Meanwhile…

Anschluss with Austria

1938-03-12

boycott games of Moscow

1980-07-19

China rises as an Olympic superpower

2008-08-08

Invasion of Poland

1939-09-01

Nicaraguan Revolution

1979

Lend-Lease Act provides support to the Allies

1941-03-11

Just-In-Time Manufacturing and Global Supply Chains

around 1975

Rise of Global Fast Fashion

1990s to present

Hubble discovers that the universe is larger than the Milky Way

1923-1925

Mariner 9 in orbit around Mars

14 november 1971

The Higgs Boson Discovery

July 2012

The first jet flight: the beginning of the jet age

1939-08-27

IBM's Linear Code Triumphs

1973-04-03

RFID Extends the Legacy of Automatic Identification

2003

1928 Amsterdam Olympics

mei-augustus 1928

Cowboy line dance emerges in American West

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

Athens 2004: the Games return to their origin

2004-08-13

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw

worldwide eradication of smallpox

1980

Earthquake in Haiti

12 januari 2010