Exploration & Expansion in the 20th century

1,141 sourced entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE, oldest first. Also see Exploration & Expansion across every century or everything else in the 20th century.

1900January 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.source
1900January 2 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.United States source
1900January 15 — Li Hongzhang, Viceroy of Liangguang, visited Hong Kong and met with Governor Henry Arthur Blake.China source
1900February 16 – The British-sponsored Southern Cross Expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieves a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.source
1900March 5 – Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.source
1900March 16 – British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.source
190023 April–12 May – the Automobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motor rally over a circular route from London to Edinburgh and return.Scotland source
1900May – American explorer Robert Peary is the first person to sight Kaffeklubben Island.source
1900May–June — Tour of Pacific islands by Prime Minister Richard Seddon. Tonga, Niue, Fiji and the Cook Islands are visited.New Zealand source
1900June 10–28 — Seymour ExpeditionChina source
1900July 12 – The new German cruise liner SS Deutschland breaks the record for the Blue Riband on her maiden transatlantic voyage with an average speed of 22.4 kn.source
19008 August – Natal – Park Rynie to Umzinto, 10 mi 40 ch.South Africa source
1900'Moira O'Neill' published Songs of the Glens of Antrim.Ireland source
1900Russian polar expedition of 1900–02Russia source
1901January 31 – A new emigration law (Law 23 of 31 January 1901) creates the Commissariat of Emigration, a technical organ under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to unify migration services hitherto dispersed among various ministries. The law of 1901 and subsequent legislation empowered the Commissariat to grant licenses to carriers, enforcing fixed ticket costs, keeping order at ports of embarkation, providing health inspection for those leaving, setting up hostels and care facilities and arranging agreements with receiving countries to help care for those arriving. The Commissariat tried to take care of emigrants before they left and after they arrived. The law was ratified with decree 375 of 10 July 1901. Seasonal migration had developed across the Atlantic: peasants from southern Italy went to work in the Argentina or the United States in November and returned in the spring for agricultural jobs in Italy. Most emigrants came back, but over 1.5 million Italians must have left their native country for good between 1901 and 1911.Italy source
190124 February - The Expointer agricultural show is launched in Porto Alegre.Brazil source
1901May 28 – D'Arcy Concession: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar of Persia grants British businessman William Knox D'Arcy a concession giving him an exclusive right to prospect for oil.source
19016 June – Discovery leaves Dundee for London in preparation for its expedition south.Scotland source
1901August 6 – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail from Britain on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.source
1901September 16 – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) arrive in Quebec City. They visit all provinces (except Prince Edward Island) and the districts of Assiniboia and Alberta in the North-West Territories. They also visit Newfoundland before leaving North America.Canada source
1901October 4 – The American yacht Columbia defeats the Irish Shamrock in the America's Cup yachting race in New York.United States source
1901October 24 – Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.source
1901November 1 – Standard Bank opens its second branch in Johannesburg on Eloff Street.South Africa source
1901December - Scientist José María Sobral joins the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Buenos Aires, thus becoming the first Argentine to set foot on Antarctica.Argentina source
1901The New Zealand red ensign became the official flag for merchant vessels.New Zealand source
1902February – The town of Crofton, British Columbia, is founded on Vancouver IslandCanada source
1902July 14 – Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".source
1902July 22 – Felix Pedro discovers gold in modern-day Fairbanks, Alaska.United States source
1902September 14–30 – Prime Minister Zanardelli undertakes a journey through Basilicata – one of the poorest regions in Italy – to see for himself the problems in the Mezzogiorno.Italy source
19022 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.Scotland source
1902November 15 – The Hanoi exhibition opens in French Indochina.source
1902December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.source
1902Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay.South Africa source
1902Euclides da Cunha - Os SertõesBrazil source
1902Auckland Trotting Cup: Van DiemanNew Zealand source
1902230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.Wales source
190319 February – Cape Central – Swellendam to Riversdale, 64 mi.South Africa source
19036 April – South Australian Government prospecting expedition, was the first major expedition Herbert Basedow participated in. Its purpose was to inspect the Musgrave, Mann and Tomkinson ranges and neighbouring areas for signs of gold and other mineral deposits.Australia source
1903April – Norwegians begin whaling from Shetland.Scotland source
1903May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.source
190310 August – The Oseberg ship, a well-preserved Viking ship from the 9th century, was discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in the Vestfold county.Norway source
190314 November - End of the lock-out at Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda (begun 1900), the longest major industrial dispute in British history.Wales source
190314 December – Cape Eastern – King William's Town to Middledrift, 33 mi.South Africa source
1903December 16 – The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai), India opens.source
1903The Cork International Exhibition was re-opened.Ireland source
19031903 New Zealand rugby union tour of AustraliaNew Zealand source
190410 January - The Swedish Antarctic Expedition returns to Stockholm.Sweden source
1904March 6 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.source
190417 April – Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy replaces Maurice Joostens as Belgian ambassador to ChinaBelgium source
1904April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).source
1904May 5 – British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men.source
1904May 14 – SS Scharnhorst (passenger liner)Germany source
1904August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet.source
1904September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.source
1904September – Stuyvesant High School opens in New York City as Manhattan's first manual trade school for boys.source
19043 November – Natal – Pietermaritzburg to Elandskop, 35 mi 39 ch.South Africa source
1904November 16 – The settlement at Grytviken, on the British South Atlantic island territory of South Georgia, is established by Norwegian sea captain Carl Anton Larsen, as a whaling station for his Compañía Argentina de Pesca.source
1904Ford begin selling cars in Brazil.Brazil source
1904Nov / Dec — The secret ‘Restoration Society’ is established in Shanghai by revolutionary intellectuals (see 1910)China source
1904A New South Wales representative team tours, playing a New Zealand team in Dunedin and Wellington. These are the first recognised matches by a New Zealand national football team.New Zealand source
1904Rugby union - Percy Bush scores 104 points for the British team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.Wales source
19051 February – Free State – Springfontein to Jagersfontein, 48 mi 13 ch.South Africa source
1905February 5 – The French ship Anjou is wrecked off of the coast of the uninhabited Auckland Island, located 290 mi from the nearest inhabited land in New Zealand. The castaways live on the isle for more than three months until being rescued on May 7.source
1905May–June – John C. Merriam leads the Saurian Expedition, a paleontological research mission in northern Nevada.United States source
1905July 10 – A Japanese expedition takes control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle.source
1905August 26 – Near Point Barrow, Alaska, the crew of the Norwegian ship Gjoa, led by Roald Amundsen, make the breakthrough of finding the long-sought "Northwest Passage" from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.source
1905August 26 – Roald Amundsen begins the first to travel through the Northwest PassageCanada source
190518 December – Free State – Marseilles to Maseru in Basutoland, 16 mi 32 ch.South Africa source
1905Lima Barreto - O Subterrâneo do Morro do CasteloBrazil source
1905Jean Metzinger - Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un paysage exotiqueFrance source
1905George, Prince of Wales and Princess Mary tour India, 1905–06India source
1905The first overseas tour by a New Zealand representative team takes place, to Australia.New Zealand source
1906April 28 – The Milan International world's fair opens in Milan. It would receive 4,012,776 visits and covered 250 acres.Italy source
19064 September - The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen completed a three-year voyage through the Northwest Passage in the converted herring boat Gjøa, after being trapped in ice for three winters.Norway source
1906November 1 – International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.source
190627 December – Transvaal – Pretoria North to Rustenburg, 60 mi 34 ch.South Africa source
1906The Revillon Frères trading post opens at Fort Saint John, British Columbia, as competition against the Hudson's Bay CompanyCanada source
1906Þorvaldur Thoroddsen published a map of Iceland based on his own research.Iceland source
1906George, Prince of Wales, and Princess Mary tour India, 1905-06India source
1906New Zealand Trotting Cup: Belmont M.New Zealand source
1906Yarrow Shipbuilders begin their move from London to Scotstoun.Scotland source
1907April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.source
1907April 26 – Opening of the Jamestown Exposition at Sewell's Point, Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt, exactly 300 years to the day of the landing of Captain Christopher Newport and the English colonists at Cape Henry. The exposition is held until December 1st, and celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.United States source
190725 September – Cape Midland – Mosselbaai to George, 32 mi 49 ch.South Africa source
1907November 3 – Gustave Garrigou wins the Giro di Lombardia.Italy source
190716 November – Passenger liner RMS Mauretania sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.United Kingdom source
1907December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.source
1907December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.Wales source
1907The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova ScotiaCanada source
1907Frederic VIII of Denmark visits Iceland during the summer.Iceland source
1907New Zealand Trotting Cup: MarianNew Zealand source
1908January 1 – The British Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand for Antarctica on the Nimrod.source
190810 March – Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and others are the first people to scale Mount Erebus in Antarctica.Australia source
1908March 27 – The first Scout troop outside the U.K. is formed in Gibraltar.source
1908A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France, by Otto Hauser.source
1908April 21 – Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date.source
1908May 14–October 31 – The Franco-British Exhibition (1908) is held in London.source
1908May 26 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil discovery in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.source
190828 May – Cape Western – Milnerton to Ascot, 2 mi.South Africa source
190816 June: The Kasato Maru arrives at the Port of Santos with the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.Brazil source
1908July 6 – Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.source
190823 August – The Denmark expedition returns to Copenhagen.Denmark source
1908October 1 – Penny Post is established between the United Kingdom and United States.source
1908New Zealand Trotting Cup: DurbarNew Zealand source
1908Perth Racecourse, the most northerly in Britain, opened for National Hunt racing.Scotland source
1908José Toribio Medina - Los Restos Indígenas de PichilemuSpain source
1908Great White Fleet voyage (1907–1909)United States source
1909January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies.source
19099 January – Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole forced to turn back 112 miles from the pole.United Kingdom source
1909January 16 – Members of the Nimrod Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect).source
190916 January – Edgeworth David is a member of the expedition which successfully reaches the Magnetic South Pole.Wales source
19091 April – Natal – Vryheid East to Hlobane, 17 mi.South Africa source
1909April 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and four Inuit explorers – Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo and Egigingwah – come within a few miles of the North Pole.source
1909April 6 – Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole.Canada source
1909June 9–August 7 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. In 59 days, she drives a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California with three non-driving female companions.United States source
19097 July – Arne Larsen, cross-country skierNorway source
1909Pablo Picasso - Femme à l'éventailFrance source
1909New Zealand Trotting Cup: Wildwood JuniorNew Zealand source
1910January 11 – Charcot Island is discovered by the Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the ship Pourquoi Pas?source
1910February 12 – Chinese expedition to Tibet: A force of 2,000 Chinese troops march into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet; the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, is forced to flee to British India.source
19104 April – Sri Aurobindo began his spiritual pursuits in IndiaIndia source
1910May 18–June 5 – The Italian rider Carlo Galetti wins the second Giro d'Italia stage bicycle race.Italy source
1910June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo). No announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole.source
1910June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.source
19104 July – Transvaal – Dunswart to Cranbourne, 3 mi 14 ch.South Africa source
19105 July: Herbert Pither reportedly makes a flight of "nearly a mile" at Riverton Beach.New Zealand source
191023 September – Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea concluded.Belgium source
1910December - The Japanese Antarctic Expedition leaves Tokyo, led by Nobu Shirase.Japan source
1910The Great Britain rugby league team went on their first tour of Australasia and defeated Australia to win the Ashes.Australia source
1910The first separate bicycle path in Copenhagen is established around The Lakes, when the existing bridle paths are converted into isolated cycleways to accommodate the heavy growth of cycles at that time.Denmark source
1911January 4 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island.source
1911January 14 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Roald Amundsen's Norwegian South Pole expedition arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at the Bay of Whales on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.source
1911May 18 – June 6 – The Italian rider Carlo Galetti wins the 3rd Giro d'Italia stage bicycle race.Italy source
1911June 28 – RMS Olympic departs New York for her maiden eastbound voyage home to Southampton, England.source
1911July 5 – RMS Olympic arrives in Southampton ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New York.source
1911July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru.source
1911July 28 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition begins as the SY Aurora departs London.source
1911August 29 – Ishi, the last unassimilated Native American in the U.S. using stone tools, emerges from hiding near Oroville, California.source
1911August 29 – Ishi, last known member of the Yana people, leaves the California wilderness.United States source
1911October 20 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Amundsen's expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.source
1911November 1 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Capt. Scott's Terra Nova Expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.source
19118 November – Natal – Port Shepstone to Paddock (Narrow gauge), 24 mi 30 ch.South Africa source
1911December 2 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Hobart.source
19112 December – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by Douglas Mawson, leaves Hobart to begin an expedition to Antarctica.Australia source
1911December 14 – Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition reaches the geographical South Pole, 34 days ahead of Capt. Scott. News of Amundsen's success will not reach the outside world until next March.source
191114 December – Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition becomes the first to reach the South Pole.Norway source
1911December 18 – The first exhibition by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters opens in Munich.source
1911The Union chocolate factory (present-day Kraš) opened in Zagreb.Croatia source
1911New Zealand Trotting Cup: Lady ClareNew Zealand source
1911Date unknown – The Swedish Cross-Country Skiing Association is renamed the Swedish Ski Association.Sweden source
1912January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.source
191222 February – MS Selandia, the world's first ocean-going diesel-powered ship, departs Copenhagen on her maiden voyage, bound for Bangkok, with two B&W four-stroke diesel engines.Denmark source
1912March 7 – Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.source
1912March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."source
1912March 29 (probable date) – Robert Falcon Scott and the remaining members of his South Pole expedition die.source
1912April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.source
1912May 14 – Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec expand to the northCanada source
191220 May – Cape – Wolseley to Ceres, 10 mi 29 ch.South Africa source
1912May 25–26 – The British driver Cyril Snipe and his co-driver Pedrini win the 1912 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.Italy source
191215 July – The first branches of the Commonwealth Bank open in Melbourne and country Victoria. The Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher, is the bank's first account holder and depositor.Australia source
191218 October – The TSS Earnslaw makes her maiden voyage on Lake Wakatipu, from Kingston to Queenstown.New Zealand source
1912Date uncertain – Jean Neuhaus II begins producing soft-centre pralines to be sold in the Galeries Royales Saint-HubertBelgium source
1912Sedov Expedition - Sedov-led expedition set out on 14 August 1912 from Arkhangelsk but was forced to stop for the winter in September. In June 1913, part of the crew returned to Arkhangelsk raise support from donors. The crew spent the winter of 1914 near Franz Joseph Land. In February 1914, Sedov attempted walking to the North Pole to attain his goal but died on the way.Russia source
191325 January – Regular shipping routes between Keelung and Hualien Ports were opened; the Governor-General announced the "Taiwan Gunpowder Ban Rules", which came into effect on 1 February.Taiwan source
1913April 10 – Albrecht Grocery Shop, predecessor of the Aldi discount store chain globally, is founded in Essen.Germany source
191326 April – King Albert formally opens Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) held in Ghent.Belgium source
1913May 6–22 – The Italian rider Carlo Oriani wins the 5th Giro d'Italia stage bicycle race.Italy source
1913June 13 – The predecessor of the Aldi store chain opens in Essen, Germany.source
191321 June — HMAS Australia, commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Royal Australian Navy flagship.Australia source
1913July 27 – The town of San Javier, Uruguay, is founded by Russian settlers.source
19136 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 mi 30 ch.South Africa source
1913September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.source
191312 December - Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition: Following a speaking tour in Brazil and Argentina, former US President Theodore Roosevelt meets up with Cândido Rondon to embark on a joint exploration of the "River of Doubt".Brazil source
1913Prada is established as a leather goods dealer in Milan, by Mario Prada and his brother.source
1913New Zealand Trotting Cup: RavenschildNew Zealand source
1914January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft.source
1914March 29 – Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive on Easter Island, to make the first true study of it (they depart in August 1915).source
191429 March – Mana Expedition to Easter IslandChile source
1914May 1–November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.source
1914May 30 – Ocean liner RMS Aquitania makes her maiden voyage.source
1914June 29 – The International Exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol. It closes on August 15, and the site is used as a military depot.source
1914July 18 – Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. Kinfauns Castle.source
1914July 18 – Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England on board the SS Kinfauns Castle.South Africa source
1914August 8 – Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the Endurance from Britain, in an attempt to cross Antarctica.source
1914October 25 – The Italian rider Lauro Bordin wins the 10th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.Italy source
1914October – The Imperial Japanese Navy seized several of Germany's island colonies in the Pacific – the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands - with virtually no resistance. The Japanese Navy conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids against German-held land targets in Shandong province and ships in Qiaozhou Bay from Wakamiya.Japan source
19141 November – The 38 ships carrying the NZEF (10 ships) and the AIF (28 ships) leave Perth, Western Australia. Although expecting to sail to England, they will receive orders to land in Egypt while crossing the Indian Ocean.New Zealand source
191422 November — Itagaki Taisuke visited Taiwan.Taiwan source
1914November – Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City for VeracruzMexico source
1914December 5 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition begins its attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.source
1914December 19 – Mohandas Gandhi leaves England, sailing for India on this date (accompanied by his wife Kasturba). He begins to learn the Bengali language whilst on board.source
1914Netherlands Naval Aviation ServiceNetherlands source
1915January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.Wales source
191514 February – The first contingent of 500 Māori soldiers sails for Egypt aboard SS Warrimoo. Earlier policy had been against 'native peoples' fighting in a European war.New Zealand source
1915February 20 – In San Francisco, the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.source
1915February 20 – In San Francisco, California the Panama–Pacific International Exposition is opened.United States source
1915April 21 – On the orders of Talat Pasha, Haydar Bey organized an expedition against the Assyrians. He killed thousands of Assyrians along with Kurdish tribes.source
1915May 3 – "In Flanders Fields" is written by Canadian poet John McCrae.Canada source
1915May 6 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Auroras drift – The SY Aurora breaks loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.source
19151 August – Cape – Prieska to South West Border, 231 mi 59 ch.South Africa source
19151 August – Cape – Walvisbaai to Swakop River (at Swakopmund), 22 mi 42 ch.South Africa source
1915November 21 – British polar exploration ship Endurance finally breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the Weddell Sea, stranding Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party in the Antarctic. The wreck is discovered at a depth of 3,008 metres (9,869 ft), 107 years later in 2022.source
1915December 4–18 – The 'Peace Ship' Oscar II chartered by industrialist Henry Ford sails from Hoboken, New Jersey to Oslo on an independent and eventually unsuccessful mission to broker a peace conference.source
1915"In Flanders Fields": John McCraeCanada source
1915New Zealand Derby – Desert GoldNew Zealand source
1916April 24–May 10 – Voyage of the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance.source
191624 April–19 May – Voyage of the James Caird, an open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (left under command of Frank Wild) following the loss of its ship Endurance.United Kingdom source
191612 May – First patrol by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade in the Sinai desert.New Zealand source
1916June – Rodeo's first side-delivery chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers on their Bar-B-3 Ranch at Welling, Alberta.Canada source
1916August 30 – The crew of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition's Endurance 1912 ship is rescued from Elephant Island.source
191630 August – Rescue of the 22 men Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition who remained on Elephant Island.Australia source
191618 September – Cape – Idutywa to Umtata, 71 mi 13 ch.South Africa source
1916October – T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.Wales source
1916November 19 – Ruth Law sets a new distance record for cross-country flight by flying 590 miles (950 km) non-stop from Chicago to New York State. She flies on to New York City the next day.United States source
1916Endre Johannes Cleven, settler in Canada (born 1874)Norway source
1917January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months.source
1917January 16 – The SS Mendi, a troopship, sets sail from Cape Town to Le Havre, France, transporting 823 members of the 802nd South African Native Labour Corps.South Africa source
1917February 5 – The U.S. Army force under command of John J. Pershing reached Columbus, New Mexico, ending the Pancho Villa Expedition.United States source
19171 May – Imperial German Navy Zeppelins L 43 and L 45 conduct reconnaissance patrols over the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, above the Firth of Forth and Aberdeen, respectively.Scotland source
1917May 22 – The Commissioned Officer Corps of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey is established.source
191720 June – Natal – Gingindlovu to Eshowe, 20 mi 2 ch.South Africa source
191718 July – The Rotary Club opens its first branch in Wales, at Cardiff. It is followed on 28 September by a branch at Llanelli.Wales source
1917September – Hugh Evan-Thomas is promoted to vice-admiral.Wales source
1917Pancho Villa Expedition (1916–17)United States source
19182 February – Cape – Kootjieskolk to Calvinia, 43 mi 47 ch.South Africa source
191817 February - beginning of the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet, transferring Russian ships from Reval and Helsingfors to KronstadtRussia source
1918March 6 – The Finnish Army Corps of Aviation is founded as a forerunner of the Finnish Air Force (established on 4 May 1928). The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol, as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Viking symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.source
19186 March – The Finnish Army Corps of Aviation, a forerunner of the Finnish Air Force, is founded. The blue swastika, Viking in origin, is adopted as its symbol, in tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane.Finland source
191814 April – The Zionist Commission arrives in Palestine.British-administered Palestine source
1918September 20–21 – István Tisza visits SarajevoHungary source
191810 December – Royal Australian Navy ships sail to the Black Sea to assist the White Army in the Russian Civil War.Australia source
1918December 21 – French foreign minister Stephen Pichon approves the new demarcation line between the Hungarian and Czechoslovak forces, forwarded to VixHungary source
1918W. H. Davies – A Poet's PilgrimageWales source
1919January – George Bolt ascends to a record height of 6,500 ft.New Zealand source
1919February 5 – The Czech delegation presents its proposal to the Paris Peace Conference, including the Czech CorridorHungary source
1919Gabrielle D'Annunzio conceives the idea of the Rome–Tokyo Raid while meeting with the Japanese poet and Arditi Harukichi Shimoi.Italy source
1919May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.)source
1919June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by British aviator John Alcock, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.source
1919August 8 - Prónay crosses the Danube from Solt to DunaföldvárHungary source
1919September 6 – The U.S. Army expedition across North America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.source
1919September 6 – The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy: The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.United States source
1919September 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, with his entourage, marches into Fiume and convinces Italian troops to join him.source
1919October – W. B. Yeats travelled to the United States and began a lecture tour lasting until May 1920. In this year also, Yeats published a major revision of The Wild Swans at Coole (including "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "The Phases of the Moon", "The Scholars", and "On being asked for a War Poem"), Two Plays for Dancers and "A Prayer for My Daughter".Ireland source
191916 December – George Bolt makes the first experimental airmail flight in New Zealand. He flies from Auckland to Dargaville and back again on the same day, a total distance of approximately 320 km.New Zealand source
191914–15 June – A Vickers Vimy piloted by John Alcock DSC with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.United Kingdom source
192029 April – Welwyn Garden City established by Ebenezer Howard. The first house is occupied just before Christmas.United Kingdom source
1920May 12 – Hungary presents its border proposal to the French government: they ask for all Hungarian-populated areas along the Trianon borders, referendums in the Banat and Burgenland, Carpathean Ruthenia and Eastern Slovakia for "economic reasons". The proposal was unacceptable for the French party, leading to the end of the secret negotiations.Hungary source
1920May 31 - The Rome–Tokyo Raid, a cross-Eurasian flight from Rome to Tokyo organized by Harukichi Shimoi and Gabrielle D'Annunzio ends with Arturo Ferrarin arriving in Tokyo.Japan source
192010 August – The Princes Highway is officially opened.Australia source
192025 August – Captain Euan Dickson makes the first aerial crossing of Cook Strait, from Christchurch to Upper Hutt, in an Avro 504K.New Zealand source
1920The founding of the kibbutz Degania Bet by immigrants from the Second Aliyah.British-administered Palestine source
1920The Aalesund ship is discovered embedded in the earth south of Ålesund.Norway source
1920Explorer Edgeworth David and civil servant George Lewis Barstow are knighted.Wales source
1921March – Group Settlement Scheme begins at Manjimup, Western Australia.Australia source
1921May – The departure of the 5yh Thule Expedition.Denmark source
1921June 15 – Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's liner SS Paris makes her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York.source
19216 August - Inter-Allied General Committee publishes the plan for the transfer of Burgenland from Hungary to Austria in 3 stages (A, B and C Zone).Hungary source
1921September – Sempill Mission sent by Britain to Japan, with the objective of helping the Imperial Japanese Navy develop its aeronaval forces.Japan source
19211 November – Transvaal – Pretoria West to Roberts Heights, 7 mi 38 ch.South Africa source
19211921 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New ZealandNew Zealand source
1921Nikolai M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and OceanographyRussia source
1921Belted Galloway Association formed.Scotland source
1922January 12 — 1922 seamen's strike, Chinese sailors from Hong Kong and Guangzhou went on strike for higher wagesChina source
19221 April – SWA – Kolmanskop to Bogenfels, 74 mi.South Africa source
19222 April – The founding of the agricultural settlement Giv'atayim by a group of 22 Second Aliyah pioneers led by David Schneiderman.Mandatory Palestine source
19226 April – In his Western tour, Bethlen asks for a loan from the Reparations Committee.Hungary source
1922October 9 – Prairie Bible College opens with eight students in Three Hills, AlbertaCanada source
192220 October – Kjell Bloch Sandved, author, lecturer and nature photographer.Norway source
1922November 4 – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun: in Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.source
19224 November – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt: English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, in the Valley of the Kings. On 26 November, Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside the tomb in over 3,000 years.United Kingdom source
1922Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.source
19221922 New Zealand rugby union tour of New South WalesNew Zealand source
19238 July – Natal – Canelands, Umdloti to Maidstone deviation, 6 mi 74 ch.South Africa source
1923July 13 – American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first dinosaur eggs near Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia.source
192322 July – Tour de France ends, won by Henri Pélissier.France source
1923July 26- Warren G Harding visits Vancouver the first sitting American president to visit Canada post confederationCanada source
19239 August – Cape – Belmont to Douglas, 53 mi 22 ch.South Africa source
1923August 13 – The first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish seaport.source
1923October 13 – The first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific into the Atlantic occurs in Oaxaca.source
192315 December – The British and Intercolonial Exhibition opens in HokitikaNew Zealand source
1923The founding of Ramat HaSharon, at the time named Ir Shalom (עִיר שָׁלוֹם, lit. City of Peace), by a group of Jewish immigrants from Poland.Mandatory Palestine source
1923A New South Wales team tours New Zealand, playing three matches against the New Zealand team. New Zealand wins all three: 19–9, 34–6 and 38–11.New Zealand source
1923Ivor Novello appears in The Man Without Desire, The White Rose and Bonnie Prince Charlie.Wales source
192430 March - Commencement of Vaikom Satyagraha (the first ever struggle against apartheid in the World) designed by T K Madhavan and Sree Narayana Guru in Kerala, South India.India source
1924June 5 – Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden.source
1924June 8 – British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 P.M. They are never seen alive again.source
19248 June – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.United Kingdom source
192419 September – South West Africa – Gobabis Junction in Windhoek to Ondekaremba, 29 mi 70 ch.South Africa source
1924September 28 – U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe. It has taken them 175 days and 74 stops before their return to Seattle.source
19248 December – Carl Anton Larsen, mariner and Antarctic explorer (born 1860)Norway source
1924Spring – Francophone explorer, spiritualist and former operatic soprano Alexandra David-Néel, disguised as a male pilgrim, makes a 2-month stay in the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet.source
1924Forbidden Paradise, starring Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque, and Adolphe Menjou, is released by director Ernst Lubitsch.Germany source
1924Undated – Urney Chocolates moved to the disused World War I era RAF airfield of Tallaght Aerodrome, County Dublin. The site had been handed over to the Irish Air Service in May 1922.Ireland source
1924The All Blacks tour the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Canada between September 1924 and February 1925, winning all 32 games, and earning the nickname The InvinciblesNew Zealand source
1924A rare handled beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains.Wales source
192514 January – Captain Roig and his group of three biplanes Bréguet XIV Renault, land in Buenos Aires on a reconnaissance flight from Rio de Janeiro, to demonstrate the viability of a regular air mail service along the Buenos Aires – Bahía Blanca – Comodoro Rivadavia route.Argentina source
192521 January – Transvaal – Rustenburg to Boshoek, 15 mi 17 ch.South Africa source
1925April 1 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states.source
1925May 1 – Matsuya Department Store of Ginza was open in Tokyo.Japan source
1925May 29 – English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.source
192529 May - British explorer Percy Fawcett sent a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.Brazil source
192529 May – Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.United Kingdom source
1925July 21 – English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.source
1925August 31 – Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples.source
1925November 17 – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand.source
192517 November – The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens at Logan Park, DunedinNew Zealand source
1925December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California.source
1925The uninhabited Shiant Isles are acquired by writer and island-lover Compton Mackenzie.Scotland source
1925Mortimer Wheeler - Prehistoric & Roman WalesWales source
1926Imperial Airways open an ordinary passenger service between Cairo and Baghdad via Gaza.Mandatory Palestine source
1926March 6 – The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham.source
1926May 9 – Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett claim to be the first to fly over the North Pole in the Josephine Ford monoplane, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and returning 15 hours and 44 minutes later. Both men are immediately hailed as national heroes, though some experts have since been skeptical of the claim, believing that the plane was unlikely to have covered the entire distance and back in that short an amount of time. An entry in Byrd's diary, discovered in 1996, suggests that the plane actually turned back 150 miles short of the North Pole, due to an oil leak.source
192612 June - A travelling exhibition departed from Istanbul on SS Karadeniz,Turkey source
1926July 1 – The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China.source
19261 July – The Icelandic Coast Guard formally foundedIceland source
1926July 9 – KMT launches Northern Expedition.China source
1926September 16 – Mikasaya Department Store, as predecessor of Kintetsu Department Store Osaka Uehonmachi was officially open in Tennoji-ku, Osaka.Japan source
1926October 10 – The South African National War Memorial next to Delville Wood outside Longueval, France is opened.South Africa source
1926Stephen H. Langdon begins excavations in Jemdet Nasr, finding proto-cuneiform clay tablets (3100–2900 BCE).source
1926Ballerina Anna Pavlova tours AustraliaAustralia source
1926Writer and adventurer Zane Grey first visits New Zealand, helping to popularise big-game fishingNew Zealand source
1927January 7 – The Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois.source
19277 January – Cape – Sunland to Kirkwood, 14 mi 54 ch.South Africa source
192724 March - The Norwegian cargo ship Verdande leaves Cardiff, bound for Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Five bodies and two lifebelts and some lifeboats would later be washed ashore at Boscastle and Bude, Cornwall, leading to the conclusion that the ship had foundered with the loss of all hands.Wales source
1927April 27 – João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, flying from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.source
1927June 29–July 1 – Commander Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, George Noville and Bert Acosta take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, in the Fokker Trimotor airplane America, and cross the Atlantic to the coast of France, having to ditch there because of bad weather; all four men survive the emergency landing.source
192729 June – Charles Kingsford Smith and his copilot Charles Ulm complete a round-Australia flight in ten days, five-and-a-half hours.Australia source
192720 September – Kibbutz Beit Zera is established in the Jordan Valley, 15 km south of Tiberias.Mandatory Palestine source
1927October 4 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, begins.source
192711 November – Kristian Prestrud, polar explorer (born 1881)Norway source
192717 November – Leyland Titan double deck bus introduced. Its low chassis sets a significant trend in bus design which lasts for forty years.United Kingdom source
1927Canadian anthropologist Davidson Black discovered a fossil molar of Peking Man in a cave near Beijing, ChinaCanada source
19271926–27 New Zealand Māori rugby union tourNew Zealand source
192822 February – Bert Hinkler arrives in Darwin, Northern Territory after flying solo from London on 7 February, and then, later, he arrives in his hometown of Bundaberg on 27 February.Australia source
1928February – the Simon Commission lands in IndiaIndia source
1928March 24 – Excavation work begins after the old Canaanite city of Ugarit is accidentally rediscovered.source
19281 May – Cape – George to Knysna, 42 mi 7 ch.South Africa source
1928May 7 – The St. Roch is launched. It would become the first ship to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east and to circumnavigate North America.Canada source
1928June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.source
1928June 17 – Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmer Stultz is the pilot.United States source
1928June 24 – A Swedish aeroplane rescues some survivors of the Italian North Pole expedition, including Umberto Nobile. The Soviet icebreaker Krasin saves the rest July 12.source
192828 June – The keel of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and will be cancelled in 1929.Northern Ireland source
1928June – Roald Amundsen, polar explorer, led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole (born 1872)Norway source
1928Unknown – The first Romanian Girl Guide groups are formed. There are none left after ten years.Romania source
192927 March - The opening of Gueiren Agriculture School in Tainan Prefecture.Taiwan source
1929March 30 – Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.source
1929April 15 – Hankyu Department Store Osaka Umeda officially open in Kita-ku, Osaka.Japan source
192931 July – Free State – Arlington to Lindley, 12 mi 26 ch.South Africa source
1929August 8–29 – German rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles).source
192925 October – First international air mail (Between İstanbul and Berlin)Turkey source
1929The Australia national rugby league team embarked on the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.Australia source
19298–29 August – Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles).Germany source
1929The founding of the agricultural settlement Pardes Hanna by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association. The settlement is named after Hannah Rothschild, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild.Mandatory Palestine source
1929Ballinger Belt – William Masefield (Sounds)New Zealand source
19303 May to 3 November – Exposition internationale held in Liège with simultaneous International Exhibition of Colonies, Shipping and Flemish Art held in Antwerp.Belgium source
193013 May – Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, scientist and diplomat, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 (born 1861)Norway source
1930July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.United States source
1930October – First Round Table Conference opens in London.India source
19306 November – South West Africa – Witvlei to Gobabis, 31 mi 44 ch.South Africa source
1930The Australia national rugby league team completed the 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.Australia source
1930The founding of the kibbutz Na'an by 42 members of the Noar HaOved youth group, on lands purchased from the Arabic village Al-Na'ani.Mandatory Palestine source
1930Bank for International Settlements was founded, based in BaselSwitzerland source
19317 January – Australian aviator Guy Menzies makes the first solo flight across the Tasman sea, starting from Sydney and ending 11 hours 45 minutes later with a crash landing in a swamp near Harihari on the West CoastNew Zealand source
19316 April – The opening of Consulate-General of the Republic of China in Taihoku Prefecture.Taiwan source
19313 June – Cape – Molteno to Jamestown, 41 mi 72 ch.South Africa source
19311 July – Natal – Greyville Cabin to Berea Road, 1 mi 36 ch.South Africa source
19311 July – Natal – Chailey to Mount Alida, 25 mi 33 ch.South Africa source
1931August 29 – Airship Graf Zeppelin pioneers the air route between Germany and Brazil.Germany source
1931October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, flying their plane, Miss Veedol, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours.source
1931Limite, directed by Mário PeixotoBrazil source
1931Johan Aschehoug Kiær, paleontologist and geologist (born 1869)Norway source
193219 February: Halkevleri, a project to educate citizens mostly in rural areas, open.Turkey source
1932April 5 – The first Alko stores are opened in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time) following the end of Prohibition in that country, resulting in a new mnemonic "543210".source
1932April – Peter Fleming joins the expedition to find missing Englishman Colonel Percy Fawcett; the following year he publishes an account of the expedition, entitled Brazilian Adventure.Brazil source
1932May 20–21 – Amelia Earhart flies from the United States to County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.source
193221 May – Amelia Earhart lands near Culmore, having become the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.Northern Ireland source
1932June 20 – The Benelux customs union is negotiated.source
1932July 15 – Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba was officially open.Japan source
1932July 21 – The British Empire Economic Conference opens in Ottawa, Canada.source
1932August 18–19 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland to RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth high-wing monoplane The Heart's Content.source
193215 October – J. R. D. Tata flew from Karachi to Madras via a de Havilland Puss Moth.India source
1932November 27 – The Second Eastern Women's Congress opens in Tehran, Iran.source
19325 December – The opening of Hayashi Department Store in Tainan Prefecture.Taiwan source
1932Viareggio prize: Antonio Foschini, L’avventura di Villon.Italy source
1932The founding of the moshav Neta'im by residents of other moshavim as part of the Settlement of the Thousand plan.Mandatory Palestine source
1933January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.source
193321 February – representatives from the Netherlands and Germany arrive in Galway to inspect the site of a proposed new £3 million airport.Ireland source
1933April 3 – The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.source
1933April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off from Lympne in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope, but vanishes (his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until 1962).source
193327 April – The Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham is acquired by the John Lewis Partnership, its first store outside London.United Kingdom source
193324 May – Win 1–0 vs South Coast at BulliNew Zealand source
1933May 27 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.source
193324 July – Arne Hamarsland, middle-distance runnerNorway source
193325 August – The Haavara Agreement is signed between Nazi Germany, the Zionist Federation of Germany and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, allowing approximately 60,000 German Jews to leave Germany and move to Palestine.Germany source
1933September 28 – Isetan Department Store of Shinjuku, officially opensJapan source
1933November 16 – American aviator Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls in Venezuela (they are named after him).source
1933Peter Fleming – Brazilian AdventureBrazil source
1933The first doughnut store under the Krispy Kreme name opens on Charlotte Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.United States source
193425 February - Mahatma Gandhi visits Udupi.India source
193421 March to 14 June – The Australian Eastern Mission, led by deputy prime minister John Latham, visited a number of countries in East Asia and South-East Asia, the first Australian diplomatic mission outside the British Empire.Australia source
193412 April and 13 April - Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder and Werner von Blomberg sailed through western Norway aboard the German Panzerschiff Deutschland sailing through the Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord. The voyage was Adolf Hitler's first journey abroad since becoming Chancellor in January 1933. During the visit Hitler and Blomberg were observed having a lengthy private conversation. Alan Bullock speculated that discussions regarding concerns about Ernst Röhm and the SA may have taken place during the visit. The visit was documented in contemporary Norwegian newspapers including Bergens Tidende.Norway source
1934June 4 – USS Ranger is commissioned.United States source
193418 July – The founding of settlement Kiryat Bialik by Jewish German immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah.Mandatory Palestine source
193429 July – Transvaal – Germiston to Elsburg, 2 mi 49 ch.South Africa source
1934August 15 – The United States Marine Corps leaves Haiti.source
1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
1934En la tierra del Guarán, directed by LumitonArgentina source
1934Yr Ail Fordaith Gymraeg (Second Welsh Cruise), a silent film made by Ifan ab Owen Edwards focusing on the activities of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (with Welsh-language titles)Wales source
193527 April to 6 November – Brussels International Exposition (1935) held in Heysel, near Brussels.Belgium source
1935May 29 – The French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie sets out on her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York, which she will reach in 4 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes, taking the Blue Riband; she gains the eastbound record on her return passage.source
1935June 5 – The On-to-Ottawa Trek beginsCanada source
1935July 1 – RMS Mauretania sails from Southampton to Rosyth to be broken up.source
1935August 2 – The USS Philadelphia is raised from Lake Champlain.United States source
1935October 6 – The wreckage of the RMS Lusitania is discovered.source
193519 October – Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 mi 68 ch.South Africa source
1935November 22 – The flying boat China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California, United States, to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; on November 29 the aircraft reaches its final destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail.source
1935December 12 – The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, a pioneering example of International Style architecture, opens in England.source
193512 December – opening of The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in the International style.United Kingdom source
1935Unknown date – Yakult founded in Fukuoka City.Japan source
1935Auckland Trotting Cup – Graham DirectNew Zealand source
1935Edwin Muir publishes Scottish JourneyScotland source
1936September 4–5 – English-born aviator Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to make an east-to-west solo transatlantic flight, from Abingdon-on-Thames, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia.source
1936September 15 – The Empire Exhibition, South Africa opens in Johannesburg.South Africa source
193610 November – The High Court of Australia rules in the case of R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry, that the Commonwealth government's power to regulate interstate trade and commerce did not extend to intrastate trade and commerce.Australia source
193620 November – The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom.Scotland source
1936November 25 – The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War.United States source
1936DeVlag (Deutsch-Vlämische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) founded to facilitate cultural exchange with Nazi GermanyBelgium source
1936Ballinger Belt – William Masefield (Blenheim)New Zealand source
1936By the Bluest of Seas – directed by Boris BarnetSoviet Union source
1936Bertrand Russell - Which Way to Peace?Wales source
1937January 14 — Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai.China source
193721 March – The founding of the kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan by members of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement from Czechoslovakia and Poland.Mandatory Palestine source
1937May 21 – A Russian manned ice station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.source
193729 May – Stavanger Airport, Sola is opened by King Haakon VIINorway source
1937July 2 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea, during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.source
1937August – founding of Bolivian Socialist Falange in Santiago, Chile by Bolivian exilesBolivia source
193719 November – Hubert Opperman completes an epic bicycle ride from Fremantle, Western Australia to Sydney, taking 13 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes.Australia source
1937First ascent of Mount Lucania (5,226 m), third highest mountain in Canada.Canada source
1937An England Amateurs team toured, beating the New Zealand side by a resounding 30–1 aggregate in a three-match series.New Zealand source
193823 February – The Port of Tel Aviv officially opens, as a competing (Jewish) port to the port in Jaffa, the latter having been crippled by the Arab revolt and general strike since 1936.Mandatory Palestine source
193816 March – Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.Northern Ireland source
193819 March – The 1938 Interstate Grand Prix is staged at the Wirlinga circuit in New South Wales.Australia source
1938March 27 – Italian mathematician Ettore Majorana disappears suddenly under mysterious circumstances, while travelling by ship from Palermo to Naples.source
1938June 23 – Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.United States source
1938July 24 – The north face of the Eiger in the Alps is first ascended.source
1938September 25 – British Royal Navy is ordered to sea.source
193827 October – Jan Martin Larsen, cartographer, orienteer and politicianNorway source
1938Michel Bernanos visits Brazil for the first time.Brazil source
1938New Zealand Trotting Cup – MorelloNew Zealand source
1938The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.Scotland source
1939February 18 – The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.source
1939February — The Hong Kong Government negotiated with the Japanese army, resume shipping between Hong Kong and Guangzhou.China source
1939March 28 – American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. In 1945, some wreckage identified as a rudder, and believed to belong to the junk, washes ashore in San Diego, California.source
193922 June – The British ambassador in Bucharest notifies London that the Romanian government is allowing large numbers of illegal Jewish migrants to travel to Palestine.Romania source
1939July 8 – The Pan American Airways Boeing 314 flying boat Yankee Clipper inaugurates the world's first heavier-than-air North Atlantic air passenger service, between the United States (Port Washington, New York) and Britain.source
193919 September – Babben Enger-Damon, cross country skier, Olympic gold medallist and orienteerNorway source
1939October 7 – WWII: British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Emerald departs Plymouth in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying £2M in gold bar to be used for purchase of military materiel in North America, a predecessor of Operation Fish.source
1939October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.United States source
1939The founding of the kibbutz AfekMandatory Palestine source
1939Ballinger Belt – William Masefield (Blenheim)New Zealand source
1939Primate of Poland – August HlondPoland source
1939Pelle Svanslös på äventyr by Gösta Knutsson, the first book in the Pelle Svanslös children's book seriesSweden source
194016 February – Altmark incident: Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cossack pursues German tanker Altmark into the neutral waters of the Jøssingfjorden in southwestern Norway and frees the 290 British seamen held aboard.United Kingdom source
1940March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California, United States, for the Gulf of California, on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition.source
1940March 31 – WWII: Commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).source
1940April – Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from NorwaySweden source
19407 June – Norwegian Campaign: The Norwegian royal family and the Norwegian Government was evacuated from Tromsø aboard the British cruiser HMS Devonshire which later on arrived safely in London where Haakon VII and his cabinet set up a Norwegian government in exile.Norway source
1940June 24 – WWII: Operation Fish – British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Emerald sails from Greenock (Scotland) in convoy for Halifax, Nova Scotia (arriving July 1), carrying a large part of the gold reserves of the United Kingdom and securities for safe keeping in Canada.source
194024 June–1 July – World War II: Operation Fish – Royal Navy cruiser HMS Emerald sailed from Greenock in convoy to Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying a large part of the gold reserves of the United Kingdom and securities for safe keeping in Canada. Another convoy set sail on 5 July from the Clyde, including HMS Batory, carrying cargo worth $1.7 billion, the largest movement of wealth in history.Scotland source
1940July 5 – WWII: Operation Fish – A British convoy including HMS Batory sails from Greenock (Scotland) for Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying gold bar and other valuables worth $1.7 billion for safe keeping in Canada, the largest movement of wealth in history.source
194012 July: Pan American Airways flying boat service from Hawaii to Auckland via Canton Island (not Kingman Reef) commences.New Zealand source
194012 September – Lascaux: 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.France source
1940October 1 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the country's first long-distance controlled-access highway, is opened between Irwin and Carlisle.United States source
19402 December – Transvaal: Germiston to Jupiter, 2 mi 68 ch.South Africa source
194121 February – First flight by a Royal Air Force flying boat through the "Donegal Corridor", neutral Republic of Ireland airspace between its base in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Ocean, a concession secretly agreed by Éamon de Valera.Northern Ireland source
19414 March – British Commandos carry out a successful raid on the Lofoten Islands.Norway source
1941April – The Valley of Geysers is discovered on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, by Tatyana Ustinova.source
1941April – The Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula is discovered by Tatyana Ustinova.Soviet Union source
194125 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.Sweden source
194130 August – first official 'Shetland bus' clandestine mission using Norwegian fishing boats between Shetland and German-occupied Norway.Scotland source
1941October 31 – The last day of carving on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.source
1941November 26 – A task force of 6 aircraft carriers, commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor, under strict radio silence.source
1941December 6 – British submarine HMS Perseus is mined off Cephalonia.source
1941December 20 – Admiral Ernest King is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. fleet.United States source
1941December 25 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.source
1941New Zealand Trotting Cup – Josedale GrattanNew Zealand source
1941David Wynne – Songs of SolitudeWales source
1942March 11 – General MacArthur leaves for Australia to take command of the South Western Pacific Area.Philippines source
194220 April – Helga Estby, noted for her walk across the United States during 1896 (born 1860)Norway source
194225 May – Four ships leave Hokkaido to stage a diversionary raid on the Aleutian Islands.Japan source
1942June 12–15 – WWII: Operation Harpoon – An Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, 4 cruisers and 17 destroyers to Malta. Two of the six merchant ships completes the journey, at the cost of several Allied warships.source
1942June 27 – WWII: Allied Convoy PQ 17 sails from Iceland, with 35 merchant ships and 3 passenger ships that have been refitted for rescuing the crews of torpedoed ships. There are also one tanker, 6 destroyers and 13 smaller ships for close escort. The convoy is destined for the Soviet port of Archangelsk.source
194229 July - Flinders Petrie (born 1853), British archaeologist.Mandatory Palestine source
1942August 17 – WWII: Raid on Makin Island: US Marines of the 2nd Raider Battalion (211 men) under Lt. Col. Evans Carlson embark aboard the submarines Argonaut and Nautilus at Pearl Harbor. The aim is to destroy the Japanese installations and gather intelligence. Only the first of these objectives is achieved, but the raid does boost morale and provide a test for Raider tactics.source
194217 September – Irish Larch rescues forty survivors from the Panamanian ship Stone Street in the Atlantic.Ireland source
1942September - sweden place explosion mine in baltic sea shipping route to defend the ship from Soviet and germanSweden source
1942November 21 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the "highway" is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).source
1942November 29 – The Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. Crew and passengers survive, following a 26-day overland trek to Windhoek.source
1942Japanese submarines operate in New Zealand waters in 1942 and 1943. They send reconnaissance aircraft over Auckland and Wellington, but do not carry out any attacks.New Zealand source
1942Canned dried (powdered) eggs from the United States become available to British consumers.United Kingdom source
194329 January – Transvaal: New Canada to Phomolong, 2 mi 75 ch.South Africa source
194323 February - The architect of the Genocide Talat Pasha's remnants were transported from Germany to Turkey and buried in Abide-i Hurriyet Cemetery (Monument of Liberty), Istanbul.Turkey source
19436 April – Johs Harviken, cross country skier and Olympic silver medallistNorway source
1943July 5 – A fleet sets sail for the Allied invasion of Sicily.source
1943August 5 – John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islands coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, with their dugout canoe.source
1943August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.United States source
194324 September – Dina Porat, Israeli historianMandatory Palestine source
1943October 22 – The crew of German submarine U-537 sets up Weather Station Kurt near Martin Bay in Labrador.Canada source
1943October last US Marines depart US Naval Base New ZealandNew Zealand source
194320 December – Repatriation of Jews that survived the Holocaust in Transnistria begins. By 30 March 1944, nearly 11,000 people, including orphans, had been repatriated.Romania source
1944March 20 – Landing on Emirau: 4,000 United States Marines land on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase, as part of Operation Cartwheel.source
194419 May – Eisenhower visits Bangor, County Down to inspect American warships in Belfast Lough. He observes onshore military exercises at Ballyholme Bay then flies from Ballyhalbert Airfield in County Down to RAF Bovingdon in Hertfordshire in the evening.Northern Ireland source
1944June 1 – Two K-class blimps of the United States Navy complete the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid airships, from the U.S. to French Morocco, with two stops.source
1944June 4 – A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the GS U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the War of 1812. Some significant intelligence data is acquired.source
1944June 5 – British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel, which will permit the following day's Normandy landings to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather).source
1944June 5 – D-Day naval deceptions are launched.source
1944June 5 – The German navy's Enigma messages are decoded in England almost in real time.source
19445 June — The German Navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.Germany source
19442 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.Brazil source
1944July 16 – The first contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy.source
194428 August – Katharina Mo-Berge, cross-country skier.Norway source
1944October 12 – Canadian Arctic explorer Henry Larsen returns to Vancouver, becoming the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch ship. His westbound voyage is the first completed in a single season, and the first passage through the Prince of Wales Strait.source
194431 October – Refugees from Eastern Poland, 800 including 734 orphaned children, arrive in New Zealand via Siberia and Iran.New Zealand source
194428 November – Allied shipping starts to use the Port of Antwerp.Belgium source
1944A military mission of six officers departs to British India to inspect newer forms of training and equipment, and to garner insight from the Burma campaign.Afghanistan source
1944Last known evidence of the existence of the Asiatic lion in the wild in Khuzestan Province, Persia.source
1944Joshua Smith wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Sol RosevearAustralia source
194514 March - Establishment of TAP PortugalPortugal source
1945March 30 – American official Alger Hiss is congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing the positions of the Western powers and the Soviet Union closer to each other at the Yalta Conference.source
194515 April – One Hind aircraft flies to Matun for reconnaissance, returning on the 17th.Afghanistan source
1945The Red Crescent Society of Afghanistan donates £5,000 to the fund opened by the International Red Cross at Geneva as a token of its sympathy with the fate of European peoples.Afghanistan source
194510 August – Tone Dahle, cross-country skier.Norway source
194513 November – Explorer Edward Evans is created Baron Mountevans.Wales source
19453 December – Oranges went on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end of World War II.Ireland source
1945The Australian government introduces an Assisted Passage Migration Scheme to encourage the immigration of British subjects, at a fare of £10, hence they become known as "Ten Pound Poms".source
1945Canada has its first trade surplus with the United States.Canada source
1945Nitza Metzger-Szmuk, Israeli archaeologistMandatory Palestine source
1946January 28 – The Canadian schooner Bluenose founders on a Haitian reef.source
194619 February – Tore Schei, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NorwayNorway source
194624 March – 1946 Cabinet Mission to IndiaIndia source
1946April 28 – Kinderdorf Pestalozzi (Pestalozzi Children's Village) is established at Trogen, Switzerland to accommodate and educate orphans of World War II, according to Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's principles.source
194630 April – The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine. It also recommended that Palestine remain a mandated territory, that facilities be put in place to ensure Jewish migration and that the 1940 Land Act which banned Jews from purchasing land in 95% of Palestine be rescinded.Mandatory Palestine source
1946July 5 – The bikini is first modeled in Paris.source
1946August 3 – A Canadian wheat agreement provided for British purchases of large amounts of Canadian wheat at prices considerably below the world market.Canada source
1946November 12 – In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the Bank of America) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.source
1946November 12 – In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank (later part of the LaSalle Bank) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.United States source
1946Eva Perón tours Spain, Italy and France on behalf of Argentina, a circuit called the Rainbow Tour.source
1946The women's movement in Afghanistan is resumed by the foundation of Women's Welfare Association, the first women's organisation in Afghanistan since the Anjuman-i Himayat-i-Niswan.Afghanistan source
1946British Adviser of Perak : Arthur Vincent Aston (from unknown date)Malaya source
1946Naturalist Gavin Maxwell purchases the island of Soay, Skye, and attempts to start a commercial shark fishing enterprise there.Scotland source
1947February 5 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika groundnut scheme, for cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory.source
1947April 18 – 'Mrs. Ples', an Australopithecus africanus skull, is discovered in the Sterkfontein area in Transvaal, South Africa.source
1947April – The previous discovery of the 'Dead Sea Scrolls' in the Qumran Caves (above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) by Bedouin shepherds, becomes known.source
194716 June – PS Waverley makes her maiden voyage on the Firth of Clyde.Scotland source
194729 June The Round Zealand sailing race takes place for the first time.Denmark source
1947August 7 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands, after a 101-day, 4,300 mile, voyage across the Eastern Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled to the Central Pacific islands from South America.source
19477 August – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean, proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.Norway source
1947Muslim member of the Partition Committee, Chaudhri Muhammad Ali comes to Karachi on August 9, for a one-day visit for Jinnah's approval on Patel's proposal for debt settlement. Liaquat Ali Khan asks Ali to convey to Lord Ismay in Delhi that Jinnah has received disturbing reports about the likely decision on the Punjab boundary Award.Pakistan source
1947September 13 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.source
194713 September – Prime Minister Nehru suggests the transfer of 10 million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.India source
1947October 29 – November 25 – Campaign in the Eastern Foothills of the Funiu MountainsChina source
1947Valdir Azevedo - "Brasileirinho"Brazil source
19472-3 April - A British ship, the 1,580 ton Stancliffe, runs aground off Sharpness loaded with 3,000 tons of timber. Local shipyard engineer, Ivor Langford, manages to cut the vessel in two and sail both parts down to Cardiff Docks. There the two halves are joined together and the ship sails again under the new name of SS Gripfast.Wales source
1948March 13 – Dr. K. Goonam leads a batch of twelve passive resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border.South Africa source
194819 March – The Australian cricket team stops by in Ceylon, en route to England during their 1948 tour of England, where they played a one-day single-innings match—not limited overs—against the Ceylon national team at the Colombo Oval.Sri Lanka source
1948June 11 – The Irgun's cargo ship Altalena which carries weapons, medical equipment and 930 Jewish immigrants, sets sail from France towards Israel.Israel source
194819 July - Permit system came into force for migrants from West Pakistan.India source
1948August 17 – The HUAC holds a private session between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.source
19487 October – Johan Hjort, fisheries scientist, marine zoologist and oceanographer (born 1869)Norway source
1948Morna takes line honours and Westward wins on handicap in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht RaceAustralia source
1948Arthur Vincent Aston (until unknown date)Malaya source
1948Auckland Trotting Cup – Captain SandyNew Zealand source
19494 January – RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.United Kingdom source
1949January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage.United States source
194926 April – 1949 Tangail South by-election in East Bengal.Pakistan source
1949July 11 – Pamir is the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, under sail alone.source
194921 August – Daniel Sivan, Israeli academicIsrael source
1949November 7 – Oil is discovered beneath the Caspian Sea, off the coast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.source
1949Waltzing Matilda takes line honours and Trade Winds wins on handicap in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht RaceAustralia source
1949Martin Stokken, cross country skier and athlete, is awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for excellence in more than one sport, and the Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year.Norway source
1949Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor - Newfoundland at the Cross RoadsWales source
195022 February – Halvor Møgster, Olympic sailor (born 1875)Norway source
195028 February – An airport is opened at Eilat.Israel source
19508 May – The Tollund Man is discovered.Denmark source
1950May 29 – St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.source
1950May 29 - The St. Roch becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate North AmericaCanada source
1950June 3 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, of the French Annapurna expedition, become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.source
1950November 2 – South African Airways inaugurates daily services between Johannesburg and Bulawayo and between Johannesburg and Cape Town.South Africa source
1950November 28 – The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and South-East Asia comes into effect.source
1950Margaret Rintoul takes line honours and Nerida wins on handicap in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht RaceAustralia source
1950New Zealand Trotting Cup – ChamferNew Zealand source
1950American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith visits the UK to take photographs of working-class life; three of those published are of the South Wales valleys.Wales source
19515 April – Elias Corneliussen, naval officer (born 1881).Norway source
195121 May – The establishment of TransAsia Airways.Taiwan source
19514 October – Francis McEncroe sells the first Chiko Rolls at the Wagga Wagga agricultural show.Australia source
195111 November – The Egged bus company becomes a cross-country public transportation network after merging with the northern "Shahar" bus company and the southern "Drom Yehuda" bus company.Israel source
195122 December – The first 200 kilometre Dusi Marathon, with four pairs of canoeists taking part, starts on the Umsindusi River which joins the Umgeni River in the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Since only Ian Player stays the course and finishes, it is declared that there is no winner.South Africa source
1951Unknown date – The Penang Rubber Exchange became officially known as the Rubber Trade Association of Penang, sanctioned by the Registrar of Societies.Malaya source
1951Ballinger Belt – Maurie Gordon (Okawa)New Zealand source
1951Daniel O'Neill paints Knockalla Hills, Donegal and Western Landscape.Northern Ireland source
1952February 14 – The Gallego EDCOR farm in Buldon, Cotabato, the second EDCOR project, is opened.Philippines source
195220 April – Sigurd Maseng, diplomat (born 1894)Norway source
1952April: The trade union confederation called Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC) is founded.Mexico source
1952May 18 – Ann Davison becomes the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.source
195216 June – The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was liftedTurkey source
1952July 3 - The SS United States Has Her maiden voyage en route from New York To Southampton And wins the Blue Ribandsource
1952October 19 – Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days without using provisions; he reaches them December 23.source
195230 November – Lang Hancock discovers the world's largest deposit of iron ore in the Hamersley Range of Western Australia's Pilbara region.Australia source
1952December - Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to Travancore–Cochin results in commencement of Nehru Trophy Boat Race.India source
1952The Nordic Council agrees to the unrestricted transport of people, goods and services throughout the Nordic Countries.source
1952The Portuguese colonial administration proposed settling 15,000 people from Cape Verde to the island of São ToméCape Verde source
1952The Flavor of Green Tea over RiceJapan source
1953January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.source
1953January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.source
1953May 29 – 1953 British Mount Everest expedition: Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
195329 May – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mount Everest, the first known time this has been done. Hillary is knighted the following day.New Zealand source
195320 June – Singapore Association for the Blind announced that, with a badge, blind people can now travel free on buses operated by eight Chinese companies.Singapore source
1953July 3 – The first ascent of Nanga Parbat in the Pakistan Himalayas, the world's ninth highest mountain, is made by Austrian climber Hermann Buhl alone on a German–Austrian expedition.source
19533 July – 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expeditionAustria source
19536 August – Israeli Air Force Mosquito FB.6, disappears in flight over the Mediterranean: two crew are missing.Israel source
195316 August – House of the Virgin Mary, close to Ephesus was opened to visitsTurkey source
1953August – High Arctic relocation of Inuit families by the Government of Canada.source
195314 October – Cape – Lohatla to Sishen, 17 mi 3 ch.South Africa source
1953November 21 – Puerto Williams is founded in Chile, as the southernmost settlement of the world.source
19534 December – Oil is discovered in the Exmouth Gulf off the coast of Western Australia.Australia source
1953Harold Butler and his first partner open Danny's Donuts (later Denny's) in Lakewood, California.United States source
1954April 10 – The modern form of value-added tax is first implemented by Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, in France's Ivory Coast colony.source
1954April 26 – An international conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva.source
1954July 31 – 1954 Italian expedition to K2: Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram range.source
19545 September – Per Knut Aaland, cross country skierNorway source
1954October 10 – The much-travelled statue of Paul Kruger is unveiled in Church Square, Pretoria by Dr. D.F. Malan.South Africa source
1954Shirley Bliss wins the Miss Australia QuestAustralia source
1954René Magritte, L'Empire des lumièresBelgium source
1954The Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque is established in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.Mexico source
1954The national men's team undertook a 10-match tour of Australia, which included 3 internationals. They played one warm-up match prior to the tour.New Zealand source
1954American photographer Paul Strand works in the Outer Hebrides.Scotland source
1954Refik Restaurant is established by Refik Arslan.Turkey source
195513 February – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls, which had been discovered in the caves in and around the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the Judean Desert.Israel source
1955March 23 – The Meadowridge garden city opens near Cape Town.South Africa source
1955April 15 – The first franchised McDonald's restaurant is opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.source
1955April 18–24 – The Asian-African Conference is held in Bandung, Indonesia.source
1955May 15 – Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy become the first people to reach the summit of Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world, on the 1955 French Makalu expedition. The entire team of climbers reaches the summit over the next two days.source
1955May 18 – Free movement of residents between North and South Vietnam ends.source
195521 May – The 1955 Vuelta a Colombia begins.Colombia source
1955May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to climb Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, as part of the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans.source
1955A 5,500-ton freighter carrying 7,800 tons of coal is run onto a reef in Port Phillip Bay to prevent it from sinking after it struck rocks while traversing The Rip.Australia source
195520 August – The Paya Lebar Airport is officially opened, replacing the Kallang Airport which opened on 12 June 1937.Singapore source
195530 November – The 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition begins.Soviet Union source
1955René Magritte, The Mysteries of the HorizonBelgium source
1955The 1955 Pan American Games take place in Mexico City.Mexico source
1956April 19 – British diver Lionel (Buster) Crabb (working for MI6) dives into Portsmouth Harbour, to investigate a visiting Soviet cruiser, and vanishes.source
1956May 18 – Lhotse main summit, the fourth highest mountain (on the Nepalese–Tibetan border) is first ascended, by Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss.source
19569 June – Berit Aunli, cross-country skierNorway source
1956June 29 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the Interstate Highway System in the United States.source
19567–24 June – 1956 Vuelta a ColombiaColombia source
1956July 8 – The mountain Gasherbrum II, on the border of Pakistan and China, is first ascended, by an Austrian expedition.source
1956July 1956 – Adnan Menderes, the Turkish prime minister, pays a visit to Afghanistan.Afghanistan source
19565 November – Sharm el-Sheikh was occupied by Israel and as a result the Gulf of Aqaba was reopened.Israel source
19567 November – The 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition leaves KaliningradSoviet Union source
1956November 14 – An eight-mile long stretch of highway is opened west of Topeka, Kansas, creating the first portion of the Interstate Highway System in the United States and the first highway to be completed with funds from the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.source
1956November 25 – Fidel Castro and Che Guevara depart from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, en route to Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht Granma, with 82 men.source
1956Pianist Glenn Gould tours the Soviet UnionCanada source
1956A prospect of Ferrara by Giorgio Bassani.Italy source
1956Tayto (Northern Ireland) established by the Hutchinson family to manufacture potato chips at Tandragee, County Armagh.Northern Ireland source
1957April 27 - The SS Moyie takes her final voyage.Canada source
19575 June – The establishment of Far Eastern Air Transport.Taiwan source
1957June 9 – Broad Peak, on the China-Pakistan border, is first ascended.source
195710 September – Hallvard Devold, Arctic explorer, trapper and meteorologist (born 1898)Norway source
195722 September – The fishing boat Doron is captured by Egyptian forces, who claim that the boat entered Egypt's territorial waters, and is led to Port Said. Its crew, 5 Israeli fishermen and its Italian captain, are interrogated by the Egyptians.Israel source
1957November – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrives in Antarctica.Soviet Union source
1957The so-called 'mound of Midas', the Great Tumulus near Gordium, is excavated.source
1957Ivor Hele wins the Archibald Prize with his Self PortraitAustralia source
1957V. S. Wakankar discovers Bhimbetka rock shelter cave paintings.India source
1957New Zealand Trotting Cup – LookawayNew Zealand source
1958January 4 – Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.source
195814 January – Qantas Airways introduces a round-the-world air service from Australia to London.Australia source
1958January 16: An unidentified flying object is seen by the crew of the Brazilian Naval ship Almirante Saldanha, in the so-called Trindade Island Case.Brazil source
1958March 2 – A British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, using snowcat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams, in 99 days, via the South Pole.source
195825 March – Øyvin Thon, orienteering competitor.Norway source
195817 April – King Baudouin opens Expo 58, the first major World's Fair since the Second World War. John Carl Studder of El Paso, Texas, had queued for 48 hours to be the first visitor admitted.Belgium source
1958June 1 – Iceland extends its fishing limits to 12 miles (22.2 km).source
1958July 26 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched in the United States.source
195818 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued.Northern Ireland source
1958September 18 – BankAmericard, the first credit card to be widely offered, is launched in Fresno, California in what becomes known as the "Fresno Drop".source
1958November 19 – Maritime Commission appointedPakistan source
1958December 14 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.source
1958December 16 – Soviet polar pilot V. M. Perov on Li-2 rescues four Belgian polar explorers, led by Gaston de Gerlache, who have survived a plane crash in Antarctica 250 km from their base five days earlier.source
1958For the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air this year exceeds the total carried by sea.source
1958Farley Mowat's Coppermine Journey: An Account of a Great AdventureCanada source
19585–11 March – United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur.Malaya source
1959January 20 – Soviet Foreign Minister Anastas Mikoyan returned to Moscow after a controversial 17-day tour of the United States.Soviet Union source
195927 February – Tore Sagvolden, orienteering competitor.Norway source
1959March 17 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama escapes Tibet and arrives in India.source
1959March 31 – The Dalai Lama is granted asylum in India.source
1959April 25 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.source
195910 July – A memorial for Frank Foley (1884–1958) was dedicated in Harel, Israel, in the form of a forest planted in the desert. As a passport control officer at Britain's embassy in Nazi Germany, Foley flouted strict rules in order to help as many as 10,000 German Jews to leave the country.Israel source
1959August 7 – Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.source
195911 December – Georgian-born Australian amateur ocean rower Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko arrives in Dutch New Guinea having paddled a dugout canoe from Queensland for months via the islands of the Torres Strait for supplies. National papers such as The Canberra Times had been following his progress throughout.Australia source
195915 December: SUDENE is created by Law nº 3.692, which would seek the development of the Northeast region of Brazil.Brazil source
1959Papwa Sewgolum, a South African Indian golfer, wins the Dutch Open tournament.South Africa source
1959Nylon pantyhose, or sheer tights, are first sold on the open market as 'Panti-Legs' by Glen Raven Knitting Mills in the United States.source
1959Tallinn Bus Station moved to its current location from the Stalin Square (Viru Square).Estonia source
1959Auckland Trotting Cup – Scottish CommandNew Zealand source
1960January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).source
1960February 18: The Latin American Free Trade Association is created by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Pero, and Uruguay in Montevideo. The LAFTA was replaced by the Latin American Integration Association in 1980.Mexico source
1960February – The first FELDA settlers arrived in Lurah Bilut, Pahang.Malaya source
1960May 10 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth (codenamed Operation Sandblast).source
196012 May – Archaeologist Yigael Yadin announced the discovery of letters from the Bar Kokhba archive during an excavation in the Judean Desert.Israel source
1960May 13 – A joint Swiss and Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest.source
1960June 15 – The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in the world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.source
1960July 21 – English navigator Francis Chichester wins the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, arriving in New York aboard Gypsy Moth III having made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.source
1960July 21 – Tallinn Department Store was opened.Estonia source
196028 September – Foreign Minister Manzur Qadir alleges that Afghan irregulars crossed the border into the Bajaur District, initiating the Bajaur Campaign.Pakistan source
1960São Pedro Airport (now Cesária Évora Airport) opened as the country's second airportCape Verde source
1960Establishment of the Volta ao AlgarvePortugal source
1960Far East Organization, a property developer was founded.Singapore source
196116 February – The MV BP Explorer, a loaded tanker barge bound for Sharpness from Swansea, turns over in the Severn Estuary.Wales source
1961March 8 – Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth by light plane in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.source
1961March–April – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.source
1961May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.source
19619 October – Skelmersdale, a small Lancashire town fifteen miles north-east of Liverpool, is designated as a new town and its population will expand over the coming years, bolstered by large council housing developments to rehouse families from inner city slums on Merseyside.United Kingdom source
196124 November – Brit Pettersen, cross-country skier.Norway source
196128 November – After Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to allow the Arab nation's Jewish minority to leave, the first group 105 Jews was allowed to fly out to Israel. By the end of the year, 11,478 had left, and over the next two years, the 85,000 members of the community had emigrated.Israel source
1961Eendrag Men's Residence opens its doors to students of Stellenbosch University.South Africa source
1961An English FA XI tours New Zealand, handing out two heavy defeats to the national men's team.New Zealand source
1961Release of short documentary film Seawards the Great Ships, which will be the first Scottish film to win an Academy Award.Scotland source
1962February 18 – 1962 NHRA Winternationals: Carol Cox becomes the first woman allowed to race at a National Hot Rod Association national event in the United States; she wins in the Super Stock class.source
1962March 15 – Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin the Congo.source
1962May 1 – Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount stores, in Roseville, Minnesota.source
196216 May – The opening of Hualien Airport in Hualien County.Taiwan source
1962July 30 – Trans-Canada Highway officially opens throughout the 4,645 mi between St. John's, Newfoundland, and Victoria, British Columbia, by completion of the Rogers Pass section, making it at this time the world's longest uninterrupted highway.source
196226 August – U.S. vice president Lyndon B. Johnson visits Turkey.Turkey source
1962November 17 – Dulles International Airport, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.source
1962The Well Dressed Explorer by Thea Astley and The Cupboard Under the Stairs by George Turner are jointly awarded the Miles Franklin Literary AwardAustralia source
1962The port of Porto Grande, Mindelo, was expandedCape Verde source
1962Unknown Date – Kotobuki Foods, as predecessor of Skylark (すかいらーく) Restaurant founded in Nishitokyo, Tokyo.Japan source
1962Unknown date – 1962 Malaysia CupMalaya source
1962Mexico defeats Yugoslavia in the Americas Zone final of the 1962 Davis CupMexico source
1962Auckland Trotting Cup – Dandy BriarNew Zealand source
196318 March – The president of the United States John F. Kennedy began a three-day visit to Costa Rica to meet with the presidents of Central America to promote his Alliance for Progress programme to resist the influence of communism, from Cuba and the Soviet Union, by providing American economic aid to promote economic development and political reform in Latin America.Costa Rica source
1963April 19 – Amataro Sweets Teahouse, as predecessor of Colowide Restaurant Group, founded in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture.Japan source
1963May – A&W's first store in Asia Pacific and Malaysia opened at Kuala Lumpur's Batu Road.Malaysia source
1963August 15- King of Prussia Mall opens to the public in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area and is one of the top ten largest malls in the U.S.source
19631 September – The declaration of Port of Hualien to be an international port.Taiwan source
196328 October – Belfast Aldergrove opened as the principal airport for Northern Ireland, civilian facilities transferring from Nutts Corner.Northern Ireland source
1963William Dobell – Dahl CollingsAustralia source
1963Indo Swizz project started at Kerala for developing new cattle breed.India source
1963New Zealand Trotting Cup – Cardigan BayNew Zealand source
196416 March – Turkey unilaterally denounced the Greek-Turkish Convention of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation of 1930, marking the beginning of a mass expulsion of the Greek populace.Turkey source
1964April 1: Japanese citizens are permitted to freely travel overseas.Japan source
1964April 22 – The 1964 New York World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York (later King James II) and being renamed New York in 1664. The fair runs until October 18, 1964 and reopens April 21, 1965, finally closing October 17, 1965. Although not officially sanctioned as a world's fair, due to being within 10 years of the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, so that some countries decline to attend, many have pavilions with exotic crafts, art and food.United States source
196429 April – Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) inaugurates regular scheduled flights from Karachi to Shanghai via Dacca and Canton using a Boeing 720B, becoming the first airline of a non-communist country to fly to the People's Republic of China.Pakistan source
196414 September – Tromsø Airport is officially opened for trafficNorway source
1964The Circle Game: Margaret AtwoodCanada source
196421–27 June – The Beatles tour New Zealand.New Zealand source
1964The Welsh national side makes its first overseas tour, to South Africa.Wales source
19653 February – Terje Langli, cross-country skier.Norway source
196518 March – The Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture, Harry West attends a meeting with his Southern counterpart, Charles Haughey, in Dublin.Northern Ireland source
1965March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. It is discovered by teenage diver E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million-dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.United States source
196511 April – Qantas launches the first trans-Tasman jet service, between Christchurch and Sydney using Boeing 707 aircraft.New Zealand source
19653-25 July - Tour of President Eduardo Frei Montalva through Europe (Spain, Portugal, France and Italy) and South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador).Chile source
196530 August – The Subang Airport near Subang, Selangor was officially opened.Malaysia source
1965October 10 – The first group of Cuban refugees travels to the U.S.source
196526 October – Operación 90: Argentina launches its first ground expedition to the South Pole.Argentina source
196530 October – English model Jean Shrimpton wears a controversially short white shift dress to the Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.Australia source
1965December 15 – The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) is formed.source
1966January 20 - The Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo runs aground on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, UK.source
1966January 26 – Disappearance of the Beaumont children: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again. Their fate remains unknown.source
196618 July – Old Man of Hoy first climbed, by Chris Bonington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey.Scotland source
19667 August – The Storskog border control between Norway and the Soviet Union is opened. It remains the only legal border crossing from Norway to Russia till this day.Norway source
1966August 22 – Frontier Tea Product Manufacturing, as predecessor of Ito En founded in Shizuoka City.Japan source
1966November 15 – Two young couples in Point Pleasant, West Virginia reportedly see a strange moth-like creature better known as the Mothman.United States source
1966December 19 – The Asian Development Bank begins operations.source
1966Japan replaces Great Britain as Australia's largest trading partner.Australia source
1966Expeditions by Margaret AtwoodCanada source
196630-31 October – US President Lyndon Baines Johnson visited Malaysia, being the first American president to do so. On 31 October, President Johnson visited Kampung Labu Jaya village (now FELDA LB Johnson) in Negeri Sembilan state.Malaysia source
1966Auckland Trotting Cup: Waitaki HanoverNew Zealand source
19679 February - The Pudahuel airport is officially inaugurated, replacing Los Cerrillos airport.Chile source
196713 February: The Cruzeiro Novo, equivalent to one thousand old Cruzeiros, begins to circulate.Brazil source
1967May 1 – GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is established.source
1967June 5: Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith becomes the first person to climb Barbeau Peak, the highest point in the Arctic CordilleraCanada source
196719 June – Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier and businessman.Norway source
1967July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.source
196713 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.Turkey source
1967September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.source
1967December unknown - Nitori Furniture Wholesale Center, as predecessor of furniture retailer Nitori was established in Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido.Japan source
1967Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.source
1967The Australian cricket team, captained by Bob Simpson toured South Africa in 1966–67, losing the Test series 3–1Australia source
196723–26 January – The Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Air Marshall Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, tours New Zealand.New Zealand source
1968March 2: Fuji-Q Highland officially open in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture.Japan source
19681 April – American evangelist Billy Graham begins a tour of Australia.Australia source
1968May 1 – CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.source
1968July 4 – English yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip.source
1968July 25- Tysons Corner Center one of the largest malls in the U.S. opens to the public and the Washington DC area.source
196829 August – Natural Rubber Conference was held in Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia source
196817 September – The first A&W store opens at MSA Building, making it Singapore's first fast food restaurant. This went on until 2003, when A&W decided to leave Singapore. It made a return in 2019 to Jewel Changi Airport.Singapore source
1968An oil field is confirmed in Northern Alaska: the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field.source
196829 Feb - Auroville established in Pondicherry with presence of 124 countries.India source
1968New Zealand Trotting Cup: HumphreyNew Zealand source
1968Derek Mahon's poems Night-Crossing published.Northern Ireland source
196825–30 October – French President Charles de Gaulle visits Turkey.Turkey source
19691 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced its journey between Delhi and Howrah.India source
1969March 22 – The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.source
1969April 22 – English sailor Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.source
1969June 8 – Francisco Franco orders the closing of the Gibraltar–Spain border and communications between Gibraltar and Spain in response to the 1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum. The border remains closed until a partial reopening on December 15, 1982.source
196915 June – Linda Cerup-Simonsen (born as Linda Andersen), sailor.Norway source
1969July 19 – John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida, United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat Britannia (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969).source
1969A binational commission sets the maritime limits between Chile and Peru through two lighthouses on each side of the border.Chile source
19696 November – Coastlands Shopping Centre opens for the first time.New Zealand source
1969November 15 – Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).United States source
1969November 19 – Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.source
1969December 24 – The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.source
1969Farley Mowat - The Boat Who Wouldn't FloatCanada source
1969Tun Abang Haji Openg (until February)Malaysia source
1969Man – 2 Ozs of Plastic with a Hole in the MiddleWales source
1970March 15 – The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.source
1970March 15 – September 13 – Expo '70 in Osaka.Japan source
19703 April – Avigdor Hameiri (born 1890), Austro-Hungarian (Carpathian Ruthenia)-born Israeli author.Israel source
1970May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to cross the South Atlantic.source
197017 May – Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sets sail from Morocco towards Latin America aboard Ra II, a papyrus boat modeled after ancient Egyptian sailing vessels, in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean and prove his theory that the ancient Egyptians sailed to America in ancient times.Norway source
19704 July – Mogens Frey wins stage 8 of the 1970 Tour de France.Denmark source
1970July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.source
1970September 27 – Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.source
1970September 27 – Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.United States source
1970Women's movement starts in Oman with the establishment of the Omani Women's Association.source
1970The Sweet Track is discovered in England. It is the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery.source
1970The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.source
1970Buccaneer takes line honours and Pacha wins on handicap in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.Australia source
1970Stephen Leacock Award: Farley Mowat, The Boat Who Wouldn't FloatCanada source
1970New Zealand Trotting Cup: JamesNew Zealand source
1971March 2 – All-Pakistan Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman launched the non-cooperation movement in East Pakistan.source
1971March 25 – The North East Mall opens in Hurst, Texassource
1971May 5 – FedEx, the logistics and delivery service, founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.source
1971June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.source
1971June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.source
1971July 17 or 18 – A group consisting of anthropologists and journalists, and being led by Elizalde, makes an interview with 25 of about 100 members of the "Tasadays" in the southern Mindanao.Philippines source
1971July 20 - A first McDonald's fast food outlet open in Japan at Ginza, Tokyo.Japan source
1971August 16 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi, becomes the first black president to visit South Africa.source
1971September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.source
197112 October – U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew visits Ankara.Turkey source
19719 November – Six small ships constitute the first fleet of Bangladesh Navy.Bangladesh source
1971November 20 - Fidel Castro visits Punta Arenas.Chile source
1971Henry Kissinger secretly visits BeijingChina source
1971December 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.source
1971December 15 – The 1971 Intercontinental Cup took place in Greece.Greece source
1971December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.source
1971India defeat West Indies in Port of Spain Trinidad for the first time ever to clinch the rubber 1-0. Sunil Gavaskar creates world record for scoring 774 runs in four tests. Ajit Wadekar was the Captain.India source
1972March 23–April 2 – A 47-member expedition conducted by Presidential Assistant for National Minorities (Panamin) which has been headed by Manuel Elizalde Jr., mostly scientists and later joined by one of the agency's directors—American Charles Lindbergh, makes a first visit to the caves inhabited by 25 "surviving" Tasadays, a group of Stone Age-style people discovered in June 1971, in an isolated mountain rainforest in South Cotabato—the "first discovery of cavemen in modern times." The expedition ends as explorers are rescued by the United States Armed Forces.Philippines source
1972March – Lee Kuan Yew's first visit to Malaysia after Singapore's separation from Malaysia on August 9 1965.Malaysia source
1972April 13 – The third United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD III) is held at the then Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral in the city of Santiago.Chile source
197227 September: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici introduces the first stretch of the Trans-Amazonian Highway.Brazil source
1972Colombian looters find the lost 1st millennium city of Ciudad Perdida; it is not reached by official archaeologists until 1976.source
1972In August of that year, Dhaka XI travelled to India's Guwahati to take part in the Bordoloi Trophy. The team finished runners-up behind East Bengal Club.Bangladesh source
1972Maaletulek ('To Come to the Shore')Estonia source
1972Mexico at the 1972 Summer Paralympics.Mexico source
1972The first Guardian store is opened by Cold Storage.Singapore source
19734 February – The details of the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement are announcedNew Zealand source
1973February – KFC Malaysia opened its first restaurant at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia source
1973April 14 - Pedro Vuskovic, Vice President of the CORFO was authorized by the government to contract with the Moscow Bank of Commerce an extension of 40 million dollars in recently contracted credits.Chile source
1973May 5 – Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.source
1973May 18 – Second Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 80 km limit around Iceland.source
1973May 18 - Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland.Iceland source
1973A large Song dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A.D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China with 12 compartments in its hull. It confirms the descriptions of bulkheaded hull compartments for junks in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119.source
1973In November, Dinamo Minsk from Soviet Union toured Dhaka, Jessore and Comilla, and played four exhibition matches between 5 and 14 November.Bangladesh source
1973Ürümqi Tianshan International Airport opensChina source
1973The founding of the kibbutz Ketura.Israel source
1973North Korea disputed the Northern Limit Line.North Korea source
19744 February – The Federal Minister for Labour, Mr Cameron, meets officials of the Australian Bank Officials Association in Melbourne in an effort to break the deadlock in the bank dispute. The association decides to lift is week-old ban on handling commercial cheques.Australia source
1974May 4 – The Expo '74 world's fair opens in Spokane, Washington.source
197416 May–9 June – The 57th Giro d'Italia was held. Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx won the race, with Italians Gianbattista Baronchelli and Felice Gimondi finishing second and third.Italy source
1974August 7 – French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a high wire slung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.United States source
197411 October – Terje Håkonsen, snowboarderNorway source
1974November 1: Henry Kissinger briefly visits to talk with Daoud for a grand total of four hours, then departs the country for Iran via Kabul Airport.Afghanistan source
1974Abahani Krira Chakra became the first club after the independence of Bangladesh to participate in the IFA Shield.Bangladesh source
1974Stephen Leacock Award: Donald Jack, That's Me in the MiddleCanada source
1974Fate unknown – KB wins the 1974 Danish 1st Division.Denmark source
197513 February – Opening of Glattzentrum, the first large shopping center in Switzerland located on the outskirts of Zurich in Wallisellen, housing several brands like Migros, Globus, and JelmoliSwitzerland source
197519 February – The first SAFRA clubhouse is opened in Toa Payoh.Singapore source
1975March 15 – Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and senior Ministers visit South Africa for talks.South Africa source
197523 April – Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips arrive in Australia to commence a two-week royal tour of the country, beginning in Sydney and then continuing in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.Australia source
1975May 16 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
1975July 20 – opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.Japan source
1975September–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people, in support of Maori claims to their land.source
1975October 16 - Moroccan King Hassan II announced plans for a march of over 350,000 civilians across the border to Western Sahara to claim the parts of Western Sahara for Morocco.Morocco source
1975November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.source
1975Launch of the Volkswagen Polo, a three-door hatchback which fits into the Volkswagen range below the Golf and is similar in size and concept to the Renault 5 from France.Germany source
1975The founding of the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adummim.Israel source
197621 February – Subang Jaya, a new township in Petaling Jaya, Selangor developed by Sime Darby was established.Malaysia source
197630 July – Research vessel RV MTA Sismik 1 in Aegean SeaTurkey source
1976October 6: Consuelo Adler — model.Venezuela source
1976November 15 – The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.source
1976December 15 - Luis Werner discovers the archaeological site of Monte Verde.Chile source
1976Marylebone Cricket Club visited BangladeshBangladesh source
1976dissolution of Associação Atlética RodoviáriaBrazil source
1976Mexico at the 1976 Summer ParalympicsMexico source
1976New Zealand Trotting Cup: Stanley RioNew Zealand source
1977January 1 – Canada's offshore exclusive economic zone is extended to 200 nmi.Canada source
197724 June-2 October: documenta 6Germany source
19771 August – The opening of Magong Airport in Penghu County.Taiwan source
197724 August – Australia's first 7-Eleven convenience store opens in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh.Australia source
1977August Unknown date – A first Hyundai Department Store open in Ulsan, as predecessor name was Ulsan Shopping Center.South Korea source
1977September 4 – San Cristóbal: Francesco Moser becomes road cycling world championVenezuela source
1977September 18 – Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island.source
1977December – The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented.source
1977Government of Bangladesh launches Operation Dabanal in the Chittagong Hill TractsBangladesh source
1977New Zealand proclaims an Exclusive Economic Zone of 200 nautical miles (370 km) – the seventh largest in the world at 4.3 million km 2New Zealand source
19781 January – Another Vietnamese refugee boat arrives at night, from a camp off the Malaysian coast.Australia source
19787 January – Iran and Red and Black ColonizationIran source
1978May 8 – Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) make the first ascent of Mount Everest, without supplemental oxygen.source
19788 May – Peter Habeler of Austria, along with Reinhold Messner (Italy), makes the first ascent of Mount Everest, without supplemental oxygen.Austria source
197817 May – Tor Halvor Bjørnstad, cross-country skier, biathlete and winter triathleteNorway source
1978May 20 – Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.source
1978John Newlove: The Fat Man: Selected Poems (1962–1972)Canada source
1978The founding of the community settlement Sapir.Israel source
1978Tun Datuk Ahmad Koroh (until November)Malaysia source
1978Auckland Trotting Cup: Sole Command. From 1978–86 the race was over 2700m and there was no handicapping.New Zealand source
197926 February – Chiang Kai-shek International Airport located in Taoyuan County (now is Taoyuan County) officially opened.Taiwan source
1979February: Muhammed Ali came to New Zealand; staying at Upper Hutt (photos).New Zealand source
197911 March – Keren Peles, Israeli singer.Israel source
197911 April – The Razorback Blockade, a truck drivers' blockade, which had disrupted the eastern states for 10 days, ends. The truck drivers had been protesting against state road taxes and low cartage rates.Australia source
19793 July – A cargo ship named MV Kairali owned by Kerala Shipping Corporation went missing on its journey carrying iron ore from Mormugao to Rostock.India source
19799 August – Tore Ruud Hofstad, cross-country skierNorway source
1979The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and some of the Romanovs are discovered and exhumed near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).source
1979Irving Layton: The Tightrope DancerCanada source
1979Tristan Jones - The Incredible VoyageWales source
19808 January – Tryggve Gran, aviator, explorer and author (b.1889)Norway source
1980February – Johore Safari World, Malaysia's first safari park was opened to public.Malaysia source
1980April 10 – In Lisbon, Portugal, the governments of Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain (closed since 1969) in 1985.source
1980August 26 – Doe leaves to visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in his first international visit since his taking power.Liberia source
1980August 31 – Victory of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. The Gdańsk Agreement is signed, opening a way to start the first free (i.e. not state-controlled) trade union in the communist bloc, "Solidarity" (Solidarność).source
1980September 17 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.source
19809 October – Gloagtrotter of Perth, trading as GT Coaches, begins operation of an express coach service from Dundee to London as The Stage Coach, origin of the Stagecoach Group.Scotland source
1980Mexico at the 1980 Summer Paralympics.Mexico source
1980New Zealand was unplaced in the Oceania Cup tournament held in New CaledoniaNew Zealand source
1980Robert Dunlop makes first appearance at the Cookstown 100.Northern Ireland source
1980The Pakistan Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) was establishedPakistan source
198110 February – Townsville International Airport opens in TownsvilleAustralia source
1981July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour commences in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of apartheid.source
1981July 21 – Panda Tohui is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.source
198124 July – American mediator Philip Habib brokered a cease-fire between Israel and the PLO, temporarily halting the Lebanese Civil War.Israel source
1981July – Passports reintroduced for New Zealanders travelling to Australia. The Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs says the exemption was exploited; travel had not required passports following the 1972 Trans-Tasman Travel Agreement.New Zealand source
1981September 1 – The Spanish writer Corín Tellado visits the country.Chile source
1981October 14–21. A delegation of Solidarity visits France.Poland source
1981December 7 – Rotary International charters the Rotary Club of Grand Baie, Mauritius.source
1981Marylebone Cricket Club cricket team visited Bangladesh and played a number of friendly matches with the Bangladesh team.Bangladesh source
1981The Netherlands men's national field hockey team are victorious at the 1981 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in Karachi, Pakistan.Netherlands source
1981The England cricket team tours Sri Lanka in February 1982. The tour included two One Day International (ODI) matches and one Test match.Sri Lanka source
1982February 11-19: the 1982 Amílcar Cabral Cup took place in PraiaCape Verde source
19821 March - The Carretera Austral begins to work, which connects the city of Puerto Montt with the town of Villa O'Higgins.Chile source
198220 April-9 May – 1982 Vuelta a España cycle raceSpain source
1982May 1 – A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is kicked off with an address by President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 million people attend during its six-month run.source
198214–15 May: Raid on Pebble IslandArgentina source
19821 July – Official opening of the East–West Highway from Gerik, Perak to Jeli, Kelantan.Malaysia source
1982October 5 – Laurie Skreslet becomes the first Canadian to climb Mount Everest.Canada source
198226 December – Aksel Lund Svindal, alpine skier.Norway source
1982The Warehouse opens its first store, in Takapuna.New Zealand source
19837 February - The airfield at Sydenham, Belfast, reopens to commercial flights as Belfast Harbour Airport.Northern Ireland source
1983February – Malaysia officially occupied the Layang-Layang Islands or "Swallow Reefs" atolls, one of the Spratly Islands. A naval base and resort was later built at this location.Malaysia source
19832 March – Free trade zones created in Aliağa, Antalya and Yumurtalık.Turkey source
1983July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.source
19834 September – Six men walk underwater in Sydney Harbour as part of an attempt to break a world record. They achieved 82.9 km in 48 hours.Australia source
198316 September – The Gala department store chain ends its operations in Chile, selling its location in the Parque Arauco shopping center to Falabella.Chile source
198319 September - The MK2 Volkswagen Golf is unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, spelling the end of MK1 Golf production after almost a decade. It will be launched in left-hand drive form imminently, and in right-hand drive form from March 1984.Germany source
1983Bangladeshi author Abdullah-Al-Muti won the UNESCO Kalinga Prize.Bangladesh source
1983The founding of the kibbutz Neve Harif.Israel source
1984January – The federal government planned to build a transit system between Sentul and Petaling Jaya.Malaysia source
1984February 22 – President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgrades South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renames it back to Moulvibazar.source
198417 April – Changi Airport's second runway is officially opened to cater for more flights.Singapore source
198423 May - Bachendri Pal becomes first Indian women to reach the summit of Mount Everest.India source
19845 July – Diego Maradona welcomed in Naples. He plays for SSC Napoli until 1991.Italy source
198429 August - Tiago José Rodrigues Cardoso - Born in Guimarães.Portugal source
1984September 18 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.source
1984October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
1984October 8: Bart Vos claims to be the first Dutchman to have climbed Mount Everest.Netherlands source
198425 December – Soviet premier Nikolai Tikhonov arrives in Ankara for official visit.Turkey source
1984Mexico at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.Mexico source
1985February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.source
1985March 17 – Expo '85, an international exhibition, opens in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, running until September 16.source
1985March 17 — September 16 – Expo '85 was held at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture.Japan source
1985March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 26-month, 40,000 km Man in Motion tour, which raises US$26 million for spinal cord research and quality-of-life initiatives.source
198530 April – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model.Israel source
1985May 9 - The first direct commercial flights between Iceland and the United States began, operated by Icelandair.Iceland source
198512 June – The first Pak'nSave opens in Kaitaia.New Zealand source
19858 July – Jørgen V. Pedersen wins Stage 10 of the 1985 Tour de France-Denmark source
198525 August–22 September – The Indian cricket team tours in Sri Lanka.Sri Lanka source
198529 August – The José María Córdova International Airport opens in Rionegro, Antioquia, near Medellín.Colombia source
1985September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.source
198531 December – The inauguration of Taipei World Trade Center in Xinyi District, Taipei.Taiwan source
1986March – Johor Circuit (Pasir Gudang), the second Malaysian race track circuit after Batu Tiga Circuit in Shah Alam, Selangor was officially opened.Malaysia source
198611 April – The Plaza Shopping Centre in Palmerston North, then known as the PDC Plaza, is officially opened by Prime Minister David Lange.New Zealand source
1986May 2 – Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.source
1986August 11 – Tamil refugees are found drifting off the coast of NewfoundlandCanada source
198616 September: The Cairo Amman Bank announces its intention to open a branch in Nablus, the first Arab bank to resume operations in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.Palestine source
1986October 29 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opens the M25 Motorway, which encircles Greater London, in a ceremony on the carriageway near Potters Bar. It became Europe's second longest orbital road upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London.source
198628 November – The start of operation of Canadian Trade Office in Taipei in Taipei City.Taiwan source
198618–20 November – Chaim Herzog visits Singapore.Singapore source
1986Launch of the second generation Vauxhall Carlton, largest model in the Vauxhall range. It will be sold as the Opel Omega on the continent, and all European versions of the car will be built in West Germany.United Kingdom source
1986December 23 – Rutan Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.source
1986Cadbury Dairy Milk range adopts separate wrappers for different countries until 1992.source
1986c. August – the millionth council house to be sold under the right to buy scheme is sold to its tenants in Scotland, seven years after the scheme was launched in the United Kingdom.Scotland source
1987June 19 – Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.source
1987June 23 – The Tanduay Rhum Makers win the 1987 PBA Open Conference finals against the Great Taste Coffee Makers, 134-120Philippines source
198710-22 June – The 37th Vuelta a Colombia is held, Pablo Wilches wins.Colombia source
1987June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.India source
1987August 7 – American Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes.source
19871 October – The closed-toll system came into force along the Kuala Lumpur–Ayer Keroh and Ipoh–Changkat Jering expressways.Malaysia source
19873 November – McDonald's opens its first restaurants in the South Island at Linwood and Merivale, Christchurch.New Zealand source
19877 November – The initial section of the MRT, between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh, was opened.Singapore source
198722 December: Israeli Minister of Defence Yitzhak Rabin tours the Gaza Strip after his return from a ten-day trip to the United States, which he had refused to cut short to respond to the growing unrest in the occupied territories.Palestine source
1987The founding of the community settlement Avtalion.Israel source
1988January 26 – A re-enactment of the First Fleet arrives in Sydney Harbour to mark the bicentenary of the First Fleet arriving in Australia in 1788.source
198829 February – Nadav Ben Yehuda, mountaineer and SAR specialistIsrael source
1988April 30 – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.source
198830 April – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland. The exhibition runs for 6 months hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusts Brisbane into the international spotlight.Australia source
1988July – Intermovement was established.Estonia source
1988September – 1988 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference was held in Nicosia.Cyprus source
19885 December – Grand Duke Jean and King Baudouin of Belgium open the A6 motorway, which connects Luxembourg to the Belgian A4 and on to Brussels.Luxembourg source
198816 December – State visit of Turgut Özal to the United States.Turkey source
198820 December – The fifth section of the MRT is opened from Yishun to Khatib.Singapore source
1988Zebra mussels, a species originally native to the lakes of southern Russia and Ukraine, are found in the Great Lakes of North America.source
1988Mexico at the 1988 Summer ParalympicsMexico source
198921 February – Tradewinds starts its first flight, which is formed in 1975 as a hotelier.Singapore source
19898 March – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat visits Pakistan and lays the cornerstone for a Palestinian embassy in Islamabad.Palestine source
1989April 9 – Moshe Ziffer (born 1902), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli sculptor.Israel source
198915 April – Malacca Town became a historical city and also a sister city of Kuala Lumpur.Malaysia source
1989May 14 – Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s, ending the Sino-Soviet split.source
1989May 14 — Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, ending the Sino-Soviet split.Soviet Union source
19898 July – The opening of Formosa Fun Coast in Bali Township, Taipei County.Taiwan source
1989July 9–12 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush travels to Poland and Hungary, pushing for U.S. economic aid and investment.source
198923 August – Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, joined hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.Estonia source
1989September 10 – The Hungarian government opens the country's western border (with Austria) to refugees from East Germany.source
1989September 30 – Nearly 7,000 East Germans who had come to Prague are allowed to leave for the West on special refugee trains.source
1989October – Cold War: Perestroika – Nathan's Famous opens a hot dog stand in Moscow.source
1989November 1 – The border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia is reopened.source
1989November 3 – East German refugees arrive at the West German town of Hof after being allowed through Czechoslovakia.source
1989November 16 – The first American cosmetics shop in the Soviet Union, an Estée Lauder outlet, opens in Moscow.source
1989December 11 – The International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, reaches the South Pole.source
19891989 Tournament of the Americas in Mexico City.Mexico source
199027 February – Line Kloster, sprinter.Norway source
19901–16 February: Her Majesty Elizabeth II of New Zealand visits.New Zealand source
1990March 3 – The International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations, completes the first dog sled crossing of Antarctica.source
199010 March – The Branch MRT line is opened from Jurong East to Choa Chu Kang. It merged into the North South MRT line in 1996 following the Woodlands Extension.Singapore source
1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting 3 Canadian and 8 U.S. cities.source
1990June 17–30 – Nelson Mandela tours North America, visiting three Canadian and eight U.S. cities.Canada source
1990October 8 – Globalization: The first McDonald's restaurant is opened in Mainland China in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. Since 1979, Shenzhen has been a Special economic zone.source
1990October 17 – A major financial service of Russia, VTB Bank is founded in Russia SSR, former part of Soviet Union, as predecessor name was Vneshtorg Bank.source
199030 October – A special Premiers' Conference is held in Brisbane. State Premiers agree with the Commonwealth to streamline transport rules under an historic agreement providing for national registration and licensing.Australia source
19901 November – South Africa's anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela began a four-day visit to Malaysia.Malaysia source
1990Unknown – France's Christophe Lavainne wins the 1990 Tour de Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
19901990 Pan American Race Walking Cup in Xalapa, Veracruz.Mexico source
19919 March – The official establishment of Straits Exchange Foundation in Taipei.Taiwan source
199110 June – Pol Espargaró, motorcycle racerSpain source
1991Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa CatalinaColombia source
19911 August – The Lot 10 Kuala Lumpur shopping complex officially opened.Malaysia source
1991September 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is found in the Alps.source
1991September 22 – The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.source
199124 November – The Keppel-Brani causeway is officially opened, making it the first road link between Singapore and an island.Singapore source
1991École Internationale Les Alizés opened in PraiaCape Verde source
1991The Iriadamant group established itself in Kittilä.Finland source
19911991 – Pakistan launches "Pakistan Antarctic Programme" and sends an expedition of scientists to Antarctica.Pakistan source
1992January 19 – Paramount Leader of China Deng Xiaoping speaks in Shenzhen during his southern tour, a move that would return China on its right-wing march towards free market economics.source
199219 January - The news embargo is lifted on George Bush's visit.South Korea source
199222 February – Nawaz Sharif introduces yellow-cab taxi scheme.Pakistan source
1992February 28 – Ownership of the port town of Walvis Bay is transferred from South Africa to Namibia.source
199212 April – The 42nd Vuelta a Colombia ends in Bogotá. Fabio Parra of Seguros Amaya wins.Colombia source
199220 April – Seville Expo '92, a six-month universal exhibition, opens in Seville.Spain source
199215 December – The Sentosa Causeway is officially opened. It is a road link that connects Sentosa with mainland Singapore.Singapore source
19921992 Argentina rugby union tour of EuropeArgentina source
1992Mexico at the 1992 Summer Paralympics.Mexico source
1992New Zealand Trotting Cup: Blossom LadyNew Zealand source
1993Backstreet Boys were formed in Orlando, Florida.source
199327 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.Northern Ireland source
199316 June – Bosnian Muslim refugees leave Croatia for Pakistan.Pakistan source
1993July 26 – Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.source
1993September 1: The government separated the commercial functions from the (central) Bank of Cape Verde, establishing Banco Comercial do AtlânticoCape Verde source
199315 September – The visit of Hungarian foreign minister Géza Jeszenszky in Romania starts.Romania source
19937 October - Altamura, Apulia: the remains of the Man of Altamura (Homo arcaicus), the only one of its kind, come to light.Italy source
1993October 13 – The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.source
1993November 17 – The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.source
19935 December – The Jurong section of the Pan Island Expressway opened to traffic.Singapore source
1993Unknown – Italy's Maximilian Sciandri wins the 1993 Tour de Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
19931993 IAAF World Race Walking CupMexico source
19941 January – Visit Malaysia Year 1994 officially began.Malaysia source
199420 May - The section of the A1 motorway between Croix de Gasperich and Irrgarten opens.Luxembourg source
19941 July – Palestinian President Yasser Arafat returns to Palestine after 27 years of exile by crossing the border from Egypt to the Gaza Strip, arriving first in Rafah and then Gaza City.Palestine source
19945 August: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay decide in Buenos Aires to create a free trade zone between MERCOSUR and Bolivia.Brazil source
1994August 8 – The Wadi Araba Crossing opens, becoming the first border crossing between Israel and Jordan.Israel source
1994September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.Japan source
1994Ásgeir Elíasson is the coach of the Icelandic Association Football team.Iceland source
1994Dos mujeres, un camino, on TelevisaMexico source
1995February 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.source
199527 February – The Union Bank of Finland opened a branch in Estonia, being the first foreign bank to open a branch in Estonia.Estonia source
1995Early February – The Philippine Navy discovers ships and structures being built, all by the Chinese, in Mischief Reef (Panganiban Reef) in the Spratly Archipelago (Kalayaan Island Group), South China Sea off Palawan; such occupation since the previous year causes the Government to take legal diplomatic actions against China and further tensions between two countries, especially in May when two Chinese ships will block that of the Department of National Defense attempting to approach the area.Philippines source
1995March 26 – The Schengen Agreement, easing cross-border travel, goes into effect in several European countries.source
199523 June – The Pacific Ocean Games begins in Cali.Colombia source
1995June 29 – English yachtswoman Lisa Clayton completes her 10-month solo circumnavigation from the Northern Hemisphere.source
1995July – The A13 motorway extension from Biff to Rodange, bypassing Pétange, opens.Luxembourg source
19955 November – The second phase of the Seletar Expressway was opened.Singapore source
199515th - President Rawlings starts an 11-day visit U.S. to promote investment and trade.Ghana source
1995U.S. lifted 20-year aid embargoLaos source
199515–17 May – German president Roman Herzog visits Romania. He is the first German president to do so since 1980.Romania source
1996August 16 – Brookfield Zoo, Chicago. After a 3-year-old boy falls into the 20 ft deep gorilla enclosure, Binti Jua, a female lowland gorilla sits with the injured boy until his rescue.source
19963 September – The third phase of the Tampines Expressway opens. More roads are planned for upgrading and widening, including on stretches of the Pan Island Expressway and East Coast Parkway, the PIE/TPE flyover and Upper Bukit Timah Road. The ERP system is still being tested.Singapore source
199623 September - The section of the A1 motorway between Irrgarten and Kirchberg opens, completing the motorway and also the south-eastern bypass of Luxembourg City.Luxembourg source
1996December 3 – In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the local Department for Promoting the Good and Suppressing the Bad issued a directive prohibiting taxi drivers from giving rides to women wearing chadors.Afghanistan source
199610 December – The Oil-for-Food Programme implementation begins with the first Iraqi oil export.Iraq source
199615 December – The opening of the Representative Office in Taipei for the Moscow-Taipei Coordination Commission on Economic and Cultural Cooperation in Taipei.Taiwan source
1996December 15 – The Zambia Open golf tournament becomes part of the Sunshine Tour for the first time. It is won by Desvonde Botes of South Africa.Zambia source
1996Banco Caboverdiano de Negocios established in PraiaCape Verde source
19961996 AFC Asian Cup qualificationJordan source
199720 March – The first shipment of food and other commodities is delivered to Iraq as part of phase 1of the Oil-for-Food Programme.Iraq source
199721 April – The 47th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Bucaramanga, Santander.Colombia source
1997April - A flight delivering 105 Muslim pilgrims from Libya to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia causes diplomatic backlash, as it violates a ban on international Libyan flights in place since 1992.Libya source
199716 May – Yaşar Kemal won Peace Prize of the German Book TradeTurkey source
199723 May – M. Magendran (11.55 am) and N. Mohanadas (12.10 pm) were the first Malaysians to reach the peak of Mount Everest.Malaysia source
199717 November – The Ayer Rajah Expressway extension to Tuas is officially opened, formed by the expansion of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim into an expressway. The route will cater for the opening of the Second Link in 1998.Singapore source
199726 November – Pakistan's first motorway linking Islamabad to Lahore is opened.Pakistan source
1997The Bangladesh national cricket team toured New Zealand in November and December 1997 and played four first-class and four List A matches against teams representing the northern, central and southern regions of New Zealand. Bangladesh had been playing List A matches since 1986, but the four first-class matches on this tour were the first first-class matches played by any Bangladeshi team. However, Bangladesh team was not competitive in the longer version of the game against the stronger NZ regional teams.Bangladesh source
1998March 23 - President Bill Clinton visits GhanaGhana source
1998Bill Clinton makes the first visit to South Africa by a U.S. president.source
1998June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.source
199827 June – Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang was officially opened as the main international airport in Malaysia, replacing Subang International Airport in Subang.Malaysia source
1998Libyan planes fly to DRC. The government of Libya says it is to evacuate Arab families who went to the Republic of the Congo from DRC.Democratic Republic of the Congo source
1998September 19 - Kabila leaves Tripoli after a visit that violated the UN's embargo on air links with Libya. Again, the United Nations condemns the two countries for this.Libya source
1998September 25 – Benoit Lecomte finishes his 72-day swim across the Atlantic Ocean, but uncertainty over the exact route and distance covered prevent him from being recognized as the first person to swim across the Atlantic.source
19983–13 October – 1998 ACC Trophy is held in Nepal.Nepal source
1998The Australian cricket team begin their first successful tourPakistan source
1998Debtor states to Romania in 1998Romania source
1998Mount Kumgang Tourist Region opened for tourists.South Korea source
1999February 27 – While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes.source
19994 March – Singapore Expo is officially opened, making it the largest meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions (MICE) venue in Singapore. This comes after some exhibition space in World Trade Centre had to make way for the North East MRT line.Singapore source
1999March 21 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.source
199914 May - The fully renovated St George's Market in Belfast reopens its doors.Northern Ireland source
199913-27 – 49th Vuelta a ColombiaColombia source
19998 July – The 'special state-to-state' model for cross-strait relations proposed by President Lee Teng-hui.Taiwan source
1999July: Banco Inter-Atlântico opened its headquarters in PraiaCape Verde source
1999August 31 - Afghan Northern Alliance leaders, including Ahmad Shah Masood, General Sayed Husain Anwari, Ustad Sayaf and Yonnus Qanooni, met in the Panjsher Valley of Afghanistan to plan the establishment of a central Afghan bank and the recreation of close to a dozen ministries.Afghanistan source
1999October 1 – Shanghai Pudong International Airport opens in China, becoming the primary international airport serving Shanghai and taking over all international flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.source
19996 November – A delegation in support of listing the sanctions on Iraq led by British MP George Galloway arrives in Baghdad. The delegation, which left London using a double-decker bus on September 2, 1999, passed through few countries on its route, raising funds for cancer treatment for Iraqi children and highlighting the humanitarian cost of the sanctions.Iraq source
1999December 3 – After rowing for 81 days and 5,486 kilometers (2,962 nautical miles), Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.source
1999Meriton Grand Hotel was opened.Estonia source