Timeline By lea pendeliau Apr 14, 1912 Sinking of the Titanic Jun 28, 1914 Beginning of World War I Nov 7, 1917 Revolution in Russia Mar 12, 1930 Gandhi´s salt march Jul 17, 1936 Spanish civil war Sep 1, 1939 Beginning of World War II Jun 14, 1940 Occupation of Paris May 8, 1945 The war ends in Europe Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs Aug 17, 1947 India's Independence Oct 31, 1952 Pacific Ocean, First Hydrogen Bomb Oct 19, 1958 Great chinese famine. China Jan 1, 1959 Cuban Rev. Cuba Aug 13, 1961 Berlin wall Construction. Berlin, Germany Aug 4, 1964 First bombing in Vietnam Oct 6, 1973 Yom Kippur war.Egypt Oct 16, 1978 Pope John Paul II succeeds John Paul I Sep 8, 1979 "Black Friday" Climax of the Islamic Revolution Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl disaster Nov 9, 1989 Fall o Berlin Wall Oct 3, 1990 German reunification Apr 6, 1994 Genocida in Rwanda Sep 11, 2001 September 11 attacks Mar 20, 2003 The beggining of Iraq war Oct 1, 2008 Financial crisis Jan 20, 2009 Inauguration of Barack Obama
