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

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

Initial Archaeological Survey Misses the Site's Significance

1963

the container transforms world transport

1956-04-26

Launch of Luna 1

1959-01-02

Spacewar! conquers the university campus

1962

1956 Melbourne Olympics

1956-11-22

introduction of the Pinyin romanization system in China

1958

Rescue operation of Abu Simbel

1960-1968

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