Events
1901 - Death of Queen Victoria
1902 - Boer War
1903 - Wright Brothers' First Flight
1904 - Construction of Panama Canal
1905 - Vanishing Tribes
1906 - San Francisco Earthquake
1907 - Emigration to America
1908 - Young Turk Revolution
1909 - Child Labor
1910 - Mexican Revolution
1911 - Amundsen's Antarctic Expedition
1912 - The Titanic Sinks
1913 - Suffragettes March on Washington
1914 - Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand
1915 - Battle of Gallipoli
1916 - Battle of the Somme
1917 - Bolshevik Revolution
1918 - Spanish Flu
1919 - Chicago Race Riot
1920 - Prohibition
1921 - Red Army Victory in Russian Civil War
1922 - Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
1923 - Hyperinflation in Weimar Republic
1924 - First Winter Olympics
1925 - Skeleton Dancers
1926 - American Gangsters
1927 - Great Mississippi Flood
1928 - Roaring Twenties
1929 - Wall Street Crash
1930 - Gandhi's Salt March
1931 - Japan Invades Manchuria
1932 - Bonus Army March
1933 - Reichstag Fire
1934 - Mao's Long March
1935 - Dust Bowl
1936 - Spanish Civil War
1937 - Hindenburg Disaster
1938 - Anschluss
1939 - Invasion of Poland
1940 - Battle of Britain
1941 - Pearl Harbor
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad
1943 - Liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto
1944 - D-Day
1945 - Atomic Bomb Dropped
1946 - Displaced People
1947 - Partition of India
1948 - Berlin Airlift
1949 - Apartheid
1950 - Utuado Uprising in Puerto Rico
1951 - Korean War
1952 - Egyptian Revolution
1953 - East German Uprising
1954 - Algerian War of Independence
1955 - Warsaw Pact
1956 - Hungarian Revolution
1957 - Sputnik Satellites
1958 - Elvis Joins the Army
1959 - Cuban Revolution
1960 - Ruby Bridges Goes to School
1961 - Construction of Berlin Wall
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 - Civil Rights Movement
1964 - Beatlemania
1965 - Mohammad Ali: "I am the Greatest"
1966 - Escalation in Vietnam War
1967 - Death of Che Guevara
1968 - Prague Spring
1969 - Moon Landing
1970 - Kent State Massacre
1971 - The Troubles in Northern Ireland
1972 - Vietnam War Protests
1973 - Allende's Last Stand
1974 - President Nixon Resigns
1975 - Fall of Saigon
1976 - Lebanese Civil War
1977 - Coronation of Emperor Bokassa
1978 - Pope John Paul II
1979 - Sandinista Rebellion
1980 - Pac-Man Released
1981 - Solidarnosc in Poland
1982 - Falklands War
1983 - Guatemalan Civil War
1984 - Operation Blue Star
1985 - British Inner-City Riots
1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
1986 - Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
1990 - Gulf War
1987 - First Intifada
1991 - Collapse of Soviet Union
1988 - Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
1992 - LA Riots
1993 - Death of Pablo Escobar
1994 - Chechen War
1995 - Kobe Earthquake
1996 - Taliban Take Kabul
1997 - Hong Kong Returned to China
1998 - President Clinton Impeached
1999 - Discovery Spacecraft Docks with ISS
2000 - Y2K bug (that wasn't)