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assassination of israeli prime minister begin
Menachem Begin was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (now Russia). He was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983 and the co-recipient, with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Begin mounted an invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to oust the Palestine Liberation Organization. Civilian deaths during this conflict turned world opinion against Israel. Begin resigned office in 1983. He died in 1992. -
indian independence
he Indian Independence Act 1947 was as an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received the royal assent on 18 July 1947, and Pakistan came into being on August 14, and India on August 15, as two new countries. -
korean war
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
launch of sputnik
The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Traveling at 18,000 miles an hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (nearest point) of 143 miles. Visible with binoculars before sunrise or after sunset, Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators. -
cuban missle crissis
13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. -
assassination of egyptian president sadat
President Sadat of Egypt has died after being shot by gunmen who opened fire as he watched an aerial display at a military parade.A number of other dignitaries including foreign diplomats were killed or seriously wounded. -
tiananmen square protest
In the spring of 1989, more than one million Chinese students and workers occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and began the largest political protest in communist China's history. Six weeks of protests ended with the Beijing massacre of 3-4 June. -
fall of the berlin wall
the offical purpose of the berlin wall was to keep western "fascists" from entering east germany and undermining the socialist state, but it's primarity served the objective of stemming mass defection from east to west. It was announced that on Nov. 9, 1989 citizens could cross over when ever they pleased. -
collapse of the soviet union
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. -
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Soviet Union collapse
On Christmas Day 1991, the soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days later representatives from 11 soviets republics(ukrain,the Russian federation,Belarus,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Moldavia,Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Uzbekistan) met in Kazakh city of alma-ata and announced that they would no longer be apart of the Soviet Union.
