Meanwhile…

Assassination attempt on Hitler fails not carried out, tensions within the army leadership increase

begin 1944

Civil Rights Act in the United States

1964-1965

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

Lend-Lease Act provides support to the Allies

1941-03-11

Population and industrial growth in Cuijk

1950s

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Vacuum Tube Era and the Search for Alternatives

1945

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded

1956-12-10

Initial Archaeological Survey Misses the Site's Significance

1963

The first jet flight: the beginning of the jet age

1939-08-27

the container transforms world transport

1956-04-26

1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

1952-07-19

1956 Melbourne Olympics

1956-11-22

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