English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics. First modern police force established in London.

English Football League established. Eastman patents “Kodak box camera”. Washington Monument opens in Washington D.C.

F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes “The Great Gatsby”. Chrysler Corporation founded.

Famine in Ireland. Samuel Colt sells first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. Doughnut created.

Finland is the first European country to give women the vote. Roald Amundsen locates Magnetic North Pole.

First American Dictionary, author Noah Webster registers copyright. Simon Bolivar proclaimed dictator.

First edition of The Times is published in London. British arrive at Botany Bay to colonize Australia.

First electric washing machine. Picasso introduces Cubism. Ten rules of war established at a Hague convention.

First flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Return of the Jedi debuts. Invasion of Grenada by U.S. troops.

First Giro d’Italia bicycle race. The city of Tel Aviv founded. Anglo-Persian Oil Co, modern-day BP, incorporated.

First official Saint Patrick’s Day. UK Parliament extends citizenship to Jews. Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar.

First Olympic Winter Games. J. Edgar Hoover Appointed FBI Director. V.I. Lenin Dies.

First Self-Service Grocery Store Opens in the U.S. Battle of the Somme. Easter Rising in Ireland.

First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery. The Wright Brothers fly Kitty Hawk. First World Series.

First traveler’s cheques go on sale in London. The first partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia.

Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumours released. Red Rum wins 3rd Grand National. Star Wars opens in cinemas.

Former Italian PM Aldo Moro kidnapped. Jim Jones’s followers commit mass suicide.

France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. British capture Cape Town, South Africa.

France cedes Canada (New France) to Great Britain. The Russian-Circassian War begins.

Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks. Bubonic plague spreads across central Europe.

French Royal Family is captured. Mozart’s The Magic Flute premiers. Vermont admitted as 14th state.

Gandhi assassinated. Berlin Airlift begins. Summer Olympics in London.

Gen. Charles de Gaulle becomes French premier. Best Picture at the Oscars: The Bridge on the River Kwai.

George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four. First Non-Stop Flight Around the World. NATO Established.

George VI of England dies. Olympics in Helsinki. Jackie Gleason Show “The Honeymooners” debuts on CBS.

George W. Bush is sworn in. Hijackers ram jetliners into New York City’s World Trade Center.

Germany invades Denmark and Norway. The very first McDonald’s restaurant opens. The Battle of Britain begins.

Glenn T. Seaborg discovers plutonium. Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane premieres. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

Gold is found in Western Australia. Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland formed. France conquers Laos.

Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Terrorists detonate bombs in Bali.

Italy joins the Allies. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet at Tehran Conference.

Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark enter EEC. Salvadore Allende overthrown. Best Picture at the Oscars: The Godfather.

Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior bombed and sunk. Super Mario Bros. released. Achille Lauro hijacked.

Guillotine first used, executing highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier. Washington lays cornerstone of the White House.

Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia. Grant Wood paints American Gothic. Astronomers discover Pluto.

Halley’s Comet appears for the first time after Halley’s discovery of it. Mary Campbell abducted by the Lenape.

Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” is first performed in Dublin. Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

Hells Angels motorcycle gang founded. World Health Organization established. Israel declares independence.

Henry Ford organizes Ford Motor Company. Panama declares independence. Wright brothers make history by flying.

Herbert Hoover elected U.S. president. Walt Disney introduces Steamboat Willie. 1st Academy Awards.

Spanish Civil War comes to an end. Hewlett-Packard is founded. Italy invades Albania and King Zog flees.

Hitler commits suicide. Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. Best Picture at Oscars: Going My Way. First atomic bomb is detonated.

Hitler marches into Austria. Orson Welles broadcasts “War of the Worlds”, creating a nationwide panic in the U.S.A.

Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich fails. Time Magazine debuts. Whooping cough vaccine is developed.

Houdini dies after being punched. Gertrude Ederle first woman to swim the English Channel. A. A. Milne publishes Winnie-the-Pooh.

House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill. U.S. Soccer Federation is formed. Invention of stainless steel.

Iceland legalizes abortion on medical grounds. Porky Pig makes his debut. T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” dies.

Incan city of Machu Picchu discovered. Mona Lisa is stolen. Standard Oil Company broken up.

India and Pakistan gain independence. The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered. The microwave oven invented.