Meanwhile…

The Beer Hall Putsch in Munich

1923-11-09

Letter to President Roosevelt

1939-08-02

German unconditional surrender and Victory Day

1945-05-09

Two world wars and the atomic age

1914-1945

Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War

1937-07-07

Battle of Berlin

1945-05-02

Merger into Daimler-Benz AG

1926-06-28

Hubble discovers that the universe is larger than the Milky Way

1923-1925

founding of the Bourbaki group

circa 1935

Vacuum Tube Era and the Search for Alternatives

1945

Fordist assembly-line methods applied to shoe manufacturing

1920s

Moscow opens its palace-like metro

1935-05-15

The Vespa makes Europe mobile

1946-04-23

Salsa, tango and jive emerge from the Americas

from the late 19th century (tango) to the 1970s (salsa)

1932 Los Angeles Olympics

juli-augustus 1932

1948 London Olympics - the 'Austerity Games'

1948-07-29

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Emigration to the United States

1933

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw