Meanwhile…

Construction of post-war high-rises and apartment districts

ca. 1945-1970

Decolonization and the end of the European colonial empires

1945-1975

Municipal expansion and modernization of Cuijk

1960s-1970s

Het Nieuwe Bouwen and the reconstruction after the bombing of Rotterdam

1940-1953

Cuban Revolution

1959

The Hague Convention as a forerunner

1954-05-14

Population and industrial growth in Cuijk

1950s

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Just-In-Time Manufacturing and Global Supply Chains

around 1975

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded

1956-12-10

Grothendieck reformulates algebraic geometry

jaren 1960

The Comet opens the era of commercial jet flight

1952-05-02

the container transforms world transport

1956-04-26

Conquering the skies: commercial aviation

rond 1958

1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

1952-07-19

1956 Melbourne Olympics

1956-11-22

introduction of the Pinyin romanization system in China

1958

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Death in Princeton

1955-04-18

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon in Rome barefoot

1960-09-10

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw