Historical events 20th century

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  • Titanic sinks

    Titanic sinks

    Region: Europe
  • World War I

    World War I

    global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. Europe
  • October Revolution in Russia

    October Revolution in Russia

    Region: Europe
  • Benito Mussolini's march in Rome

    Benito Mussolini's march in Rome

    Region: Europe
  • Premiere of "Steamboat Willie"

    Premiere of "Steamboat Willie"

    Region: USA
  • Wall Street crash "Black Thursday"

    Wall Street crash "Black Thursday"

    Region: USA
  • Ghandi's Salt march

    Ghandi's Salt march

    Region: India
  • Inauguration of Hitler

    Inauguration of Hitler

    Region: Europe
  • Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws

    Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws

    Region:Europe
  • Beginning of World War II

    Beginning of World War II

    Region: Europe
  • Hitler in the climax of his power

    Hitler in the climax of his power

    Region: Europe
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Oceanic Region
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Atomic bombing of Hirmoshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hirmoshima and Nagasaki

    On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
  • Explotion of the first hydrogen bomb

    Explotion of the first hydrogen bomb

    The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific.
  • Construction of the Berlin Wall

    Construction of the Berlin Wall

    These walls were topped with barbed wire and guarded with watchtowers, machine gun emplacements, and mines. In Europe
  • First Moon Landing

    First Moon Landing

    The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Europe
  • Genocide in Rwanda

    Genocide in Rwanda

    Africa
  • September 11 attacks

    September 11 attacks

    America, United States, New York City