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Events of the 1900s: when did it happen? (page 3 of 5)

Page 3 of 5, answers 85 to 126. The years of 208 famous events of the 1900s, from 1900 to 1998, sorted oldest to newest, each with a short fact.

• When was Mount Rushmore completed?1941
• When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?1941
• When did the Manhattan Project begin?1942
• When was D-Day, the Allied landing in Normandy?1944
• When was the microwave oven invented?1945
• When was the United Nations founded?1945
• When was the first atomic bomb tested in New Mexico?1945
• When was ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled?1946
• When did India and Pakistan become independent?1947
• When was the transistor invented?1947
• When did Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier?1947
• When was Anne Frank's diary first published?1947
• When did Jackie Robinson break baseball's color line?1947
• When was the Roswell UFO incident?1947
• When was Britain's National Health Service founded?1948
• When did the Polaroid instant camera go on sale?1948
• When was NATO founded?1949
• When was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four published?1949
• When was the first Diners Club credit card issued?1950
• When did the Korean War begin?1950
• When did the Peanuts comic strip first appear?1950
• When did I Love Lucy first air?1951
• When was the structure of DNA revealed as a double helix?1953
• When did Hillary and Tenzing first climb Mount Everest?1953
• When did Swanson sell the first TV dinner?1953
• When did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?1954
• When did Disneyland open?1955
• When was the polio vaccine declared safe and effective?1955
• When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat?1955
• When did the military start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?1955
• When did Elvis Presley record his first hit, 'Heartbreak Hotel'?1956
• When was the Interstate Highway System approved?1956
• When was bubble wrap invented?1957
• When was Sputnik, the first satellite, launched?1957
• When was The Cat in the Hat published?1957
• When was NASA founded?1958
• When did the hula hoop craze sweep America?1958
• When was Barbie launched?1959
• When did Alaska and Hawaii become states?1959
• When was the first laser built?1960
• When was the first televised presidential debate?1960
• When did Yuri Gagarin become the first person in space?1961