Can you tell me some important events that have happened in the last 93 years??

Question

Tomorrow is my great-uncle's 93rd birthday. To celebrate, I wanted to put together a timeline of important events that have happened in his lifetime, from 1914 to 2007. But instead of just personal events, I wanted world events too. Any ideas would be great. Any links you can give me would be super, and any ideas would be very helpful.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I have found some great sites for you to have a look at.
I hope they are suitable for you.
Happy 93 to Great Uncle!

Answer 2

POpulation growth is something that Doomsday fanatics have been talking about for years. It was once believed that the Human population could not exceed 4 billion because there wouldn't be enough space on Earth for everyone to live and still be able to eat or even breath. Currently the population is around the 6 billion mark and I for one can still breath and there's still food. In fact there's feilds that are being left fallow for the next year or two so a higher quality of food can be produced. We as a spiecis have the ability to think and plan for future events. No other animal has that ability or at least to the extent that we have. A squirle for example isn't storing nuts because it knows winter is coming and has to make sure it has enough for the whole winter, like a nut a day. It stores food because it's programed into it's DNA and instincts. I've recently read reports, not by a single "scientist" but ones that were published by a large group that actually really researched the situation and came up with the model that if we DO NOT improve our current food, housing and basic scientific understanding, that the Human population can reach about 12 billion before we reach serious problems. So it takes us about 10 years to grow by a billion and that's not counting the fact that the world population is rather top heavy meaning that there are alot more old people than young ones. Honestly there will be problems that pop up, no one will see them coming and they will be eventually delt with. We will continue to grow as a people and our population will grow as well.

Answer 3

Might wana include the wars that US was involved in. Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the Iraq Invasion (aka "Project Iraqi Freedom"). Cuban Missile Crisis, not a war but the world was on the brink of a nuclear Holocaust. Gota include 9/11, the discovery of AIDS (i think that was in the last 93 yrs). Hmm computers and Internet, the atomic bomb. Radar maybe? Internet, 3d video games, virtual reality, plastic surgery? Global warming (been happening for along time, but just recently acknowledged by governments). Hydrogen fuel cells and other alternate energy sources. That's all I can think of, might try to Google this :
"events that changed the world" in the last 100 years
Good luck and I'm sure your uncle will enjoy it, very thoughtful idea.

Answer 4

World War I
Treaty of Versailles and formation of the League of Nations
NFL formed in 1919
Black Sox Scandal
Native Americans are granted citizenship in 1924
Great Depression and Stock Market Crash
First Talkie in 1927 Wings
Babe Ruth breaks the 60 home Run barrier in 1927
Hitler becomes chancellor in Germany wnhich almost runs parallel to FDR being President of the US(Hitler 1/30/33-4/30/45 an FDR 3/4/33-4/12/45)
Baseball's All-Star Game begins in 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago
Prohibition legislated in 1919 and repealed in 1933
New Deal of FDR
Japan flexes its muscle in Manchuria, China and the rest of Asia and the South Pacific and bombs Pearl Harborin 1931,1937,1940-1941
World War II 1939-1945
D-Day June 6,1944
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6,9,1945
V-E Day May 8,1945 V-J Day September 2, 1945
Cold War 1945-1991
Rise of Suburbia in the 1950's
Korean War 1950-1953
Vietnam War 1954-1975
Gulf War 1991
Operation Desert Freedom 2003-Present
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
March on Washington and "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963
Kennedy assassinated on November 22,1963
Man walks on the Moon July 20,1969
Nixon visits China in 1972
Watergate 1973-74
Bicentennial year 1976
Miracle on Ice in 1980 Winter Olympics
Iranian Hostage Crisis lasting last 444 days of Carter's administration
First Super Bowl played on January 15,1967
the Invention of TV in the late 1920's
Invention of the Internet in the early 1970's
Berlin Wall comes down in 1989(eected in 1961)
Communist Revolution begins in 1917 and ends in 1991
handi assassinated in January 1948, only months after India received independence on August 15,1947
Communists under Mao take over China on October 1,1949
Challenger disaster on January 28,1986 and Columbia disaster on February 1,2003
Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19,1995
First Trade Center bombing in February 1993
September 11,2001- the day time stood still
Election of 2000 Bush wins by a chad
Sandra Day O'Connor nominated and received as the first woman on the Supreme Court in 1981
Roe vs Wade on January 22, 1973

Answer 5

Two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, terrorism
Radio & television, computers, cell phones, and the information age.
Jet engine, breaking the sound barrier, rocketry, moon landing, Voyager craft leaving the solar system, photos from Jupiter and Saturn.
Discovery of Pluto (1930), and its demotion to "dwarf planet" (2006). Discovery of planets around other stars, including water in the atmosphere (just last week).
Women's suffrage, civil rights, immigration changes, political correctness.
Public awareness that the federal government can and does lie to the populace on a regular basis: investigation of J. Edgar Hoover, the Watergate scandal, various political scandals since then.
McCarthy hearings. Political changes in Africa (new nations). Founding of Israel (1948-49), creation of Yugoslavia (and subsequent disintegration), formation of the Soviet Union (1917-1919) and its downfall (1988). Division of Germany after WWII, reunion in the 1990s.
China and Japan opening to outsiders, rising to international prominence.
Reduction of the typical work week to 40 hours.
Near-elimination of polio, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis. Vaccines for measels, mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough. Organ transplants and prosthetic devices. Aids for the blind and deaf. AIDS for the risk-prone and unfortunate.
Electric power to virtually every home in the US and Canada. Indoor plumbing, laundry facilities, on-demand cooking devices (electric/gas stove, oven, microwave). Glass windows in all shapes and sizes. Construction techniques that let you seal out most the vermin.
Women in the workforce. Maternity leave. Employer-subsidized health insurance. Home pregnancy tests.

Elimination of the passenger pigeon and a variety of other species. Alaska gold rush.
Is that enough?

Answer 6

I think the most important events that took place in the last 93 years were the two world wars whom the world would take decades to forget. When coming generations get to know about them, they will perhaps come to know that these were tribute to those who resisted them and saw the mankind suffering.
Wishing you best of luck !

Answer 7

First & Second World Wars. Iraq invasion of Kuwait. 93 times New Year, Christmas & Easter. Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Marriage, Child Births and death of Princess Di. Mother Theresa's death. And Many more

Answer 8

Well, that's a broad range, but here are some big ones.

April 14 Events

1912 - Titanic sinks (2 years before, but still a big event)

1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.

1927 - The first Volvo

1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation 25.

1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944).

1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.

1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.

1968 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.

1970 - One of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled moon mission. The explosion occurs on April 13th in several time zones.

1978 - 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: thousands of Georgians demonstrate against the attempt by the Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.

1981 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight.

1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.

2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military.

2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falls to U.S.-led forces with unexpectedly light resistance.

2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985.

Answer 9

Civil Rights movement in the 60's, the whole Martin Luther King Jr. thing. Uh Neil Armstrong on the moon. woodstock. Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980. Stuff like that. And it's probably too late, but you could've asked family members about some dates important to your family. (i.e. birthdays, weddings, deaths, graduations, etc.)

Answer 10

911

The depression

Death of MLK,Jr. JFK, John Lennon, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe . .

The Beatles and Elvis

End of the Cold War

Desert Storm and Iraqi war

Tsunami

Collumbine (?) school and others

Civil Rights Movement

Prohibition (I think)

WWII

I do not know a lot sorry : (