Landmark Events that Shaped World History 1915 2012
A compact roll of pivotal moments from 1915 to 2012. It tracks achievements and crises including the first woman elected to the Senate Hattie Caraway in 1932 the 7.0 Haiti earthquake of 2010 the 1954 DiMaggio Monroe marriage the 1952 Today debut and the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. House of Representatives
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
Arkansas
Senate
Congress
George H.W. Bush
Iraq
Kuwait
Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Metropolitan Opera House
New York City
L. Douglas Wilder
Italy
Landmark events tied to World History Jan 16 anniversaries
Notable anniversaries include the League of Nations first meeting in Paris in 1920, Hitler’s 1945 bunker move in Berlin, Soyuz 4 and 5 docking in 1969, the Shah’s 1979 departure from Iran, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 2006 swearing in as Liberia’s president, the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, the UN Security Council first session in 1946, Hagler vs Obelmejias at Boston Garden in 1981, and Gulf War air strikes in 1991.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Iran
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberia
United Nations Security Council
Marvin Hagler
Fulgencio Obelmejias
Venezuela
Boston Garden
Hagler
Brockton
Kuwait
Iraq
English settlers land in Australia to establish penal colony
On January 18, 1788 British explorers established a penal colony at Sydney Cove in New South Wales, marking the start of European settlement in Australia. The voyage carried convicts under Captain Arthur Phillip, shaping a new chapter in British imperial history and the continent’s development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hudson River
US Airways
Lower Manhattan
Associated Press
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Casablanca
Morocco
Today
NBC
New York Yankees
Joe DiMaggio
Marilyn Monroe
San Francisco
Indira Gandhi
India
Sanjiva Reddy
Yemen
al-Qaida
University of Notre Dame
Indiana
James Naismith
Springfield College
Pentagon
Arlington
Virginia
Warsaw Ghetto
Polan
New York
World Trade Center
Washington, D.C
Marion Barry
Martin Luther King Jr
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