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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Halley’s Comet reaches its perihelion. FIFA World Cup begins in Mexico. Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.

Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest. First Playboy Magazine. DNA Discovered.

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, dies. Best Picture at the Oscars: Argo. Typhoon Haiyan hits the Philippines.

Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. Death of Vincent van Gogh. The Forth Bridge in Scotland is opened.

Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda. Album of the Year at the Grammys: Bridge Over Troubled Water. Jim Morrison dies.

Indira Gandhi, India’s PM killed by bodyguards. Poison gas leak in Bhopal, India. PG-13 movie rating created.

Jeep invented. Mount Rushmore completed. Nazi Rudolf Hess flies to Britain on a peace mission.

JFK Jr. dies in plane accident. Killing spree at Columbine High School. Panama Canal returns to Panama.

John Lennon assassinated. Rubik’s Cube becomes popular. Failed U.S. rescue of hostages in Tehran.

John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th president of the U.S.A. First public railway using steam locomotive completed in England.

Joseph Priestly recommends use of a rubber to remove pencil marks. Lexell’s Comet passes the Earth.

Kate Middleton marries Prince William. U.S. troops kill Osama bin Laden. Best Picture at the Oscars: The King’s Speech.

The Festival of Britain opens. Musician Sting is born. The Catcher in the Rye is first published by J.D. Salinger.

Kyoto Protocol goes into effect. YouTube is launched. Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on U.S. Gulf Coast.

Lech Walesa becomes the first president of Poland. Hubble Telescope launched into space. Nelson Mandela freed.

Loch Ness Monster first spotted. First Nazi concentration camp established. FDR launches the New Deal.

Louis XVI becomes king of France. A leg before wicket rule introduced in cricket.

MacMillan becomes British PM. Best Picture at the Oscars: Around the World in 80 Days. Russians launch Sputnik I.

Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution. First Kwanzaa celebrated. Mass draft protest in the U.S.

Miniskirt first appears. The Rolling Stones mega hit song (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction released. Los Angeles Riots.

Mother’s Day proclamation. Japan declares war on Germany. Germany declares war on Russia’s ally, France.

Nevada legalizes gambling. United Kingdom abandons gold standard. Porsche is founded in Stuttgart.

Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police. The Flash Gordon comic strip is first published. Great Terror Begins in U.S.S.R.

Diana of Wales dies in car accident. Playhouse Disney launches. Mother Teresa dies.

Pope Pius IX proclaims immaculate conception. Charge of the Light Brigade in Crimean War, 409 die.

Ramsay MacDonald becomes first Labour Prime Minister in the UK. Petrograd renamed Leningrad. MGM is founded.

Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

Report says cigarettes cause cancer. Bannister breaks four-minute mile. First atomic submarine launched.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 2,075 couples at Madison Square Garden. Falkland Islands invaded by Argentina.

Libya gains independence from Italy. Color television introduced in the U.S. Best picture at the Oscars: All About Eve.

Salvation Army forms in London. Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured. Edison patents electric lamp.

San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge opens. The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix. “Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Chicago.

Lasers invented. Brazil’s capital moves to a brand new city, Brasilia. Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa.

Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins. Kellogg patents “flaked cereal”. The GAA is set up in Ireland.

Sigmund Freud publishes “The Interpretation of Dreams”. Olympic games in Paris. Fauvist movement begins.

Sinking of the Titanic. Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Tarzan first appears in E.R. Burroughs novel “Tarzan of the Apes”.

Sliced bread invented. Penicillin discovered. First Mickey Mouse cartoon. Bubble gum invented.

Space shuttle Challenger explodes. Ferdinand Marcos flees Philippines. U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station.

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrates. Saddam Hussein captured by American troops. Best Picture at the Oscars: Chicago.

Spanish rule ends in Cuba. The Philippine-American War begins. South African Boers declare war.