Sunday 25 March 2012

Decade Anniversaries of 2012

Every year some major event in history has a decade anniversary. Here's a small list of rather interesting 10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 200 and even 500 year anniversaries for 2012.

10 years ago:
On January 8 - the No Child Left Behind Act is signed by President George W Bush.
On February 28 - the Euro currency takes over in the Eurozone.
On March 30 - The Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon passes away in her sleep at the age of 101 at Windsor Castle in London.
On May 21 - Seven nations considered by the US State Department to be sponsors of terrorism are announced. They are North Korea, Libya, Iran, Sudan, Iraq, Cuba, Syria.
On July 1 - the International Criminal Court is established.
On September 26 - 1863 lives are lost when a Sengalese passenger ferry named Joola capsizes in a storm off the Gambian coast.
On November 25 - The US Department of Homeland Security is established.

20 years ago:
On March 18 - The first steps to the ending of the apartheid regime occur.
On April 20 - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over a billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
On April 29 - The LA riots occur.
On December 12 – An earthquake hits Flores, Indonesia, leaving 2,500 dead.

40 years ago:
February 21 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
On March 24 - The Godfather movie premiers in cinemas in the United States.
On April 10 - A 7.0 Richter scale earthquake kills 5,000 people in the Iranian province of Fars.
On May 26 - The first Watergate break-in occurs.
On August 12 - The Vietnam War is almost over with the last of the US ground troops withdrawn from the country.
On September 4 - The Price is Right premieres on CBS, hosted by Bob Parker.

50 years ago:
On January 1 - The US Navy Seals are activated for the first time, comprised of SEAL Team One and SEAL Team Two.
In May - The debut of The Incredible Hulk #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
On June 25 - In the case of Engel v. Vitale it is ruled by The United States Supreme Court that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
On July 6 – Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne presents his first edition of The Late Late Show. Byrne goes on to present the talk show for 37 years, making it the longest running in the world.
On July 10 – AT&T's Telstar, the world's first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit and activated the next day.
On July 12 – The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, Number 165 Oxford Street, opening for Long John Baldry.
On August 5 - Actress Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate, officially ruled a "probable suicide".
Also on August 5 - The South African government arrests Nelson Mandela in Howick, and charges him with incitement to rebellion.
On August 10 – Marvel Comics publishes Amazing Fantasy#15, which features the first published appearance of the superhero character of Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
On August 16 - The Beatles drummer Pete Best is fired and replaced by Ringo Starr.
On Spetember 12 - President John F Kennedy announces in a speech that the US will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
On October 5 - Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres in UK theaters.
October 10 - The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute between China and India, begins.
On October 28 - The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end when Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

60 years ago:
On February 7 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom.
On March 20 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
On June 19 – The US Army Special Forces are formed.
On November 4 - Kamchatka earthquake occurs, reaching 8.25 on the Richter scale (9.0 moment magnitude scale), and striking on the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviet Union.
Also on November 4 - The U.S. National Security Agency is founded.

80 years ago:
On February 25 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
On March 1 - Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
On August 2 – The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
On October 3 – Iraq becomes an independent kingdom under Faisal.
- James Chadwick discovered the neutron.
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane published The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifying the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.

RMS Titanic
100 years ago:
On January 1 – The Republic of China is proclaimed.
On April 14 – RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean. She sinks the following day with the loss of 1500 lives.
On May 8 - Paramount Pictures is founded by Adolph Zukor in Hollywood, California, and is still, to this day the oldest American motion picture film studio still in operation.
On October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
On December 18 – Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London is revealed to be a hoax 41 years later.

200 years ago:
On April 30 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state.
On June 18 – The War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire begins.

500 years ago:
On October 19 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.

1000 years ago:
On May 18 – Pope Benedict VIII succeeds Pope Sergius IV as the 143rd pope.
Gregory VI becomes antipope.

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