General Flashcards
(182 cards)
0
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The Titanic sinks
A
1912
1
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Hilary and Norgay climb Everest
A
1953
2
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A.A. Milne publishes Winnie the Pooh
A
1926
3
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The BBC is founded
A
1927
4
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Incan City of Machu Picchu is rediscovered
A
1911
5
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Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
A
1911
6
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Great Train Robbery in England
A
1963
7
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Great Depression begins after stock market crash
A
1929
8
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Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison
A
1964
9
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Mein Kampf is published
A
1925
10
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Tutankhamen’s tomb is discovered by Howard Carter
A
1922
11
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Great Chilean Earthquake. Most powerful ever recorded, 9.5 on moment magnitude scale.
A
1960
12
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Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
A
1961
13
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Mao Tse Tung launches the Cultural Revolution
A
1966
14
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A
1962
15
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The Great Smog affects London
A
1952
16
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Che Guevara killed by CIA
A
1967
17
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Emily Davison steps in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby
A
1913
18
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Nicolae Ceausescu comes to power in Romania
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1965
19
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Women in US gain right to vote
A
1920
20
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Harry Houdini dies after being punched
A
1926
21
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Korean War begins
A
1950
22
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The Jazz Singer is released
A
1927
23
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Prohibition begins in US
A
1920
24
Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka
1972
25
The teddy bear is introduced
1902
26
Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion results in deaths of an estimated 7,000
1986
27
Oklahoma City bombing kills 168
1995
28
Berlin Wall is built
1961
29
President Roosevelt sails to the Panama Canal Zone, becomes first US president to travel abroad while in office
1906
30
Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles
1932, 1984
32
First Nobel Prizes awarded
1901
33
Uruguay wins football World Cup in Brazil
1950
34
Women in the UK (over age of 30) win right to vote
1918
35
Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, U.S.A.
1904
36
Israel achieves statehood
1948
37
Enigma code is broken
1941
39
Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first Baseball World Series
1903
40
Summer Olympics held in London
1908, 1948, 2012
41
Queen Victoria dies, Edward VII becomes King
1901
42
King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza
1900
43
Marilyn Monroe found dead
1962
44
IBM is founded
1924
45
Berlin Wall comes down
1989
45
Marconi sends first radio wave across the Atlantic
1901
46
Battle of Verdun
1916
47
Earthquake in Tabgshan, China kills over 240,000 people
1976
48
William McKinley is assassinated by Leon Czolgosz
1901
49
Chinese Boxer Rebellion begins
1900
50
Women's Social and Political Union is founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester
1903
51
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) founded
1958
52
USS Pueblo is captured by North Korea (they've still got it)
1968
53
Nelson Mandela freed from prison
1990
54
Australia becomes a Commonwealth
1901
55
Max Plank first reveals his revolutionary Quantum Theory
1900
56
Summer Olympics held in Paris, France
1900, 1924
57
Wright Brothers make first powered flight at Kitty Hawk
1903
58
Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II
1981
59
Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil) resigns as Prime Minister (Conservative). His nephew Arthur Balfour succeeds.
1902
60
The Red Army undergo The Long March
1934
61
Leon Trotsky is assassinated by Ramón Mercader, under Stalin's orders, with an ice axe in Mexico City
1940
62
Mount Pelée erupts on Martinique, killing 30,000
1902
63
The Empire State Building is completed
1931
64
Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi
1948
65
Entente Cordiale
1904
66
Freud publishes 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'
1905
67
Évian Conference takes place to discuss plight of Jewish refugees
1938
68
21st Amendment brings an end to the Prohibition era
1933
69
Boer War ends
1902
70
Martin Luther King jr is assassinated in Memphis
1968
71
Klaus Barbie is sentenced to life in prison
1987
72
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
1906
73
Messina Earthquake in Italy kills over 100,000
1908
74
Shippingport Atomic Power Station becomes first of its kind in Pennsylvania
1957
75
Battle of the Somme
1916
76
Cuba gains independence from the U.S.
1902
78
The Great Train Robbery is released, first full length feature film
1903
79
Ownership of Panama Canal returned to Panama
1999
80
Police gun down black crowd at Sharpeville Massacre
1960
81
Reunification of Germany
1990
82
Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic
1927
83
Summer Olympics held in Berlin
1916, 1936
84
South Africans have to start carrying racial ID cards
1951
85
Arthur Balfour resigns as Prime Minister, Henry Campbell-Bannerman succeeds
1905
86
San Francisco suffers devastating earthquake and fire
1906
87
U-Bahn (Berlin underground system) opens
1902
88
Louise Brown becomes first test tube baby
1978
89
Orson Welles' broadcast of War of the Worlds causes havoc as listeners believe it to be true
1938
90
Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
1900
90
Teapot Dome Scandal
1923
90
Finland becomes first European country to give women the vote
1906
91
Winter of discontent in UK
1978-9
92
HMS Dreadnought is launched, revolutionises naval power
1906
93
Jack Johnson becomes first black world heavyweight boxing champion
1908
94
Katyn Forest Massacre
1940
96
Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium
1902
97
South Africa formally adopts Apartheid Policy
1948
98
Soviet fighter jets shoot down a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace
1983
99
The floppy disk is invented
1967
100
The Pittsburgh agreement: Czechs and Slovaks agree to unite into one country
1918
101
The Channel Tunnel opens
1994
101
Mother Teresa is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979
102
Kellogg's starts selling Corn Flakes
1906
103
CIA carry out Guatemalan coup d'état and overthrow President Jacobo Árbenz Guzman, installing a military regime in place
1954
104
Korea divides into North and South halves
1945
105
Russo-Japanese War ends in defeat for Russia and Treaty of Portsmouth
1905
106
Mao Zedong launches The Great Leap Forward
1958
107
'Bloody Sunday'; Russian Revolution
1905
108
Iran-Contra affair hits the headlines
1986
109
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964
110
Construction begins on Panama Canal
1904
111
DNA is discovered by Francis Crick and John Watson
1953
112
Decimal Day: The UK adopts a decimal currency
1971
113
Einstein introduces Theory of Relativity
1905
114
Ethiopia declared independent in a tripartite pact; country is divided into French, English and Italian spheres of influence
1906
115
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
1955
116
Bonnier and Clyde are killed in a police ambush
1934
117
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman on the US Supreme Court
1981
118
Edward VIII abdicates
1936
119
Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer
1981
120
Six-Day War
1967
121
Kellogg-Briand Pact attempts to outlaw war
1928
122
Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran from exile in France
1979
123
USSR disbands
1991
124
Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister is assassinated
1995
125
Sears Tower is completed
1973
126
Three Mile Island disaster
1979
127
Bonus Army march is brutally suppressed in Washington, D.C.
1932
128
Saddam Hussein is captured
2003
130
Brasilia replaces Rio de Janeiro as capital of Brazil
1960
131
Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie
1988
132
Anti Apartheid activist Steve Biko is tortured to death
1977
133
Frances Perkins becomes first woman appointed to US cabinet
1933
134
Park Geun-hye becomes first female President of South Korea
2013
135
Mahatma Gandhi leads the Salt March
1930
136
London Bridge (1831 version) is rebuilt in Lake Havasu City in Arizona
1971
137
Desmund Tutu is Archbishop of Cape Town
1981-1996
138
Paul Keating becomes Australian Prime Minister
1991
139
Former FBI deputy director, Mark Felt, reveals himself to be Watergate informant 'Deep Throat'
2005
140
Thaksin Sinawatra is overthrown in military coup
2006
141
Civil Rights Act passed
1964
142
Vicente Fox elected president of Mexico
2000
143
Ray Tomlinson invents e-mail
1972
144
Marilyn Monroe dies
1962
145
Ranulph Fiennes becomes first person reach South Pole twice
1993
146
The Rainbow Warrior is sunk by the DGSE
1985
147
NASA founded
1958
148
Boris Pasternak is awarded Nobel Prize for literature but has to decline
1958
149
Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
1963
150
Winston Churchill dies
1965
151
Alaska becomes 49th American state
1959
152
First FA Cup Final played at Wembley
1923
153
Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips
1973
154
Princess Anne marries Tim Laurence
1992
155
Samuel Beckett wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1969
156
John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold 'Bed in for peace' in Amsterdam hotel
1969
157
El Salvador and Honduras go to war over a football match
1969
158
Rocky Marciano dies in plane crash
1969
159
Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman
1969
160
Dog licences are abolished in Britain
1988
161
The Satanic Verses is released
1988
162
Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine tops the Christmas Charts
1988
163
33 people die in a train crash at Clapham Junction
1988
164
Marvin Gaye is shot by his father
1984
165
Tommy Cooper dies on live TV
1984
166
Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles
1984
167
Daylight Saving Time introduced
1918
168
Spanish Flu pandemic
1918
169
Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
1918
170
Viagra becomes available
1998
171
Clinton is impeached
1998
172
Indian and Pakistan test nuclear weapons
1998
173
Monica Seles is stabbed in the back
1993
174
Kim Campbell becomes first female Prime Minister of Canada
1993
175
'Fatty' Arbuckle scandal
1921
176
Irish Free State proclaimed
1921
177
Extreme inflation in Germany
1921
178
Roy Orbison dies
1988
179
The UK, Ireland and Denmark join the EEC
1973
180
Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
1930
181
1988
- Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed, crashing into Lockerbie
- Benazir Bhutto becomes first Islamic Prime Minister (Pakistan)
- Clapham Junction rail crash, 35 die
- Summer Olympics held in Seoul (South Korea); Winter Olympics held in Calgary, Canada
- Netherlands win the European Football Championships
- Rain Man, Die Hard, A Fish Called Wanda, Big, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Cinema Paradiso, Mississippi Burning, Bull Durham released
- Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A), It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy), Rattle and Hum (U2), Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth), ...And Justice For All (Metallica), Surfer Rosa (Pixies), Green (R.E.M.) released
- The Satanic Verses is released
- Andy Gibb, Rob Orbison, Chet Baker, Christina Onassis die
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Elvis Presley dies
1977
