Meanwhile…

Civil Rights Act in the United States

1964-1965

The Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

boycott games of Moscow

1980-07-19

Cuban Revolution

1959

Nicaraguan Revolution

1979

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Pong and the birth of the arcade industry

1972

Deng Xiaoping launches the Reform and Opening Up

december 1978

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Initial Archaeological Survey Misses the Site's Significance

1963

Mariner 9 in orbit around Mars

14 november 1971

Spacewar! conquers the university campus

1962

Man on the moon

1969-07-20

Launch of the Voyager probes

1977-08-20 / 1977-09-05

Cowboy line dance emerges in American West

mid-20th century, with roots earlier and a boom around 1990

First inscriptions on the World Heritage List

1978-09-08

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon in Rome barefoot

1960-09-10

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw

worldwide eradication of smallpox

1980

Bossche Broek becomes a protected nature reserve

eind 20ste eeuw