Culture & Society in the 20th century

1,318 sourced entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE, oldest first. Also see Culture & Society across every century or everything else in the 20th century.

• 1900January 14 – Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.source
• 1900c. January – The first Michelin Guide is published for French motorists.source
• 1900February 27 – The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London, and Ramsay MacDonald is appointed as its first secretary.source
• 1900February 27 – FC Bayern, Germany's most successful football club, is founded in Munich.source
• 1900April 14 – The Exposition Universelle, a world's fair, opens in Paris.source
• 1900May 14 – The second Olympic Games, Paris 1900, open (as part of the Paris World Exhibition).source
• 1900May 17 – L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books, chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.source
• 1900May 29 – N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.source
• 1900July 1 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria makes a morganatic marriage with Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.source
• 1900July 23 – 25 – The First Pan-African Conference is held in London.source
• 1901January 31 – Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters (Три сeстры, Tri sestry) is premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre.source
• 1901February 2 – The State funeral of Queen Victoria, held at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, UK, is attended by many European royals, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.source
• 1901March 17 – The first large-scale showing of Van Gogh's paintings takes place in Paris, as 71 are shown at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, 11 years after his death.source
• 1901May 25 – The Club Atlético River Plate is founded in Argentina.source
• 1901June 24 – The first showing of Picasso's paintings in Paris as the 19-year-old Spanish artist exhibits his work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery.source
• 1901June 24 – English Association Football Club Brighton & Hove Albion is formed by John Jackson to replace the amateur Brighton and Hove Rangers, following a meeting at the Seven Stars Hotel on Ship Street, Brighton.source
• 1901August 21 – The International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres is founded in Copenhagen.source
• 1901September 5 – The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.source
• 1901November 1 – The Sigma Phi Epsilon college fraternity is founded in Richmond, Virginia.source
• 1901November 9 – Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is premiered in Moscow with the composer playing the solo part.source
• 1901November 15 – The Alpha Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.source
• 1901December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm, on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.source
• 1901The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association is established in Chicago.source
• 1902January 29 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C., to promote scientific research with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.source
• 1902February 12 – The 1st Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance takes place in Washington, D.C.source
• 1902March 8 – Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 is premiered in Helsinki.source
• 1902April 2 – The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.source
• 1902May 29 – The London School of Economics is opened by Lord Rosebery.source
• 1902June 26 – Edward VII institutes the Order of Merit, an order bestowed personally by the British monarch on up to 24 distinguished Empire recipients.source
• 1902July 21 – Fluminense Football Club is founded in Rio de Janeiro.source
• 1902October 14 – Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Servillia premieres in St. Petersburgsource
• 1902November 16 – A newspaper cartoon depicting U.S. President "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub inspires creation of the first teddy bear by Morris Michtom in New York City.source
• 1903March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.source
• 1903March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.source
• 1903April 26 – Atlético Madrid is founded as a professional association football club in Spain.source
• 1903May 26 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.source
• 1903September 15 – Grêmio FBPA is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil.source
• 1903September – Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas opens as Southwest Texas Normal School.source
• 1903October 1–13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Americans defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.source
• 1903October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the U.K.source
• 1903December 31 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) is founded.source
• 1904January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski.source
• 1904February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.source
• 1904February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly debuts at La Scala in Milan, to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia, to huge success.source
• 1904February 28 – S.L. Benfica, one of the biggest Association Football clubs in Portugal, is founded as Sport Lisboa.source
• 1904April 8 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square, after The New York Times.source
• 1904May 4 – German Association football club FC Schalke 04 is established.source
• 1904May 30 – Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.source
• 1904June 3 – The International Alliance of Women is founded.source
• 1904June 16 – The original "Bloomsday", the day James Joyce first walks out with his future wife Nora Barnacle (whom he first met on June 10), to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. He sets the action of his novel Ulysses (1922) on this date.source
• 1904June 28 – English Association football club Hull City A.F.C. is established.source
• 1904July 1 – The third Modern Olympic Games open in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, as part of the World's Fair.source
• 1904August 24 – Faroese Association football club Klaksvíkar Ítróttarfelag is established.source
• 1904September 17 – An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States.source
• 1904October 4 – Swedish Association football club IFK Göteborg is founded, becoming the 39th IFK-association.source
• 1904October 5 – Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity, is founded on the campus of New York University.source
• 1904October 9 – German journalist Anna Rüling, in a speech to the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, makes the first known public statement of the socio-legal problems faced by lesbians.source
• 1904October 15 – Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, is founded at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.source
• 1904October 19 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of American C. A. O'Reilley.source
• 1904October – The Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, predecessor of Bethune–Cookman University, is opened in Florida by Mary McLeod Bethune.source
• 1904Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne.source
• 1904The Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum opens in Berlin for the display of fine art.source
• 1904December 10 – The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.source
• 1904December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.source
• 1904December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.source
• 1905January 5 – Baroness Emma Orczy's play The Scarlet Pimpernel, the forerunner of her novel, opens at the New Theatre in London, beginning a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.source
• 1905January 31 – "The greatest ball of the Gilded Age" is held by James Hazen Hyde, the heir to the fortune of the founder of the Equitable Life Assurance Association, at New York City's Sherry Hotel, spending $200,000 for a "Louis XV costume ball."source
• 1905February 3 – The first performance of A Shropshire Lad, the setting to music of the 1896 set of 63 poems of A. E. Housman by Arthur Somervell as a song-cycle, takes place at Aeolian Hall in London.source
• 1905February 9 – Prince A. Morrow begins the movement in the U.S. for sex education, with the founding of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis.source
• 1905February 23 – Rotary International is founded in Chicago in the U.S.source
• 1905March 29 – Jimmy Walsh knocks out Monte Attell, in a controversial six-round bout in Philadelphia, to win recognition of the World Bantamweight Championship by the National Boxing Association, despite being disqualified by the referee.source
• 1905May 4 –The first world championship of professional wrestling takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City.source
• 1905June 1 – The Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon.source
• 1905June 15 – British Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne, the future King Gustaf VI Adolf.source
• 1905June 17 – Austrian Football Club FC Admira Wacker is founded as SK Admira Wien in Vienna.source
• 1905June 28 – "Pomp and Circumstance" is first played as a graduation march, after Yale University music professor Samuel Sanford invited its composer, Sir Edward Elgar, to receive an honorary degree.source
• 1905June 29 – The Automobile Association is founded in the United Kingdom.source
• 1905July 12 –The University of Sheffield is officially opened by King Edward VII in England.source
• 1905September 10 – Crystal Palace F.C. is founded in London.source
• 1905September 27 – Da-Qing Bank, predecessor of Bank of China, is founded in Peiping.source
• 1905October 1 – Turkish Association football team Galatasaray is founded in Istanbul.source
• 1905October 1 – A Czech worker, František Pavlík, is bayoneted to death during a demonstration for a Czech university in Brno. This event is the motivation for a piano sonata, 1. X. 1905, by Leoš Janáček, which premieres on 27 January 1906.source
• 1905October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.source
• 1905December 30 – Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow is first performed, at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna.source
• 1906May 27 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 receives its premiere at the Saalbau Essen in Germany conducted by the composer.source
• 1906May 31 – Morral affair: The attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie on their wedding day instead kills 24 bystanders.source
• 1906September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.source
• 1906September 30 – The first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris. The winning team, piloting the balloon United States, lands in Fylingdales, Yorkshire, England.source
• 1906October 1 – The Grand Duchy of Finland becomes the first nation to include the right of women to stand as candidates when it adopts universal suffrage.source
• 1906December 4 – Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity forms at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; it is the first Black Greek-lettered collegiate order of its kind.source
• 1906December 26 – The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is first shown, at the Melbourne Athenaeum in Australia.source
• 1906December 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party in Dhaka in the British Raj; it becomes a driving force for the creation of an independent Pakistan.source
• 1906HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association is officially founded as a sports club in Palestine, predecessor of Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel).source
• 1907February 9 – The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.source
• 1907March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.source
• 1907Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.source
• 1907May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.source
• 1907August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.source
• 1907October 6 – The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany.source
• 1908January 15 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first race inclusive sorority is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.source
• 1908January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys begins publication in London. The book eventually sells over 100 million copies, and effectively begins the worldwide Boy Scout movement.source
• 1908February 3 – Panathinaikos A.O., a well-known professional multi-sports club of Greece, is founded in Athens.source
• 1908February 29 – The State Normal and Industrial School for Women, precursor to James Madison University, is founded in Harrisonburg, Virginia.source
• 1908March 4 – The Pretoria branch of Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established.source
• 1908March 9 – Football Club Internazionale is founded in Milan, Italy.source
• 1908Arthur Mee's The Children's Encyclopædia begins publication in London.source
• 1908July 13–25 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London. (Originally scheduled to be in Rome, but changed due to the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 1906. Figure skating events are held in London from October 28–29.)source
• 1908July 19 – Feyenoord, the first Dutch football club to win the UEFA Champions League, is founded at Rotterdam, Netherlandssource
• 1908July 24 – Italian Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon (run from Windsor Castle to London) in one of the most dramatic arrivals in Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards for receiving assistance; victory is awarded to Irish-American Johnny Hayes.source
• 1908July 26 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded in the United States.source
• 1908August 28 – American Messenger Company, predecessor of United Parcel Service, is founded in Washington (state).source
• 1908September 28 – Classes begin at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, established under the terms of Franklin's will.source
• 1908October 8 – The University of Omaha, precursor of the University of Nebraska Omaha, is founded as a private non-sectarian college.source
• 1909April 4 – The association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil.source
• 1909June 15 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground in London and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.source
• 1909August 8 – Max Heindel formally founds the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Seattle, Washington.source
• 1909October 12 – The association football team Coritiba is founded in Curitiba, Brazil.source
• 1909November 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.source
• 1909December 19 – The association football team Borussia Dortmund is founded in Dortmund, Germany.source
• 1910March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.source
• 1910June 5 – The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China.source
• 1910June 25 – The ballet The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.source
• 1910July 9–10 – 'Fowler's match': the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's ground in London, known after the captain of Eton College, Robert St Leger Fowler, and described as "what might just be the greatest cricket match of all time".source
• 1910September 1 – Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is founded in Brazil by railwaymen; its Association football team will be the first FIFA Club World Cup champions in 2000.source
• 1910December 10 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West has its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Arturo Toscanini and starring Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn.source
• 1911January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club.source
• 1911January 26 – Premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden.source
• 1911March 19 – International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.source
• 1911April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.source
• 1911April 26 – HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb.source
• 1911June 11 – The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance opens in Stockholm, Sweden.source
• 1911June 13 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris with Vaslav Nijinsky in the lead.source
• 1911July 25 – Headington Football Club merge with Headington Quarry to create Headington United, which much later becomes Oxford United F.C. in England.source
• 1911August 27 – CSKA Moscow, a professional multi-sports club in Russia, is officially founded.source
• 1911October 4 – China adopts "Cup of Solid Gold" as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition.source
• 1911November 17 – Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.source
• 1911December 12 – The Delhi Durbar is held to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India, and the transfer of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi.source
• 1911The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published under American management in England, by Cambridge University Press.source
• 1912March 12 – The Girl Scouts of the USA is founded by Juliette Gordon Low, in Savannah, Georgia.source
• 1912April 14 – Santos FC, a Brazilian association football club, is founded in State of Sao Paulo.source
• 1912May 5 – The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Pentathlon is contested for the first time in these games.source
• 1912June 26 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered posthumously by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.source
• 1912Ludwig von Mises publishes his foundational The Theory of Money and Credit.source
• 1913March 3 – The Woman Suffrage Procession takes place in Washington, D.C. led by Inez Milholland on horseback.source
• 1913The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.source
• 1913April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.source
• 1913May 3 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.source
• 1913May 14 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller.source
• 1913May 24 – Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia marries Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover in Berlin, ending the decades-long rift between the Houses of Hohenzollern and Hanover and marking the last great gathering of European sovereigns.source
• 1913May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring (music by Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich) is premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; its modernist style provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history. The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel.source
• 1913August 23 – The Little Mermaid statue is finished in Copenhagen, Denmark.source
• 1913September 10 – Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté.source
• 1913September 17 – In Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is founded, with Sigmund Livingston as its first president.source
• 1914February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.source
• 1914April 23 – MLB Chicago Federals host the Kansas City Packers in the first baseball game played at Weeghman Park (the later Wrigley Field).source
• 1914May 5–October 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's constitution.source
• 1914June 8 – The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.source
• 1914July 4 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria takes place at Artstetten Castle, 50 miles west of Vienna.source
• 1914July 11 – Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the Boston Red Sox.source
• 1914August 1 – Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica.source
• 1914August 4 – Ittihad Alexandria sports club is founded in Alexandria, Egypt.source
• 1914October 4 – The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed by prominent academics supporting the early German war effort.source
• 1915January 21 – Kiwanis is founded in Detroit, Michigan, as The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Brothers.source
• 1915February 8 – The controversial film The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles. It will be the highest-grossing film for around 25 years.source
• 1915April 5 – Boxer Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".source
• 1915June 16 – Women's Institutes are established in Britain.source
• 1915September 5 – The Zimmerwald Conference begins in Switzerland.source
• 1915December 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 5 in Helsinki at a 50th birthday concert for him.source
• 1915December 18 – United States president Woodrow Wilson marries Edith B. Galt, in Washington, D.C.source
• 1916February 11 – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert in the United States.source
• 1916February 11 – The Romanian Association football club Sportul Studențesc is founded in Bucharest.source
• 1916July 16 – Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem is first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum.source
• 1916August 15 – Club Atlas is founded as an association football club in Guadalajara, Mexico, by English-educated players.source
• 1916August – Robert Baden-Powell publishes The Wolf Cub's Handbook in the U.K., establishing the basis of the junior section of the Scouting movement, the Wolf Cubs (modern-day Cub Scouts).source
• 1916October 14 – Perm State University is founded in Russia.source
• 1916October 28 – 1916 Pioneer Exhibition Game: game of Australian rules football contested at Queen's Club, West Kensington, London, by two teams of elite footballers selected from men serving in the First AIF at the time.source
• 1916December 16 – Robert Baden-Powell gives the first public display of the new Wolf Cub section of Scouting at Caxton Hall, Westminster.source
• 1916December 30 – Karl von Habsburg and his wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma are crowned emperor and empress of Austria-Hungary.source
• 1916Ernst Rüdin publishes his initial results on the genetics of schizophrenia.source
• 1916The 1916 Summer Olympics are cancelled in Berlin, Germany.source
• 1917February 12 – Toluca FC is founded as an Association football club in Mexico.source
• 1917March 1 – Ōmuta, Japan, is founded by Hiroushi Miruku.source
• 1917March 16 (N.S.) (March 3, O.S.) – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government, under Prince Georgy Lvov.source
• 1917March 25 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores the autocephaly, abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.source
• 1917April 17 – (N.S.) (April 4, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin's April Theses are published. They become very influential in the following July Days and Bolshevik Revolution.source
• 1917June 4 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography, (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history, for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert Bayard Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism, for his work for the New York World.source
• 1917July 7 – The Lions Clubs International is formed in the United States.source
• 1917August 3 – The New York Guard is founded.source
• 1917September 11 – The Bellevue Conference is held.source
• 1917November 26 – The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, as a replacement for the recently disbanded National Hockey Association.source
• 1917December 25 – Jesse Lynch Williams's Why Marry?, the first play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre, New York City.source
• 1917The first edition of the World Book Encyclopedia – simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience.source
• 1918January 18 – The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers is held at the Konzerthaus, Vienna.source
• 1918February 14 – Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; the date skips from January 31 to February 14.source
• 1918March 26 – Marie Stopes publishes her influential book Married Love in the U.K.source
• 1918May 16 – The victory military parade by the Finnish White Guard is held in Helsinki celebrating their decisive victory in the Finnish Civil War. The day also begin to be celebrated on the Defence Forces Flag Day before it is moved in 1942 to the June 4th.source
• 1918June 16 – The Declaration to the Seven, a British government response to a memorandum issued anonymously by seven Syrian notables, is published.source
• 1918October 9 – Landgrave Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse is elected King of Finland.source
• 1918October 30 – The Martin Declaration is published, including Slovakia in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state.source
• 1918November 11 – Red Week: Pieter Jelles Troelstra gives a speech calling for socialist revolution in the Netherlands.source
• 1918December 14 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse renounces the Finnish throne.source
• 1918December 14 – Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.source
• 1919January 25 – The League of Nations is founded in Paris, France.source
• 1919February 5 – United Artists (UA) is incorporated in the United States by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a motion picture producer.source
• 1919March 1 – The March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea is formed.source
• 1919March 2 – The Founding Congress of the Comintern opens in Moscow.source
• 1919March 4 – The Communist International (Comintern) is founded.source
• 1919March 23 – Benito Mussolini founds his Italian Fascist political movement in Milan.source
• 1919March 26 – Queen of the South F.C. is formed in Dumfries, Scotland.source
• 1919April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.source
• 1919April 25 – Anzac Day is observed for the first time in Australia.source
• 1919May 4 – The League of Red Cross Societies is formed in Paris.source
• 1919May 14 – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.source
• 1919May 15 – Winnipeg general strike: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada, begin a strike for better wages and working conditions; the strike lasts for six weeks.source
• 1919May 23 – The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).source
• 1919June 18 – The second most popular football club in Costa Rica, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, is founded.source
• 1919June 28 – The International Labour Organization (ILO) is established as an agency of the League of Nations.source
• 1919July 11 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.source
• 1919September 21 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States.source
• 1919October 9 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players are later found to have lost intentionally.source
• 1919November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States, by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis; a final agreement is reached on December 10.source
• 1919November 9 – Felix the Cat debuts in Feline Follies.source
• 1919December 4 – The French Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana is destroyed by fire.source
• 1919December 23 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom, removing legal disabilities on women entering the secular professions.source
• 1920January 16 – Zeta Phi Beta sorority, is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.source
• 1920January 19 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.source
• 1920February 10 – General Józef Haller first performs Poland's Wedding to the Sea, a symbolic celebration of the restitution of Polish access to the Baltic Sea.source
• 1920February 14 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.source
• 1920February 22 – In Emeryville, California, the first dog racing track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.source
• 1920March 1 – Hungarian admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary.source
• 1920March 29 – Sir William Robertson is promoted to Field Marshal, the first man to rise from private (enlisted 1877) to the highest rank in the British Army.source
• 1920May 10 – Agnès Souret is elected "The most beautiful woman in France", retrospectively considered the first Miss France.source
• 1920June 28 – Sigma Tau Gamma is founded on campus at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missourisource
• 1920July 30–August 8 – The 1st World Scout Jamboree is held at Olympia, London.source
• 1920August 14–September 12 – Main events of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium (there have been ceremonies and outlying events since April). The Olympic symbols of five interlocking rings and the associated flag are first displayed at the games.source
• 1920August 22 – The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated as a regular event.source
• 1920September 5 – Mahatma Gandhi launches the non-cooperation movement in India, with the goal of obtaining independence from British rulesource
• 1920September 9 – The Lotta Svärd women's paramilitary auxiliary is founded in Finland.source
• 1920September 17 – The National Football League is established, as the American Professional Football Association.source
• 1920September 21 – The Communist Party of Uruguay is founded.source
• 1920October 3 – The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race first runs in Paris.source
• 1920October 4 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.source
• 1920October 27 – The League of Nations moves its headquarters to Geneva, Switzerland.source
• 1920October 30 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.source
• 1920October – English writer Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, appears in the U.S., introducing her long-running Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot in the setting of an English country house. (The book is published in the U.K. in 1921.)source
• 1920November 14 – The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert, in Alberta.source
• 1920November 20 – Prince Arthur of Connaught is appointed the 3rd Governor-General of South Africa.source
• 1921January 16 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.source
• 1921January 21 – The full-length silent comedy drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan, is released in the United States.source
• 1921February 20 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.source
• 1921February 23 – The moderately conservative public official Oscar von Sydow takes over the Swedish premiership from Baron Louis De Geer the Younger.source
• 1921February 27 – A Socialist congress at Vienna ends with the International Working Union of Socialist Parties founded.source
• 1921March 1 – The city of Kiryū, located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, is founded.source
• 1921March 24 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad (the first international women's sports event) begins in Monte Carlo.source
• 1921March – The Group Settlement Scheme in Western Australia begins.source
• 1921April 20 – Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom is first produced in English on Broadway. The play would later be adapted as the musical Carousel.source
• 1921May 26 – A general strike begins in Norway, begun by 120,000 workers led by Ole O. Lian.source
• 1921June 21 – The International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) is established as an agency of the League of Nations; it continues in this form until April 19, 1946.source
• 1921July 23 – 1st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opens in Shanghai.source
• 1921August 23 – King Faisal I of Iraq is crowned in Baghdad.source
• 1921September 8 – Margaret Gorman, 16, wins the Golden Mermaid trophy at a beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey; officials later dub her the first Miss America.source
• 1921September 13 – White Castle hamburger restaurant opens in Wichita, Kansas, foundation of the world's first fast food chain.source
• 1921September 28 – Sauerländer Heimatbund is founded in Meschede, Germany.source
• 1921October 5 – The World Series baseball game in North America is first broadcast on the radio, by Newark, New Jersey, station WJZ, Pittsburgh station KDKA, and a group of other commercial and amateur stations throughout the eastern United States.source
• 1921October 8 – The first Sweetest Day is staged in Cleveland, Ohio.source
• 1921October 10 – Teaching at the University of Szeged begins, in the Kingdom of Hungary.source
• 1921October 21 – George Melford's wildly successful silent film The Sheik, which will propel its leading actor Rudolph Valentino to international stardom, premieres in Los Angeles.source
• 1921Centre College's American football team, led by quarterback Bo McMillin, defeats Harvard University 6–0, to break Harvard's five-year winning streak. For decades afterward, this is called "football's upset of the century".source
• 1921November 9 – The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.source
• 1921December 23 – Visva-Bharati College is founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India.source
• 1921Luxury goods brand Gucci is founded in Florence, Italy.source
• 1922February 10–17 – Modern Art Week in São Paulo marks the start of Modernism in Brazil.source
• 1922March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.source
• 1922April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.source
• 1922May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, their only joint meeting.source
• 1922May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.source
• 1922June 1 – The first issue of the magazine Krestyanka is published in Russia.source
• 1922June 11 – Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, is premiered in the U.S.source
• 1922July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl open-air music venue opens.source
• 1922September 3 – The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, the world's third purpose-built motorsport race track, is officially opened at Monza in the Lombardy Region of Italy.source
• 1922September 11 – The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded.source
• 1922September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.source
• 1922October 1 – G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France.source
• 1922October 15 – T. S. Eliot establishes The Criterion magazine, containing the first publication of his poem The Waste Land. This first appears in the United States later this month in The Dial (dated November 1), and is first published complete with notes in book form, by Boni and Liveright in New York in December.source
• 1922October 28 – Rose Bowl sports stadium officially opens in Pasadena, California.source
• 1922November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.source
• 1922L'Action sénégalaise weekly newspaper is founded in Senegal.source
• 1923March 3 – The first issue of TIME magazine is published.source
• 1923March 6 – The Egyptian Feminist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد النسائي المصري), the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi.source
• 1923May 9 – The premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle (Im Dickicht), at the Residenztheater in Munich, is interrupted by Nazi demonstrators.source
• 1923August 18 – The first British Track & Field championships for women are held in London.source
• 1923September 29 – The first American Track & Field championships for women are held in New Jersey.source
• 1923November 12 – Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife marries Captain Charles Alexander Carnegie, in Wellington Barracks, London.source
• 1924January 25 – The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.source
• 1924March 24 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7 in Stockholm.source
• 1924March 29 – In France, the Third Ministry of Raymond Poincaré begins.source
• 1924May 4 – The 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies are held in Paris, France.source
• 1924June 7–16 – Rudolf Steiner delivers his Agriculture Course at Koberwitz beginning of the organic agriculture movement.source
• 1924June 20 – The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is founded.source
• 1924July 10 – Paavo Nurmi of Finland wins the 1,500 and 5,000 m runs within two hours at the Paris Olympics.source
• 1924September 9 – The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.source
• 1924October 9 – Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois (later known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated.source
• 1924October 15 – The first Surrealist Manifesto is published, in which André Breton defines the movement as "pure psychic automatism".source
• 1924The International Union of Official Organizations for Tourist Propaganda is established.source
• 1925March 6 – Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.source
• 1925March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas).source
• 1925March 21 – Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.source
• 1925April 10 – F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York.source
• 1925April 19 – Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago.source
• 1925April 28 – Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard.source
• 1925May 1 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.source
• 1925May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris.source
• 1925June 14 – The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.source
• 1925June 14 – The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded.source
• 1925September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. The phenomenon lasts for half an hour.source
• 1925October 1 – The United States Congress grants permission for Gutzon Borglum to begin constructing Mount Rushmore National Memorial on federal land in South Dakota.source
• 1925November 14 – The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris.source
• 1925November 26 – Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam.source
• 1925December 14 – Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber.source
• 1925December 15 – Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty.source
• 1925Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.source
• 1926January 8 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam.source
• 1926February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week, a food and agriculture fair, debuts in Germany.source
• 1926May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners.source
• 1926June 19 – King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.source
• 1926September 19 – Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) Stadium, well known among sports venues in Italy, officially opens in Milan.source
• 1926September 25 – Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day work week.source
• 1926September 25 – The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.source
• 1926October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear.source
• 1926October 19 – The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London.source
• 1926December 7 – The Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), is founded by Patrick Abercrombie to limit urban sprawl and ribbon development.source
• 1926December 26 – World première of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola by Walter Damrosch and the New York Philharmonic, the last substantial composition to be made public by the composer for the remaining 30 years of his life.source
• 1927January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.source
• 1927February 19 – In the United States, the silent romantic comedy film It starring Clara Bow, is released, popularising the concept of the "It girl".source
• 1927March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims.source
• 1927May 11 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which will create the Academy Awards, is founded in the United States.source
• 1927August 10 – The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated in the United States. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.source
• 1927October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Although not the first sound film, and containing very little recorded speech, it is the first to become a box-office hit, popularizing "talkies" (although silent films continue to be made for some time).source
• 1927December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai.source
• 1928February 11 – 19 – The 1928 Winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first as a separate event. Sonja Henie of Norway wins her first gold medal, in women's figure skating.source
• 1928May 31 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, based upon the Van Riebeeck flag or Prinsevlag (originally the Dutch flag), to replace the Red Ensign. It later became infamously known as the "apartheid flag" for being the flag of South Africa under Apartheid from 1948 to 1994.source
• 1928June 9 – Ellis Park Stadium, a well-known sport venue of South Africa, officially opens in Johannesburg.source
• 1928July 28 – August 12 – The 1928 Summer Olympics are held in Amsterdam, opening with the lighting of the Olympic flame. Women's athletics and gymnastics debut at these games, and discus thrower Halina Konopacka of Poland becomes the first female Olympic gold medal winner for a track or field event. Coca-Cola enters Europe as sponsor of the games.source
• 1928August 29 – F.C. Motagua is founded as an Association football club in Honduras.source
• 1928August – Margaret Mead's influential cultural anthropology text, Coming of Age in Samoa, is published in the U.S.source
• 1928October 22 – The Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.source
• 1928October 25 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red Cross"source
• 1928October 28 – The Second Youth Congress is held in Batavia, Dutch East Indies by young Indonesian nationalists, resulting in the Youth Pledge. The Indonesian national anthem, "Indonesia Raya", is introduced at the congress.source
• 1928October – The women's organisation Gruaja Shiqiptare is founded in Albania, with Princess Senije as its chair.source
• 1928November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.source
• 1928November 18 – Mickey Mouse makes his official debut in Steamboat Willie.source
• 1928November 22 – The one-movement ballet Boléro (music by Maurice Ravel, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska) premières at the Paris Opéra, to a commission by Ida Rubinstein.source
• 1928November 28 – Persija Jakarta Association football club is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.source
• 1928The women's organisation Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan is founded in Afghanistan.source
• 1929January 17 – The comic strip hero Popeye first appears in Thimble Theatre.source
• 1929January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.source
• 1929March 17 – The second of the Davos University Conferences opens in Switzerland; this includes the Cassirer–Heidegger debate in philosophy.source
• 1929October 6 – Serie A, the top-class professional football league of Italy, replaces the Divisione Nazionale.source
• 1929November 7 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens to the public. The first exhibition Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and Seurat (November 7 – December 7) is seen by 47.000 visitors; the curator is Alfred H. Barr.source
• 1930March 6 – International Unemployment Day is observed in countries throughout the world.source
• 1930March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest against the British monopoly on salt in India; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.source
• 1930April 6 – The International Left Opposition (ILO) is founded in Paris, France.source
• 1930April 19 - Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) foundedsource
• 1930May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.source
• 1930July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.source
• 1930July 13 – The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.source
• 1930July 19 – Georges Simenon's detective character Inspector Jules Maigret makes his first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel Pietr-le-Letton (known in English as The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) begins serialization in a French weekly magazine.source
• 1930July 30 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2 to win the first FIFA World Cup final in Association football, at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.source
• 1930August 9 – The cartoon character Betty Boop debut in the Fleischer Studios short film Dizzy Dishes.source
• 1930August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.source
• 1930October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź.source
• 1930November 2 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.source
• 1931January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film City Lights receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.source
• 1931February 10 – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.source
• 1932February 4 – The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.source
• 1932February 15 – Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the Blue Network of NBC Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program.source
• 1932March 22 – Tarzan the Ape Man premieres in New York City, first of the classic film series starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan.source
• 1932April 17 – Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia.source
• 1932April 25 – Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrates the carillon of the National War Memorial in New Zealand.source
• 1932June 25 – India plays its first Test cricket match with England at Lord's.source
• 1932July 30 – Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles. It releases in theaters, along with the film version of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable); Flowers and Trees goes on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.source
• 1932July 30 – The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.source
• 1932August 6 – The first Venice Film Festival is held.source
• 1932October 19 – Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.source
• 1932November 1 – The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment is published, showing that measured time as well as length is affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.source
• 1932November 7 – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century debuts on American radio. It is the first science fiction program on radio.source
• 1933February 28 – English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.source
• 1933March 2 – King Kong: The original King Kong film, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, debuts in New York City.source
• 1933March 31 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established in the United States as an unemployment relief program.source
• 1933June 12 – The London Economic Conference is held.source
• 1933July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.source
• 1933July 8 – The first rugby union test match is played between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa, at Newlands in Cape Town.source
• 1933July 15 – The International Left Opposition (ILO) is renamed the International Communist League (ICL).source
• 1933December 17 – The first NFL Championship game in American football is played. The Chicago Bears defeat the New York Giants 23–21.source
• 1934February 23 – King Leopold III of Belgium succeeds to the throne, following the death (February 17) of his father King Albert I.source
• 1934March 22 – The first Masters Tournament in golf opens at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia (United States).source
• 1934April 21 – The "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, taken in Scotland by London gynaecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson and in 1994 admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail London national newspaper.source
• 1934June 9 – Donald Duck makes his film debut in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen.source
• 1934June 10 – Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2–1 after extra time, to win the 1934 World Cup, staged in Italy.source
• 1934Winter – Tadj ol-Molouk, Empress consort of Iran, and her daughters appear publicly in Tehran without a veil, leading to its abolition in the country.source
• 1934The Yomiuri Giants, a successful professional baseball club in Japan, is founded in Tokyo.source
• 1935February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a series of articles by Gerhard Domagk and others in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.source
• 1935April 11 – The 1935 Danish general election is held, resulting in Thorvald Stauning becoming the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Denmark.source
• 1935April 24 – William Christian Bullitt Jr., the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, hosts the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon, which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.source
• 1935May 14 – Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win is not until May 29, 1939.source
• 1935June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.source
• 1935October 21 – Grant v Australian Knitting Mills, a landmark case in consumer law, is decided on appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the U.K.source
• 1935December 10 – Hanshin Tigers, a well known professional baseball club of Japan, is founded in Osaka.source
• 1935December 12 – The Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany.source
• 1935December 28 – Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.source
• 1936January 28 – State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.source
• 1936February 5 – Modern Times, widely considered one of the greatest films ever, premieres in New York City.source
• 1936February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.source
• 1936August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history (John Logie Baird had broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931).source
• 1936August 3 – 1936 Summer Olympics: African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash.source
• 1936August 14 – 1936 Summer Olympics: The Junior Varsity Rowing Crew from the University of Washington surprises the world listening on radio when they come from behind to win Olympic Gold.source
• 1936September 10 – The first World Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third.source
• 1936November 23 – Cover date of the first issue of Life, a weekly news magazine launched in the United States under the management of Henry Luce.source
• 1936December 24 – The first filmed Ukrainian opera, Natalka Poltavka, is released in Ukraine.source
• 1937February 25 – Hergé's Tintin adventure The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée) concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième, and soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white.source
• 1937May 8 – Wydad Athletic Club (WAC)(Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي; Berber: Wydad Dar al-Beida; commonly: Wydad al ouma) is established in Casablanca, Morocco; it will be best known for its Casablanca Association football team.source
• 1937June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII, in France.source
• 1937June – Picasso completes his painting Guernica.source
• 1937September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta is founded.source
• 1937September 21 – George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London publishes the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.source
• 1937October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is first published, in the United States.source
• 1937December 16 – The original production of the musical Me and My Girl opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre, in London's West End. A later revival will win an award.source
• 1937December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first feature-length cel animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.source
• 1937December 25 – At the age of 70, conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.source
• 1938January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo.source
• 1938February 4 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first cel-animated feature in motion picture history, is released in the United States, following a premiere on December 21 of the previous year.source
• 1938June 19 – Italy beats Hungary 4–2, to win the 1938 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1938June 27 – Kathryn Beaumont, British actresssource
• 1938July 1 – The South African Press Association is established, with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.source
• 1938November 30 – A general strike is called in France by the French Communist Party, to protest the laws of November 12.source
• 1938December 24 – Leading Korean dancer Choi Seung-hee arrives in Le Havre, France after her tour in the United States. This is to begin her European tour in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. She is the first Korean Wave entertainer.source
• 1939March 30 – The superhero Batman debut for Detective Comics (issue #27) (cover date of May).source
• 1939April 25 – The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the United States, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.source
• 1939May 17 – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom arrive in Quebec City, to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.source
• 1939May 24 – The first issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana, Albania.source
• 1939November 6 – Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio in the United States with gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host (the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure among the Hollywood elite).source
• 1939November 14 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.source
• 1939December 15 – The epic historical romance film Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard, premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta. Based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel of 1936, it is the longest American film made up to this date (at nearly four hours) and rapidly becomes the highest-grossing film up to this time.source
• 1940February 2–11 – Scheduled dates for the 1940 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to Sapporo, Japan).source
• 1940February 7 – Walt Disney animated feature film Pinocchio premiere.source
• 1940February 15 – Paul Creston's Saxophone Sonata is officially premiered at the Carnegie Chamber Hall by saxophonist Cecil Leeson, who had commissioned it from the composer.source
• 1940March 23 – Pakistan Movement: The Lahore Resolution, calling for greater autonomy for what will become Pakistan in British India, is drawn up by the All-India Muslim League during a three-day general session at Iqbal Park, Lahore.source
• 1940April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.source
• 1940April 13 – The New York Rangers win the 1940 Stanley Cup Final in ice hockey. It will be another 54 years before their next win in 1994.source
• 1940June 24 – United States politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia, and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.source
• 1940June 26 – Soviet calendar: The Soviet Union reverts to a seven-day week for all purposes.source
• 1940June 28 – The Smith Act (Alien Registration Act) is signed into United States law, setting criminal penalties for advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence, and requiring all aliens in the U.S. to register with the federal government.source
• 1940July 20–August 4 – Scheduled dates for the 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to Tokyo, Japan).source
• 1940July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare. However, it is not until 1941 that his name is adopted.source
• 1940August 31 – British film stars Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are married at the San Ysidro Ranch in California.source
• 1940October 11 – Portuguese-born performer Carmen Miranda makes her American film debut in Down Argentine Way, one of the first films produced to promote the Good Neighbor policy.source
• 1940October 15 – Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, a satirical anti-fascist comedy film, premieres in New York City. Written, directed, produced by and starring Chaplin as his first true sound film, it is a critical and commercial success and goes on to become Chaplin's most financially successful work. Filming began in September 1939.source
• 1940October 29 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..source
• 1940November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None is published in book form, in the United States.source
• 1940November 9 – Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for classical guitar and orchestra premieres in Barcelona, Spain.source
• 1940November 10 – The 2600th Anniversary Celebrations of the Japanese Empiresource
• 1940November 13 – The Walt Disney animated film Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, has its world premiere at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it recoups its cost years later and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.source
• 1940November 15 – Abbott and Costello make their film debut, in One Night in the Tropics.source
• 1940November 16 – The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is founded.source
• 1940November 17 – The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia.source
• 1940November 25 – Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short, Knock Knock. It is not until 1941 that his current name is adopted.source
• 1940December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.source
• 1941March 17 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.source
• 1941March 17 – British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin calls for women to fill vital jobs.source
• 1941April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.source
• 1941May 1 – Orson Welles' first film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City; it will be frequently cited as the best film ever made.source
• 1941May 6 – At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.source
• 1941August 31 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio in the United States.source
• 1942February 1 – Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", starting the Yan'an Rectification Movement in the Chinese Communist Party.source
• 1942February 26 – The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.source
• 1942April 27 – The Jewish Star of David is required wearing for all Jews in the Netherlands and Belgium; Jews in other Nazi-controlled countries have already been wearing it.source
• 1942May 29 – Thai spelling reform of 1942 is initiated by the government of Prime Minister Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram with his office announcing a simplification of the Thai alphabet. The announcement is published in the Royal Gazette on June 1. The reform is canceled by the government of Khuang Aphaiwong on August 2, 1944.source
• 1942Germany introduces the Ostvolk Medal for Soviet personnel in the Wehrmacht.source
• 1942August 9 – Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, with the city still under siege.source
• 1942August 31 – The 1942 Luxembourgish general strike is launched, to protest against forced conscription in Luxembourg.source
• 1942October 16 – Animated short film The Mouse of Tomorrow, featuring the debut of Mighty Mouse (as "Super Mouse"), is released in the United States.source
• 1942October 29 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.source
• 1942December 27 – The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia, a communist youth movement, is founded.source
• 1942December 31 – The Times Square Ball in Times Square, New York City is not dropped for the first time. Instead, there is a moment of silence at midnight, followed by the sound of bells playing from sound trucks at the base of One Times Square.source
• 1942circa JuneThe 1942 FIFA World Cup competition in Association football, which Nazi Germany sought to host, is not held, due to World War II.source
• 1943March 4 – The 15th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Mrs. Miniver wins the Best Picture Award.source
• 1943March 12 – Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man is premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.source
• 1943March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, makes the speech "The Ireland That We Dreamed Of", commonly called the "comely maidens" speech, in Dublin Castle.source
• 1943March – Exiled French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's self-illustrated children's novella, The Little Prince, is published in New York City, the all-time best-selling book originating in French.source
• 1943April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (last time 1886; next time 2038) in the Western Christian Church.source
• 1943May 27 – The port city of Maizuru is founded in Japan.source
• 1943The National Bands Agreement is concluded in Greece.source
• 1943September 8 – The first classes commence at Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska.source
• 1943October 10 – The Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky is instituted in the Soviet Union.source
• 1943December 7 – Chiara Lubich starts the humanitarian Focolare Movement in Trento, Italy.source
• 1943December 31 – The Times Square Ball in Times Square, New York City, is not dropped a second time. Instead, there is a moment of silence at midnight, followed by the sound of bells playing from sound trucks at the base of One Times Square.source
• 1943Martin Noth's groundbreaking work of Old Testament scholarship, Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament, is published.source
• 1943Arana Hall, a residential college of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is founded.source
• 1944February 2 – The first issue of Human Events is published in Washington, D.C.source
• 1944March 2 – The 16th Academy Awards Ceremony is held, the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, wins the Award for Best Picture.source
• 1944March 19 – The secular oratorio A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett is premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London.source
• 1944March – Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek publishes his book The Road to Serfdom in London.source
• 1944April 20 – Members of the Slovene Home Guard swear an oath to Hitler on his birthday at Bežigrad Stadium.source
• 1944April 25 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated in the United States.source
• 1944June 3 – Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome.source
• 1944July 1 – The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference begins at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States.source
• 1944August 3 – The Education Act in the United Kingdom, promoted by Rab Butler, provides for the postwar education system, including free secondary education for children of both sexes and raising of the school leaving age to 15.source
• 1944September 2 – ¡Hola! magazine is launched in Barcelona.source
• 1944October 8 – The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuts in the United States.source
• 1944October 30 – Appalachian Spring, a ballet by Martha Graham with music by Aaron Copland, debuts at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in the lead role.source
• 1944November 16 – The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the first time at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki.source
• 1944November 18 – The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.source
• 1944November 22 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London. It is the most acclaimed and the most successful movie version of a Shakespeare play made up to this time, and the first in Technicolor. Olivier both stars and directs.source
• 1944December 7 – The Arab Women's Congress of 1944 is hosted by the Egyptian Feminist Union in Cairo, leading to establishment of the Arab Feminist Union.source
• 1944December 10 – Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini leads a concert performance of the first half of Beethoven's Fidelio (minus its spoken dialogue) on NBC Radio, starring Rose Bampton. He chooses this opera for its political message: a statement against tyranny and dictatorship. Presenting it in German, Toscanini intends it as a tribute to the German people who are being oppressed by Hitler. The second half is broadcast a week later. The performance is later released on LP and CD, the first of 7 operas that Toscanini conducts on radio.source
• 1944December 14 – The film National Velvet is released in the United States, bringing a young Elizabeth Taylor to stardom.source
• 1944December 19 – The daily newspaper Le Monde begins publication in Paris.source
• 1944December 24 – The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is presented in San Francisco, choreographed by Willam Christensen. It will become an annual tradition there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only company in the United States performing the complete work.source
• 1944December 26 – The original stage version of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premieres in Chicago.source
• 1944December 30 – Stage Door Cartoon is the first cartoon produced by Eddie Selzer.source
• 1944The National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, predecessor of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, is established in the United States by Marty Mann.source
• 1944The 1944 Summer Olympics, scheduled for London (together with the February Winter Olympics scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy), are suspended due to WWII.source
• 1945March 24 – The cartoon character Sylvester the cat debuts in Life with Feathers.source
• 1945March 29 – The "Clash of Titans": George Mikan and Bob Kurland duel at Madison Square Garden in New York, as Oklahoma State University defeats DePaul 52–44 in basketball.source
• 1945April 12 – Richard Strauss completes composition of his Metamorphosen.source
• 1945April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway, and becomes their second long-running stage classic. It includes the standard "You'll Never Walk Alone".source
• 1945April 29 – Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun, in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker, and signs his last will and testament.source
• 1945The Holy Crown of Hungary is found in Mattsee, Austria, by the United States Army 86th Infantry Division. The U.S. government keeps the crown in Fort Knox for safekeeping from the Soviets until it is returned to Hungary on January 6, 1978.source
• 1945June 24 – WWII: A victory parade is held in Red Square in Moscow.source
• 1945July 5 – The 1945 United Kingdom general election is held, though some constituencies delay their polls for local holiday reasons. Counting of votes and declaration of results are delayed until July 26 to allow for voting by the large number of service personnel still overseas.source
• 1945August 25 – Paris marks the first anniversary of its liberation.source
• 1945October 4 – The JSD Partizan sports club is founded in Belgrade, Serbia.source
• 1945October 16 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is established at a meeting in Quebec City as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
• 1945November 9 – Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.source
• 1945November 16 – The foundation of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is agreed at a meeting in London.source
• 1946March 7 – The 18th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. Best Picture goes to The Lost Weekend.source
• 1946July 25 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.source
• 1946August 3 – Santa Claus Land opens to the public at Santa Claus, Indiana. It becomes the first themed park, preceding Disneyland by 9 years, and is later renamed Holiday World.source
• 1946August 16 – The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad, India.source
• 1946October 1 – Mensa, an international organization for people with a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian-born lawyer, and Lancelot Ware, an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford.source
• 1946October 23 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.source
• 1946November 4 – UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
• 1946November 23 – The Workers' Party of South Korea is founded.source
• 1946November 29 – The Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.source
• 1946December 11 – UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.source
• 1946Cancelled 1946 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1947January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine Der Spiegel published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein.source
• 1947March 1 – German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.source
• 1947March 19 – The 19th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie The Best Years of Our Lives wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards.source
• 1947April 9 – The Journey of Reconciliation in the Southern United States begins, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.source
• 1947April 20 – King Frederik IX succeeds his father, Christian X, on the throne of Denmark.source
• 1947May 2 – The movie Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.source
• 1947May 11 – The Ferrari 125 S, the first car to bear the Ferrari name, debuts.source
• 1947June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe, in a speech at Harvard University.source
• 1947June 7 – The Romanian Army founds the association football club CCA (Clubul Central al Armatei – The Army's Central Club), which will become the most successful Romanian football team during its time as CSA Steaua București.source
• 1947June 11–15 – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.source
• 1947June 25 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published for the first time as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ("The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.source
• 1947July 9 – King George VI of the United Kingdom announces the engagement of his daughter Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten.source
• 1947September 22 – The Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Cominform) is founded by the International Communist Movement.source
• 1947November 6 – The television program Meet the Press makes its debut, on the NBC-TV network in the United States.source
• 1947November 13 – Wataru Misaka makes the roster of the New York Knicks to become the first person of color to play in modern professional basketball, months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Misaka has led the Utah Utes to the 1944 NCAA and 1947 NIT championships.source
• 1947December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio in the United States. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.source
• 1947December 14 – Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is officially inaugurated in Madrid, and hosts its first Association football match.source
• 1948January 30 – The 1948 Winter Olympics open in St Moritz, Switzerland.source
• 1948The first Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published.source
• 1948February 19 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.source
• 1948March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program in the United States.source
• 1948March 20 – The 20th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Gentleman's Agreement wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.source
• 1948April 3 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a series of concerts featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the United States. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.source
• 1948April 23 – First National Games of Pakistan held in Karachi.source
• 1948May – The RAND Corporation is established, as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution, in the United States.source
• 1948June 1 – Puma, a global sports goods brand, is founded in Bavaria, West Germany, by Rudolf Dassler, having split from his brother "Adi".source
• 1948June 15 – Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) is first published in Pingshan County, Hebei.source
• 1948June 22 – David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged antisemitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.source
• 1948July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.source
• 1948September 6 – Juliana is formally inaugurated to succeed her mother as queen regnant of the Netherlands.source
• 1948September 29 – Laurence Olivier's film of Hamlet opens in the U.S.source
• 1948October 16 – The 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, the oldest juried art fair in the American Midwest, is founded.source
• 1948October 19 – Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation, a monument honoring three presidents of the United States, was dedicated at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina.source
• 1948October 20 – Brandeis University is formally founded in Massachusetts.source
• 1948November 16 – The University of the Andes (Universidad de los Andes) is founded in Bogotá, Colombia.source
• 1948November 27 – The Calgary Stampeders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders 12–7 before 20,013 fans at Toronto's Varsity Stadium, to win their first Grey Cup and complete the only perfect season to date in Canadian football.source
• 1948December 19 – In the American National Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7–0, to win the championship.source
• 1948December 30 – The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances in New York City.source
• 1948Rev. W. Awdry's third book, James the Red Engine, is published in the United Kingdom.source
• 1948The inaugural 6 Hours of Watkins Glen sports car endurance race is held in the United States.source
• 1948The last edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum is published in the Vatican.source
• 1949March 24 – The 21st Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie Hamlet wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.source
• 1949March 25 – First issue of weekly magazine Paris Match published in France.source
• 1949March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.source
• 1949April 7 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, starring Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza, opens on Broadway, and goes on to become Rodgers and Hammerstein's second longest-running musical. It becomes an instant classic of the musical theatre. The score's biggest hit is the song "Some Enchanted Evening".source
• 1949April 14 – The N'Ko alphabet is completed by Solomana Kante.source
• 1949June 8 – George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London.source
• 1949July 1 – The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is established.source
• 1949September 2 – Film noir The Third Man, with screenplay by Graham Greene and set in Allied-occupied Vienna, is released in the United Kingdom; it wins the 1949 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.source
• 1949September 17 – Warner Bros. cartoon, "Fast and Furry-ous" is released. It also marks the debut of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The director is Chuck Jones (credited as Charles M. Jones).source
• 1949October 24 – The cornerstone of the Headquarters of the United Nations on Manhattan is laid.source
• 1949December 18 – In the American National Football League, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Los Angeles Rams 14–0, to win the championship.source
• 1949December 21 – Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin's 70th Birthday is Held in Moscow.source
• 1949December 29 – Smouha SC (sports club) is founded in Alexandria, Egypt, by Joseph Smouha, a Mizrahi Iraqi Jew.source
• 1950March 23 – The 22nd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood. All the King's Men (1949 film) is Best Picture.source
• 1950May 5 – Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), king of Thailand since 1946, is crowned, at The Grand Palace in Bangkok.source
• 1950May 13 – The first race in the inaugural FIA Formula One World Championship in automobile racing is held, at Silverstone, England.source
• 1950May 22 – Recorded premiere of Four Last Songs (1948) by German composer Richard Strauss (d. 1949) given by the composer's choice of soloist, Norwegian-born soprano Kirsten Flagstad, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler at the Royal Albert Hall in London, sponsored by Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Sultan of Mysore.source
• 1950May 29 – The pilot series of the world's longest-running radio soap opera, The Archers, is first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in the U.K. It will still be running more than 75 years later.source
• 1950June 16 – Maracanã Stadium, which becomes a well-known sports venue of Brazil, opens in Rio de Janeiro, in advance of the opening of the 1950 FIFA World Cup in the country on June 24.source
• 1950July 16 – Uruguay beats Brazil 2–1, to win the 1950 World Cup, the match dubbed the Maracanazo.source
• 1950September 3 – Italian racing driver Giuseppe Farina becomes the first winner of the FIA Formula One World Championship, being the only driver to win the championship in his home country.source
• 1950October 28 – Torcida Split is founded, in support of the Association football club HNK Hajduk Split, in SFR Yugoslavia.source
• 1950December 31 – The inaugural 12 Hours of Sebring automobile endurance race is held in Florida.source
• 1950Summer – The first newspaper for the Romanian minority in modern Hungary, Foaia Românească ("The Romanian Sheet"), is founded.source
• 1950Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Old Testament (commissioned by the Catholic Church) is published.source
• 1951January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel Journey Through the Night (Reis door de nacht), set during World War II.source
• 1951February 12 – Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari.source
• 1951February 25 – The first Pan American Games open in Buenos Aires.source
• 1951March 29 – The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony is held; All About Eve wins the Best Picture award and five others.source
• 1951April 21 – The National Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed. The USSR will first participate in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.source
• 1951May 1 – The opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a fire.source
• 1951May 3 – King George VI opens the Festival of Britain in London, including the Royal Festival Hall.source
• 1951June 14 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.source
• 1951September 30 – Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.source
• 1951October 16 – East China Normal University is founded in Shanghai, China.source
• 1951October 16 – Judy Garland begins a series of concerts in New York's Palace Theatre.source
• 1951November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium, Toronto.source
• 1951December 3 – Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon.source
• 1951December 24 – Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC in the United States, becoming the first opera written especially for television.source
• 1951c. December – The Institute of War and Peace Studies is established by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University in New York (of which he is President) with William T. R. Fox as first director.source
• 1951An 18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public in Stockholm, Sweden. The law court calls his actions "obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals".source
• 1952February 14–25 – The Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway.source
• 1952February 15 – The State Funeral of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions and the last Emperor of India, takes place. George VI's coffin is brought in procession through London to Paddington Station where a royal train brings the King to Windsor, where his funeral and burial take place at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.source
• 1952April 1 – Al Arabi sports and association football club is founded in Qatar.source
• 1952April 9 – Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, which starts a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines.source
• 1952April 18 – Bolivia National Revolution: A universal vote enables indigenous peoples and women to vote, nationalizes mines and enacts agrarian reform.source
• 1952June 15 – Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is published in English-language translation.source
• 1952June 26 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.source
• 1952June 28 – The First Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.source
• 1952July 19–August 3 – The 1952 Summer Olympics are held in Helsinki, Finland.source
• 1952August 29 – Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.source
• 1952September 30 – The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published in the United States.source
• 1952October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer.source
• 1953February 19 – Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.source
• 1953March 1 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.source
• 1953May 2 – Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.source
• 1953August 13 – Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.source
• 1953October 6 – UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is made a permanent specialized agency of the United Nations.source
• 1953November 20 – Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announce that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) is a hoax.source
• 1953December 6 – With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, Eroica, for the last time. The live performance is broadcast across the United States on radio, and later released on records and CD.source
• 1954March 25 – The 26th Academy Awards Ceremony is held.source
• 1954April 1 – The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorize the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.source
• 1954April 1 – South Point School in India is founded, and becomes the largest school in the world by 1992.source
• 1954April 4 – Legendary symphony conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a lapse of memory during a concert broadcast live from Carnegie Hall in New York City. At this concert's end, his retirement is announced, and he never conducts in public again.source
• 1954May 6 – Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile, in Oxford, England.source
• 1954May 8 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is formed in Manila, Philippines.source
• 1954May 17 – The Royal Commission on the Petrov Affair in Australia begins its inquiry.source
• 1954May 29 – Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.source
• 1954June 6 – The grand opening of the sculpture of Yuriy Dolgorukiy takes place in Moscow (this statue is one of the main monuments of Moscow).source
• 1954June 15 – The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.source
• 1954July 4 – "Miracle of Bern": West Germany beats Hungary 3–2 to win the 1954 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1954July 10 – Peter Thomson becomes the first Australian to win the British Open Golf Championship.source
• 1954July 19 – Release of Elvis Presley's first single, a cover of "That's All Right", by Sun Records (recorded July 5 in Memphis, Tennessee).source
• 1954July 29 – The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of three volumes in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, is published in London.source
• 1954August 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.source
• 1954September 8 – SEATO is established in Bangkok, Thailand.source
• 1954September 14 – English composer Benjamin Britten's chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.source
• 1954September 17 – William Golding's allegorical dystopian novel Lord of the Flies is published in London.source
• 1954September 20 – The first Moomins comic strip is published in the London newspaper The Evening News.source
• 1954November 3 – The first Godzilla film premieres in Tokyo.source
• 1954November 13 – Great Britain defeats France, to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectatorssource
• 1954November 22 – Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26): The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the federal slum clearance and urban renewal programs.source
• 1954December 3 – Väinö Linna's war novel The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is published.source
• 1955January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African-American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.source
• 1955June 7 – The television quiz program The $64,000 Question premieres on CBS-TV in the United States, with Hal March as the host.source
• 1955July 28 – The first Interlingua Congress is held in Tours, France, leading to the foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.source
• 1955August 27 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London.source
• 1955September 10 – The long-running Western television series Gunsmoke debuts, on the CBS network in the United States.source
• 1955September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris, by Olympia Press.source
• 1955October 2 – Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on the CBS TV network in the United States.source
• 1955October 3 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on the ABC-TV network in the United States.source
• 1955October 11 – 70-mm film for projection is introduced, with the theatrical release of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical film, Oklahoma!.source
• 1955Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS network in the United States.source
• 1955December 4 – The International Federation of Blood Donor Organizations is founded in Luxembourg.source
• 1955December 5 – The Montgomery Improvement Association is formed in Montgomery, Alabama, by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other Black ministers to coordinate the Montgomery bus boycott by Black people.source
• 1956January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.source
• 1956February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany.source
• 1956March 12 – 96 U.S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education) that desegregated public education.source
• 1956March 21 – The 28th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Los Angeles. Marty is awarded Best Picture.source
• 1956April 18 – American actress Grace Kelly legally marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco; a religious ceremony follows next day.source
• 1956May 24 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland. The winning song is the host country's Refrain by Lys Assia (music by Géo Voumard, lyrics by Émile Gardaz).source
• 1956June 10 – 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden (all other events are held in November in Melbourne, Australia).source
• 1956June 13 – Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 4–3 at Parc des Princes, Paris and wins the 1955–56 European Cup (football).source
• 1956June 15 – Eindhoven University of Technology is founded in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.source
• 1956June 28 – The film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, starring Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, is released only a few months after the film version of R&H's Carousel. It becomes the most financially successful film version of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical up to this time, and the only one to win an acting Oscar (Yul Brynner wins Best Actor for his performance as the King of Siam). It is also one of two Rodgers and Hammerstein films to be nominated for Best Picture (which it does not win).source
• 1956June 29 – Actress Marilyn Monroe marries playwright Arthur Miller, in White Plains, New York.source
• 1956July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium, well known sports venue of Russia and the Soviet Union, officially opens in Moscow.source
• 1956August 12 – Around 5,000 members of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church hold a mass outside Cluj-Napoca Piarists' Church to demonstrate that their church, proscribed by the government in 1948, has not ceased to exist as the regime claims.source
• 1956October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yogi Berra catches the game. Dale Mitchell is the final out. The New York Yankees win the series in seven games. Larsen is named series MVP.source
• 1956October 14 – Dalit Buddhist movement (India): B. R. Ambedkar, Dalit leader, converts to Buddhism, along with 500,000 followers.source
• 1956October 17 – The Game of the Century (chess): 13-year-old Bobby Fischer beats grandmaster Donald Byrne, in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City.source
• 1956October 29 – The Huntley-Brinkley Report debuts on NBC-TV in the United States.source
• 1956November 3 – MGM's film The Wizard of Oz is the first major Hollywood film running more than 90 minutes to be televised uncut in one evening, in the United States.source
• 1956November 15 – Middle East Technical University is founded in Ankara, Turkey.source
• 1956November 22 – The 1956 Summer Olympics begin in Melbourne, Australia.source
• 1956November 28 – Roger Vadim's film And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme), is released in France, making Brigitte Bardot an international sex symbol.source
• 1956November 30 – African-American Floyd Patterson wins the world heavyweight boxing championship that is vacant after the retirement of Rocky Marciano.source
• 1957January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is released in Japan.source
• 1957February 4 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, , logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980.source
• 1957February 10 – The Confederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting in Khartoum.source
• 1957March 3 – Net als toen, sung by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, lyrics by Willy van Hemert), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (held at Frankfurt), for the Netherlands.source
• 1957March 6 – Zodi Ikhia founds the Nigerien Democratic Front (FDN) in Niger.source
• 1957March 27 – The 29th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Hollywood. Around the World in 80 Days wins Best Picture.source
• 1957May 30 – Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2–0 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, to win the 1956–57 European Cup (football).source
• 1957July 1 – The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.source
• 1957July 6 – At the age of fifteen, Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.source
• 1957July 28 – The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khrushchev Thaw, opens in Moscow.source
• 1957August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.source
• 1957September 26 – West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opens on Broadway in New York City.source
• 1957Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany.source
• 1958April 14 – Van Cliburn wins the International Tchaikovsky Competition for pianists in Moscow, easing Cold War tensions.source
• 1958May 28 – Real Madrid beats A.C. Milan 3–2 at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, and wins the 1957–58 European Cup in Association football.source
• 1958June 29 – Brazil beats Sweden 5–2 in the final game to win the football World Cup in Sweden.source
• 1958July 24 – Fourteen life peerages, the first under the Life Peerages Act 1958, are created in the United Kingdom.source
• 1958July 26 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom announces that she is giving her son Prince Charles the customary title for the heir apparent of Prince of Wales. The announcement is made at the end of the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, held in Cardiff.source
• 1958August 21–October 15 – Illinois observes the centennial of the Lincoln–Douglas debates.source
• 1958November 10 – Harry Winston donates the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.source
• 1959January 11 – The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques is founded in Monaco.source
• 1959January 12 – The Motown record label is founded as Tamla by Berry Gordy in Detroit.source
• 1959March 9 – Mattel's Barbie doll debuts in the United States.source
• 1959March 11 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1959, staged in Cannes, is won for the Netherlands by "'n Beetje" sung by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, lyrics by Willy van Hemert).source
• 1959April 6 – The 31st Academy Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood. Musical film Gigi receives a record 9 Oscars.source
• 1959April 8 – The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is established.source
• 1959April 10 – Crown Prince Akihito of Japan marries Shōda Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the Imperial House of Japan.source
• 1959May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway and runs for 702 performances.source
• 1959The first Ten Tors event is held on Dartmoor.source
• 1959June 3 – Real Madrid beat Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and win the 1958–59 European Cup (Association football).source
• 1959June 18 – The film The Nun's Story, based on the best-selling novel, is released. Audrey Hepburn stars as the title character; she later says that this is her favorite film role. The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars.source
• 1959July 2 – Prince Albert of Belgium marries Italian Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria.source
• 1959July 4 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia.source
• 1959August 31 – The Workers' Stadium sports venue in Beijing (China) is officially opened.source
• 1959Miles Davis' influential jazz album Kind of Blue is released.source
• 1959October 1 – The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country.source
• 1959November 18 – Religious epic film Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, which will be by far the highest-grossing film of the year and will go on to win a record 12 Academy Awards, premieres at New York City's Loews Theater in Ultra Panavision 70.source
• 1959Car tailfin design reaches its apex in the United States with such as the Cadillac Eldorado, Chevrolet Impala second generation model, Dodge Silver Challenger and Imperial Crown Sedan.source
• 1960February 1 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.source
• 1960February 8 – Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.source
• 1960February 18 – The 1960 Winter Olympics begin at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Placer County, California.source
• 1960March 29 – "Tom Pillibi" sung by 18-year-old Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, lyrics by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 (staged in London) for France.source
• 1960April 4 – At the 32nd Academy Awards Ceremony, Ben-Hur wins a record 11 Oscars, including Best Picture.source
• 1960May 18 – Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, and win the 1959–60 European Cup in Association football, their 5th successive victory in the competition.source
• 1960June 20 – Floyd Patterson becomes the first person to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship, with a knock-out of Ingemar Johansson in New York City.source
• 1960June 22 – 1960 Quebec general election: the ruling Union nationale, led by Antonio Barrette, is defeated by the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage, beginning the 'Quiet Revolution' in the historically conservative Canadian province.source
• 1960June 28 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand arrives in Washington, D.C. for a 4-day royal visit to the U.S.source
• 1960June 30 – Public demonstrations by democratic and left forces against Italian government support of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement are heavily suppressed by police.source
• 1960July 10 – The Soviet Union national football team defeats the Yugoslavia national football team 2–1 in Paris to win the first UEFA European Championship.source
• 1960July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that has sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.source
• 1960July 25–28 – In Chicago, the 1960 Republican National Convention nominates Vice President Richard Nixon as its candidate for President of the United States, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for vice-president.source
• 1960August 25 – The 1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rome.source
• 1960September 5 – 1960 Summer Olympic Games: Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) of the United States wins the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing.source
• 1960September 10 – 1960 Summer Olympic Games: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia wins the gold medal in the marathon, running barefoot in a world time, and becoming the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win Olympic gold.source
• 1960September 18 – The first international Summer Paralympics open in Rome under the title "9th International Stoke Mandeville Games", the first quadrennial paralympic event outside of England.source
• 1960September 30 - The Flintstones premieres on ABC.source
• 1960December 15 – King Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón.source
• 1961January 5 – Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.source
• 1961January 28 – Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV in the UK.source
• 1961March 13 – Monash University in Melbourne, Australia takes in its first students.source
• 1961March 18 – "Nous les amoureux" sung by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, lyrics by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 (staged in Cannes) for Luxembourg.source
• 1961April 10 – South African golfer Gary Player becomes the first non-American to win the Masters Tournament.source
• 1961April 17 – The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Apartment (1960) wins most awards, including Best Picture.source
• 1961April 23 – Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.source
• 1961April 27 – President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.source
• 1961May 6 – Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English league and cup double. , this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League.source
• 1961May 28 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.source
• 1961May 31 – Benfica beats FC Barcelona 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and wins the 1960–61 European Cup in association football.source
• 1961September 12 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.source
• 1961September 17 – The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.source
• 1961September 24 – In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney.source
• 1961September 24 – The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.source
• 1961October 25 – The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.source
• 1961December 14 – Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is released, but flops at the box office.source
• 1961December 23 – Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.source
• 1962January 15 – French designer Yves Saint Laurent launches his own fashion house.source
• 1962February 11 – The inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona sports car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event, at Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.source
• 1962March 18 – "Un premier amour", sung by Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (staged in Luxembourg) for France.source
• 1962April 9 – The 34th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in the United States; West Side Story wins Best Picture.source
• 1962May 2 – S.L. Benfica beats Real Madrid 5–3 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam to win the 1961–62 European Cup in association football.source
• 1962May 14 – Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.source
• 1962May 30 – The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.source
• 1962June 11 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University.source
• 1962June 17 – Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1, to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1962June 25 – Engel v. Vitale: The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.source
• 1962June 25 – MANual Enterprises v. Day: The United States Supreme Court rules that photographs of nude men are not obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines.source
• 1962June 26 – A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy in support of increased wages and a five-day working week.source
• 1962July 12 – The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, opening for Long John Baldry.source
• 1962July 19 – The first annual Swiss & Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament is held.source
• 1962September 19 – Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in Wales, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.source
• 1962September 22 – Bob Dylan premieres his song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", at Carnegie Hall in New York City.source
• 1962November 6 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.source
• 1962November 25 – The 1962 Bavarian state election is held.source
• 1962December 8 – The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it will last for 114 days.source
• 1962December 10 – David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia, featuring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Quinn, premieres in London; 6 days later, it opens in the U.S.source
• 1963March 22 – The Beatles first album Please Please Me was released in the UK and became a huge commercial success.source
• 1963March 23 – "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 (staged in London) for Denmark.source
• 1963March 28 – Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.source
• 1963April 6 – The Kingsmen record their influential cover of "Louie Louie" in Portland, Oregon, released in June.source
• 1963April 8 – The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Lawrence of Arabia wins Best Picture.source
• 1963April 14 – The Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade) is established.source
• 1963May 22 – A.C. Milan beats Benfica 2–1 at Wembley Stadium, London and wins the 1962–63 European Cup (football).source
• 1963May 25 – The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.source
• 1963June 5 – The first annual National Hockey League Entry Draft is held in Montreal, Canada.source
• 1963June 20 – War film The Great Escape (starring Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough) is premiered in London.source
• 1963August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.source
• 1963September 6 – The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.source
• 1963September 19 – Iota Phi Theta fraternity is founded at Morgan State College in Baltimore, Marylandsource
• 1963September 23 – King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.source
• 1963October 1 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.source
• 1963November 7 – The star-studded movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres in Los Angeles.source
• 1963November 10 – Malcolm X makes a historic speech in Detroit, Michigan ("Message to the Grass Roots").source
• 1963November 23 – The long-running sci-fi television series Doctor Who premieres on BBC TV in the United Kingdom.source
• 1963November 29 – Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).source
• 1963The IEEE Computer Society is founded.source
• 1964January 29 – February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.source
• 1964March 21 – Non ho l'età (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri), sung by Gigliola Cinquetti, wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 (staged in Copenhagen) for Italy.source
• 1964April 13 – At the 36th Academy Awards ceremony, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field.source
• 1964June 14 – Freedom Summer, a volunteer Civil Rights project in the United States intended to promote voter registration for as many African Americans as possible in Mississippi, begins with orientation sessions for the 300 volunteers at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio.source
• 1964July 18 – Judith Graham Pool publishes her discovery of cryoprecipitate, a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat hemophiliacs around the world.source
• 1964August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress for Julie Andrews. It is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best Picture.source
• 1964September 10 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) is founded.source
• 1964September 14 – The London Daily Herald ceases publication, replaced by The Sun.source
• 1964September 18 – In Athens, King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age 18 years, 19 days.source
• 1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
• 1964December 3 – The Danish football club Brøndby IF is founded as a merger between the two local clubs Brøndbyøster Idrætsforening and Brøndbyvester Idrætsforening. The club wins the national championship Danish Superliga 10 times, and the Danish Cups six times, after joining the Danish top-flight football league in 1981.source
• 1964December 3 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.source
• 1964Rudi Gernreich designs the original monokini topless swimsuit in the U.S.source
• 1965January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.source
• 1965March 10 – An engagement is announced between Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven, who will become the first commoner and the first Dutchman to marry into the Dutch royal family.source
• 1965March 20 – "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", sung by France Gall (music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 (staged in Naples) for Luxembourg.source
• 1965March 23 – The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.source
• 1965March 25 – Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.source
• 1965April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Rex Harrison wins an Oscar for Best Actor. Mary Poppins takes home 5 Oscars. Julie Andrews wins an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. Sherman Brothers receives 2 Oscars including Best Song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee".source
• 1965May 9 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returns to the stage after a 12-year absence, performing a legendary concert in Carnegie Hall in New York.source
• 1965May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch with the "Phantom Punch" at the Central Maine Civic Center in Lewiston.source
• 1965May 27 – Internazionale beats Benfica 1–0 at the San Siro, Milan and wins the 1964–65 European Cup in Association football.source
• 1965May 31 – Scottish racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, later this year winning the Formula One world driving championship.source
• 1965September 30 – The classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuts on ITV in the United Kingdom.source
• 1965October 4 – The University of California, Irvine opens its doors.source
• 1965October 30 – English model Jean Shrimpton wears an above-the-knee white shift dress in Orlon to the Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, causing a global sensation in women's fashion.source
• 1965December 5 – The "Glasnost Meeting" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.source
• 1965December 8 – The Race Relations Act becomes the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the UK.source
• 1965December 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS in the United States. It becomes a Christmas tradition.source
• 1965December 21 – A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international cast that includes Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive.source
• 1965December 25 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz.source
• 1966March 5 – Merci, Chérie by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 (staged in Luxembourg) for Austria.source
• 1966March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.source
• 1966April 8 – Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.source
• 1966April 18 – The 38th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Sound of Music wins Best Picture.source
• 1966May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey.source
• 1966May 16 – The Chinese Communist Party issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.source
• 1966May 16 – The Beach Boys releases the album Pet Sounds.source
• 1966May 29 – Sports stadium Estadio Azteca officially opens in Mexico City in advance of the 1968 Summer Olympics.source
• 1966June 29 – The strike by the National Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom is called off.source
• 1966June 30 – The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, D.C.source
• 1966June 30 – Australia's semi-decennial census took place.source
• 1966July 11 – The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.source
• 1966July 29 – La Noche de los Bastones Largos: Junta takes over Argentine universities.source
• 1966July 30 – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.source
• 1966August 5 – the Beatles releases the album Revolver, in the UK.source
• 1966August 22 – The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), is formed.source
• 1966August 22 – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is established.source
• 1966August 29 – the Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.source
• 1966September 16 – In South Vietnam, Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike.source
• 1966September 16 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.source
• 1966October 6 – The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).source
• 1966November 2 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residency in the United States.source
• 1966November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball ("The Party of the Century") is held in New York City.source
• 1966December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US (a black nationalist group) and chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, from 1989 to 2002.source
• 1967February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an 8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9.source
• 1967March 4 – Queens Park Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium, defeating West Bromwich Albion 3–2.source
• 1967April 8 – Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.source
• 1967April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons.source
• 1967April 23 – A group of young leftist radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).source
• 1967April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson igniting the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations.source
• 1967May 1 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.source
• 196725 May – Celtic F.C. defeat Inter Milan 2–1 in Lisbon to win the European Cup, becoming the first British football club to win the competition. The team, later nicknamed the Lisbon Lions, was composed entirely of players born within 30 miles of Glasgow.source
• 1967May 26 – The Beatles release the groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United Kingdom. It becomes one of the most influential albums in popular music history.source
• 1967June 10 – Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.source
• 1967June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.source
• 1967July 1 – Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.source
• 1967July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. The first one is from the Wimbledon tennis championships. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.source
• 1967August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light on Aug. 6 last year [...]".source
• 1967August 7 – A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.source
• 1967September 3 – At 5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.<source
• 1967September 17 – Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.source
• 1967October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.source
• 1967October 26 – The coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place.source
• 1967November 7 – The 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.source
• 1967November 7 – Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a major United States city.source
• 1967November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include "All You Need Is Love", "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Baby, You're a Rich Man" and "Hello, Goodbye". Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.source
• 1967December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK, while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the UK and in the US.source
• 1967December 12 – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, one of the seminal race relations films of the 1960s, is released to theaters.source
• 1968February 6–18 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.source
• 1968February 19 – The television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premieres on National Educational Television in the United States and becomes one of the longest running children's shows ever.source
• 1968March 1 – First performance of an Andrew Lloyd Webber–Tim Rice musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in its original form as a "pop cantata", by pupils of a private school in London.source
• 1968March 8 – The first student protests spark the 1968 Polish political crisis.source
• 1968March 19–23 – Afrocentrism, Black Power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.source
• 1968March 22 – René Riesel and 7 other enragés students occupy the administrative offices of the new Nanterre campus of the University of Paris as part of protests over a rigid educational system, setting in motion a chain of 'May 68' events that lead France to the brink of revolution.source
• 1968April 4 – AEK Athens wins the FIBA European Cup Winners Cup Final in basketball against Slavia Prague, in front of a record attendance of 80,000 spectators. It is the first major European trophy won at club level of any sport in Greece.source
• 1968April 6 – 13th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winning song, Spain's "La, la, la" (music and lyrics by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) is sung in Spanish by Massiel after Spanish authorities refuse to allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan. The United Kingdom finishes in second place, one point behind, with the song "Congratulations" sung by Cliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe.source
• 1968May 18 – West Bromwich Albion win the English Football Association Cup, defeating Everton 1–0 after extra time. The winning goal is scored by Jeff Astle.source
• 1968May 29 – Manchester United F.C. wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.source
• 1968June 10 – Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Championship in Association football. The original final on June 8 ended 1–1.source
• 1968June 12 – The horror film Rosemary's Baby premieres in the U.S.source
• 1968July 20 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.source
• 1968August 1 – The Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul is established in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo.source
• 1968August 29 – Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years.source
• 1968September 11 – John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir at the BBC Proms in London.source
• 1968October 10 – The Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series in baseball in seven games.source
• 1968October 12–27 – The 1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City, Mexico.source
• 1968October 16 – 1968 Olympics Black Power salute: In Mexico City, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a Black Power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres (with the support of Australian silver medallist Peter Norman).source
• 1968October 25 – Rock band Led Zeppelin make their first live performance, at Surrey University in Englandsource
• 1968November 22 – The Beatles ("The White Album") and The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society are released.source
• 1968December 9 – Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco, together with the computer mouse, at what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos".source
• 1968December 11 – The film Oliver! based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.source
• 1968December 22 – Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the countryside. It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement.source
• 1969January 12 – The New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts 16–7 in Super Bowl III.source
• 1969February 8 – After 147 years, the last weekly issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.)source
• 1969March 20 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam.source
• 1969March 22 – UCLA wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.source
• 1969March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.source
• 1969April 8 – The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball's first team outside the United States.source
• 1969May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.source
• 1969May 29 – Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina.source
• 1969May 30 – Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.source
• 1969June 27 – Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada.source
• 1969August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.source
• 1969September 1 – For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969.source
• 1969September 13 – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS, starting the Scooby-Doo franchise.source
• 1969September 25 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded.source
• 1969September 26 – The Beatles release their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road in the United Kingdomsource
• 1969October 11–16 – The New York Mets upset the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series.source
• 1969October 20 – Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published.source
• 1969November 10 – The television series Sesame Street premiered on National Educational Television, becoming the most famous preschool television series of all time.source
• 1969Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.source
• 1970March 16 – The complete New English Bible is published in the UK.source
• 1970March 20 – The Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT) is founded.source
• 1970March 21 – "All Kinds of Everything", sung by Dana (music and lyrics by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 (staged in Amsterdam) for Ireland.source
• 1970April 10 – In a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has left The Beatles.source
• 1970April 26 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.source
• 1970June 21 – Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. As 3-times winner, they keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently (but it is subsequently stolen and lost).source
• 1970July 31 – Black Tot Day, the last daily distribution of one-eighth of an imperial pint of rum to sailors of the British Royal Navy, an amount that had been dispensed since 1866.source
• 1970August 11 – Creation of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts in Confolens, France.source
• 1970September 22 – The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.source
• 1970December 5 – Fluminense win the Brazil Football Championship.source
• 1971January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom All in the Family, starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS.source
• 1971January 18 – Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship in wrestling ending a seven and two thirds years reign, the longest in the Championships history.source
• 1971March 5 – In Belfast, a Led Zeppelin show includes the first public performance of "Stairway to Heaven," a song from the band's fourth album.source
• 1971March 11 – THX 1138, George Lucas' first full-length film, premieres in theaters.source
• 1971March 12–13 – The Allman Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East.source
• 1971April 23 - The Rolling Stones release their ninth studio album Sticky Fingers.source
• 1971April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets in four games to win their first NBA championship.source
• 1971May 3 – Arsenal F.C. wins the English League First Division championship at the home of their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. (Arsenal will go on to win the league and cup 'double' six days later by defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup final).source
• 1971July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.source
• 1971July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971.source
• 1971August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend The Concert for Bangladesh.source
• 1971August 2 – U.S. department store chain J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.source
• 1971August 15–September 5 – The 1971 Women's World Cup in Association football (an event not recognized by FIFA) is staged in Mexico: Denmark will be the winners.source
• 1971September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.source
• 1971September 9 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine. Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.source
• 1971October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles 4–3 in Game 4 of the World Series at home in the first ever Major League Baseball postseason game played at night. The Pirates defeat the Orioles 2–1 in the decisive Game 7 at Baltimore four days later.source
• 1971October 14 – The largest state banquet in history is held at the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, marking the symbolic Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire.source
• 1971October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1971 World Series.source
• 1971October 24 – Texas Stadium opens in Irving, Texas. In the inaugural game, the host Dallas Cowboys defeat the New England Patriots 44–21.source
• 1971October 30 – Rev. Ian Paisley founds the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.source
• 1971October 30 – Meddle, the critically acclaimed album by progressive rock band Pink Floyd, is released.source
• 1971November 8 – Led Zeppelin release their fourth studio album Led Zeppelin IV, which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies in the United States.source
• 1971December 10 – The John Sinclair Freedom Rally in support of the imprisoned activist features a performance by John Lennon at Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan.source
• 1971December 19 – Clube Atlético Mineiro wins the Brazil Football Championship.source
• 1972January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederik IX, on the throne of Denmark, the first queen regnant of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.source
• 1972February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.source
• 1972March 22 – Eisenstadt v. Baird: The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couplessource
• 1972March 25 – "Après toi" sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 (staged in Edinburgh) for Luxembourg.source
• 1972April 10 – The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.source
• 1972May 23 – The Tamil United Front (later known as Tamil United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded in Sri Lanka.source
• 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
• 1972July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado.source
• 1972July 11 – The long anticipated chess match between world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, and United States champion Bobby Fischer, begins in Iceland at Reykjavík.source
• 1972July 24 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck succeeds his father Jigme Dorji Wangchuck as King of Bhutan.source
• 1972August 26–September 10 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.source
• 1972September 1 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.source
• 1972October 1 – Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published.source
• 1972October 22 – The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia.source
• 1972November 16 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.source
• 1973January 22 – The Sunshine Showdown: George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica.source
• 1973March 27 – At the 45th Academy Awards, The Godfather wins best picture.source
• 1973April 7 – Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 for Luxembourg.source
• 1973October 20 – The Sydney Opera House in Australia is opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.source
• 1973November 8 – Millennium '73, a festival hosted by Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the "most significant event in human history".source
• 1974March 26 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, use their bodies to surround trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.source
• 1974April 5 – Carrie, the debut novel by Stephen King, is published.source
• 1974April 6 – Swedish pop group ABBA's song "Waterloo" wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK.source
• 1974April 6 – The first California Jam festival takes place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Co-headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The festival set what were then records for the loudest amplification system ever installed, the highest paid attendance, and highest gross in history.source
• 1974April 8 – In Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth as the all-time home run king.source
• 1974June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup Association football tournament began in West Germany.source
• 1974July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The West German football team is awarded the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.source
• 1974September 12 – African Youth Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.source
• 1974November 1 – The World Tourism Organization (WTO) is established.source
• 1974November 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.source
• 1974The first Standing Conference of Eastern, Central, and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) occurred in Dar es Salaam.source
• 1975March 1 – Aston Villa win the English Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in the final.source
• 1975March 22 – "Ding-a-dong" by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, lyrics by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 (staged in Stockholm) for the Netherlands.source
• 1975May 3 – West Ham United win the FA Cup at Wembley, beating Fulham 2–0 in the final.source
• 1975June 9 – The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.source
• 1975November 11 – The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.source
• 1975South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.source
• 1976February 4 – The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.source
• 1976April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.source
• 1976April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.source
• 1976May 24 – The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.source
• 1976June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.source
• 1976June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.source
• 1976July 17 – The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.source
• 1976July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.source
• 1976July 30 – Bruce Jenner wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.source
• 1976July 30 – In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football.source
• 1976August 1 – The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.source
• 1976August 14 – Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.source
• 1976August 26 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.source
• 1976August 29 – The first Women in Print Conference is held in Omaha, Nebraska. Over 130 women from 80 feminist organizations and collectives attend the gathering, which was associated with the women in print movement.source
• 1976September 6 – Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.source
• 1976November 3 – Carrie, an American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma, is premiered in 17 theaters in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area.source
• 1976Marc Brown's Arthur's Nose is published.source
• 1977March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.source
• 1977April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in the UK.source
• 1977June 25 – The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.source
• 1977July 1 – The Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.source
• 1977September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.source
• 1977October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.source
• 1977October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release.source
• 1977November 8 – San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.source
• 1977November 8 – Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.source
• 1977November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
• 1978January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II.source
• 1978January 24 – Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison since the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.source
• 1978February 11 – The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.source
• 1978March 18 – California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans.source
• 1978April 1 – The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.source
• 1978April 2 – Dallas debuts on CBS, and gives birth to the modern day primetime soap opera.source
• 1978April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Annie Hall winning Best Picture.source
• 1978April 22 – The One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.source
• 1978April 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance, after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Miami-Dade County, Florida.source
• 1978May 18 – Sarajevo is selected to host the 1984 Winter Olympics, and Los Angeles is selected to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.source
• 1978May 25 – In a rematch of the previous season, the Montreal Canadiens again defeat the Boston Bruins, this time four games to two, to win the Stanley Cup.source
• 1978May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.source
• 1978June 1 – The 1978 FIFA World Cup starts in Argentina.source
• 1978June 10 – Affirmed holds off Alydar to win the Belmont Stakes and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015.source
• 1978June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.source
• 1978June 24 – The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark the 9th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival).source
• 1978June 25 – Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1978June 25 – The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.source
• 1978July 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe.source
• 1978September 24 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.source
• 1978October 2 – Mommie Dearest, written by Christina Crawford that discusses her adoptive mother Joan Crawford's abusive nature, is published. It is the first celebrity tell-all memoir.source
• 1978October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall riots.source
• 1978December 22 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue the reform and opening up.source
• 1978Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time.source
• 1979January 9 – The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by the Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album is later released.source
• 1979March 8 – Thousands of women participate in the International Women's Day Protests in Tehran, 1979 against the introduction of mandatory veiling during the Iranian revolution.source
• 1979March 26 – Michigan State University, led by Earvin "Magic" Johnson, defeats Larry Bird-led Indiana State 75–64 in the NCAA tournament championship game at Salt Lake City.source
• 1979March 31 – Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.source
• 1979April 1 – Dale Earnhardt Sr. wins his first career NASCAR race at the 1979 Southeastern 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. He would go on to win 76 races and seven championships during his career.source
• 1979April 2 – In Japan, the channel of TV Asahi premieres Doraemon.source
• 1979June 1 – The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.source
• 1979June 2 – Los Angeles' city council passes the city's first homosexual rights bill signed without fanfare by mayor Tom Bradley.source
• 1979June 9–23 – The 1979 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.source
• 1979June 13 – The 1979 NHL Expansion Draft takes place, restocking the franchises from Edmonton, Hartford, Quebec, and Winnipeg, which are being admitted from the WHA as expansion teams.source
• 1979June 24 – The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, is founded in Bologna at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.source
• 1979July 5 – Queen Elizabeth II attends the millennium celebrations of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald.source
• 1979July 21 – Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe pageant; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.source
• 1979August 4 – Opening game of the American Football Bundesliga played between Frankfurter Löwen and Düsseldorf Panther, first-ever league game of American football in Germany.source
• 1979August 6 – Bauhaus releases their debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead", considered to be the first gothic rock release.source
• 1979August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album.source
• 1979August 17 – The controversial religious satirical film Monty Python's Life of Brian premieres in the United States.source
• 1979October 12 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first novel by Douglas Adams, is published in the United Kingdomsource
• 1979October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates become only the fourth MLB team (as well as the only MLB franchise to accomplish the feat twice) to recover from a 3-games-to-1 deficit to win the 1979 World Series.source
• 1979November 5 – The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio in the United States.source
• 1979November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympic Games and international sports tournaments and championships.source
• 1979November 30 – The Wall, a rock opera concept album by Pink Floyd, is first released.source
• 1979December 6 – The world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.source
• 1979December 15 – The directorial debut of Hayao Miyazaki, The Castle of Cagliostro, is released in Japan.source
• 1980January 1 – Changes to the succession to the Swedish throne come into effect, introducing absolute primogeniture, thus placing Crown Princess Victoria first in line to the throne (heir apparent), ahead of her baby brother. Sweden is the first monarchy to adopt this rule of succession. Members of the royal family may also now marry commoners without losing their place in the succession.source
• 1980February 13 – The 1980 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.source
• 1980March 8 – The Soviet Union's first rock music festival starts.source
• 1980April 14 – Iron Maiden's debut self-titled album Iron Maiden is released in the U.K.source
• 1980May 1 – "About that Urban Renaissance...", an article by journalist Dan Rottenberg in Chicago, contains the first recorded use of the word "yuppie".source
• 1980July 19–August 3 – The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union. As 82 countries boycott the Games, athletes from 16 of them participate under a neutral flag.source
• 1980August 3 – The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow officially ends.source
• 1980September 2 – Ford Europe launches the Escort MK3, a new front-wheel-drive hatchback. Punk band Dead Kennedys release their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.source
• 1980October 21 – In Major League Baseball, The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League defeat the Kansas City Royals of the American League, 4–1, in Game Six of the World Series to win the championship.source
• 1980December 15 – The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (Academy of the Asturian language) is created.source
• 1981January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz following his death on December 24.source
• 1981March 17 – In Italy, the Propaganda Due Masonic lodge is discovered.source
• 1981March 29 – The first London Marathon starts, with 7,500 runners.source
• 1981April 18 – A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).source
• 1981May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., from among 1,421 other entries.source
• 1981June 7 – Operation Opera: The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician.source
• 1981June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, teenager Marcus Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots close to Queen Elizabeth II, startling her horse.source
• 1981July 16–21 – England become the first team this century to win a cricket Test match after the follow-on when they beat Australia by 18 runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.source
• 1981September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.source
• 1981September 19 – Solidarity Day march, in support of organized labor, draws approximately 250,000 people in Washington, D.C.source
• 1982January 24 – The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals to win Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.source
• 1982March 18 – A legal case brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse against the National Theatre of Britain concerning alleged obscenity in the play The Romans in Britain ends after the Attorney General intervenes.source
• 1982March 29 – Freshman Michael Jordan hits a jumper with 17 seconds remaining to lift the North Carolina Tar Heels to a 63–62 win over the Georgetown Hoyas in the 1982 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.source
• 1982March 29 – The 54th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture and 3 other Academy Awards.source
• 1982April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.source
• 1982May 26 – English club Aston Villa F.C. wins the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 after a 69th-minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam.source
• 1982June 13 – The 1982 FIFA World Cup in Association football begins in Spain.source
• 1982July 11 – Italy beats West Germany 3–1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.source
• 1982September 18 – The funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco takes place.source
• 1982November 20 – The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded.source
• 1982November 20 – University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who have prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.source
• 1982November 28 – The Edmonton Eskimos win an unprecedented 5th consecutive Grey Cup – a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise – to win the 70th Grey Cup, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 32–16.source
• 1982November 29 – Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, Thriller, in the United States, which will go on to be the best-selling album of all time.source
• 1983January 30 – The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins to win Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.source
• 1983April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament.source
• 1983May 16 – Michael Jackson performs the Moonwalk for the first time while performing "Billie Jean" on the Motown 25 television special.source
• 1983May 20 – Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declare that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and publish their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.source
• 1983May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.source
• 1983June 9–25 – The 1983 Cricket World Cup is held in England with India defeating West Indies in the final.source
• 1983June 18–19 – The team of Vern Schuppan, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans.source
• 1983June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.source
• 1983July 11 – Reading Rainbow debuts on PBS.source
• 1983September 19 – Press Your Luck premieres on CBS.source
• 1983December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.source
• 1984January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album 1984 (MCMLXXXIV), which debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the United States.source
• 1984February 8–19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.source
• 1984February 23 – TED (conference) is founded.source
• 1984April 15 – The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.source
• 1984April 19 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.source
• 1984May 5 – The Herreys' song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg. It subsequently becomes a top-ten hit in five European countries.source
• 1984May 8 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.source
• 1984June 16 – The Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil is founded.source
• 1984July 28–August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.source
• 1984October 2 - John Schnatter founded Papa John's in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.source
• 1984October 14 – The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in game five of the 1984 World Series to win the franchise's 4th championship.source
• 1984October 26 – The science fiction action film The Terminator premieres. It is the third film directed by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Michael Biehn.source
• 1984November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.source
• 1985February 25 – Tears for Fears release their second studio album, Songs from the Big Chair, which includes the hit singles "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."source
• 1985March 18 – Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours, debuts on Seven Network.source
• 1985March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.source
• 1985March 31 – The inaugural WrestleMania is held in Madison Square Garden, New York, and is "main-evented" by Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs. Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper in a tag-team match.source
• 1985April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.source
• 1985May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.source
• 1985June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.source
• 1985November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.source
• 1985December 1 – The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Spanish: Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura; OEI) is created.source
• 1985The Union for Aromanian Language and Culture, an Aromanian cultural organization, is founded in Freiburg im Breisgau by the Aromanian professor Vasile Barba.source
• 1986January 21 – Conservative protestors attacked a mock shanty town that had been erected on the Green at Dartmouth College as part of anti-apartheid protests.source
• 1986March 3 – The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.source
• 1986March 24 – The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture.source
• 1986April 29 – The diamond jubilee of Hirohito is held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.source
• 1986May 26 – Swedish rock band Europe releases its third studio album, The Final Countdown. The title track would become one of the band's most notable works, achieving global success.source
• 1986June 22 – In one of the most famous FIFA World Cup matches, Argentinian football player Diego Maradona scores one handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire English football team to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2–1 against England.source
• 1986June 29 – Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 in the final to win the 1986 World Cup at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.source
• 1986July 5 – 20 – The inaugural Goodwill Games are held in Moscow, marking the first international event in a decade for competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.source
• 1986July 11 – The New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act decriminalizes consensual sex between men from the age of 16.source
• 1986September 1 – Jordan University of Science and Technology is established in Jordan.source
• 1986October 9 – The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.source
• 1986October 16 – The International Olympic Committee chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Barcelona, Spain to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics. The IOC also announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year; and the summer games on every leap year starting from 1992.source
• 1986October 25 – A routine slow roller slips through Bill Buckner's legs, allowing the New York Mets to complete a stunning comeback in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox. The Mets won 6–5 in 10 innings.source
• 1986October 27 – The New York Mets win 4 games to 3 in the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox.source
• 1986December 6 – Johnny Hallyday released his 35th album Gang.source
• 1986The band Sweet Children (now known as Green Day) was formed by the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong.source
• 1987March 29 – The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces WrestleMania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at AT&T Stadium.source
• 1987March 30 – The 59th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles, with Platoon winning Best Picture.source
• 1987May 4 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Rotary Int'l v. Rotary Club of Duarte that local Rotary Clubs do not have a constitutional right to deny membership to women. Other clubs thereafter comply with the ruling: Lions International begins admitting women in June, and Kiwanis Club in July.source
• 1987May 22 – The inaugural Rugby World Cup hosted by both New Zealand and Australia kicks off. In the opening match of the new tournament, New Zealand beat Italy in the pool stage.source
• 1987May 27 – At the Prater Stadium of Vienna, Porto of Portugal defeats Bayern München of West Germany 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.source
• 1987June 20 – New Zealand wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup after beating France in the final.source
• 1987June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the June Democracy Movement.source
• 1987August 19 – The Order of the Garter is opened to women.source
• 1987August 31 – Michael Jackson releases Bad, his first studio album since Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the US, a record which has not been broken.source
• 1987September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.source
• 1987October 8–November 8 – The 1987 Cricket World Cup is held in India and Pakistan with Australia defeating England in the final.source
• 1987October 25 – The Minnesota Twins won 4 games to 3 in the 1987 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.source
• 1987November 7 – The Soviet Union celebrates the 70th Anniversary of The October Revolution with a Parade on Moscow's Red Square.source
• 1988February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.source
• 1988March 25 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia, is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the socialist government in Czechoslovakia.source
• 1988June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.source
• 1988June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.source
• 1988July 1 – The Soviet Union votes to end the CPSU's monopoly on economic and other non-political power and to further economic changes towards a less rigidly Marxist-Leninist economy.source
• 1988September 15 – The International Olympic Committee awards Lillehammer the right to host the 1994 Winter Olympics.source
• 1988September 17–October 2 – The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.source
• 1988October 20 – The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4 games to 1 in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.source
• 1989February 24 – Singing Revolution: After 44 years, the Estonian flag is raised at the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn.source
• 1989February 24 – The state funeral of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) in Tokyo is attended by leaders and representatives of 160 nations.source
• 1989March 1 – After 74 years, Iceland ends its prohibition on beer; celebrated since as bjórdagur or beer day.source
• 1989March 20 – Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.source
• 1989March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Rain Man winning Best Picture, and Jodie Foster wins her first award for Best Actress.source
• 1989April 21 – Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.source
• 1989May 15 – Australia's first private tertiary institution, Bond University, opens on the Gold Coast.source
• 1989May 17 – In Stuttgart, Diego Maradona of Napoli wins the Uefa Cup.source
• 1989May 17 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests: More than 1,000,000 Chinese protesters march through Beijing demanding greater democracy, leading to a crackdown.source
• 1989May 29 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests: The 10 m ft high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.source
• 1989June 16 – A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in 1958.source
• 1989June 22 – The University of Limerick and Dublin City University are raised to the status of universities, the first established in Ireland since independence in 1922.source
• 1989June 22 – British police arrest 260 people celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.source
• 1989July 5 – The television sitcom Seinfeld premieres in the United States.source
• 1989July 14 – France celebrated the bicentennial of the French Revolution, notably with a monumental show on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, directed by French designer Jean-Paul Goude. President François Mitterrand acted as host for invited world leaders.source
• 1989August 19 – The Pan-European Picnic, a peace demonstration, is held at the Austro-Hungarian border.source
• 1989September 22 – Doe v. University of Michigan: A Michigan court rules against the hate speech law at the University of Michigan, claiming it unconstitutional.source
• 1989September 27 – The constitutional amendments were approved by Assembly of Socialist Republic of Slovenia which changed the anthem from Naprej zastava slave to Zdravljica and League of Communists of Slovenia ended the monopoly power and reintroduced Parliamentary democracy to the republic.source
• 1989October 7 – The communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party votes to reorganise itself as a socialist party, to be named the Hungarian Socialist Party.source
• 1989November 7 – David Dinkins becomes the first African-American mayor of New York City.source
• 1989November 10 – After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.source
• 1989November 17 – Walt Disney Pictures 28th animated film, The Little Mermaid and United Artists's All Dogs Go to Heaven are both released in theatres.source
• 1989December 17 – The first full-length episode of the animated series of The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening made its debut on FOX in the United States with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".source
• 1989December 19 – Romanian Revolution: Workers in the cities go on strike in protest against the Communist regime. On December 20 about 100,000 occupy Timișoara.source
• 1990January 1 – The comedy television series of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean first airs on ITV in the United Kingdom.source
• 1990January 1 – Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.source
• 1990January 1 – Poland becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its state socialist controls.source
• 1990March 8 – The Nintendo World Championships are held within the Fair Park's Automobile Building, kickstarting an almost year long gaming competition across 29 American cities.source
• 1990March 18 – Twelve paintings and a Shang dynasty vase, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by two thieves posing as police officers.source
• 1990March 26 – The 62nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, with Driving Miss Daisy winning Best Picture.source
• 1990April 19 – Washington, DC post-hardcore band Fugazi release their debut studio album Repeater on Dischord Records.source
• 1990June 8 – The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital HDTV in history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until 2004.source
• 1990June 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic holds its inaugural conference in Moscow.source
• 1990July 7–8 – In tennis, Martina Navratilova of the United States wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles and Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins the 1990 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles.source
• 1990July 8 – 1990 FIFA World Cup final (Association football): West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.source
• 1990July 10 – The UEFA lifts the five-year ban on English association football teams competing in Continental Europe after the Heysel Stadium disaster, although Liverpool F.C. will remain banned for a further three years.source
• 1990September 18 – The International Olympic Committee awards the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.source
• 1990September 29 – The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, was inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.source
• 1990The Messeturm skyscraper in Frankfurt is completed, making it the tallest building in Europe, a distinction it will carry until 1997, when it is surpassed by the Commerzbank Tower, also in Frankfurt.source
• 1990November 7 – The final military parade to mark the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution takes place in the USSR.source
• 1990November 7 – Mary Robinson defeats odds-on favorite Brian Lenihan to become the first female President of Ireland.source
• 1990December 30 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.source
• 1991February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is formed in The Hague, Netherlands.source
• 1991April 14 – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; they are found in an abandoned car near the museum less than an hour later.source
• 1991May 6 – In the U.S., Time magazine publishes "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power," an article highly critical of the Scientology movement.source
• 1991August 11 – Nickelodeon introduces its series of Nicktoons, with Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show set three air premieres.source
• 1991August 17 – The remains of the Prussian King Frederick the Great are re-interred in Potsdam, Germany.source
• 1991August 25 – Michael Schumacher, regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers in history, makes his Formula One debut at the Belgian Grand Prix.source
• 1991September 17 – Home Improvement premieres on ABC.source
• 1991October 3–November 2 – The 1991 Rugby World Cup takes place in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and France and is won by Australia who beat England in the final.source
• 1991November 7 – The first report on carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in Nature.source
• 1991November 14 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile.source
• 1991December 16 – The UN General Assembly adopts UN General Assembly Resolution 46/86, repealing a previous resolution adopted in 1975 which had ruled that Zionism is a form of racism.source
• 1992February 6 – The Ruby Jubilee of Elizabeth II commemorates 40 years since the accession of Elizabeth II as Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.source
• 1992February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.source
• 1992March 18 – White South Africans vote in favour of political reforms which will end the apartheid regime and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.source
• 1992May 10 – Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Czechoslovakia defeating Finland, 5–2, in the final game in Prague.source
• 1992June 10–26 – Sweden hosts the UEFA Euro 1992 football tournament, which is won by Denmark.source
• 1992June 26 – Denmark beats Germany 2–0 in the final to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.source
• 1992July 25–August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.source
• 1992October 19 – The Chinese Communist Party promotes several market-oriented reformers to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.source
• 1993March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.source
• 1993April 20 – The Council for National Academic Awards, the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom, is officially dissolved.source
• 1993May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with In Your Eyes.source
• 1993June 22 – Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.source
• 1993July 5 – Electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi is appointed rector (president) of Kuwait University, the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.source
• 1993August 25 – Boris Yeltsin, on an official state visit to Poland, lays a wreath at the Katyn memorial.source
• 1993August 28 – The first Power Rangers series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (an adaptation of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger), premieres in the United States.source
• 1993September 23 – The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia, to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.source
• 1993October 23 – The Toronto Blue Jays repeat as World Series champions, becoming the first team to win back-to-back titles since the 1977–1978 New York Yankees.source
• 1994February 12 – The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.source
• 1994March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).source
• 1994April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the "Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during apartheid.source
• 1994May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.source
• 1994June 17 – The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.source
• 1994July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).source
• 1994August 12 – Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York, United States, marking the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.source
• 1994September 14 – The 1994 World Series in baseball is officially cancelled due to the ongoing work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904.source
• 1994November 5 – American boxer George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.source
• 1994November 11 – Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, is established.source
• 1995January 1 – Final The Far Side comic by Gary Larson is published.source
• 1995January 10–15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in Quirino Grandstand.source
• 1995May 25 – June 24 – The 1995 Rugby World Cup takes place in South Africa and is won by the host nation after beating New Zealand in the final; this was the Springboks tournament debut after World Rugby lifted their ban following the end of apartheid.source
• 1995June 16 – The IOC selects Salt Lake City to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.source
• 1995August – The International Rugby Football Board declares that rugby union players may be professional.source
• 1995September 4–15 – The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.source
• 1995November 12 – The Millbrook Commonwealth Action Programme, a programme to implement the Harare Declaration, is announced by the Commonwealth Heads of Government.source
• 1995December 3 – Strikes paralyze France's public sector.source
• 1996March 17 – Sri Lanka wins the Cricket World Cup by beating Australia in the final.source
• 1996March 25 – The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Braveheart winning Best Picture.source
• 1996May 18 – The X Prize Foundation launches the $10,000,000 Ansari X Prize.source
• 1996June 8–30 – England hosts the UEFA Euro 1996 football tournament, which is won by Germany.source
• 1996June 29 – The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.source
• 1996July 19 – The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, begin.source
• 1996July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the United States kills one person and injures 111.source
• 1996August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.source
• 1996August 15 – Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for vice president, at the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.source
• 1996August 29 – U.S. president Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.source
• 1997June 21 – The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) plays its first game at The Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.source
• 1997June 26 – Publication of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies.source
• 1997September 5 – The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.source
• 1997September 27 – The sports-fused entertainment TV program SASUKE started on TBS in Japan.source
• 1997November 18 - Metallica released the album Reload internationally.source
• 1998February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.source
• 1998February 12 - The Flag of the Philippines gets a minor redesign, changing its blue and red shades.source
• 1998February 20 – Rudy Giuliani kicks off his "quality of life" campaign in New York City, focused on increasing civility and reducing nuisances like littering and reckless driving.source
• 1998March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.source
• 1998May 26 – Australia holds its first National Sorry Day.source
• 1998June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.source
• 1998September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.source
• 1998November 3 – South Carolina voters repeal the state's 103-year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage, making Alabama the last U.S. state with such a ban in place.source
• 1998November 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.source
• 1999January 10 – American crime drama series The Sopranos premieres on HBO, beginning what many commentators describe as the second “Golden Age of Television”.source
• 1999March 21 – The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture.source
• 1999March 28 – The adult animated sitcom Futurama premiered on Fox.source
• 1999May 1 – Children's animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.source
• 1999May 14–June 20 – The 1999 Cricket World Cup is held in England, (some matches in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands), with Australia defeating Pakistan in the final.source
• 1999May 28 – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.source
• 1999June 18 – The J18 international anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the world, some of which led to riots.source
• 1999June 19 – Turin, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics.source
• 1999June 20 – Australia defeats Pakistan by 8 wickets at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in the 1999 Cricket World Cup Final, securing their second World Cup title.source
• 1999July 7 – In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs the fastest mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13.source
• 1999July 10 – American soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning penalty kick against China in the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup.source
• 1999October 1–November 6 – The 1999 Rugby World Cup, the first World Cup in the professional era of rugby is held in Wales and is won by Australia who beat France in the final.source
• 1999October 25 – Telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea debuts on RCN Televisión in Colombia. It will give rise to Ugly Betty and at least a dozen other versions worldwide.source
• 1999December 5 – Bolivian municipal elections, the first election contested by Evo Morales' Movimiento al Socialismo.source
• 1999December 31 – Millennium celebrations: A series of worldwide celebrations mark the end of 1999 and the beginning of the year 2000, popularly regarded as the start of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, with fireworks displays, concerts, and public festivities held across the globe.source