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Do you ever have trouble remembering PIN numbers? Ivan Wise teaches you how: all you have to do is remember a hundred facts about the twentieth century and the exact year in which they happened.
Dolly the sheep https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html
Bob Beamon’s long jump https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/10/28/the-long-long-jump
The climbing of Mount Everest https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/conquering-everest-22118304/
Noughties 1900: Boxer Rebellion 1901: Queen Victoria dies 1902: First teddy bear produced 1903: Wright brothers’ first flight 1904: Mormons ban polygamy 1905: Einstein’s E=mc2 1906: San Francisco earthquake 1907: The first Scout camp 1908: Ford Model T introduced 1909: Lloyd George’s People’s Budget
Tens 1910: Twain and Tolstoy die 1911: Curie’s second Nobel Prize 1912: Titanic sinks 1913: Niels Bohr’s model of the atom 1914: First World War starts 1915: Gallipoli campaign 1916: Battle of the Somme 1917: Russian Revolution 1918: Women get right to vote 1919: Versailles Treaty
Twenties 1920: Prohibition starts 1921: Ireland becomes independent 1922: BBC is founded 1923: German hyperinflation: $1=4.2tr marks 1924: Lenin dies 1925: Television invented 1926: General strike 1927: The first talkie is released 1928: Penicillin discovered 1929: Wall Street Crash
Thirties 1930: First football World Cup 1931: Britain abandons gold standard 1932: Sydney Harbour Bridge opens 1933: Reichstag Fire 1934: Night of the Long Knives 1935: Monopoly goes on sale 1936: Jesse Owens Olympics 1937: Guernica bombing 1938: Munich agreement 1939: Second World War starts
Forties 1940: The Blitz 1941: Pearl Harbor 1942: Battle of Stalingrad begins 1943: Tehran conference 1944: D-Day 1945: Atomic bombs dropped 1946: Churchill’s iron curtain speech 1947: Indian independence 1948: Gandhi assassinated 1949: Nato created
Fifties 1950: Korean War begins 1951: Catcher in the Rye published 1952: The Mousetrap starts West End run 1953: Mount Everest climbed 1954: Four minute mile 1955: Rosa Parks on the bus 1956: Hungarian uprising crushed 1957: Launch of Sputnik 1958: Blue Peter starts 1959: Castro comes to power
Sixties 1960: The pill becomes available 1961: Catch-22 published 1962: Cuban missile crisis 1963: JFK assassinated 1964: USA Civil Rights Act 1965: Dylan goes electric 1966: England win World Cup 1967: Sergeant Pepper released 1968: Bob Beamon’s long jump 1969: First man on the moon
Seventies 1970: First Boeing 747 flight 1971: World Trade Centre completed 1972: Bloody Sunday 1973: Watergate 1974: Rumble in the Jungle 1975: End of Vietnam War 1976: Apple computer introduced 1977: Voyager spacecraft launched 1978: First test-tube baby born 1979: Iranian Revolution
Eighties 1980: John Lennon killed 1981: Botham’s Ashes 1982: Falklands War 1983: First mobile phone call 1984: Miners’ strike starts 1985: Live Aid 1986: Maradona’s Hand of God 1987: Michael Fish’s hurricane 1988: Lockerbie 1989: Berlin Wall comes down
Nineties 1990: Mandela released from prison 1991: Gulf War 1992: Maastricht Treaty 1993: Buckingham Palace opens to public 1994: Rwandan genocide 1995: Windows 95 launched 1996: Dolly the sheep 1997: Death of Princess Diana 1998: Google founded 1999: Euro introduced
Published
January 8, 2023
Better Known 