The Melody / Cacophony Of Historical Events I Have Noticed Touch My Life So Far:

(Don't bother reading them.  They're mine, which I'll add to, I hope! Try yours.)

(1951 is when I was born)

1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for passing atomic secrets to USSR

1952 Death of King George V1. Queen Elizabeth II becomes Queen

1952 Occupation of Japan ends, formal hostilities over

1952 Occupation of West Germany ends

1952 Eva Peron dies, aged 33

1952 First commercial flight of a passenger jet

1952 Detonation of hydrogen bomb

1952 First effective polio vaccine

1953 End of Korean war

1953 Everest conquered

1953 Death of Stalin

1954 End of racial segregation in US schools

1954 Billy Haley, ‘Rock Around The Clock’

1955 Antimatter produced

1956 Suez Crisis

1957 Sputnik 1

1957 Harold MacMillan UK Prime Minister

1957 First prescription of combined oral contraceptive pill

1958 Great Chinese famine commences

1959 Cuban revolution

1959 First documented aids case

1959 First pictures of far side of the Moon

1960 European Free Trade Association set up

1960 The ‘Pill’ becomes generally commercially available

1960 The Beetles form the band

1960 Sharpeville Massacre

1961 ‘Great Leap Forward’ ends in China with 20 million deaths

1961 Berlin Wall goes up

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 Martin Luther King ‘I have a dream’ speech

1962 Beetles first record released

1962 Death of Marilyn Munroe

1963 Assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King

1963 First geostationary satellite

1964 Civil Rights Act Abolishes Segregation

1964 Brezhnev oust Khrushchev in USSR

1964 First close-up pictures of Mars

1965 Immigration Act

1965 Death of Sir Winston Churchill

1965 Indonesian anti-communist purge kills 500,000

1966 China’s Cultural Revolution begins

1967 Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister disappears while swimming.  Body never recovered

1967 Summer Of Love 

1967 6 Days War

1968 Martin Luther King and JFK assassinated

1968 The Troubles begin

1968 French protests

1968 Prague Spring crushed by USSR

1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon

1969 Woodstock

1969 US Stonewall riots instigate the gay rights movement

1969 Death of Dwight D Eisenhower

1969 Concorde first flight

1969 ARPANET, first internet

1970 Bhola Cyclone kills 500,000 people in East Pakistan

1970 Ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

1970 Edward Heath British Prime Minister

1970 containerisation adopted worldwide

1970 Deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Break-up of the Beatles

1971 Bangladesh breaks from Pakistan and declares independence

1971 Greenpeace founded

1972 Bloody Sunday

1972 Munich Olympics Massacre

1972 President Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines

1973 Chilean coup d’état

1973 Israel wins Yom Kippur war, Ramadan War or October War

1973 Skylab launched

1973 Watergate scandal commences

1973 Roe versus Wade legalises abortion by woman’s choice in the US

1974Turkish invasion of Cyprus

1974 President Nixon resigns

1974 World population reaches 4 billion

1974 Discovery of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) in Tanzania

1974 First close-up pictures of Mercury

1975 Fall of Saigon ends Vietnam War

1975 Khmer Rouge commence the Killing Fields

1975 Franco dies

1975 Bill Gates starts Microsoft

1975 First mass produced home computers

1976 Death of Mao.  End of Cultural Revolution

1976 First outbreak of Ebola virus

1976 Steve Jobs sets up Apple

1977 Death of Charlie Chaplin and Elvis

1977 Launch of Voyager

1978 Artificial Insulin produced

1978 Spanish democracy commences

1978 Jim Jones ‘The People’s Temple’ ends with organised mass killing and suicide of 920 people

1978 First ‘Test-Tube’ baby

1979: Smallpox eradicated. 

1979 Soviet–Afghan War begins. 

1979 Iranian Revolution and Iran hostage crisis. Shah Reza Pahlavi forced into exile.

1979 Margaret Thatcher PM.

1979 Implementation of China's One child policy. 

1979 Exile of Idi Amin. 

1979 Overthrow of Khmer Rouge regime. 1.7 million murdered in The Killing Fields.

1980 Rhodesia become independent Zimbabwe

1980 Solidarity Union in Poland

1980 Ronald Reagan President

1981 Assassination of Anwar Sadat

1981 First Shuttle flight

1981 HRH Prince Charles first wedding

1982 Falklands War

1983 US Embassy Beirut bombed

1083 – 85 Ethiopian famine

1984 HIV recognised at causing AIDS

1984 UK Miners strike

1984 Assassination of Indira Ghandi

1985 Live Aid concert

1985 DNA fingerprinting

1986 Launch of US Challenger and Soviet Mir

1986 Halley’s Comet

1987 Stock Market crash

1987 First Intifada

1988 Perestroika

1988 End of Iran – Iraq war

1988 Pan Am flight 103 blows up over Lockerbie

1988 Channel Tunnel commences

1988 President Bush senior

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989 Fall of the Soviet bloc in Europe

1989 Tiananmen Square massacre

1989 Fatwa against Salman Rushdie

1989 Death of Dali

1990 Sir Tim Berners-Lee develops the www

1990 John Major PM

1990 German reunification

1990 Hubble telescope

1990 Aung Sang Suu Kyi under house arrest

1990 First assessment report linking climate change to human activity

1991 End of 1^st Gulf War

1991 Boris Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation

1991 Yugoslav wars commence

1991 First public website

1992 Maastricht Treaty

1992 Bill Clinton President

1992 Bosnian war

1993 World Trade Centre bombing

1993 End of Waco siege

1994 End of apartheid and election of Nelson Mandela

1994 Rwandan genocide

1994 Opening of Channel tunnel

1994 Kim Il-Sung dies.  Kim Jong-Il takes over 

1995 WTO established

1995 Srebrenica massacre

1995 North Korean famine begins

1995 Bosnian war ends after NATO bombing raids

1996 Taliban control Afghanistan government

1996 Dolly the sheep cloned

1997 Tony Blair Prime Minister

1997 Hong Kong returned to China

1997 Princess Diana dies

1998 Osama Bin Laden fatwa against the West

1998 Good Friday Agreement

1998 North Korean famine deaths reach 2.5 million lives

1998 Frank Sinatra dies

1999 Euro introduction

1999 Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela

1999 Yugoslav wars end

1999 World population reaches 6 billion

2000 Bush Junior becomes US President

2000 Vladimir Putin becomes Russian President

2000 International Space Station in use

2000 Britain puts an end to Sierra Leone civil war

2001 9/11 attacks

2001 War On Terror declared

2001 Indian state of Gujarat earthquake kills 30,000

2001 Wikipedia founded

2001 African Union founded

2002 Bali bombings

2002 Chechen terrorists take Russian theatre

2002 Guantanamo Bay detention centre founded

2003 1^st Iraq war commences

2003 Human Genome mapped

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry

2004 Boxing Day tsunami kills 230,000

2005 IRA End hostilities

2005 London 7/7 Tube bombings

2005 Angela Merkel becomes German Chancellor

2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran

2005 Kashmir earthquake kills 80,000

2005 Hurricane Katrina kills 2000 in Gulf of Mexico

2005 Pope John Paul II dies.  Pope Benedict XVI

2006 Lebanon War

2006 Execution of Saddam Hussein

2007 Subprime crisis

2007 Benazir Bhutto assassinated

2007 President Obama elected

2008 Stock Market crash

2008 Cyclone Nargis kills 130,000 in Myanmar

2008 Kosovo declares independence

2008 Battle of Basra

2008 Mumbai attacks

2008 Large Hadron Collider completed

2009Gaza War ends, blockade continues

2009 Sri Lanka civil war ends

2009 Boko Haram terrorism commences in Nigeria

2009 Great Recession ends

2009 Michael Jackson dies

2010 David Cameron becomes prime minister

2010 Haiti earthquake kills 230,000

2010 European Sovereign Debt Crisis

2010 Gulf of Mexico world’s largest oil spill

2010 Aung Sang Suu Kyi released

2010 Moscow metro bombings

2010 Arab Spring

2010 President of Poland Lech Kaczynski dies in air crash

2011 Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revolutions and uprisings in Bahrain and Yemen. 

2011 Syrian civil war commences

2011Occupy organises world wide protests

2011 Japanese earthquake damages Fukushima

2011 Death of Osama Bin Laden, Gadhafi and Kim Jong-Il

2011 Riots in England

2011  Floods in Thailand, Pakistan and Philippines kills 2500

2011 Population reaches 7 billion

2011 Steve Jobs dies

2012 Higgs Boson discovered

2012 Hurricane Sandy kills 209 in USA and Typhoon Bopha kills 2500 in the Philippines

2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee

2012 Felix Baumgartner skydive breaks the sound barrier

2012 Kyoto Protocol agreed at UN Climate Change Conference

2012 Israel attacks Gaza Strip

2013 Pope Benedict XVI retires.  Pope Francis

2013 Edward Snowden releases classified document re: mass surveillance

2013 Mohamad Morsi overthrown in Egyptian coup d’état

2013Typhoon Haiyan kills 6150 in Vietnam and Philippines

2013 Sudan Conflict commences

2013 Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and Hugo Chavez die

2013 Uruguay first country to legalise cannabis

2014 Worst Ebola epidemic in history

2014 Ukraine revolution

2014 Russian annexing of Crimea

2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and Indonesian AirAsia Flight 8501 disappears

2014 Thailand coup d’état

2014 Spain’s King Juan Carlos abdicates in favour of his son King Felipe VI

2014 Taliban kill 150 Pakistani school pupils

2014 Israel attacks Gaza.  70 Israeli deaths, 2100 Palestinian

2014 Daesh commence activity in self-declared Caliphate

2014 Philae lands on comet

2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris

2015 Boko Haram massacre 2000

2015 Al-Shabaab mass shooting in Kenya kills 148

2015Himalaya earthquakes kill 10,000

2015 Daesh claim responsibility for many terror attacks worldwide

2015 Turkey and Russia intervene in Syrian Civil war

2015 Cuba / US diplomatic relations re-established

2015 195 countries agree to lower carbon emissions

2015 Liquid water found on Mars

2016 Zika virus outbreak

2016 UN sanctions lifted from Iran due to nuclear research agreement

2016 Daesh claim responsibility for many terror attacks worldwide

2016 UK votes for Brexit fiasco

2016 US vote for Donald Trump into presidency

2016 David Cameron stands down and Teresa May becomes Prime Minister

2016 Turkey failed coup followed by draconian purges

2016 Fidel Castro, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Prince, Harper Lee and Muhammad Ali die

2017 President Trump fiasco

2017 UK enact Article 50 to commence Brexit process

2017 Millions of women join protest marches