First nonstop transatlantic flight. First Remembrance Day observed. Save the Children Fund created in UK.

• 1919

• 1929

• 1939

• 1909

First test-tube baby born. John Paul II becomes Pope. Jonestown massacre.

• 1978

• 1973

• 1983

• 1988

First Tour de France bicycle race. Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk.

• 1903

• 1900

• 1913

• 1923

Ford creates first moving assembly line. Personal income tax introduced in the U.S. Grand Central opens in NY.

• 1913

• 1923

• 1903

• 1893

Foreman defeats Frazier to become world champion. Sears Tower is finished. Skylab space station launched.

• 1973

• 1967

• 1970

• 1964

German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished. Tax revolt in Amsterdam. Napoleon wins Battle of Dresden.

• 1813

• 1803

• 1816

• 1806

Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco. TT remote control invented. Hungarian Revolution.

• 1956

• 1953

• 1955

• 1954

The Great Train Robbery in England. First woman in space. First Dr. Who episode airs.

• 1963

• 1960

• 1969

• 1966

Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” published. World’s oldest soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England.

• 1857

• 1867

• 1877

• 1887

H-bomb tested over Bikini Atoll. Egypt takes control of Suez Canal. Soviet troops crush uprisings in Hungary.

• 1956

• 1960

• 1954

• 1958