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Fall of Berlin Wall at age 30
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall opened that had divided the city for almost 30 years. At night the Berlin Wall was torn down, dividing the German Capital for almost three more decades. -
World Wide Web at age 31
Tim Berners- Lee, a British scientist, invented the world Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information - sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. -
Invention the samrtphone
Wile person cellphones have been around since the 1970's, the creation of the smartphone excited American consumers inan new way. After all, the three decades between the first mobile phone and the first smartphone saw the advent of the modern internet. And that invention sparked the very beginning of the digital telecommunication phenomenon we see today. -
Cloning living things
Today, two decades after Dolly's birth on July5, 1996, the impact of cloning on basic science has surpassed expectations whereas the reality of what is technically called nuclear transfer - the form of cloning used with Dolly- has largely faded from public consciousness. -
Wikipedia goes online
Initially, Wikipedia was intended to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts, by providing additional draft articles and ideas for it. In practice, Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of other on line reference projects. -
Euro currency introduced
The Euro came into existence on 1 January 1999, although it had been a goal of the European Union (EU) and it predecessors sine the 1960s. After tough negotiations, particularly due to opposition from the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force in 1993 with the goal of creating an economic and monetary union by 1999 for all EU except the UK and Denmark (even though Denmark has a fixed exchange rate policy with the euro). -
Barack Obama, US President
Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others. -
Global recession
The global economy has experienced 14 global recessions since 1870: in 1876, 1885, 1893, 1908, 1914, 1917-21, 1930-32, 1938, 1945-46, 1975, 1982, 1991, 2009, and 2020.The COVID-19 recession will be the deepest since 1945-46, and more than twice as deep as the recession associated with the 2007-09 global financial crisis. -
PSA launching
PSA in November will begin producing the first prototypes of electric versions of the K9, the automaker’s smallest LCV, at its plant in Vigo in northwest Spain. It will join the Peugeot Partner, Citroën Berlingo and Opel Combo as well as a version built for Toyota called the ProAce City. -
Donald Trump, President of the EE:UU
Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. He entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and was elected in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, although he lost the popular vote. He became the oldest first-term U.S. president, and the first without prior military or government service. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.