1900 The beginning of the twentieth

century
1903 The first flight of an airplane by
the wright brothers

1914 Wilfred Owen wrote 1914

1912 The sinking of rms titanic

1915 The sinking of rms Lusitania

1914 The assassination of Franz

Ferdinand
1917 The October revolution
1918 Siegfried Sassoon published
suicide in the trenches

1914 The beginning of World War I

1930 - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

by Sassoon
1935 Vigils by Sassoon
1936 King Edward viiis abdication
1937 Hindenburg disaster
1937 J.r.r Tolkien publishes the hobbit

1919 Wilfred Owen published

strange meeting
1919 The end of World War I (The
treaty of Versailles)

1938 The night of broken glass

1939 The end of the great
depression
1939 The beginning of World War II

1920 Dulce Et Decorum Est was

published by Owen Wilfred
1920 - Anthem for Doomed Youth
1922 The discovery of king tuts
tomb
1928 The discovery of penicillin
1928 - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Sassoon
1929 St. Valentines Day massacre
1929 Stock market crash of
1929(The start of the great
depression)

1940 The assassination of Leon

Trotsky
1941 The attack on pearl harbor

1944 D-day
1945 The bombing of Hiroshima

1955 Disneyland opens for the first

time
1957 The Beatles was formed

1945 The end of World War II

1957 Laika The dog goes to space

1946 Winston Churchills iron curtain

speech

1959 The start of The Vietnam War

1947 The creation of Israel as a

Jewish state

1961 The berlin wall was built

1948 Harry Truman declared

president
1950 First modern credit card
introduced
1950 c.s. Lewis published The
chronicles of Narnia

1968 The assassination of martin

Luther king jr.

1953 Norgay and Hillary climb Mount

Everest
1954 Segregation ruled illegal in U.S
1954 j.r.r. Tolkien publishes The lord
of The rings

1969 The moon landing

1976 Tangshan earthquake

1978 The birth of the first test tube
baby
1978 The Jonestown massacre

1969 Maya Angelou publishes I

Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1989 The fall of the berlin wall

1993 Maya Angelou recites On the
Pulse of Morning
1970 The Beatles disband
1970 Kent state shootings
1972 Munich Olympics massacre
1975 The end of The Vietnam War

1997 Princess Diana dies in car crash

1997 Maya Angelou publishes Even
the Stars Look Lonesome
2000 The end of the twentieth
century