

  • Barings Bank collapses after Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion

  • Boris Yeltsin emerges as the winner in Russia's first round of presidential elections

  • Britain hands over sovereignty of Hong Kong to China

  • The twin towers were destroyed by terrorist attacks

  • War begins in Afghanistan

  • Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

  • Obama becomes the 1st African American president

  • Chilean Miners trapped and rescued after 69 days

  • England retain The Ashes

  • Prince William marries Kate Middleton