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Timeline of notable world events from 1778 to 2004
A compact retrospective lists key moments across history with named figures and places. It covers the entry of American forces into Philadelphia in 1778, the 1812 start of war with Britain, Waterloo in 1815, Churchill and de Gaulle wartime appeals, Lord Haw-Haw, Columbia Records LPs, the 1948 end of monarchy in Egypt, and later events including the 1964 AT&T trans-Pacific cable, SALT accord, Sally Ride's spaceflight, the Georgia v. McCollum decision, Polly Klaas case, and the 2004 al-Qaida act in Saudi Arabia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
United States Congress
James Madison
Britain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Waterloo
Belgium
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
BBC
France
Germany
William Joyce
Lord Haw-Haw
London
Columbia Records
New York
Tokyo
Egypt
Muhammad Ali
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hayato Ikeda
At&t
Japan
Hawaii
Jimmy Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Richard Allen Davis
San Jose
California
Polly Klaas
Petaluma
Davis
al-Qaida
Saudi Arabia
Paul M. Johnson Jr