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Atomic Bomb
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive ... The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). -
Computer
ENIAC (/ˈini.æk/ or /ˈɛni.æk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
This was a sepreme court case in which a team of NAACP attorneys challenged the courts in the legality of segregation in public education. In Brown case, the NAACP challenged the "separate but equal" principle. -
Sputnik launched
The Soviet Union launched a 184-pound steel ball containing a small satellite which took roughly 98 minutes to orbit Earth. The launchings shocked many Americans, since we suffered when it came to technology in outer space. -
March on Washington
1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights. -
Creation of Internet
The Internet as we know it today first started being developed in the late 1960's in California in the United States. -
The creation of Hip Hop
Hip hop is a subcultural movement that was formed during the early 1970s by African-American, Caribbean, and Latino youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City.[2][3][4][5][6] It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion [citation needed] (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the ... -
Attempt of assassination of a pope
The first attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on Wednesday, 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square at Vatican City. The Pope was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck four times, and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately, and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope later forgave Ağca for the assassination attempt.[1] -
Collapse of ussr
The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 21, 1991 as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1] The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
