Events of the year we were

borned

June

1997

01.06.1997
Titanic win the
51st Tony Awards
Ameritech Senior
Golf Open
Hugo Banzer
wins the
Presidential
elections in
Bolivia

02.06.1997
Liberals beat Conservatives in France

Timothy McVeigh was found

guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing, killing 168 persons

11.06.1997
In the United Kingdom, the
House of Commons votes for
a total ban on handguns

13.06.1997

A jury sentences Timothy

McVeigh to death for his
part in the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing

21.06.1997
Women's National Basketball Association
begins as NY Liberty beats LA Sparks

26.06.1997
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone is published,
the first instalment of the best selling
series by J. K. Rowling

30.06.1997
Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule
from UK rule

The most important

events of the 20th
century

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The atomic bombings of the cities

of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
Japan were conducted by the
United States during the final
stages of World War II in 1945.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

TheFalloftheBerlinWall,whichwillalwaysbe
usedasasymbolfortheendoftheColdWar,made
the"West"availableinthemiddleofthe"East",
resultinginwidespreadchaos.

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the

first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at
20:18 UTC.

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a

severe worldwide economic
depression in the decade
preceding World War II.
It was the longest, most
widespread, and deepest
depression of the 20th
century.

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of
Soviet Socialist
Republics
formally ceased
to exist on 26
December 1991.

On this day, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was

finalized by declaration no. 142-H of the Soviet of the
Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,
acknowledging the independence of the twelve republics
of the Soviet Union that created the Commonwealth of
Independent States.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike

conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the
United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the
morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United
States' entry into World War II.

Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles
was one of the peace
treaties at the end of World
War I. It ended the state of
war between Germany and
the Allied Powers.

The Holocaust
The Holocaust also known
as Shoah, was the mass
murder or genocide of
approximately six million
Jews during World War II, a
programme of systematic
state-sponsored murder by
Nazi Germany, led by Adolf
Hitler and the Nazi Party,
throughout the German
Reich and Germanoccupied territories.

October Revolution

The October Revolution, officially known as the Great

October Socialist Revolution, and commonly referred to
as Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik
Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in
the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina
War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to
the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a
catastrophic nuclear accident that
occurred on 26 April 1986 at the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in
Ukraine, which was under the
direct jurisdiction of the central
authorities of the Soviet Union. An
explosion and fire released large
quantities of radioactive particles
into the atmosphere, which
spread over much of the western
USSR and Europe.

African-American
Civil Rights
Movement

The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses

social movements in the United States whose goal was to
end racial segregation and discrimination against black
Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them.