101 Events That Made The 20th Century

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101 Events That Made The 20th Century

Martin Luther King, Hiroshima, a man on the moon. What are the Top Ten events that changed our century, our world, and our very way of life?

Series 1
A satellite called Sputnik, a new vaccination for the polio epidemic, a leap in human rights with a new Declaration, and the invasion of Poland that started a world war.
A space venture of the shuttle Challenger, an ocean-bound journey on the unsinkable Titanic, and a car chase of Princess Diana - all ended in disaster.
A treaty in Versailles aimed at bringing peace to the world, the Watergate political scandal, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the assassination of John Lennon.
The battle of Stalingrad, Rwandan genocide, Tiananmen Square, the Nuremberg trials, women's liberation, a groundbreaking heart transplant, and the 1972 Olympics disaster.
The Panama Canal created a passage between two continents, genetically modified crops changed the future of food, and a Battle of the Sexes hit the tennis court.
The book Silent Spring gave voice to an important plight, plus the doom of the Jonestown cult, and the opening of the happiest place on Earth, Disneyland.
From the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, via the rise of Iranian dictator Khomeini, to the impeachment trials of US president Bill Clinton and the Y2K Scare, an event of mass paranoia.
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