A century in five minutes

Main article in:
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http://empollonintegrista.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/siglo/

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Music:

Marche triomphante, Aida, Giuseppe Verdi.

Slavonic dance nº7,Antonín Dvořák.

Each year:

1900 - Boxers' rebellion.
1901 - Queen Victoria's death.
1902 - Mount Pelee eruption.
1903 - Wright brothers' flight.
1904 - Russo-Japanese war.
1905 - Special relativity, by Albert Einstein.
1906 - San Francisco earthquake.
1907 - Rasputin meets the king.
1908 - Tunguska event.
1909 - R.E. Peary reaches the North Pole.
1910 - Comet Halley.
1911 - Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole.
1912 - The Titanic disaster.
1913 - The Panama Canal is finished.
1914 - Franz Ferdinand is killed.
1915 - First air combats.
1916 - Battle of the Somme.
1917 - Russian revolution.
1918 - End of World War I.
1919 - Spanish flu pandemic.
1920 - Al Capone begins to stand out in the crime scene.
1921 - Irland's independence.
1922 - Coup d'etat in Italy.
1923 - Kanto earthquake.
1924 - Howard Carter finds Tutankhamon's tomb.
1925 - Three states tornado.
1926 - Coup d'etat in Portugal.
1927 - Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic.
1928 - Hirohito is crowned emperor of Japan.
1929 - Wall Street crash.
1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1931 - Second Spanish Republic.
1932 - James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany.
1934 - Serious sandstorms in the U.S.
1935 - Hoover Dam is finished.
1936 - Spanish civil war.
1937 - Hindenburg disaster.
1938 - Germany occupies Checoslovaquia.
1939 - Beginning of World War II.
1940 - Hitler attempts the invasion of Russia.
1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
1942 - The war extends to the Pacific.
1943 - First defeats of the Nazis.
1944 - The Holocaust gets worse.
1945 - Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1946 - The U.N. is created.
1947 - Independence of Pakistan.
1948 - Foundation of Israel.
1949 - Foundation of the People's Republic of China.
1950 - Korean war begins.
1951 - United Nations building is inaugurated.
1952 - The European Coal and Steel Community is founded.
1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit.
1954 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.
1955 - Poliomyelitis vaccine is developed.
1956 - First Elvis Presley hits.
1957 - Sputnik is succesfully launched.
1958 - Brussells Universal Exposition.
1959 - Cuban revolution.
1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, reach the bottom of the Marianas trench.
1961 - Yuri Gagarin, first man in space.
1962 - Cuban missile crisis.
1963 - Assasination of J.F. Kennedy.

Compete list and errata in:
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http://empollonintegrista.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/feliz-2009/

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[LiveMP3Player]

what was in 1995?

[Mostrencovision]

@LiveMP3Player French nuclear tests in Polinesia.

[littelG333]

What happened in 1986?

[Mostrencovision]

@littelG333 The Chernobyl disaster

[misteryman765]

what is 1919,1955, 1982, 1990?

[Mostrencovision]

@misteryman765 1919 and 1955 are stated in the description. 1982 and 1990 are stated in my website (in spanish, so I'll translate for you):

1982: spanish coup d'etat (there is an errate here; it happened in 1981).

1990: sinking of the Exxon Valdez.

[JamesTBond007]

It's amazing how much can happen in one century. We went from the dawn of flight to putting robots on Mars. Who knows how far we'll have come by 2100.

[whikless]

Ah, ha ha! Swine flu? That's sooo 2009!

[sleepgood3000]

You want to follow the footsteps of God? 1930.

[MrHoppers002]

man every century sucks.

[jdlewis60]

2011 The Obama DEPRESSION

[VictorPietroM]

2011 - Death of Osama Bin Laden :D

[LiveMP3Player]

@Mostrencovision oh, thanks for the information

[DumbBassDreams]

lol at 1909

[187byatch]

@littelG333 go play cod