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Japan2006Tech launches
Motion-controlled gaming console launched, democratizing interactive entertainment and reaching mainstream audiences.
It is Nintendo's fifth major home game console, following the GameCube, and is a seventh-generation console alongside Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. - summary
Global2005
On this day (07/26), 21 years ago: Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. - summary
Spain2004Disasters
Al-Qaeda-linked bombings killed 191 commuters and triggered Spain's withdrawal from Iraq, reshaping European counterterrorism policy.
The 2004 Madrid train bombings were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004-three days before Spain's general… - summary
Global2001
On this day (08/29), 25 years ago: Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.
Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 on 29 August 2001, is a crash that landed next to the N-340 highway, some 200 meters short of runway 32 at Ruiz Picasso International Airport at Málaga, Spain. - summary
Rwanda1994Wars
Neighbors with machetes. Radio broadcasts with kill lists. A hundred days of hell.
Hutu militias-particularly the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi-began systematic killings, using machetes, clubs studded with nails (called masu), and grenades. - summary
Germany1989Revolutions
The symbolic and literal collapse of communist Eastern Europe's barrier with the West transformed global geopolitics and ended Cold War divisions.
These events drastically altered the world's balance of power, marking the end of the Cold War and beginning of the post-Cold War era. - summary
Global1988
On this day (07/22), 38 years ago: The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
The Piper PA-23, named Apache and later Aztec, is an American four- to six-seat twin-engined general aviation light aircraft, used also in small numbers by the United States Navy and military forces in other countries. - summary
Mexico1968Sports
Mexico City's Games marked the first Olympics in Latin America and became a flashpoint for Cold War politics and civil rights activism.
The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad and officially branded as Mexico 1968, were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. - summary
Japan1964Tech launches
Shinkansen Bullet Train Opens
The Shinkansen, colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. - summary
South Africa1960Protests
South African police opened fire on Black demonstrators protesting apartheid pass laws, killing 91 and igniting decades of intensified anti-apartheid resistance.
Estimated crowd size: 5,000-7,000 protesters - key fact
Soviet Union1957Tech launches
The USSR's orbital satellite shocked the West and unleashed the Space Race, fundamentally reshaping Cold War competition and spurring technological innovation.
Korabl-Sputnik 2, also known as Sputnik 5 in the West, was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok spacecraft. - summary
Soviet Union1957Tech launches
The Soviets got to space first. America panicked.
It was humanity's first artificial satellite, and it arrived without warning-the Soviets had kept the project secret, revealing the launch only after Sputnik was already circling the planet. - summary
Hungary1956Wars
Hungarian citizens rose against Communist Soviet domination, and the brutal Soviet tank response became a defining Cold War confrontation that exposed the limits of Soviet hegemony.
Duration: 15 days (October 23 - November 7, 1956) - key fact
West Germany1948Wars
Stalin's gambit was straightforward: squeeze the Western-occupied sectors of the divided city into submission, force the Allies out, and hand all of Berlin to Soviet control. - summary
Germany1938Wars
Britain and France ceded Czechoslovak territory to Nazi Germany without Prague's consent, the defining act of appeasement that emboldened Hitler's expansionist ambitions on the eve of war.
Czechoslovak representation: None-excluded from negotiations - key fact
United Kingdom1937Festivals
George VI's coronation following the abdication crisis was broadcast live to millions, cementing radio as the medium of state ceremony.
George VI ascended the throne upon the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, on 11 December 1936, three days before his 41st birthday. - summary
Germany1936Sports
Nazi-sponsored Olympics; propaganda spectacle and Jesse Owens' four-gold triumph against racist ideology.
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XI Olympiad and branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. - summary
Uruguay1930Sports
Uruguay's inaugural World Cup established what would become the world's most-watched sporting competition, fundamentally reshaping global soccer.
The First Fitna was the first civil war in the Islamic community. - summary
China1921Revolutions
The CCP's inaugural congress in Shanghai launched the movement that would transform China into a global superpower and reshape twentieth-century history.
Founded in 1921, the CCP won the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the chairmanship of Mao Zedong in October 1949. - summary
United Kingdom1901Tech launches
Marconi's successful transatlantic wireless transmission proved long-distance communication was possible and revolutionized global coordination.
First Transatlantic Wireless Signal (1901) - United Kingdom. - summary