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1941 – World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran. [8] 1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
Disasters The flight data recorder from Henan Airlines Flight 8387 is found. (BBC) A school bus collides with a train in Cape Town, South Africa, killing at least nine pupils and injuring five others. (AP via The Globe and Mail) At least 20 people are killed in Democratic Republic of the Congo after a Filair plane crashes near Bandundu. (BBC), (Yahoo) Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category ...
August 25: Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune and its largest moon, Triton. October 17: The 6.9 M w Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63. November 9: Fall of the Berlin Wall; the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc begin in Europe, which leads to the end of ...
1944 – World War II: The Free French Forces and the French Resistance liberated Paris from the Nazi German occupation. lots of CN tags (8) esp in one section 1945 – Armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed American military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary John Birch as he was leading a mission to reach Allied ...
This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term referring to a widespread computer programming bug feared to wreak havoc when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.
The 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics get underway in Osaka, Japan. On the 132-year anniversary of the first crossing, Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stoychev becomes the fastest person ever to swim across the English Channel. (Timed Finals) Voters in Nauru go to the polls for the Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007. (ABC News Australia)