10 Decades of the 20th Century

Jamie Frater October 11, 2007

We have now moved in to the 21st century, but for virtually everyone reading here, the 20th century was our century. In this post I am taking images of 4 significant events for each decade of the 20th century. A picture paints a thousand words, so here they are:

The 1900s

1901 Australia Federates

1903 Man Flies

1905 The Theory of Relativity is Proposed

1907 Picasso Gives Birth to Modern Art

The 1910s

1912 RMS Titanic Sinks

1912 Republic of China Established

1917 Bolshevik Revolution – Communist Russia is born

1914 World War I Begins

The 1920s

1920 Prohibition Begins

1922 Tomb of Tutankhamen is Found

1925 Television is Invented

1929 On With the Show – first 100% color, 100% sound movie

The 1930s

1930 The First Full Length Color/Sound Cartoon Appears

1930 Mohandas Gandhi Leads Satyagraha Movement in India

1931 Empire State Building Opens

1939 World War II Begins

The 1940s

1944 Colossus – First Fully Electronic Computer

1945 First Atomic Bomb Built

1945 First Secretary General of the Newly Formed United Nations

1946 Cold War Begins

The 1950s

1950 Korean War Begins

1953 DNA First Accurately Modeled

1954 Rock Aound The Clock takes Rock and Roll International

1957 Sputnik 1 – First artificial satellite put into geocentric orbit

The 1960s

1962 Spacewar! The First Computer Game is Invented

1962 Pope John XXIII Starts the Vatican II Council

1967 Marxist Revolutionary Che Guevara is Executed in Bolivia

1969 Man walks on the moon

The 1970s

1973 Embargoes from the OPEC nations cause an oil Crisis in nations supporting Israel

1973 American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders

1979 Dame Margaret Thatcher Becomes the First Female UK Prime Minister

1979 Khomeini Takes Power in Iran

The 1980s

John Lennon is Shot

1984 The First Commercially Successful Graphic Interface PC Arrives with the Apple Macintosh

1986 The Chernobyl Disaster Occurs

1988 The Commercial Internet Begins

The 1990s

1990 The Gulf War Begins

1991 The Soviet Union Collapses

1996 Dolly The Sheep is Cloned

December 31, 1999 The Second Millennium Since the Birth of Christ Closes (some prefer Dec 2000)

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Jamie Frater

Jamie is the founder of Listverse. He spends his time working on the site, doing research for new lists, and cooking. He is fascinated with all things morbid and bizarre.

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