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Sinking of the Titanic
The sinking of the RMS Titanic was a maritime disaster that occurred on the night of 14-15 April 1912, when the British liner RMS Titanic of the White Star Line, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. -
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World War I
World War I, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. The fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare, the widespread use of artillery, machine guns and chemical weapons, and the introduction of tanks and aircraft. -
Discovery of Penicillin
In 1928, at St. Mary's Hospital in London, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. This discovery made possible the introduction of antibiotics that greatly reduced the number of deaths from infection. -
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a military conflict in which power was disputed between the National Front and the Republican Front, ending with the victory of Franco's regime. Its origins lie in the failed coup d'état attempted by part of the army against the regime of the Second Republic. The war conceptualised several conflicts: class struggle, religious war, nationalist clashes and the political and economic conflict between capitalism and communism. -
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World War II
World War II was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. It involved most of the world's nations, including all the major powers, as well as virtually all European nations grouped into two opposing military alliances: the Allies on the one hand, and the Axis Powers on the other. It was the greatest war in human history. -
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Nazi Holocaust
The Holocaust is the genocide carried out by the Nazi German regime against the Jews of Europe during the course of World War II. The killings took place in all German-occupied territories in Europe. It was the outcome of a German racist concept put into practice by the Nazis, known to them as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, or just the ‘Final Solution’. -
Atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first atomic bomb directed at a populated area was dropped by the United States from a plane over Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, during World War II. The second such bomb targeted Nagasaki two days later. -
J.F. Kennedy assassination
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. His death is shrouded in intrigue and mystery, despite the existence of legal reports that provide an answer to the assassination. The official version is that, after entering Dealey Plaza with his motorcade, the president was shot three times (the first missed) from the Texas Textbook Warehouse building. The perpetrator was Lee Harvey Oswald, the building's quartermaster. -
Man steps on the moon
Apollo 11 was the space mission whose goal was to land man on the moon. It was manned by the United States, after a long competition with Russia to reach this milestone, which was called the Space Race. The commander of the mission was astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon. Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon. Buzz Aldrin was the second key figure in reaching the goal on 20 July 1969.