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Events of the 1900s: when did it happen? (page 4 of 5)

Page 4 of 5, answers 127 to 168. The years of 208 famous events of the 1900s, from 1900 to 1998, sorted oldest to newest, each with a short fact.

• When was the Berlin Wall built?1961
• When did Alan Shepard become the first American in space?1961
• When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?1962
• When did Walmart open its first store?1962
• When did John Glenn become the first American to orbit Earth?1962
• When did the Beatles release their first album?1963
• When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his 'I Have a Dream' speech?1963
• When was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?1963
• When did Doctor Who first air?1963
• When did the Beatles play on The Ed Sullivan Show?1964
• When did the Ford Mustang go on sale?1964
• When was the Civil Rights Act signed?1964
• When was the Voting Rights Act signed?1965
• When did 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' first air on TV?1965
• When did England win the football World Cup?1966
• When did Star Trek first air?1966
• When was the first Super Bowl played?1967
• When did Douglas Engelbart demo the computer mouse?1968
• When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?1968
• When did humans first walk on the Moon?1969
• When was the Woodstock music festival?1969
• When was the first message sent over ARPANET, the internet's ancestor?1969
• When was the first Earth Day?1970
• When did the Beatles break up?1970
• When was the first email sent?1971
• When did Intel release the first microprocessor?1971
• When did the first Starbucks open?1971
• When did Walt Disney World open in Florida?1971
• When was Pong released?1972
• When was the first handheld mobile phone call made?1973
• When did the Sydney Opera House open?1973
• When was the Rubik's Cube invented?1974
• When was a barcode scanned in a shop for the first time?1974
• When did Richard Nixon resign as US president?1974
• When was Microsoft founded?1975
• When did Queen release 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?1975
• When was Jaws released?1975
• When did the Vietnam War end with the fall of Saigon?1975
• When was Apple founded?1976
• When did the US celebrate its Bicentennial?1976
• When was Star Wars released?1977
• When was Voyager 1 launched?1977