Technology & Infrastructure in the 20th century

1,909 sourced entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE, oldest first. Also see Technology & Infrastructure across every century or everything else in the 20th century.

1900March 20 — Thomas Lambert received a patent for the first indestructible type of cylinder records.source
19007 May - The first line of electric trams in São Paulo starts operating.Brazil source
1900June 3 – First round of the Italian general election.Italy source
1900July 2 – The first zeppelin airship flight, by Zeppelin LZ 1, is carried out over Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany.source
1900July 19 – The first line of the Paris Metro opens.source
19001 September – The German-American Telegraph Company opens the first direct line between Germany and the United States. At 7,917 kilometres or 4,919 miles, the line was the longest transatlantic cable to that time, running from Emden to New York City, via the Azores Islands.Germany source
190023 October — The country's first electric tram service begins, between Roslyn and Maori Hill in Dunedin.New Zealand source
1900October or November – The first sound recordings made in Portugal are produced in Porto by engineer William Darby, who creates a series of gramophone discs documenting sounds of local music as part of a European recording campaign for the Gramophone Company.Portugal source
1900December 23 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first use of amplitude modulation (the basis for AM radio) for wireless transmission of the human voice, from Cobb Island (Maryland).source
1900December 28 – The first steel produced by electrometallurgy (from an electric furnace) is delivered.source
1900Boxers attacks on Chinese Eastern RailwayChina source
1900The opening of the Moscow Paveletsky railway stationRussia source
1900Two redesigned 6th Class 4-6-0 steam locomotives are placed in service by the Cape Government Railways. In 1912 they would be designated Class 6F on the South African Railways.South Africa source
19011 January – The Constitution of Australia comes into force, as the federation of Australia is complete. John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun appoints Edmund Barton as the first Prime Minister following the Hopetoun blunder of 1900. Hopetoun had himself been commissioned as the first Governor-General of Australia by Queen Victoria in letters patent dated 29 October 1900 prior to the Constitution coming into force.Australia source
1901January 10 – In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.United States source
1901March 31 – The United Kingdom Census 1901 is taken. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever level.source
190116 May – TS King Edward is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton. The first commercial merchant vessel propelled by steam turbines, she enters excursion service on the Firth of Clyde on 1 July.Scotland source
1901June 15 – RMS Lucania is the first Cunard Line ship to receive a wireless radio set.source
1901July 4 – The 1,282 foot (390 m) covered bridge crossing the Saint John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada opens. It is the longest covered bridge in the world.source
1901July 10 – The world's first passenger-carrying trolleybus in regular service operates on the Biela Valley Trolleybus route at Königstein, Germany.source
190110 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service.Germany source
1901August 14 – The first claimed powered flight is made, by German-born American aviator Gustave Whitehead, in his Number 21, in Connecticut.source
1901August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner, in the United Kingdom.source
1901October 2 – The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness.source
1901November 9 – The electric tramline in Cape Town is extended from Sea Point to Camps Bay.South Africa source
1901November 18 – The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty is signed by the United Kingdom and United States, allowing the U.S. to build the Panama Canal under its sole control.source
190128 November – Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen.Denmark source
1901December 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England, to St. John's, Newfoundland; it is the letter "S" in Morse code.source
1901December 12 — Guglielmo Marconi receives a transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland.Canada source
1901December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa–Victoria–Uganda Railway, in modern-day Kisumu, Kenya.source
1901American businessman William S. Harley draws up plans for his first prototype motorcycle.source
1901German engineer Richard Fiedler invents the modern flamethrower, the Kleinflammenwerfer.source
1901Unknown date – Imabari Shipbuilding was founded, as predecessor name was Higaki Shipbuilding in Ehime Prefecture.Japan source
1902January 1 – Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his wireless telephone device in the U.S. state of Kentucky.source
1902February 15 – The Berlin U-Bahn underground is opened.source
1902April 11 – Tenor Enrico Caruso makes the first million-selling recording, for the Gramophone Company in Milan.source
190212 May – The first telegram sent by wireless telegraphy is received in Copenhagen.Denmark source
1902May 29 – 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.Canada source
1902June 15 – The New York Central Railroad inaugurates the 20th Century Limited passenger train between Chicago and New York City.source
190212 July – The first of the Neuquén–Cipolletti bridges on the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway opens to traffic. The first locomotive to pass over it is number 205, driven by Antonio Mazzarolo.Argentina source
1902August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile, a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.source
1902October 17 – First Cadillac completed, sold and sent to Buffalo, New Yorksource
19023 November – Postmaster-General James Drake opens a submarine telegraph cable from Southport, Queensland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, completing a British Empire communications line.Australia source
190215 November – The Ofoten Line opened.Norway source
1902December 10 – The first Aswan Dam on the Nile is completed.source
1902December 17 – The Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnue Agenstvo), predecessor of TASS, is officially established under the Ministry of Finance at Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire.source
1902December 17 – A transmission from the wireless transmitting station of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, became the world's first radio message to cross the Atlantic from North America.Italy source
1902December 21 – Newfoundland - Guglielmo Marconi sends wireless messages across the Atlantic.source
1902December - The Russian News Agency TASS begins life as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo).Russia source
1902Construction of the Paul Doumer Bridge, linking both sections of Hanoi, is completed.source
1902The Natal Government Railways places ten Class F 4-6-4 Baltic type tank steam locomotives in service, the first known locomotive in the world to be designed and built as a Baltic. In 1912 they will be designated Class E on the SAR.South Africa source
1903January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).source
1903Mahatma Gandhi enrolls to the Bar of the Transvaal Supreme Court.South Africa source
1903March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build the Rosyth Dockyard as a naval base at Rosyth in Scotland.source
1903March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway.source
1903March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian senate later rejects the treaty.source
1903June 16 – The Ford Motor Company is founded.source
1903July 1–19 – The first Tour de France is held; Maurice Garin wins it.source
1903July 14 - the Dongqing Railway was opened to traffic.China source
190315 August – German-Belgian railway convention signed.Belgium source
1903September 11 – The first stock-car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.source
190310 October – Jacob Thurmann Ihlen, politician (born 1833)Norway source
1903November 2 – Lyceum Theatre (Broadway) opens, making it the oldest continuously operating legitimate theater in New York City.United States source
1903November 6 – The English-language South China Morning Post newspaper is first published in Hong Kong.source
1903November 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.source
1903November 18: The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, creating the Panama Canal Zone.Panama source
1903December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine, the Wright Flyer, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented and successful powered and controlled heavier-than-air flight.source
190318 December – The first train runs from Rockhampton to Brisbane.Australia source
1903Compression Rheostat, the predecessor of industrial automation and industrial equipment parts brand Rockwell Automation, is founded in Wisconsin.source
1903American motorcycle brand Harley-Davidson is founded in Wisconsin.source
1903The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for five cents. It contains eight colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.source
1903Motor ferries start to operate in the Port of Copenhagen.Denmark source
1904January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.source
190413 January: Portobello Marine Laboratory opens, initially as a fish hatcheryNew Zealand source
1904February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.source
1904March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.source
1904April - The German Imperial Navy introduces SOS as a distress signal.Germany source
19041 May – Belgium national football team plays its first international, against FranceBelgium source
1904May 4 – United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.source
1904May 4 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, in Manchester England to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names are launched in December.source
1904May 5 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.source
1904May 9 – Great Western Railway of England 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro possibly becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.source
1904July 4 – Piero Ginori Conti tests the first-ever geothermal power generator at the Larderello dry steam field in Italy. It was a small generator that lit four light bulbs.Italy source
1904July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.source
1904July 23 – A continuous track tractor is patented by David Roberts of Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham in England.source
1904September 1 – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London.source
1904September 2 – John Voss sails the rigged dugout canoe Tilikum into the River Thames in England after a 3-year voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, westabout.source
1904October 11 – Loftus Road football stadium opens in London.source
1904October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.source
1904November 16 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube, the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve).source
1904November 24 – A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare.source
1904The Austral Hall Toowoomba was officially opened on 5 November 1904 by Sir Hugh Nelson, Lieutenant Governor of Queensland for The Austral Society.Australia source
1904The oldest building at the Akureyri Junior College is constructed.Iceland source
1904The gun carriage factory is established in JabalpurIndia source
1904Two experimental superheated 6th Class 4-6-0 locomotives. In 1912 they will be designated Class 6L by the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1905January 1 – The official opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway.Russia source
1905January 4 – The city of Bend, Oregon, plotted out in 1900 by Alexander Drake, is incorporated as a town for local logging companies, and will have a population of 536 in 1910. By the year 2020, it will have almost 100,000 residents.source
19051 March – John Jenkins resigns as Premier of South Australia to become Agent-General for South Australia in London. He is replaced by Richard Butler.Australia source
1905April 2 – The Simplon Tunnel through the Alps is opened to railway traffic.source
1905April 17 – Railroad workers go on strike on the eve of the presentation of the new railway bill to the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Fewer than half of the railwaymen complied. Fortis remained steadfast, and after four days, the strikers gradually returned to work.Italy source
1905May 15 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks are auctioned to form what becomes Downtown Las Vegas.source
190515 May – The opening of Taichung TRA station in Taichū Prefecture.Taiwan source
1905August 12 – The first running takes place of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in England, the world's oldest motorsport event to be staged continuously on its original course.source
19051 to 6 August – 1905 European Rowing Championships held on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal in Ghent.Belgium source
1905October 2 – HMS Dreadnought is laid down in the United Kingdom, revolutionizing battleship design and triggering a naval arms race.source
1905October 5 – The Wright brothers' third aeroplane (Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting, the first aeroplane flight lasting over half an hour.source
1905October 29 – The Circum-Baikal Railway is brought into permanent operation, completing through rail communication on the Trans-Siberian Railway.source
1905November 28 – The Mataafa Storm buffets the Great Lakes region. Named after the SS Mataafa, a boat sunk outside of the Duluth Ship Canal, the storm ultimately destroys 29 vessels, leading to 29 deaths and shipping losses of US$3.567 million (1905 dollars).source
1905December 2 – Norsk Hydro, predecessor of Equinor, a state-run energy product and grid brand in Scandinavia, is founded in Norway.source
190530 December - Law no. 1452 is passed by the National Congress of Brazil, authorizing expenditure of £4,214,550 for new warship construction (£1,685,820 in 1906).Brazil source
1905The Marlborough Herald begins publication. The Herald continues until 1911. The Marlborough Express stops publishing The Marlborough Times, which started in 1874.New Zealand source
1905The Natal Government Railways places two Class A 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives in service, designed by Locomotive Superintendent D.A. Hendrie for passenger traffic on the mainline between Ladysmith and Charlestown. In 1912 they will be designated Class 2 on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1906January 1 – Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in MontrealCanada source
1906January 12 – Sogi Electronic Company, as predecessor of Asahi Kasei was founded in Isa region, Kagoshima Prefecture.Japan source
1906March 18 – In France, Romanian inventor Traian Vuia becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered monoplane, but it is incapable of sustained flight.source
19061 April – Cape Midland – Port Elizabeth to Humewood Road (Narrow gauge), 75 ch.South Africa source
19065 May – The first electric trams begin running in Melbourne from St Kilda to Brighton.Australia source
1906May 19 – The Simplon railway tunnel, connecting Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, through the Alps, is inaugurated by the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III and the president of the Swiss Confederation (presiding the Federal Council of Switzerland for that year) Ludwig Forrer. Work on the first tube of tunnel commenced in 1898.Italy source
1906June 26 – The first autombile racing Grand Prix is the 1906 French Grand Prix held at Le Mans.source
1906August 4 – The first Imperial German Navy submarine, U-1, is launched.source
1906October 23 – An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France, and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.source
190623 October: An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters (200 feet). This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.Brazil source
1906November 3 – SOS becomes adopted internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy) on inclusion in the service regulations of the first International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.source
1906December 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.source
1906December 24 – Reginald Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast: a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.source
1906A submarine telegraph cable was laid by the Great Northern Telegraph Co. from Scotland through the Faroe Islands to Iceland, where it came ashore on the east coast at Seyðisfjörður. In conjunction a telegraph and telephone line, was laid from the landing point to the capital city Reykjavík. This established Síminn (originally Landssími Íslands).Iceland source
1906First fertilizer factory in India (Ranipet, Tamil Nadu)India source
19077 January - Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.Brazil source
1907February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.source
1907March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.source
1907April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.source
1907April 17 – The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race.source
1907June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala.source
1907June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.source
1907July 15 – The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street.source
1907August 10 – Prince Scipione Borghese and Ettore Guizardi, the prince's driver, win the Peking to Paris motor race with a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.Italy source
19075 October – The SMS Dresden is launched.Germany source
1907October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.source
19072 December – The Victorian Railways A2 class locomotive begins operating in Victoria.Australia source
1907December: The Maori II, a triple-screw steamer which is the first purpose-built, inter-island ferry in the country, makes its first run between Lyttelton and Wellington.New Zealand source
1907James M. Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.source
1907The Autochrome Lumière is the first commercial color photography process.source
1907The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.source
1907Peking to Paris automobile raceChina source
1907Húsavíkurkirkja is constructed in HúsavíkIceland source
1907The Cape Government Railways places a single experimental 4-6-2 Pacific three cylinder compound steam locomotive in service, based on the second series of its Karoo Class locomotives. In 1912 it will be designated Class Experimental 1 on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1908February 12 – The first around-the-world car race, the 1908 New York to Paris Race, begins.source
1908March 4 – Bank of Communications, a major financial services provider in China, is founded in Beijing.source
1908March 4 – One of earlier financial service founded in this nation, China Bank of Communications was founded.China source
1908June 29 – Kohlerer-Bahn by Bleichert opens in Bolzano, South Tyrol, the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service.source
1908July 1 – SOS comes into force internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy).source
19088 July – The paper coffee filter, created by German housewife Melitta Bentz, is patented.Germany source
1908August 8 – Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating controlled powered flight in Europe.source
1908August 8 – The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner patented on June 22 by James M. Spangler.source
1908August 17 – “Fantasmagorie”, an animated short film by Émile Cohl, which is widely regarded as the first animated cartoon is officially released.source
1908September 10 – The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".source
190810 September - The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".Brazil source
1908October 1 – Official launch of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobile, the first having left the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27. The initial price is set at US$850.source
1908October 29 – Olivetti, the well-known typewriter and business equipment company, is founded in Italy.source
1908October 29 – The Italian business machine manufacturer Olivetti is founded in Ivrea, producing typewriters.Italy source
19086 November: The North Island Main Trunk railway linking Wellington and Auckland is completed, with the last spike driven in by Prime Minister Joseph Ward at Manganui-o-te-Ao and commemorated by the Last Spike Monument.New Zealand source
1908December 16 – Construction begins on the RMS Olympic, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.source
1908Unknown date – Yasui Sewing Machine, as predecessor of Brother Industries founded in Nagoya.Japan source
1908The Cape Government Railways places two 4-6-2 Pacific type narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in passenger service on the Walmer branch in Port Elizabeth.South Africa source
1908El hotel eléctrico, directed by Segundo de ChomónSpain source
190914 February: The first North Island Main Trunk passenger express train leaves Auckland for Wellington, an overnight trip scheduled to take 19 hours 15 minutes, with a sleeping car, day cars with reclining seats, postal/parcels vans, and a dining car for part of the way.New Zealand source
1909March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter in Denmark.source
1909March 31 – Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.source
190930 April – Tasmania begins to use the Hare-Clark single transferable vote method in the 1909 general election.Australia source
1909May 2 – Francesco Ciuppa wins the 1909 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.Italy source
1909July 25 – Louis Blériot is the first man to fly across the English Channel (thus a large open body of water) in a heavier-than-air craft.source
1909August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright brothers.source
1909September 4 – Japan and China sign the Gando Convention, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.source
190919 September: The country's first automobile race is held at the São Gonçalo circuit in Rio de Janeiro.Brazil source
1909October 13 – An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.source
1909October – Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing, predecessor of the Suzuki motorbike and compact car brand in Japan, is founded in Shizuoka Prefecture.source
1909October Unknown date – Motorbike and compact car brand Suzuki founded, as predecessor name is Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing.Japan source
190914 November - first tram line opened in PskovRussia source
1909December 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made at East London, by French aviator Albert Kimmerling, in a Voisin 1907 biplane.source
1909December 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made by French aviator Albert Kimmerling by taking off from the Nahoon Racecourse at East London in a Voisin 1907 biplane.South Africa source
1909A team under German chemist Fritz Hofmann first synthesizes synthetic rubber (Methylkautschuk).Germany source
1910January 22 – Completion of construction of New York City's Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, at 700 ft the world's tallest building at this time, is celebrated.source
1910March 4 – The Rogers Pass avalanche buries a group of Canadian Pacific Railway workers clearing tracks in the Selkirk Mountains at Rogers Pass (British Columbia), making it the worst snowslide accident in Canadian history.source
1910March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's license No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.source
1910March 10 – Release of In Old California, the first film made in Hollywood, California, directed by D. W. Griffith.source
1910April 5 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.source
1910May 15 – Tullio Cariolato wins the 1910 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily driving a Franco.Italy source
191022 May – Belgian general election, 1910Belgium source
1910June 2 – Charles Rolls became the first person to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping.source
1910June 5 — The Nanyang industrial exposition opens.China source
1910June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.source
1910July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Crippen.source
19101 October – The opening of Lumachan railway station in Tainan PrefectureTaiwan source
1910November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.source
1910November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.source
1910December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.source
19104 December – The railway line from Flisa to Elverum opened.Norway source
1910Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.source
1910Hitachi, an electromechanics company, is founded as a mining machine repair factory in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.source
1910There are almost 50,000 flush toilets installed in Copenhagen.Denmark source
1910Aero Club of New Zealand is formed in Auckland.New Zealand source
1910Two Class A 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotives, built in their Durban workshops. In 1912, these locomotives will be designated Class 2C on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1911January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft has landed on a ship.source
1911January 21 – First Monte Carlo Rally inaugurated.source
191118 February – Henri Pequet, flying a Humber biplane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India.India source
1911February unknown – Kobayashi Gas Appliance Manufacturing, as predecessor of Paloma, a gas cooking and heating appliance manufacturing brand, was founded in Nagoya.Japan source
1911In April, Zhao Erfeng was appointed as Viceroy of Sichuan by the Government of Great Qing. Before he took office, he was appointed by Wang Renwen. In order to stabilize the situation of Railway Protection Movement, Zhao had jointly requested local officials at various levels to request the central government to change the state-owned policy Of railways, but it was not allowed.China source
1911May 14 – Giovanni "Ernesto" Ceirano wins the 1911 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.Italy source
1911May 30 – The first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.source
1911August 17–20 – Britain's National Railway strike of 1911, its first national strike of railway workers; on August 19 it leads to the Llanelli riots in Wales which result in 6 deaths.source
1911November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.source
191118 December - The Marburg railway line opens in South west QueenslandAustralia source
191123 December: George Bolt's first flights, in an early form of hang-glider.New Zealand source
1911December 24 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.source
1911President Alfaro is removed from office. After a failed attempt to regain office, he is captured near Guayaquil and sent to Quito on a railroad built during his term in office. He is later exiled to Panama.Ecuador source
1911The Natal Government Railways places the first two of seven 4-6-2 Pacific narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in service. On the SAR they will become the Class NG4.South Africa source
1912January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.source
1912January 22 – The Overseas Railroad officially opens on the Florida Keys.source
1912March 1 – Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane.source
1912French aviator Henri Salmet makes the first nonstop flight from Paris to London, in three hours. ##claim retracted see Flight, 23 March 1912, p. 264 M. Salmet's London-Paris Flight ##source
1912March unknown date – Yanmar has founded, as predecessor name was Yamaoka Engineer Works.Japan source
1912April 20 – Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts opens.source
191224 April – The NSW government grants 43 acres of land for the construction of a zoological garden, later known as Taronga Park.Australia source
1912April – The first eight of forty-six Class 12 4-8-2 Mountain type goods locomotives.South Africa source
19125 May - Maksimir stadium opened.Croatia source
1912May 13 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.source
1912August 1 – The Jungfrau Railway is inaugurated with the opening of the subterranean Jungfraujoch railway station in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, Europe's highest at 3,450 m above sea level.source
1912September–October: French director Gaston Méliès and a company of film-makers make eight films in New Zealand including the first New Zealand feature films; see The River Wanganui.New Zealand source
1912October 16 – Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the second bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne, against Turkey.source
1912October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel.source
1912December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy), developed by Anton Köllisch.source
1912December – Antwerp Engineering Co. completes work on the HispaniaBelgium source
1912Articulated trams are invented and first used by the Boston Elevated Railway.source
1912India introduced registration of motor vehicles.India source
19132 January — Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".Australia source
1913February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station.source
1913February 2 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.United States source
191310 February – The Governor-General announced the "Taiwan Industrial Combination Rules" and the "Taiwan Industrial Combination Rules Implementation Rules", which came into effect on 1 March.Taiwan source
1913March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on 4 December 1952 (the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) will grow from this foundation).source
191322 March: The world's first automatic totalisator is used at the Easter meeting at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland.New Zealand source
1913April 21 – Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.source
1913April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world on this date, and for more than a decade after.source
1913May 11–12 – The Italian driver Felice Nazzaro wins the 1913 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.Italy source
1913May 26 (May 13 O.S.) – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a 4-engine fixed-wing aircraft.source
1913South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps.South Africa source
1913August 13 – Harry Brearley invents stainless steel in Sheffield.source
1913September 9 – Imperial Russian Army pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first person to loop an airplane, flying a Nieuport IV monoplane over Syretzk Aerodrome near Kiev.source
1913September 9 – In Germany, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process.source
1913September 9 – In Oppau, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch process, feeding today about a third of the world's population.Germany source
1913October 7–December 1 – The Ford Motor Company adopts a moving assembly line for chassis production, reducing assembly time from 12½ hours to 2 hours 40 minutes, a landmark in mass production.source
1913October 10 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.source
1913October 16 – The British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.source
1913October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated.source
1913November 17 – The National Transcontinental Railway is completedCanada source
1913December 1 – Buenos Aires Underground, the first in South America, opens.source
1913Camel cigarettes are introduced by R. J. Reynolds in the United States (the first packaged cigarettes).source
1913The State Security Investigations Service, the Middle East's first internal security service, is established in Egypt.source
19141 January at 12:00 a.m. Local Mean Time States and territories now observe the four standard time zones, moving clocks forward or backward by a few minutes and seconds according to the then civil time by law since 18 June, 1913.Brazil source
1914January 8 – A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.South Africa source
191421 March – Nojima Ginzo piloted the double-propeller compound-blade aircraft "Falcon" at 10:37 and took off to an altitude of 100 meters and hovered for four minutes before landing. This day was designated by the Taiwan Governor-General's Office as Taiwan Airlines Memorial DayTaiwan source
1914May 9 – J. T. Hearne in England becomes the first bowler to take 3,000 first-class wickets.source
191410 May - opening of Yevpatoria tramRussia source
1914June 7 – Red Week after the killing of three anti-militarist demonstrators in Ancona. Many elements of the left protest and the Italian Socialist Party declare a general strike. Various acts of civil disobedience occur in major cities and small towns such as seizing railway stations, cutting telephone wires, and burning tax-registers. Two days later the strike was officially called off, but the civil strife continued. Militarist nationalists and anti-militarist leftists fought on the streets until the Italian Royal Army forcefully restored calm after having used thousands of men to put down the various protesting forces.Italy source
1914June 9 – Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player in the twentieth century with 3,000 career hits.source
1914June 23 – After it had been closed so that it could be deepened, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir George Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.source
1914July 1 – The Royal Naval Air Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.source
1914July 11 – USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.source
1914July 18 – The Signal Corps of the United States Army establishes an Aviation Section, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.source
191431 July – Swiss Air Force established.Switzerland source
1914August 5 – The first electric traffic light is installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in Cleveland, Ohio.source
1914August 15 – The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the SS Ancon.source
1914November 16 – A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.source
1914December 20 – Tokyo Station officially opens in Japan, replacing Shinbashi Station as Tokyo's main terminal.source
1914December 20 – Tokyo Station opened with four platforms; two serving electric trains and two serving non-electric trains.Japan source
1914The first everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.source
1914The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.source
1914Establishment of the Zhongshan Park, in ShanghaiChina source
19151 January – First flight of the Walsh Brothers' Curtiss-type flying boat. The flight takes place at Bastion Point and it is the first such aircraft built and flown in the Southern Hemisphere.New Zealand source
1915January 19 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.source
1915January 25 – The first United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call is facilitated by a newly invented vacuum tube amplifier, ceremonially inaugurated by Alexander Graham Bell in New York City and his former assistant Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco, California.source
1915January 26 – WWI: The Ottoman Army begins the Raid on the Suez Canal.source
191526 January – The opening of Ruisui Station in Karenkō Prefecture.Taiwan source
1915March unknown date – A tool brand, Makita founded, as predecessor name was Makita Electronics Manufacturing.Japan source
191510 May – La Prensa Gráfica, a Salvadoran newspaper, began publication.El Salvador source
19156 June – The BHP Newcastle Steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.Australia source
1915July 1 – WWI: In aerial warfare, German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens becomes the first person to shoot down another plane, using a machine gun equipped with synchronization gear.source
191520 August – An auto parts, electronics and other manufacturing brand, ZF Friedrichshafen was founded, as predecessor name was Zepernicker Zahnradfabrik.Germany source
1915September 6 – The prototype military tank is first tested by the British Army.source
1915September 7 – Cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.source
1915September 11 – The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, using overhead AC trolley wires for power. This type of system is later used in long-distance passenger trains between New York City, Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.source
1915September 30 – WWI: Serbian Army private Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft, with ground-to-air fire.source
1915November 23 – The Triangle Film Corporation opens its new motion picture theater in Massillon, Ohio.source
1915December 10 – The 1 millionth Ford car rolls off the assembly line at the River Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan.source
1915Two Class 16A 4-6-2 Pacific type four-cylinder simple expansion passenger locomotives.South Africa source
1915Construction of the Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai High School was completed.Vietnam source
1916March - Inauguration of the Liljevalchs konsthall.Sweden source
1916Korea Tungsten is founded in Daegu, predecessor of leading steel producer in Asia, POSCO (Pohang Steel Company).source
1916May 7 – The Government of Canada authorizes the creation of an all black battalion that became No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force.Canada source
1916June 24 – Mary Pickford becomes the first movie star to sign a million-dollar contract, making her one of the highest-paid people in the world.source
191611 July – The Gornbæk–Gilleleje extension of the Helsingør–Gornbæk Railway Line is inaugurated.Denmark source
191613 July – Vivian Walsh is the first New Zealander to obtain a pilot's licence while resident in New Zealand.New Zealand source
1916July 15 – In Seattle, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).source
1916September 6 – The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders, opening 5 days later.source
1916September 30 – Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City.United States source
19161 October – Carl Otto Løvenskiold, naval officer, politician and land owner (born 1839).Norway source
1916November 1 – The first 40-hour work week officially begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.source
1916November 7 – Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.source
1916December 22 – The British Sopwith Camel aircraft makes its maiden flight. It is designed to counter the German Fokker aircraft.source
1916The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is founded in the United States as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers.source
1916Bray Studios begins the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first of the Terrytoons.source
1916Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute is designed and made by the Bascom brothers (Raymond, Mel, and Earl) and their father, John W. Bascom, at Welling, Alberta, Canada.source
1916Brazilian Naval Aviation is established, in preparation for the country's participation in the First World War.Brazil source
1916The South African Railways places six Class NG10 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotives in service on the Langkloof narrow gauge line.South Africa source
19171 February – Georg Andreas Bull, architect and chief building inspector (born 1829)Norway source
1917March 1 – WWI: The U.S. government releases the text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.source
191720 March – Lieutenant Frank Hubert McNamara becomes the first Australian airman to receive the Victoria Cross.Australia source
1917April 16 – (N.S.) (April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in Petrograd after a German-sponsored voyage in a sealed train from his exile in Switzerland through Germany and Scandinavia.source
1917April 16 – (N.S.) (April 3, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin arrives at the Finland Station in Petrograd.Russia source
1917April – Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki, the first anime, is released in Japan.source
1917April – The first Caudron biplane purchased by Henry Wigram for the Canterbury Aviation Company arrives.New Zealand source
1917May 23 – WWI: During the Stalemate in Southern Palestine, the Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway by the British Desert Column takes place: large sections of the railway line linking Beersheba to the main Ottoman desert base are destroyed.source
191724 July – Construction of the Yilan line began.Taiwan source
1917The Industrial Workers of Africa, South Africa's first predominantly black trade union, is established in Johannesburg.South Africa source
1917October 19 – Dallas Love Field Airport is opened in Texas.source
1917November 22 – In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the National Hockey Association suspends operations.source
1917December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).source
1917December 19 – Montreal Wanderers defeat the Toronto Arenas in the first NHL game.Canada source
1917December 26 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.source
1917The Portuguese Naval Aviation establishedPortugal source
1918January 15 – The keel of HMS Hermes is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down.source
1918Date unknown - Arthur Scherbius applies to patent the Enigma machine.Germany source
1918March 6 – The first pilotless drone, the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane developed by Elmer Ambrose Sperry and Peter Cooper Hewitt, is test-flown in Long Island, New York, but development is scrapped in 1925, after its guidance system proves unreliable.source
1918April 1 – The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service in Britain are merged to form the Royal Air Force, the first autonomous Air Force in the world.source
1918May 15 – The United States Post Office Department begins the world's third regular airmail service, between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.source
191815 May – World War I: Imperial German Navy submarine SM U-90 shells the Royal Navy wireless station on Hirta in St Kilda.Scotland source
1918May 15 – The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).United States source
1918May 21 – The United States Army Aviation Section is separated from the Signal Corps, and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.source
1918June 29 – Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries opens in New York; Brazil is the only international exhibitor and the exposition closes at the end of the season.source
19186 October – Australia's first electric train service begins, between Newmarket and Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.Australia source
1918November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.source
1918December 13 – The Canadian Corps parades across bridges over the Rhine, the 1st Division at South Bridge (Cologne) and the 2nd Division at Bonn. The Canadians participate in the Occupation of the Rhineland until gradually withdrawn starting in January 1919.Canada source
1918Panasonic (パナソニック), as predecessor name was Matsushita Electronics Work Manufacturing.Japan source
1918Eight Class MJ1 branchline 2-6-6-0 Mallet articulated compound steam locomotives.South Africa source
1918Baseball – First records of the Grange Gasworks Ladies team playing in Cardiff.Wales source
1919March 20 – The Vix Note demands Hungary withdraw over 100 km to the Szeged–Debrecen–Vásárosnamény lineHungary source
1919April 15 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues a memorandum proposing a line, the so-called "Wilson Line", dividing the Istrian peninsula between Italy and Yugoslavia. Trieste and Pula, with the railway connecting them, lay on the Italian side; Fiume and Ljubljana, with the railway connecting them, on the Yugoslav. Učka (Monte Maggiore) was to be Italian, but the Wilson Line ran further west of Fiume than that of the Treaty of London. Italy would have none of the rights in northern Dalmatia granted it by that treaty, but it would receive the islands of Vis (Lissa) and Lošinj (Lussin). After the resignation of Orlando and Sonnino in June, the new Foreign Minister Tommaso Tittoni alters the course of negotiations by abandoning the Treaty of London and strengthening the Franco-Italian alliance, but he did not accept President Wilson's proposed "line". The French diplomat André Tardieu worked as an intermediary between Tittoni and the Americans, and he first suggested the creation of a buffer state out of a strip of land around Fiume, the future Free State of Fiume.Italy source
1919April 15 – Boston Telephone Strike of 1919 begins. Ends successfully for the telephone operators and supporters on April 20.United States source
191916 April – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, architect (Museo Nacional de Antropología).Mexico source
1919April 20 – The French Army blows up the bridge over the Dniester at Bender, Moldova, to protect the city from the Bolsheviks.source
1919April 23 – The Potchefstroom Teachers' College opens.South Africa source
1919June – Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, which becomes the world standard.source
1919June – Rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bronc chute is designed and made by rodeo cowboy Earl W. Bascom at the Bascom Ranch in Lethbridge, AlbertaCanada source
1919October 7 – The Dutch airline KLM is founded (as of 2025, it is the world's oldest airline still flying under its original name).source
1919October 16 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party (DAP).source
1919December 25 – Cliftonhill Stadium in Coatbridge, Scotland, opens as the home of Albion Rovers F.C. They lose the opening match 2–0 to St Mirren.source
1919Plunket Shield: 25–29 December, Hagley Oval, Christchurch: Canterbury defeated Wellington by 7 wickets. See 1920 in New Zealand#Cricket for remaining matches in this Plunket Shield competition.New Zealand source
1919Production of zinc begins in Glomfjord at the state-owned industrial plant.Norway source
1920February 1 – The South African Air Force (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force in the world, after the British Royal Air Force (RAF).source
1920February 1 – The South African Air Force (SAAF) is established, the second autonomous Air Force in the world after the Royal Air Force (RAF).South Africa source
1920February – The Kawanishi Engineering Works, predecessor of ShinMaywa, is founded in Hyogo-ku, Kobe.Japan source
1920March 1 – The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.source
1920April – Turin metal-workers, in particular at the Fiat plants, go on strike demanding recognition for their 'factory councils'. The 'factory councils' more and more saw themselves as the models for a new democratically controlled economy running industrial plants, instead of as a bargaining tool with employers.Italy source
192011 May – Mataura railway station is destroyed by fire. A replacement railway station building opens the following year.New Zealand source
1920May 17 – The first flight of Dutch air company KLM, from Amsterdam to London, takes place.source
1920June 15 – Australian soprano Nellie Melba becomes history's first well-known performer to make a radio broadcast when she sings two arias as part of an experimental series of broadcasts from a studio at the Marconi Company's factory at Chelmsford in England.source
1920June 20 – Transport workers' unions declare an international boycott on HungaryHungary source
1920July 29 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam, as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.source
1920July 29 – Rodolfo Acosta, television actorMexico source
1920August 20 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. It is owned by the Detroit News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.source
1920September 29 – The first domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States; a Westinghouse radio costs $10.source
1920November 2 – In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the results of the presidential election.source
192016 November – The Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service, later known as Qantas, is founded in Winton.Australia source
1920Establishment of the Republic of China Air ForceChina source
1921January 15 – Mitsubishi Electronics was separate section from Mitsubishi Shipbuildings (now Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) which was founded in Ōsone, Nagoya.Japan source
1921February – A single experimental Class GA 2-6-0+0-6-2 Garratt articulated steam locomotive, the first Cape gauge Garratt in South Africa.South Africa source
192122 May – The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is opened at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.Brazil source
1921June 15 – 29-year-old African American Bessie Coleman obtains her pilot's licence in France and becomes the first black woman to have a pilot's licence.source
1921July 21 – Edward Harper, the "father of broadcasting" in Ceylon, arrives in Colombo to take up his post as Chief Engineer of the Ceylon Telegraph Department.source
1921August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast: Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA in Pittsburgh.source
192122 October - 04:30 - Telegraph notifies the Government about Charles IV's returnHungary source
1921October 29 – Construction of the Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Project in Oregon, is completed.source
192117 November – Professor Robert Jack assembles a small transmitter at the University of Otago in Dunedin and broadcasts the first ever radio programme heard on New Zealand airwaves. The only known fact about the programme's content is that it included the then popular song "Hello My Dearie".New Zealand source
1921Establishment of People's Park, in GuangzhouChina source
1921Walther Rathenau (Democrat) – Minister of ReconstructionGermany source
1921Maintenance Orders Enforcement ActIndia source
1922February 8 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.source
1922March 2 – An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.source
1922March 2 – The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.source
1922March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.source
1922March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.source
1922April 1 – South African Railways takes control of all railway operations in South West Africa.source
19221 April – The SAR inherits seven former German Colonial narrow gauge and Cape gauge steam locomotive types in SWA.South Africa source
1922April 24 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from the UK to Egypt.source
1922May - The Dom Vital Center is created.Brazil source
1922June 14 – President of the United States Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.source
1922September 13 – The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.source
192211 October – The opening of Baishatun Station in Shinchiku Prefecture.Taiwan source
192214 October - First Ulster Grand Prix motorcycle road race takes place on the Old Clady circuit.Northern Ireland source
1922October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.source
192226–28 October – March on Rome, led by Italo Balbo, Michele Bianchi, Emilio De Bono and Cesare Maria De Vecchi (Quadrumviri del Fascismo). Fascist blackshirts converge on Rome from various regions of Italy, occupying prefectures and railway stations. Mussolini is in Milan, where he negotiates at a distance with the king and the government. Civilian authorities hand over power to the military authorities. King Victor Emmanuel III announces his intention to appoint Fascist leader Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister of Italy and refuses to sign a state of siege, proposed by Prime Minister Facta.Italy source
1922November 1 – A broadcast receiving licence with a fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.source
1922November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.source
1922November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to see inside KV62, the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, in over 3,000 years.source
1922December 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.source
1922The Industrial Islamic orphanage school is established in the old city of Jerusalem.Mandatory Palestine source
1922Wilhelm Groener – Transport MinisterGermany source
19221922 New Zealand rugby league seasonNew Zealand source
1923January 17 (or 9) – First flight of the first rotorcraft, Juan de la Cierva's Cierva C.4 autogyro, in Spain. (It is first demonstrated to the military on January 31.)source
1923January – Establishment of Radio Corporation of ChinaChina source
1923March 1 – Eskom, the largest electricity producer in Africa, is established in South Africa.source
1923March 1 – The Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom), largest electricity producer in Africa, is established.South Africa source
1923March 17 – Dobrolyot is formed as the first Soviet civil aviation service; it will become part of flag carrier Aeroflot.source
1923March 28 – Regia Aeronautica, the air force of Fascist Italy, is founded.source
192320 April – Julius Streicher's antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer begins publication.Germany source
1923April 28 – The original Wembley Stadium in London, England, opens its doors to the public for the first time, staging the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.source
1923May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race is held, and is won by André Lagache and René Léonard.source
19236 July – The Ongarue railway disaster results in the deaths of 17 passengers when the overnight Auckland-Wellington Express runs into a landslip at Ongarue near TaumarunuiNew Zealand source
1923August 29 – Fuji Electric Manufacturing, later Fuji Electric was founded.Japan source
1923September 4 – The United States Navy's first home-built rigid airship USS Shenandoah makes her first flight at Naval Air Station Lakehurst (New Jersey); she contains most of the world's extracted reserves of helium at this time.source
1923October 1 – The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens to public traffic.source
1923November 1 – The Finnish flag carrier airline Finnair is started, as Aero oy.source
1923December 1 – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo, bursts, killing at least 356 people.source
19231 December – In Italy, the Gleno Dam on the Gleno River, in the Valle di Scalve in the northern province of Bergamo bursts, killing at least 356 peopleItaly source
1923December 6 – Calvin Coolidge addresses the United States Congress in the first radio broadcast from a President of the U.S.source
1923December 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin files his first patent (in the United States) for "television systems".source
1923Brazil's first radio broadcasting station, the Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, is founded; it is still working under the name Rádio MEC.Brazil source
1923Pääsküla-Tallinn electric railway begins operating.Estonia source
1924February 5 – GMT: A radio time signal is broadcast for the first time, from the Royal Greenwich Observatory.source
1924February 15 – Grupo Sonido 13, directed by Julián Carrillo, holds the first concert of microtonal music in Mexico City.Mexico source
192415 February – began the "Lenin Enrolment" into the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Soviet Union source
1924February 22 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.source
19246 May – James Craig refuses to nominate a Northern Ireland representative to the Boundary Commission.Northern Ireland source
192421 September – Inauguration of the Autostrada dei Laghi, the first controlled-access highway ever built in the world.Italy source
1924October 6 – 1-RO begins regular radio broadcasting services in Italy.source
192425 November – The Bucharest government vote one million lei to construct a crematorium.Romania source
1924November 29 – Tokyo Broadcasting Station, as public associated corporate, was founded, later, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).Japan source
1924O Trem da Morte, starring Arturo CarrariBrazil source
1924A single Class ES1 battery-powered shunting locomotive at the construction site of the Colenso power station.South Africa source
1925January 25 – The tomb of Tutankhamun is reopened to allow Howard Carter to resume his archaeological investigation. Some artefacts are found to be damaged as a result of careless storage by the antiquities department.Egypt source
1925February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.source
192525 February – Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prisonGermany source
1925March – A nation's first license radio station, NHK Radio One, an official broadcasting service start in Tokyo, following start on June 1 in Osaka and July 15 in Nagoya.Japan source
1925April 1 – The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce.source
1925June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Chrysler in the United States.source
1925June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision".source
192526 June – The aircraft manufacturer Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) is founded in Brașov.Romania source
192528 June – Antonio Ascari wins the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix, the first held on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.Belgium source
1925June – Start of the Canton–Hong Kong strikeChina source
1925July 1 – The New Cape Central Railway and its 204 mi 69 ch long line between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1925July 10 – Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence.source
1925July 25 – The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.source
1925August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways.source
1925August 14 – The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line.source
1925October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.source
1925November 28 – The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".source
1925First electric tram begins operating on Narva Road in Tallinn.Estonia source
19267 January – Deutschlandsender, a radio transmitter, is opened for the first time.Germany source
1926January 16 – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.source
192621 January - Rádio Mayrink Veiga begins broadcasting in Rio de Janeiro.Brazil source
1926January 26 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.source
19265 March – The British High Commissioner grants an exclusive 70-year concession to Pinhas Rutenberg of the Palestine Electric Corporation for production and distribution of electric power utilize the water of the Jordan River and the Yarmouk River (see First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House)Mandatory Palestine source
19267 June – Free State – Harrismith to Warden, 35 mi 33 ch.South Africa source
1926June 12 – Lithuanian Radio launches its service from Kauno radiofonas.source
1926July 15 – Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company in India introduces motor buses.source
1926August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is experienced by audiences for the first time, in the movie Don Juan, starring John Barrymore.source
1926August 6 – American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel, from France to England.source
1926August 18 – In the United States, a weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C.source
19266 October – First airplane factory in KayseriTurkey source
1926November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.source
1926November 15 – The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).source
1926November 18 – Inventor and industrialist Sakichi Toyoda founds the Toyota Industries, the company from which Toyota Motor Corporation would develop.Japan source
192618 December – Raadio Ringhääling starts regular broadcastsEstonia source
1926December – The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union is conducted.Soviet Union source
1926Phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is first synthesized.source
1926Industrial output surpasses the level of 1913 in the USSR after a period of economic downturn.source
1927January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its royal charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.source
1927January 7 – The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom.source
1927February 23 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.source
1927March 14 – Pan American World Airways is founded by Juan T. Trippe.source
1927April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.source
1927May 23 – Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view a live demonstration of television at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City, just over a year after John Logie Baird of Scotland had first demonstrated an electromechanical system to members of the Royal Society in London.source
1927May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.source
1927August 2 – American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier.source
1927August 6 – Toronto Union Station is officially opened, by Prince Edward, Prince of Wales.Canada source
1927August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York.source
1927The South African Railways (SAR) begins to convert the couplers of its Cape Gauge rolling stock from the Johnston link-and-pin coupling system, which had been in use since 1873, to AAR knuckle couplers.South Africa source
1927September 7 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.source
1927September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed in the United States, and goes on the air with 47 radio stations.source
192730 October – Maintenance of the famous battleship Yavuz began.Turkey source
1927November 12 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic, as the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New Jersey with New York City.source
1927December 30 – The first Asian commuter metro line, the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, opens in Japan.source
1927December 30 – Japan's first subway line started running between Asakusa station and Ueno station, Tokyo. The line was called Ginza Line in 1953 (Showa 28, 昭和28年).Japan source
1927Chemical industry started to use oil shale.Estonia source
1927Emil Lerp invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw.Germany source
1927Harvey Firestone secured a 99-year lease on 1,000,000 acres of Liberian land for rubber production.Liberia source
1927Houbi Huang Family Mansion began its construction in 1924 and completed in 1927.Taiwan source
19283 February – First hutbe in TurkishTurkey source
1928February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.source
1928February 25 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.source
1928February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory.source
192812 March – The opening of Qiding railway station.Taiwan source
1928April 12 – 14 – The first east–west transatlantic flight by aeroplane takes place from Dublin, Ireland, to Greenly Island, Canada, using the German Junkers W 33 Bremen.source
1928May 10 – The first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York, by General Electric's television station W2XB (the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station WGY).source
1928May 30 – Rookie driver Louis Meyer wins his first Indianapolis 500 (he will win that race again, in 1933 and 1936).source
19281 June - Driving on the right side introduced in Portugal (5 o'clock in the morning)Portugal source
1928June 28 – The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the British White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929.source
1928June 28 – The International Railway (New York–Ontario) switches to one-man crews for its trolleys in Canada.source
1928July 2 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz, using 48 lines.source
1928July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.source
1928July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chillicothe, Missouri, United States, using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's technology.source
192810 August - The ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo airline is founded; it remains in operation for only a year.Brazil source
1928August 22 – Al Smith accepts the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television.source
1928September 3 – Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world's first working all-electronic television system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.source
1928September 11 – The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama The Queen's Messenger, on General Electric's W2XAD from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by Ernst Alexanderson. WMAK (Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.source
1928September 25 – Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale).source
1928October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented.Soviet Union source
19281 November – The Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company broadcasts for the first time.Romania source
1928November 17 – Boston Garden opens in Boston, Massachusetts.source
1928December 21 – The United States Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.source
1928The struggling Clogher Valley Railway is taken over by a committee of management appointed by Tyrone and Fermanagh County Councils.Northern Ireland source
1928Postal Telegraph and Telephone (Switzerland)Switzerland source
1929January 10 – The first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin, as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in the children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.source
192912 January – The Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company broadcasts its first program for children, Children's Hour (Ora copiilor).Romania source
1929January 27 – An auto parts brand, Akebono Brake was founded, as predecessor name of Akebono Asbest Manufacturing.Japan source
1929March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.source
1929April 14 – The first edition of the Monaco Grand Prix is held.source
1929June 27 – The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are a bouquet of roses and an American flag. A mechanical system is used to transmit 50-line color television images between New York and Washington.source
192923 July – Construction of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, RMMV Oceanic, for the White Star Line, begun by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1928, is cancelled.Northern Ireland source
1929July 25 – the Soviet government's Assistant Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Lev Karakhan, had issued a manifesto to the Chinese government promising the return of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Chinese control with no financial cost. (Sino-Soviet conflict (1929))China source
1929August 20 – John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system is first transmitted, by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.source
1929September 30 – Fritz von Opel pilots the first rocket-powered aircraft, the Opel RAK.1, in front of a large crowd in Frankfurt am Main.source
19291 October – The opening of Fugang railway station in Shinchiku Prefecture.Taiwan source
1929October 8 – Cubana de Aviación is founded.source
192911 October – The maintenance of the Turkish battleship Yavuz was completedTurkey source
1929November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television.source
1929German car company Opel is taken over by American company General Motors. General Motors assumed full control in 1931.Germany source
1929The first two of eight Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain type Garratt locomotives on the Durban-Cato Ridge section in Natal.South Africa source
1930January 1 – The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways.Japan source
1930January 28 – The first patent for a field-effect transistor is granted in the United States, to Julius Edgar Lilienfeld.source
1930January 30 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde from Slutsk in the Soviet Union.source
193021 March – The Chilean Air Force is established.Chile source
1930April 21 – The Turkestan–Siberia Railway is completed.source
1930May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor.source
1930July 7 – Building of the Boulder Dam (later known as the Hoover Dam) is started on the Colorado River, in the United States.source
193012 July – A streetcar accident occurs near Buenos Aires, when the vehicle's operator fails to notice that the moveable bridge for the tracks has been raised to allow a crossing of the Río de la Plata. The car plunges into the river and its passengers are drowned.Argentina source
193020 July – Louis Chiron wins the 1930 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa–Francorchamps.Belgium source
193030 July – The Order of Aeronautical Virtue is established as a military order.Romania source
1930September 8 – Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, is sold by the 3M company in the United States for the first time.source
193012 September – Sound newsreels appear for the first time in German cinemas.Germany source
1930The Icelandic State Radio named RUV begins broadcasting.Iceland source
1930One Class 8X 2-8-0 locomotive is rebuilt to a 4-8-0 configuration and reclassified to the only member of Class 8R.South Africa source
1931March 11 – The Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.source
1931March – The Press Bureau is reconstituted under a junior assistant secretary to improve the government’s communication with press and ensure better scrutiny of newspapers.Mandatory Palestine source
1931April 25 – The automobile manufacturer Porsche is founded by Ferdinand Porsche in Stuttgart.source
1931May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.source
1931June 10 – The Schienenzeppelin, an experimental propeller driven railcar, sets up a new world railway speed record of 230 km/h on its way from Hamburg to Berlin which is not surpassed by any other train for 24 years.Germany source
1931June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.source
1931July 1 – The rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station officially opens in Italy.source
1931July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy.source
193112 July – William Grover-Williams and Caberto Conelli win the 1931 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-FrancorchampsBelgium source
1931October 24 – The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River in the United States is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At 3,500 ft, it nearly doubles the previous record for the longest main span in the world.source
1931November 4 — Resistance at Nenjiang BridgeChina source
1931November 7 – Red China News Agency (a predecessor of the Xinhua News Agency) is officially founded, and news wire service start in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, China.source
1931A time recorder and robot brand, Amano was founded in Yokohama, as predecessor name of Amano Manufacturing.Japan source
1931Three 2-8-2 Mikado locomotives for the Otavi Mining and Railway Company in South West Africa. In 1960 they would become the Class NG15 Apple Express Kalaharis on the narrow gauge Avontuur Railway.South Africa source
1931Acción obrera newspaper from Ceuta is launched.Spain source
1931Swiss public broadcasting organisation SRG SSR is establishedSwitzerland source
1932March 19 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Australia.source
19321 April – Cluj Airport is founded by the Romanian Ministry of Industry and Trade.Romania source
1932July – ROC (as China team) competed in Olympics for the first timeChina source
1932August 1 – Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory in the UK.source
1932August 6 – In Germany, the world's first Autobahn is opened by Konrad Adenauer (Bundesautobahn 555).source
1932September 10 – The IND Eighth Avenue Line, at this time the world's longest subway line (31 mi), begins operation in Manhattan.source
1932September 11 – Canadian operations end on the International Railway (New York–Ontario).source
19328 October – Indian Air Force established.India source
1932October 15 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.source
1932October 22: March on Rome's Decennial. The anniversary is celebrated with a Mussolini's oratory tour in the mayor Italian cities, an Exhibition of the Fascist revolution (opened the 27) and the opening of Via dell’Impero (28) and the Foro Mussolini (November 5).Italy source
1932December 19 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station in England.source
1932December 25 – IG Farben files a patent application in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide oral antibiotic, which will be marketed as Prontosil, following Gerhard Domagk's laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.source
1932December 25 – King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message on the new BBC Empire Service radio from Sandringham House; the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling.source
193225 December – A patent is filed for Prontosil, an antibacterial drug discovered in Wuppertal.Germany source
1932December 27 – The Radio City Music Hall is opened in New York City.source
1932Avondale Gold Cup – Bronze TrayNew Zealand source
1932Opening of the Memorial Bridge by King Prajadhipok.source
1932Radio Ourense begins transmitting in Ourense.Spain source
193328 January – The first in a series of Grivița Workshops strikes leads to confrontations between workers and government soldiers.Romania source
193331 January–7 April - A strike disrupts rail transport in Northern Ireland. The Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway ceases operation permanently.Northern Ireland source
1933February 10 – The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.source
193320 March – Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed (it opens 22 March).Germany source
1933May 10 – Tateishi Electronic Manufacturing, as predecessor of Omron was founded.Japan source
1933June 6 – The first drive-in movie theater is opened in Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey, by Richard Hollingshead, according to his patent granted May 16.source
1933July 1 – The London Passenger Transport Board begins operation.source
1933August 2 – The White Sea–Baltic Canal, Stalin's 227 km ship canal constructed using forced labour in the Soviet Union, opens, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega and the Baltic.source
19332 August - White Sea–Baltic Canal opened.Soviet Union source
1933August 27 – opening of Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air BaseColombia source
1933October 7 – Air France is formed by the merger of five French airline companies, beginning operations with 250 planes.source
193324 October – Yoram Aridor, Israeli former politician.Mandatory Palestine source
1933November 8 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.source
1933December 26 – FM radio is patented.source
1933Integra-Signum, a Swiss train protection system, is establishedSwitzerland source
1934January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.source
19348 January – Piet Dankert, politician (died 2003)Netherlands source
19344 March – Ankara Radio began broadcastingTurkey source
193428 March – Belfast Zoo opens in part of Bellevue Pleasure Gardens.Northern Ireland source
193421 April – Meron Benvenisti, Israeli political scientist and deputy mayor of JerusalemMandatory Palestine source
1934June 15 – Rubén Aguirre, television actorMexico source
1934July 1 – The Hays Code begins to be strictly enforced in the Hollywood film industry, lasting until 1968.source
193426 September – Ford Romania buy the land on which they will build their factory in Bucharest.Romania source
1934Ídolos de la radio, directed by Eduardo MoreraArgentina source
1934Plans for the new T-34 tank are first drawn upSoviet Union source
19354 January – The British open the Mosul–Haifa oil pipeline, a major oil pipeline between the Mosul oil fields in Iraq and the Mediterranean port of Haifa in Palestine.Mandatory Palestine source
1935February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States.source
1935March 22 – The world's first regular television program (by Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow) is transmitted from the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany.source
1935April 29 – The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced, and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.source
19351 May – Proletarul, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party of Romania, ceases publishing.Romania source
1935May 15 – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.source
193515 May – Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public.Soviet Union source
1935July 22 – Inauguration of the Brazilian radiophonic program A Voz do Brasil.source
19354 August – Launch of Rádio e Televisão de PortugalPortugal source
1935September 3 – English driver Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first person to drive an automobile at 300 miles per hour in Blue Bird, establishing a new absolute land speed record of 301.337 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.source
1935September 13 – American aviator Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, sets an airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).source
1935September 24 – Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights, at Columbia, Mississippi.source
1935September 27 - opening of Tōbu-Izumi Station.Japan source
1935September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway's first A4 Class streamlined steam locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey, from London King's Cross.source
1935September 30 – The London and North Eastern Railway commences the Silver Jubilee, Britain's first streamline train service.source
1935September 30 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Hoover Dam.source
19357 December – The Strand Cinema is opened in Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1935December 17 – The Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies in the United States. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced.source
1935The chemical company Nitro Química is established.Brazil source
1935Azienda Italiana Petroli AlbanesiItaly source
1936March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed in the United States.source
1936March 18–21. Strike action at Polish Rubber Factory Semperit in Kraków,Poland source
193616 May – Ford Romania open their factory in Bucharest capable of assembling 2,500 cars a year.Romania source
193602 June - An attempt by rebels to derail a train bringing the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment from Egypt led to the railways being put under guard, placing a great strain on the security forces at Nablus.Mandatory Palestine source
1936June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight.source
19368 September: Radio Broadcasting was nationalizedTurkey source
1936November 2 – The BBC launches the world's first regular television service in high-definition (according to contemporary standards).source
1936November 2 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada.source
1936November 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.source
1936Allá en el Rancho Grande, directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández; beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinemaMexico source
1936Construction begins on the BBC's Broadcasting House, Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1936Second Five-Year Plan underwaySoviet Union source
1936RSI Rete Uno, (Network One), a primary radio channelSwitzerland source
1937January 10: two paved highways are opened by the Minister of Communication: Kraków - Wieliczka (12 km) and Kraków - Katowice (64 km). Warsaw police arrest 13 activists of National Radical Camp (1934),Poland source
1937February 11 – Hasegawa Builder Corporation, as predecessor of Haseko Corporation founded in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture.Japan source
1937February 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon in the United States.source
1937April 9 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London; it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.source
1937April 12 – Frank Whittle ground-tests the world's first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.source
19376 May – Historic radio link up to cover the arrival of Airship Hindenburg at New Jersey (and hence its destruction by fire). This is probably the first direct international radio broadcast of this nature from such a distance.New Zealand source
193717 May: Divriği iron ore, the largest in Turkey was spottedTurkey source
1937July 7 – In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japanese and Chinese forces exchange fire near Beijing, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War.source
1937July 7–9 — Marco Polo Bridge IncidentChina source
193715 July — Buchenwald Concentration Camp openedGermany source
1937July 20 – The Geibeltbad Pirna water sports facility is opened in Dresden, Germany.source
1937September 7 – CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra.source
1937December 12 – Mae West makes a risqué guest appearance on NBC's Chase and Sanborn Hour, which eventually results in her being banned from radio.source
1937The Allen Organ Company, builder of church, home and theatre organs, is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania.source
1937Switzerland begins construction of its Border Line defences.source
1937Soviet industry produces about four times as much as it had in 1928.source
1937The first of thirty-four Class NG G16 narrow gauge 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt locomotives.South Africa source
19371937 Swiss Grand Prix, won by Rudolf CaracciolaSwitzerland source
1938January 1 – State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).source
19382 January - The governmental radio program Hora do Brasil begins to be broadcast throughout the country.Brazil source
1938January 6 – Construction brand, Kumagai Gumi (熊谷組) has founded in Fukui City.Japan source
1938January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam.source
1938February 24 – A nylon bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.source
1938March 1 – Lee Byung-chul establishes a trucking business in Daegu, South Korea, which he names Samsung Trading Co, the forerunner to Samsung.source
193814 April – Konak Terminal a busy ferry terminal in İzmir was openedTurkey source
193824 May – The new Anti-Partition Party takes eight seats in a Unionist-controlled Londonderry Corporation.Northern Ireland source
1938June 15 – László Bíró patents the ballpoint pen in Britain.source
19381 July — The new town of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony is set up to serve the Volkswagen car factory, where production of the Beetle people's car had begun the previous year.Germany source
1938July 3 – The steam locomotive Mallard sets the world speed record for steam, by reaching 125.88 mph on the London and North Eastern Railway.source
193814 July – Moshe Safdie, Israeli-American architect and urban designerMandatory Palestine source
1938July – The Mauthausen concentration camp is built in Austria.source
1938July – The Mauthausen concentration camp is built.Austria source
1938September 12 – Hitler makes his much-anticipated closing address at Nuremberg, in which he vehemently attacks the Czech people and President Beneš. American news commentator H. V. Kaltenborn begins his famous marathon of broadcast bulletins over the CBS Radio Network, with a summation of Hitler's address.source
1938December 13 – The Neuengamme concentration camp opens near Hamburg.source
1938The first of the Class 15F 4-8-2 Mountain type, at 255 the most numerous steam locomotive class on the South African Railways (SAR).South Africa source
1939January 1 – With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).source
1939January 1 – The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley.source
1939January 27 – Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the British Royal Navy by 1944. The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources.source
193927 January – Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the Royal Navy by 1944. The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources.Germany source
19392 March – The first broadcast of the underground radio station of the Irgun "Kol Tsion HaLokhemet".Mandatory Palestine source
1939April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.source
1939May 20 – Pan American Airways begins transatlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Boeing 314 flying boat Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York, to Marseille.source
193925 June – Hermann Lang wins the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-FrancorchampsBelgium source
1939June 29 – The Ford 9N tractor, with the Ferguson hydraulic three-point hitch, is first demonstrated at Dearborn, Michigan.source
1939August 25 – The German Foreign Ministry cuts off all telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world, in accordance with the plan for Fall Weiß. At approximately 1830 Central European time, Adolf Hitler postpones Fall Weiß for 5 days, after receiving a message from Benito Mussolini that he will not honor the Pact of Steel if Germany attacks Poland, and because Chamberlain's government has not fallen as a result of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Some units already in their forward positions (the attack is scheduled for 0430 the next day) do not get the word in time and attack various targets along the border. This same day, Neville Chamberlain gives Edward Rydz-Śmigły his "ironclad guarantee" of assistance if Poland is attacked by Germany.source
1939August 26 – The first televised Major League Baseball games are shown on experimental station W2XBS in the United States: a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.source
1939August 27 – A Heinkel He 178, the first turbojet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time, with Captain Erich Warsitz in command.source
1939September 3 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt advocates neutrality, in a nationwide radio address.source
1939September 4 – The first bombing of Wilhelmshaven in World War II is carried out, by the British Royal Air Force (RAF).source
19398 October – Radio Basarabia starts broadcasting.Romania source
1939November 8 – CBS television station W2XAB resumes test transmission, with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City.source
1939Enzo Ferrari founds Auto Avio Construzioni, the company that becomes Ferrari in 1947.source
1939Ary Barroso - "Aquarela do Brasil"Brazil source
1939Cape Verde's first major and international airport (current Amílcar Cabral International Airport in the island of Sal) was built by the Italian governmentCape Verde source
1939Minister of Communication – Juliusz Ulrych,Poland source
1939A second shunting locomotive, the Class DS1, enters SAR service while another is delivered to the Electricity Supply Commission.South Africa source
194012 January – Transvaal: Crown to Langlaagte, 3 mi 18 ch.South Africa source
1940April 12 – Opening day at Jamaica Race Course features the use of parimutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York. Other tracks in the state follow suit later in 1940.source
1940May 15 – Women's stockings made of nylon are first placed on sale across the United States. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.source
1940May 16 – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900,000,000 to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.source
1940May 25 – The Crypt of Civilization time capsule at Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, Georgia in the United States, is sealed shut, with a projected opening date of 8113 CE.source
1940May 26 – The first free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter is made in the United States.source
1940May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.source
1940June 16 – The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time, in Sturgis, South Dakota.source
1940June 18 – Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London, rallying the French Resistance, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."source
1940June 30 – The Civil Aeronautics Administration is placed under the Department of Commerce.source
1940July 1 – The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8 ft girder and 190 ft above the water, as the third-longest suspension bridge in the world.source
1940July 21 – The Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft enters service, so named as 1940 roughly corresponds to the year 2600 on the Japanese Imperial calendar.source
194012 August – Thorvald Astrup, architect (born 1876)Norway source
1940Construction of the first airplane made in Argentina, a curtiss 75Argentina source
1940September 9 – George Stibitz first demonstrates the remote operation of a computer, in the United States.source
194022 September – The first flight of Heinkel He 280 occurs.Germany source
1940October 1 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the United States' first long-distance controlled-access highway, is opened.source
1940October 16 – The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.source
194018 October – Uzi Even, Israeli scientist and politician, first openly gay member of the KnessetMandatory Palestine source
194026 October – Double-decker buses replace the last cable trams in Melbourne.Australia source
1940November 2 – German submarine U-69 is commissioned, the first Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which will become its most numerous class, with 568 commissioned during the War.source
1940November 7 – In Tacoma, Washington, the 600 ft-long center span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (known as Galloping Gertie) collapses.source
1940November 25 – The de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder military aircraft both make their first flights.source
1940December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain, which will become known as Lend-Lease.source
1940December – Timely Comics' Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941), first appearance of Captain America and Bucky, hits newsstands in the United States.source
1940Walter Knott begins construction of a California ghost town replica, which soon evolves into Knott's Berry Farm.source
1940The Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies is completed.Canada source
1940Ballymena, Cushendall and Red Bay Railway (part of Belfast and Northern Counties Railway) ceases operations.Northern Ireland source
1941January 6 – The keel of battleship USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.source
1941January 14 – In a BBC radio broadcast from London, Victor de Laveleye asks all Belgians to use the letter "V" as a rallying sign, being the first letter of victoire (victory) in French and of vrijheid (freedom) in Dutch. This is the beginning of the "V campaign" which sees "V" graffities on the walls of Belgium and later all of Europe and introduces the use of the "V sign" for victory and freedom. Winston Churchill adopts the sign soon afterwards, though he sometimes gets it the wrong way around and uses the common insult gesture.source
194114 January – Radio Belgique launches V for Victory campaign.Belgium source
1941January 15 – John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry computer in print.source
1941February 5 – The Air Training Corps is formed in the United Kingdom.source
1941March 22 – Washington state's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.source
1941March 30 – A German Lorenz cipher machine operator sends a 4,000-character message twice, allowing British mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the machine's coding mechanism.source
1941May 1 – The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.source
19419 May — The GS U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.Germany source
1941May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.source
1941May 15 – The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, is flown.source
1941May - Broadcasting House, Belfast opens.Northern Ireland source
1941June 13 – TASS, the official Soviet news agency, denies reports of tension between Germany and the Soviet Union.source
1941June 21 - Rajendra Prasad lays the foundation stone of Scindia Shipyard at Visakhapatnam.India source
1941June 21: Georgy Zhukov imparted via HF of waiting for important document to the staff heads of the military districtsSoviet Union source
1941June 24 – The Soviet Information Bureau, predecessor of RIA Novosti, is founded.source
1941July 1 – NBC Television begins commercial operation on WNBT, on Channel 1. The world's first legal TV commercial, for Bulova watches, occurs at 2:29 PM over WNBT, before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The 10-second spot displays a picture of a clock superimposed on a map of the United States, accompanied by the voice-over "America runs on Bulova time." As a one-off special, the first quiz show called "Uncle Bee" is telecast on WNBT's inaugural broadcast day, followed later the same day by Ralph Edwards hosting the second game show broadcast on U.S. television, Truth or Consequences, as simulcast on radio and TV and sponsored by Ivory Soap. Weekly broadcasts of the show commence in 1956, with Bob Barker.source
1941July 1 – Commercial television is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States.source
1941July 1 – CBS Television begins commercial operation on New York station WCBW (modern-day WCBS-TV), on Channel 2.source
1941July – The British Army's Special Air Service is formed.source
1941August 1 – The Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep is first produced.source
1941August 16 – HMS Mercury Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.source
1941September 11 – Construction on the Pentagon begins in Washington, D.C.source
1941September 27 – The first liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore.source
1941October 9 - Creation of the Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares.Argentina source
1941Mid-October – The first P-38E Lightning fighter is produced by Lockheed in the United States.source
1941November 21 – The live blues radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas; it will attain its 17,000th broadcast in 2014 making it the longest-running daily American radio broadcast.source
1941December 8 – WWII: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Infamy Speech" to a Joint session of the United States Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT). Transmitted live over all four major national networks, it attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes. Within an hour, Congress agrees to the President's request for a United States declaration of war upon Japan, and he signs it at 4:10 p.m.source
1941December 11 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her first propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.source
194115 December – The opening of Pingtung Line of Taiwan Railways Administration.Taiwan source
1941Instituto Nacional de IndustriaSpain source
19421 January – Clogher Valley Railway ceases operations and closes.Northern Ireland source
1942January 13 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile that would be 30% lighter than a conventional car.source
1942January 14 – The Sikorsky R-4 first flies in the United States; it will become the first mass-produced helicopter.source
1942February 1 – WWII: The Kriegsmarine introduces the M4 (German Navy 4-rotor) Enigma machine for U-boat traffic, blinding Allied cryptanalysts to their radio signals for most of the year.source
1942February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first U.S. Navy flying ace of the war.source
1942February 24 – Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.source
19426 March – Decree issued for the recruitment of forced labour for German factories.Belgium source
1942March 8 – NIROM, the Dutch East Indies' privately funded broadcaster, closes.source
1942March 17 – The Holocaust: Operation Reinhard – The Nazi German Bełżec extermination camp opens in occupied Poland, about 1 km south of the railroad station at Bełżec in the Lublin district of the General Government. At least 434,508 people are killed here up to December 1942.source
194217 March — Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Belzec opens in occupied Poland about 1 km south of the local railroad station of Belzec in the Lublin district of the General Government. Between March 1942 and December 1942, at least 434,508 people were killed there.Germany source
1942April 13 – The United States Federal Communications Commission's minimum programming time required of television stations is cut from 15 hours to 4 hours a week during the war.source
1942May 20 – The first African-American seamen are taken into the United States Navy.source
1942May – Operation Pluto: The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel, between England and France, is tested in the River Medway.source
1942May – The Tel Aviv Central Bus Station opens to the public.Mandatory Palestine source
1942June 1 – The Grand Coulee Dam is finished on the Columbia River in the United States.source
19426 June – The Cuscatlán Bridge was opened by President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.El Salvador source
1942June 13 – The United States opens its Office of War Information, a propaganda center.source
1942July 18 – WWII: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 (using only its jet engines) for the first time.source
1942Gillette and Helena Rubinstein start working in the countryArgentina source
1942October 2 – The first American-built turbojet aircraft, the Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter prototype, makes its first official flight.source
1942December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.source
1942DDT is first used as a pesticide.source
1942Saludos Amigos (first appearance of José Carioca, the cigar-smoking Brazilian parrot)Brazil source
1942mid May-early September - Zhejiang-Jiangxi CampaignChina source
1943January 29 – The United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) is created.source
19433 February - Howrah Bridge in Calcutta commissioned.India source
19431 March – Benny Begin, Israeli geologist and politicianMandatory Palestine source
1943March 5 – The Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter, makes its first flight, in England.source
1943March–December – History of computing hardware: British prototype Mark I Colossus computer is constructed (the world's first totally electronic programmable computing device) to assist in cryptanalysis of German signals at Bletchley Park.source
1943April 21 – The first German Tiger I tank is captured in North Africa by British forces.source
1943May 14 – The 358th Bombardment Squadron, 303d Bombardment Group B-17F Hell's Angels is the first USAAF bomber to complete 25 missions.source
1943May 16–17 – WWII: Operation Chastise (the 'Dambuster Raid') takes place: No. 617 Squadron RAF use bouncing bombs to breach German dams in the Ruhr Valley.source
1943May 17 – The Memphis Belle's crew becomes the first aircrew in the 8th Air Force to complete its 25-mission tour of duty. The aircraft and crew are the first to return to the U.S. intact for a War Bond drive.source
1943May 17 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC.source
1943May 23 – WWII: The battleship USS New Jersey is commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.source
194329 July – Cruiser HMCS Ontario is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast to British Admiralty order.Northern Ireland source
1943October 17 – The Burma Railway is completed between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (modern-day Myanmar) (415 km) by the Empire of Japan, to support its forces in the Burma campaign, using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.source
1943November 5 – First Bombing of the Vatican – Four bombs are dropped on the neutral Vatican City; the aircraft responsible is never certainly identified.source
1943November 14 – Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert, over CBS Radio. The event receives front-page coverage in The New York Times the following day.source
1943November 16 – After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.source
194316 November – 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in Vemork, Norway.Norway source
194320 December – First flight of a true four-engined version of the troubled He 177A heavy bomber, as the Heinkel He 177 V102 prototype of the Heinkel He 177B series makes its maiden flight with four separate Daimler-Benz DB 603 engines at the Heinkel-Sud factory airfield in Schwechat.Germany source
1943Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with Émile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the Aqua-lung.source
1943The accident of two steam locomotives in the south of Elo river bridge Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. They came from Mertoyudan train station and Yogyakarta.source
1943G. E. Kidder Smith - Brazil BuildsBrazil source
1943Opening of the Sup'ung Dam, in LiaoningChina source
1943Reclamation work begins on the Foreshore in Cape Town.South Africa source
1944March 3 – Italy: in one of the deadliest railway disasters in history, over 500 clandestine passengers die of carbon monoxide poisoning when a steam freight train stops in a railway tunnel near Balvano, Basilicata, Southern Italy.source
1944March 27 – In Sweden, Ruben Rausing patents Erik Wallenberg's method of packaging milk in paper, origin of the international company Tetra Pak.source
194414 April - INA hoisted the Indian tricolor for the first time on mainland India at Moirang in Manipur.India source
194410 May – John Fredriksen, oil tanker and shipping tycoonNorway source
1944July 26 – WWII: A Messerschmitt Me 262 becomes the first jet fighter aircraft to have an operational victory.source
1944August 7 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).source
1944August 12 – Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil pipeline is laid between England and France.source
1944August 25 – The Red Ball Express convoy system begins operation, supplying tons of materiel to Allied forces in France.source
1944The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving 3 days later.source
194412 October – First V-1 flying bomb attack on Belgium.Belgium source
1944October 21 – World War II: Smokey Smith earns the Victoria Cross on the Savio River in Italy.Canada source
194431 October - Brazilian pilots begin operations, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons.Brazil source
1944November 6 – Hanford Site in Washington (state) produces its first plutonium.United States source
1944Ascolto il tuo cuore, città (Alberto Savinio)Italy source
1944The Namaqualand Railway line from Port Nolloth to O'okiep is closed.South Africa source
1945January 30 – Adolf Hitler makes his last public speech, on broadcast radio, expressing the belief that Germany will triumph.source
1945March 4 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) as a truck driver/mechanic in London.source
1945March 7 – WWII: At the end of Operation Lumberjack, American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross; in the next 10 days, 25,000 troops with equipment are able to cross.source
1945March 15 – The 17th Academy Awards ceremony is held, broadcast via radio in the United States for the first time. Best Picture goes to Going My Way.source
1945March 24 – WWII: Operation Varsity – Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the river Rhine to aid the Allied advance.source
1945April 24 – Retreating German troops destroy all the bridges over the Adige in Verona, including the historic Ponte di Castelvecchio and Ponte Pietra.source
1945May 6 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (the first was on December 11, 1941).source
1945May 9 — Joseph Stalin declares victory over Nazi Germany during a speech broadcast on radio.Soviet Union source
1945May 12 – Rev. W. V. Awdry's children's book The Three Railway Engines, first of The Railway Series, is published in England.source
194516 May – Éamon de Valera replies in a radio broadcast to Winston Churchill's criticism of Irish neutrality.Northern Ireland source
1945June 30 – John von Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is distributed, containing the first published description of the logical design of a computer, with stored-program and instruction data stored in the same address space within the memory (von Neumann architecture).source
1945July 29 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched in the United Kingdom, aimed at mainstream light entertainment and music.source
1945August 15 – The Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
1945September 9 – The Chōsen Broadcasting Corporation is renamed as the Korean Broadcasting System.South Korea source
1945September 11 – Radio Republik Indonesia starts broadcasting.source
194511 September – Establishment of the Radio Republik IndonesiaIndonesia source
1945October 31 – A news agency, Dōmei, officially disbanded, on following day, the news agency operation in nationwide, which separated into Kyōdō News Service and Jiji Press.Japan source
1945November 1 – Telechron introduces the model 8H59 Musalarm, the first clock radio.source
194527 November – Akiva Eldar, Israeli journalistMandatory Palestine source
1945November 29 – Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC), is completed in the United States, covering 1,800 sq ft of floor space, and the first set of calculations is run on it.source
1945The Afghan government requests the supply of 6 Avro Anson XIX transport aircraft in April 1946, but the manufacturers can not promise delivery before February to April 1947.Afghanistan source
1945The first geothermal milk pasteurization is done in Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States.source
1945Communist regime begins to nationalize industry, transportation, forests, pastures.Albania source
1946January 19 – The Bell XS-1 is test flown for the first time (unpowered), with Bell's chief test pilot Jack Woolams at the controls.source
1946February 14 – ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), an early general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; it weighs 60,000 pounds (over 27 tons), and occupies a big room.source
1946March 8 – The Bell 47 becomes the first helicopter certified for civilian use in the United Statessource
19461 April – Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) was established.Malaya source
194617 April – Luxembourg signs a convention with France and Belgium to place the Luxembourg railway network in the hands of the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, in which France and Belgium each take a 24.5% stake.Luxembourg source
19461 May – The establishment of Taiwan Power Company in Taiwan.China source
19461 June – Transvaal: Ogies to Vandyksdrif, 21 mi 30 ch.South Africa source
1946June 3 – Interpol is re-founded; the telegraphic address "Interpol" is adopted.source
194616 June – Night of the Bridges: Ten Palmach members blow up bridges across Palestine which link Palestine to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, in order to immobilize its transportation.Mandatory Palestine source
1946June 25 – The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (World Bank) begins operations.source
1946July 25 – In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples, near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.source
1946A pilot of a Romeo aircraft swerves during formation take off, leading the aircraft to turn over on its back and catching fire. The pilot was uninjured, but the aircraft had to be written off due to damage.Afghanistan source
1946September 1 – 1946 Turin Grand Prix, the first official Formula One Grand Prix, is held in Italy.source
1946October 14 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.source
1946October 16 – The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.source
19461 December – Nutts Corner opens as Northern Ireland's principal civil airport, replacing Belfast Harbour.Northern Ireland source
1946December 25 – The first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Europe is initiated, within the Soviet (Russian) nuclear reactor F-1.source
1946Christmas: First edition of Auto motor und sport appears.Germany source
1946The Casio company is founded by engineer Tadao Kashio in Japan.source
1947January–February — Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network.source
1947February 3 – P.L. Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.source
1947February 17 – Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Unionsource
1947February 25 – John C. Hennessy Jr. brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 automobile from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle is shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day.source
1947March 1 – The International Monetary Fund begins to operate.source
1947April 4 – The International Civil Aviation Organization begins operations.source
19474 April – Horahora Power Station is decommissioned as the filling of Lake Karapiro floods the station.New Zealand source
1947April 16 – The first public demonstration of a TV camera zoom lens, the Jerry Fairbanks Zoomar, is held at NBC studios in New York.source
1947May 25 – Hyundai Togun, the initial name of the Hyundai Group, is founded by Chung Ju-young.source
1947June 10 – SAAB in Sweden produces its first automobile.source
194716 June – A law is passed granting Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois management of the national railway network for 99 years.Luxembourg source
1947July 6 – The first prototype AK-47 assault rifles are built to the design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.source
194721 July to 4 August - Operation ProductIndonesia source
1947July 27–28 – English endurance swimmer Tom Blower becomes the first person to swim the North Channel, from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland to Portpatrick in Scotland.source
1947July 29 – After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ENIAC computer in the United States is turned back on again, and remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.source
1947August 1 – Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia is established.source
1947August 7 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).source
19477 August – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).India source
194711 August – The Enterprise express train service commences between Belfast and Dublin.Northern Ireland source
1947September 9 – A moth lodged in a relay is found to be the cause of a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer, logged as the "First actual case of bug being found."source
1947September 18 – The National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day, creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.source
1947October 1 – The North American F-86 Sabre jet fighter aircraft makes its first flight.source
1947October 5 – President Harry S. Truman delivers the first televised White House address, speaking on the world food crises.source
1947October 14 – United States Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished.source
1947October – First recorded use of the word computer in its modern sense, referring to an electronic digital machine.source
1947November 15 – The International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
1947November 17–December 23 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States demonstrate the transistor effect, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.source
1947December 3 – The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando in his first great role, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in New York City; Jessica Tandy also stars as Blanche Du Bois.source
1947December 30 – The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter aircraft (NATO reporting name Fagot) makes its first flight in the Soviet Union.source
1947The End of the River (British film made in Brazil), directed by Derek TwistBrazil source
1947Establishment of the Fabrica Nacional de Municoes de Armas LigeirasPortugal source
19473rd Test at Old Trafford – England won by 7 wicketsSouth Africa source
1948January 1 – The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways.source
1948January 5 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl Game).source
1948February 1 – The Soviet Union begins to jam Voice of America broadcasts.source
19485 April – The Lëtzebuerger Journal begins publication.Luxembourg source
1948April 19 – The American Broadcasting Company (otherwise known as ABC) begins television services, on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia (later WPVI-TV).source
1948April 22 – WTVR begins television services. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station".source
1948April 30 – The English-built Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Motor Show.source
1948May 15 – Australian cricket team in England in 1948: The touring Australians set an all-time first-class record, by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex.source
1948May 29 – The Egyptian Army is blocked in the Ad Halom bridge.Israel source
1948June 18 – Columbia Records introduces its 33 1/3 rpm long playing phonograph format.source
1948June 21 – The Manchester Baby in England becomes the first stored-program computer to successfully execute a program.source
1948June 26 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.source
1948June 28 – The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet/Yugoslav split.source
1948July 5 – The National Health Service in the United Kingdom begins functioning, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.source
1948July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, from Lympne to Le Touquet across the English Channel.source
1948July 31 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.source
1948August 25 – The HUAC holds its first-ever televised congressional hearing, featuring "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.source
1948September 18 – An inaugural motor race is held at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, England.source
1948September 27 – Alger Hiss files a slander suit against Whittaker Chambers, for his August 27 radio statement in the United States.source
1948Inspired by World War II fighter planes, Cadillac introduces the first automobile to sport tailfins.source
1948The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.source
1948The Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest, opens on Staten Island, New York.source
1948The Vielha Tunnel is opened, giving access to the Val d'Aran in the Spanish Pyrenees; at this time it is the longest road tunnel in the world.source
1948KR won the 1948 Úrvalsdeild, the top-flight of Icelandic football.Iceland source
1948Unknown date – Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR) was dissolved and replaced by Malayan Railways.Malaya source
1948Short Brothers (aircraft manufacturers) transfer their headquarters and all operations to their Belfast factory.Northern Ireland source
1948Call Ready is established in Sutrapur Thana, Dacca to rent out lights, loudspeakers, and microphones for events.Pakistan source
1948At the request of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin Sends railroad construction expert I.V. Kovalev with a team of 300 engineers and laborers to repair deteriorated or destroyed Manchurian railways.Soviet Union source
1948CSBC Corporation, a shipbuilding company, split into Taiwan Machinery Corporation and Taiwan Shipbuilding CorporationTaiwan source
1949January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States.source
1949January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models are sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car has no future in the U.S. (The Type 1 goes on to become an automotive phenomenon.)source
194915 February – The Romanian Aeronautical Command is reorganised as the Aviation Command of the Army of the Socialist Republic of Romania, with regiments and aerodrome servicing battalions based on the model of the Soviet Air Forces.Romania source
194924 February – Razi Barkai, Israeli media personality.Israel source
1949March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long-distance train to feature Vistadome cars as regular equipment.source
194917 April – At midnight 26 counties officially leave the British Commonwealth under terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.Northern Ireland source
194927 April – Radio station 1YZ launches in Rotorua on 800 kHz.New Zealand source
1949May 6 – EDSAC, the first practicable stored-program computer, runs its first program at Cambridge University.source
1949May 12 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade.source
1949May 20 – The AFSA (predecessor of the NSA) is established.source
1949June 1: Japanese National Railways become independent of the Ministry of Transportation.Japan source
1949June 19 – Glenn Dunaway wins the inaugural NASCAR Cup Series race at Charlotte Speedway, a 3/4 mile oval in Charlotte, North Carolina, but is disqualified due to illegal springs. Jim Roper is declared the official winner.source
1949June 24 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC in the United States.source
1949August 10 – the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.source
1949August 29 – The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 ("Joe 1"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.source
1949November 24 – The ski resort in Squaw Valley, Placer County, California officially opens.source
1949December 29 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut, becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.source
1949Date unknown: Liebherr, a multinational equipment manufacturer, is founded in Baden-Württemberg, to build the mobile tower crane devised by Hans Liebherr.Germany source
1949The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 24 2-8-4 Berkshire type branchline steam locomotives in service, most of them on the South West Africa System.South Africa source
1950February 8 – A payment is first made by Diners Club card, in New York, United States (the first use of a charge card).source
1950February 12 – The European Broadcasting Union is founded.source
1950February 21 – Cunard liner Aquitania arrives at the scrapyard in Faslane at the end of a 36-year career, the longest of any in the 20th Century.source
19506 March – A new postal district system dividing Singapore into 28 districts is launched, making it the first ever system.Singapore source
1950March 8 – The first Volkswagen Type 2 (also known as the Microbus) rolls off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.source
195011 March – The radio station Kol Zion Lagolah (The Voice of Zion to the Diaspora) begins broadcasting in English, French and Yiddish.Israel source
1950March 22 – Egypt demands that Britain remove all its troops from the Suez Canal zone.source
1950May 1 – UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, begins operations.source
1950May 25 – The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic in New York City.source
1950June 28 – Hangang Bridge bombing: The South Korean army, in an attempt to defend Seoul, blows up the Hangang Bridge while it is crowded with refugees.source
1950June 28 - As invading North Korean troops advanced toward bridges over the Han River, engineers of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army of South Korea had rigged explosives. In the meantime, South Korean civilians and soldiers were fleeing across to avoid being trapped behind enemy lines. Detonation of the bombs at the main bridge, at Hangang, had been set for 1:30 a.m. General Kim Pak Il, the ROK Deputy Chief of Staff, delayed the blast for 45 minutes, but at 2:15 a.m., the blast order was given, destroying two spans of the Hangang Bridge and dropping thousands of persons in a 75-foot plunge to the river, killing at least 500 people; a railroad bridge across the river remained standing, however. The ROK Chief Engineer, Choi Chang-sik, would be blamed for the mistake and executed. North Korean forces captured Seoul at noon, three days and eight hours after the invasion began.North Korea source
19503 July – Ulster Transport Authority closes the Ballycastle Railway and the Ballymena and Larne Railway.Northern Ireland source
1950August 8 – American Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel in 13 hours, 22 minutes, beating the women's record for the crossing.source
1950On August 26, about 300–400 Huks launch an early morning raid of Santa Cruz, Laguna, loot the provincial capitol and even burn buildings, release 20 prisoners and kidnap 9 guards from the provincial jail, and kill at least seven—including three policemen; a battle ensues as Huks destroy two bridges in neighboring towns.Philippines source
1950September 18 – Rede Tupi, the first television broadcast network in South America, is founded in Brazil.source
1950September: The Viaducto Miguel Alemán is opened.Mexico source
1950October 7 – The Agate Pass Bridge opens for traffic in Washington State.source
1950October 11 – The Federal Communications Commission in the United States issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).source
1950IBM Israel begins operating in Tel Aviv.source
1950Unknown – Goodyear tyre factory is opened at Colmar-Berg.Luxembourg source
1950Menteri Besar of Pahang : Mahmud MatMalaya source
1951February 22 – President Quirino formally launches EDCOR (Economic Development Corps) projects, whose objective is establishing settlements for former Huks, with the opening of the country's first—the Arevalo ECDOR farm in Kapatagan Valley, Lanao. It will be inaugurated on March 6; and about two months later, the first batch of settlers will be brought to the site.Philippines source
1951March 9: The Mexico City trolleybus system starts operating.Mexico source
1951March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.source
1951May 8 – Operation Greenhouse: The first thermonuclear weapon is tested in the "George" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the United States.source
1951May 24 – Operation Greenhouse: The first atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of tritium is tested in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the United States.source
1951July 4 – William Shockley of Bell Labs in the United States announces the invention jointly with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of the grown-junction transistor. Also this year, General Electric and RCA develop the alloy-junction transistor.source
1951July 13 – Vuoristorata, one of the oldest still-operating wooden roller coasters in Europe, is opened at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland.source
1951August 31 – The first Volkswagen Type 1 rolls off the production line in Uitenhage, South Africa.source
195111 September – The opening of Neiwan Line of Taiwan Railways Administration (Neiwan Station).Taiwan source
19511 October – Turkish Air Force Academy was foundedTurkey source
1951October 2 – Television in the Netherlands commences with the first broadcast from NTS; also television in Denmark from DR1.source
1951October 15 – On television, the situation comedy I Love Lucy airs its first episode on CBS in the U.S.source
1951November 2 – 6,000 British troops are flown into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone.source
1951November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.source
195113 November — The first postage stamps of Laos are issued.Laos source
1951November 29 – LEO runs the world's first commercial computer program, bakery valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K.source
195129 November – LEO becomes the world's first computer to run a full commercial business application, for the bakers J. Lyons and Co.United Kingdom source
1951December 20 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1), the world's first (experimental) nuclear power plant, opens in Idaho, United States.source
1951Tengku Mohamad Sultan Ahmad (from 1 February)Malaya source
1951date unknown: Broadcasting time is officially allocated to television by the national broadcasting companies in the Netherlands.Netherlands source
1951Fred Daly plays in the Ryder Cup.Northern Ireland source
1952April 7 – The I Love Lucy episode "The Marriage License", aired this evening in the United States, is the first television show in history to be seen in around 10,000,000 homes, according to the American Research Bureau.source
195224 April - The National Statistics Institute (INE) carries out the XII National Population Census and the I Housing Census.Chile source
1952June 1 – Navigation opens on the Volga–Don Canal, connecting the Caspian Sea basin with that of the Black Sea.source
19521 July – The Portuguese Air Force foundedPortugal source
195223 July – The foreign ministers of the six European Coal and Steel Community meet in Paris to decide on the seat of the organisation's headquarters. At Joseph Bech's proposal, Luxembourg City is chosen as the provisional working seat.Luxembourg source
1952August - Official opening of Binnian Tunnel (2.5 mi), feeding water to the Silent Valley Reservoir under the Mourne Mountains.Northern Ireland source
1952September 6 – The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada.source
1952October 1 - 1952 Japanese general electionJapan source
1952October 8 – A uranium plant operated by West Rand Consolidated Mines, the first in the world to extract uranium as a by-product of the gold refining process, opens at Millsite near Krugersdorp.South Africa source
195216 October - The first ever Test cricket match of India national cricket team post independence was held at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground against Pakistan national cricket team.India source
1952November 1 – Nuclear testing and Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.source
1952November 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.United States source
1952The Gorditas Doña Tota restaurant chain is established in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas by Carlota Murillo.Mexico source
1953January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day.source
195324 January – The opening of Xiluo Bridge connecting Changhua County and Yunlin County.Taiwan source
1953February – 12 March to 15 infiltrators from the Gaza Strip killed when they trigger a 50 kg TNT booby-trap while trying to steal water pipelines near Yad Mordechai.Israel source
1953March 13 – The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld from Sweden as United Nations Secretary General.source
1953March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot–Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1,620 spectators at 3.4 km.source
1953March 19 – The 25th Academy Awards Ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).source
1953March - The first round of the 1953 Albanian Cup starts.Albania source
1953April 16 – President Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, to the National Association of Newspaper Editors.source
195325 April – The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hall was opened by then British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald.Singapore source
19531 May – First iron cast by the European Coal and Steel Community at Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette.Luxembourg source
195310 May – The 1953 Eläintarhanajot motor race is held at Eläintarha and is won by Rodney Nuckey (UK).Finland source
1953May 15 – The Standards And Recommended Practices (SARPS) for Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) are adopted by the ICAO Council. These SARPS are in Annex 15 to the Chicago Convention, and 15 May is celebrated by the AIS community as "World AIS Day".source
1953May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to exceed Mach 1, in a North American F-86 Sabre at 652.337 mph.source
1953June 30 – The first roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel, Dover–Boulogne, takes place.source
1953July 9 – Inauguration of the south lane of the Rodovia Anchieta.source
19533 August - Libya national football team played its first official international match.Libya source
1953August 12 – Soviet atomic bomb project: "Joe 4", the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon, is detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR.source
1953October 23 – Alto Broadcasting System (ABS) in the Philippines makes the first television broadcast in southeast Asia, through DZAQ-TV. Alto Broadcasting System is the predecessor of what will later become ABS-CBN Corporation.source
1953October 23 – The Philippines' DZAQ-TV 3 of Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN) makes its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.Philippines source
1953October – The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random-access memory.source
1953November 20 – The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 2.source
1953December 17 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves color television (using the NTSC standard).source
1953China First Building Corporation, a partial predecessor of China State Construction Engineering, is founded in Beijing.source
1954January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.source
1954January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM.source
195417 January - 1953 Albanian Cup: team Dinamo Tirana wins the finals, beating Partizani with a 2-0.Albania source
1954January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations.source
1954March 28 – Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commences broadcasting.source
1954March 30 – The first operational subway line in Canada opens in Toronto.source
19541 May – The first test of television in Colombia is conducted, transmitting signals between Bogotá and Manizales.Colombia source
1954May 14 – The Boeing 367-80, prototype for the later Boeing 707 jetliner, is rolled out in the United States, after about 2 years of development.source
1954May 29 – Creation and first meeting of the Bilderberg Group.source
195426 June – The world's first civilian nuclear power station, Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, is commissioned.Soviet Union source
1954June 27 – The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.source
1954July 15 – The Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype of the Boeing 707 series, makes its maiden flight.source
1954July 29 – The construction of Yad Vashem started in Jerusalem. It is an official memorial center to commemorate the victims of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices in Europe.source
1954August 23 – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules makes its first flight at Burbank, California, manufactured by Lockheed Martin.source
1954September 11 – The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.source
1954September 27 – The Tonight Show first airs on live television on NBC in the United States being the first late night talk show.source
195428 September – The Israeli government's attempt for the Israeli ship "Bat Galim" to traverse the Suez Canal fails after the ship is arrested by the Egyptian authorities. This attempt is made after Egypt prevented other Israeli ships and foreign cargo ships headed towards Israeli ports, of passing through the Suez Canal, in violation with the terms of the Convention of Constantinople.Israel source
1954September 30 – The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the United States Navy.source
1954October 18 – Texas Instruments announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following month.source
195427 October – Singapore Polytechnic was founded as the first polytechnic in Singapore.Singapore source
1954November 2 – The radio program Hancock's Half Hour, a pioneer in situation comedy, is first broadcast on BBC Radio (a television version will follow in 1956).source
1954November 2 – The dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end.source
1954December 1 – The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport. It is the first hotel in the world built on an airport property.source
1954December 4 – The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.source
1954The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.source
1954The TV dinner is introduced, by American entrepreneur Gerry Thomas.source
1954New Zealand engineer Sir William Hamilton develops the first pump-jet engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a jetboat.source
1954Russian Cultural Center (Estonia) in Tallinn was opened.Estonia source
19541954 Jordanian general election.Jordan source
1954Roselawn Cemetery opens in Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1955January 17 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.source
195528 January – The Royal Lao Air Force is established as the Lao Air Force.Laos source
1955July 17 – The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering Arco, Idaho, from the U.S. National Reactor Testing Station; on July 18, Schenectady, New York, receives power from a prototype nuclear submarine reactor at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.source
1955July 17 – The Disneyland theme park opens in Anaheim, California, an event broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network.source
195519 July – Estonian Television (ETV) began broadcasting.Estonia source
195521 July – The BBC brings into service its Divis transmitter, its first permanent facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a television service for Northern Ireland; the 35 kW transmissions can also be readily received in much of the Republic of Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1955August 1 – The prototype Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft first flies, in Nevada.source
195514 August – Güler Sabancı, industrialistTurkey source
1955September 22 – Commercial television starts in the United Kingdom with the Independent Television Authority's first ITV franchises beginning broadcasting in London, ending the BBC monopoly.source
1955October 5 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.source
1955November 3 – The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi (8.79 km), the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time.source
195510 December – The Asia Insurance Building is opened, then Southeast Asia's tallest building.Singapore source
1955December 14 – The Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River, in New York State, opens to traffic.source
1955December: Club de Yates de Acapulco opens its doors.Mexico source
1955Rádio Barlavento in Mindelo begins broadcastingCape Verde source
1955Tengku Mohamad Sultan Ahmad (until 1 February)Malaya source
1956January 22 – The Argentine Grand Prix is held in Buenos Aires and is won by Luigi Musso and Juan Manuel Fangio.Argentina source
1956March 1 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the radiotelephony spelling alphabet, for the International Civil Aviation Organization.source
1956March 10 – The Fairey Delta 2 breaks the World Air Speed Record, raising it to 1,132 mph or Mach 1.73, an increase of some 300 mph over the previous record, and thus becoming the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight.source
1956March – The Rural and Industrial Development Authority (RIDA) Training Centre (Dewan Latehan RIDA) was established.Malaya source
1956June 8 – General Electric/Telechron introduces model 7H241 "The Snooz Alarm", the first snooze alarm clock ever.source
1956July 2 – A laboratory experiment involving scrap thorium at Sylvania Electric Products in Bayside, New York, results in an explosion.source
1956July 13 – John McCarthy (Dartmouth), Marvin Minsky (MIT), Claude Shannon (Bell Labs) and Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) assemble the first coordinated research meeting on the topic of artificial intelligence, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States.source
1956July 26 – Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.source
195626 July – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt announces the nationalization of the Suez Canal and Egyptian forces seize control of the canal, moves that precipitate the Suez Crisis and the Sinai Campaign.Israel source
19561 August – The establishment of Fuxing Broadcasting Station.Taiwan source
195617 August — The Nicoll Highway and Merdeka Bridge are officially opened.Singapore source
1956September 13 – The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team, led by Reynold B. Johnson.source
1956September 13 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.source
1956September 16 – Television broadcasting in Australia commences.source
1956September 25 – The submarine transatlantic telephone cable opens.source
1956September 27 – The Bell X-2 becomes the first crewed aircraft to reach Mach 3.source
195629 September - Entry into service of the electrified railway lines between Luxembourg City and Thionville, and Luxembourg City and Arlon.Luxembourg source
1956October 10 – The prototype Lockheed L-1649 Starliner, the final Lockheed Constellation model, makes its first flight.source
1956October 17 – The world's first industrial-scale commercial nuclear power plant is opened at Calder Hall in the UK.source
1956October 31 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.source
1956December 23 – British and French troops leave the Suez Canal region.source
1956The Cartagena Refinery is built.Colombia source
1956Kalevi Keskstaadion was built.Estonia source
1957January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.source
1957January 16 – Global hotel brand Marriott opens its first hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.source
1957February 2 – President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River, near Sukkur.source
1957March 8 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.source
1957March 16: Rede Ferroviária Federal, a public company responsible for the operation of 19 unified railways, is created by Federal Law n° 3,115.Brazil source
1957April 1 – The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr.source
1957April 9 – Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping.source
1957April 15 – The Distant Early Warning Line is handed over by contractors to the U.S. and Canadian military.source
195714 May – Yitzhak Harel, CEO of Israel Railways and former major general in the IDF.Israel source
1957June 1 – Launch of the first Ayanami-class destroyer warship by the JMSDF.source
195730 June – Ministry of Industry was establishedTurkey source
1957July 1 – Production of the Citroën Traction Avant automobile, begun in 1934, ceases.source
19571 July – The Berita Harian is launched.Singapore source
19571 September – Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan was installed as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong.Malaya source
195730 September – Last day of operation of 97 miles (155 km) of railway in Northern Ireland (Great Northern Railway (Ireland) branches and the entire Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway) following government instructions. Fermanagh loses all its lines.Northern Ireland source
19572 October – David Lean's Academy Award-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai is released.United Kingdom source
1957October 4 – The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow delta wing interceptor aircraft is unveiled.source
19575 October - In Valparaíso, UCV Televisión, the first Chilean television channel, begins its transmissions.Chile source
1957November 1 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect Michigan's two peninsulas.source
1957November 15 - A first section Nagoya to Sakae of Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line operation started in Aichi Prefecture.Japan source
1957December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.source
1958February 24 – In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.source
1958February 25 – Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom, initiated at a meeting called by Canon John Collins on January 15. The campaign peace symbol has been launched on 21 February by Gerald Holtom. Protests will focus on the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.source
1958February – Sulaiman Courts, Malaya's first residential flats were opened.Malaya source
1958March 26 – The 30th Academy Awards Ceremony takes place in Hollywood; The Bridge on the River Kwai wins 7 awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture.source
1958April 17 – King Baudouin of Belgium officially opens the world's fair in Brussels, also known as Expo 58. The Atomium forms the centrepiece.source
1958April 20 – The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey, after defeating the Boston Bruins in 6 games.source
195818 May – Jacob Fichman (born 1881), Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist.Israel source
195810 July – Luxembourg signs a convention with the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the construction of the Vianden Pumped Storage Plant.Luxembourg source
1958August 18 – Brojen Das from East Pakistan swims across the English Channel in a competition, the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He is first among 39 competitors.source
1958September 2 – China's first television broadcasts start at Beijing Television Station, a predecessor of China Central Television.source
1958September 12 – Jack Kilby invents the first integrated circuit, while working at Texas Instruments.source
1958September 14 – Two rockets designed by German engineer Ernst Mohr (the first German post-war rockets) reach the upper atmosphere.source
1958October 8 – Gen Ayub Khan who took over the country as Chief Martial Law Administrator yesterday, today made his first broadcast from the radio station in Karachi (and is feared to have developed a dislike for its Director Z.A. Bukhari).Pakistan source
1958October 17 – An Evening with Fred Astaire, the first television show recorded on color videotape, is broadcast on NBC in the United States.source
1958October 18 – Tennis for Two, a game invented by William Higinbotham and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game, is introduced at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Visitors' Day Exhibit in the United States.source
195825 October – Northern Ireland-built Short SC.1 experimental VTOL aircraft makes its first free vertical flight.Northern Ireland source
1958October 26 – A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 makes its first transatlantic flight.source
1958November 22 – 1958 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H.V. Evatt. This is the first election where television is used as a medium for communicating with voters. Evatt will eventually resign as Labor leader and will be replaced by his deputy Arthur Calwell.source
195822 November – The Shaw House, a 10-storey office block, is officially opened by then Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock.Singapore source
1958Cabo Verde Airlines (formally known as TACV: Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde) establishedCape Verde source
19581957–58 Mexican Primera División season.Mexico source
1959January 15 – The Soviet Union conducts its first census after World War II.source
195922 January - Project Hotfoot (Laos) begins.Laos source
1959January 25 – American Airlines begins the first U.S. domestic jet service with a Boeing 707 airliner flight between New York and Los Angeles.source
1959January 27 – The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was opened at Sverdlovsky Hall in Moscow as Nikita Khrushchev welcomed 1,500 delegates, including Communist leaders from 70 nations. For the first time, Western reporters were admitted to the conclave, held for the first time since 1956.Soviet Union source
1959February 13 – TAT-2, AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation between Newfoundland and France.source
1959June 8 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.source
195925 June – The Ministry of National Development forms the Primary Production Department to better serve farmers and fishermen.Singapore source
1959June 26 – Elizabeth II (as monarch of Canada) and United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway.source
1959July 9 – Wing Commander Michael Beetham flying a British Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant sets a record of 11 hours 27 minutes for a non-stop London-Cape Town flight.source
1959August 21 - The Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the second Chilean television channel, currently known as Canal 13, begins its transmissions.Chile source
1959August 26 – The original Mini car, designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, is launched in England.source
1959September 16 – The Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.source
1959September 17 – The hypersonic North American X-15 research aircraft, piloted by Scott Crossfield, makes its first powered flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California.source
1959September 23 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.source
19596 October – The Carmelit, Haifa's underground funicular railway, is opened.Israel source
195931 October – Ulster Television, the ITV franchise for Northern Ireland, goes on air.Northern Ireland source
1959November 2 – At a ceremony near Toddington, British Minister of Transport Ernest Marples opens the first section of the M1 Motorway, between Watford and Crick, along with two spur motorways, the M45 and M10. Three decades of large scale motorway construction follow, leading to the rapid expansion of the UK motorway network.source
1959November – The MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), also known as the MOS transistor, is invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in the United States. It revolutionizes the electronics industry, becomes the fundamental building block of the Information Age and goes on to become the most widely manufactured device in history.source
1959December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Fréjus, killing 412.source
19597 December: The Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco approves the expropriation of Engenho Galiléia (a sugar mill), a project by Deputy Francisco Julião; lawyer for the Peasant League.Brazil source
195929 December - Opening of the Lisbon MetroPortugal source
1959The Henney Kilowatt goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first production electric car in almost three decades, but only 47 models will be sold in its 2-year production run.source
1959Sprite was created in West Germany by The Coca-Cola Company .source
1960January 9 – Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.source
196010 January – Warsak irrigation tunnel, excavation of which began in July 1957, is inaugurated.Pakistan source
196026 January – First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast.Northern Ireland source
19601 February – The Housing and Development Board is set up by Lim Kim San, replacing the Singapore Improvement Trust. The Planning Authority takes over SIT's functions of land use in Singapore.Singapore source
1960February 5 – The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.source
1960March 22 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser, in the United States.source
196029 March – The launching of National Education Radio.Taiwan source
1960May 16 – Theodore Maiman operates the first laser.source
1960June 1 – New Zealand's first television station begins broadcasting, in the city of Auckland.source
19606 June – The Israeli Air Force receives its first Fouga Magister jets.Israel source
1960July 3 – The French Grand Prix is won by Australian Jack Brabham driving a Cooper T53.source
1960August 7 – The world's first standard gauge passenger preserved railway, the Bluebell Railway, opens to the public in southern England.source
1960September 1 – Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the United States, marking the first shutdown in the company's history (the event lasts two days).source
1960September 14 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.source
1960September 21 – Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos nationalizes the country's electricity supply system.source
1960September 21: President Adolfo López Mateos nationalizes the electrical system.Mexico source
1960September 26 – 1960 United States presidential debates: The two leading candidates in the 1960 United States presidential election, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, participate in the first live televised presidential debate.source
1960October 14 – The Premier of New South Wales officially opens Warragamba Dam, one of the world's largest domestic water supply dams.source
19604 November – The Television Corporation of the University of Chile, Channel 9, begins its transmissions from the city of SantiagoChile source
1960December 8 – For the first time, Mary Martin's Peter Pan is presented as a stand-alone 2-hour special on NBC television in the United States, instead of as part of an anthology series. This version, rather than being presented live, is shown on videotape, enabling NBC to repeat it as often as they wish without having to restage it. Although nearly all of the adult actors repeat their original Broadway roles, all of the original children have, ironically, outgrown their roles and are replaced by new actors.source
1960Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan (until 4 April)Malaya source
1961March 13 – 1961 Kurenivka mudslide: A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR, killing 145.source
196119 April - Project Hotfoot (Laos) ends.Laos source
1961May 9 – In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest" to the National Association of Broadcasters in the United States, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".source
1961June 12 – A patent for the body electrode invented by Richard M. Berman and Bernard Schwartz is applied for.source
19615 July – The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, was launched.Israel source
19617 July – The establishment of Taipei Broadcasting Station.Taiwan source
196126 July – Shell opens Singapore's first oil refinery at Pulau Bukom.Singapore source
1961August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.source
1961August 10 - The first chemical defoliation operation in Vietnam was carried out as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter sprayed the herbicide Dinoxol north of Kon Tum. Following the successful test, Operation Ranch Hand continued until October 23, 1971, destroying 7.7 e6acre of forests and jungles.Vietnam source
1961August 13 – Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall.source
196113 August – The construction of Malacca State Legislative Assembly in Malacca City, Malacca.Malaya source
1961October 29 – Devrim, the first ever car designed and produced in Turkey, is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles.source
1961October 29 – DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.source
1961November 2 – Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances.source
1961December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.source
1961December 31 – Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting.source
1961Praia Airport opened as the nation's third airportCape Verde source
1961Construction of Õismäe (subdivision of Tallinn) starts. Construction is ended 1973.Estonia source
1962February 14 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.source
196211 March - 1961-63 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Romania 3-2 at Dinamo, BucharestAlbania source
1962March 21: Beginning of the 1962 Mexico City radiation accidentMexico source
196210 April – The SEACOM cable is announced.Singapore source
196228 April – The establishment of TTV Main Channel.Taiwan source
1962May 5 – Twelve East Germans escape to the West via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.source
196214 May – Dov Karmi (born 1905), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli architect.Israel source
196227 May – First Nuclear (test) reactor of Turkey in Küçükçekmece, a suburb of IstanbulTurkey source
1962July 1 - DZTM-TV Channel 5 of the Associated Broadcasting Corporation (now TV5), the country's television station owned by Chino Roces is launched.Philippines source
1962July 23 – Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.source
1962July 25 – The first attack helicopter company, Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company, of the United States Army is formed on Okinawa Island, Japan.source
1962August 24 – Indonesia officially launches television with the establishment of TVRI television network or Televisi Republik Indonesia (Indonesian National Channel), broadcasting the opening of the 1962 Asian Games.source
1962September 12 – The first Kohl's department store chain is opened in Brookfield, Wisconsin.source
1962October 1 – Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host of NBC's The Tonight Show on television, a post he will hold for 30 years.source
1962November 3 – Earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer", in the report of a speech by computing pioneer John Mauchly in The New York Times.source
1962November 24 – The first episode of That Was the Week That Was, the groundbreaking satirical comedy program hosted by David Frost, is broadcast on BBC Television in the United Kingdom.source
1962November 26 – Mies Bouwman starts presenting the first live TV-marathon fundraising show (Open Het Dorp in the Netherlands), which lasts 23 hours non-stop.source
1962December 15 – Storm over the North Sea: Belgian pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.source
196224 December - Beginning of a three-week strike by staff of the Malayan Railways over wages. It is the longest industrial action in Malayan history to date. The strike ended on 16 January the following year.Malaya source
196315 February – The first TV station was launched on Channel 5. Regular television transmissions only started from 2 April.Singapore source
1963April 1 German broadcaster ZDF started.Germany source
19633 April – Pakistan Shell Oil Company starts work on the Habiganj-I exploratory well.Pakistan source
1963April 29 – Buddy Rogers becomes the first WWWF Champion.source
1963June 4 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to continue issuing silver certificates.source
1963June 13 – The New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver futures contracts.source
1963June 15 – The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It will go on to win its class the following year.source
1963June 20 – Establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.source
1963July 1 – ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service.source
1963August 28 – Philips introduces the Compact Cassette primarily for dictation and voice recording purposes. By 1965, hardware improvements eventually allow for it to reliably function as a music format.source
196323 September – British Enkalon synthetic fibre factory opens in Antrim.Northern Ireland source
1963October 1 – Construction company GK Međimurje, one of the largest Croatian construction and civil engineering companies (with more than 8,000 employees in 1980s), founded in Čakovec.source
19631 October 1963 - appeals from the Supreme Court of Nigeria to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London were abolished, but cases then pending retained their right of appeal to the J.C.P.C. from the Nigerian court system.Nigeria source
1963October 30 – The car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded in Italy.source
1963November 20 - Commissioning of Otori DamJapan source
196330 November – The Romanian and Yugoslavian governments agree to develop the Iron Gate Hydroelectric Power Station.Romania source
1963December 7 – The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States.source
1963December 20 – The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin.source
196328 December – The launch of Television Malaysia by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj.Malaysia source
1963The TAT-3 transatlantic communications cable goes into operation.source
1963The classic Porsche 911 is first produced.source
1963Ivan Sutherland writes the revolutionary Sketchpad program and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.source
1964January 9 – Martyrs' Day: Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.source
196420 January – Cold Storage's new carbon dioxide factory is officially opened, which is required for dry ice and carbonated drinks.Singapore source
1964February 27 – The Italian government asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.source
1964February – Construction of the Pekeliling Flats commenced.Malaysia source
1964April 20 – In the UK, BBC Two television starts broadcasting for the first time.source
1964May 1 – At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first computer program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC is eventually included on many computers and even some games consoles.source
196410 May – Orna Datz, Israeli singer, actress and television presenterIsrael source
1964May – The Moselle canal is inaugurated by Grand Duchesse Charlotte, Charles De Gaulle, and Heinrich Lübke.Luxembourg source
1964June 20 – The Ford GT40 makes its first appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its first victory will come 2 years later in 1966.source
1964September 4 – The Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.source
1964October 5 – Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.source
196415 October - 1964 United Kingdom general election.Northern Ireland source
1964October 22 – A 5.3 kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, 21 mi from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as part of the Vela Uniform program. This test is the Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble.source
1964October – Robert Moog demonstrates the prototype Moog synthesizer.source
1964November 21 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge across New York Bay opens to traffic (the world's longest suspension bridge at this time).source
196426 November – The country's first television station goes on air in Lahore, operated on a pilot basis by NEC.Pakistan source
1964December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, is broadcast for the first time, on NBC. It becomes a Christmas tradition, despite moving to CBS in 1972.United States source
196416 December - 1964–66 Balkans Cup: Albania ties with Bulgaria 0-0 at Qemal Stafa Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
1964December 21 – The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark supersonic attack aircraft, developed for the U.S. Air Force, makes its first flight, at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.source
1964December 22 – The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird makes its first flight at Palmdale, California.source
1964Construction of the Kanji Dam beginsNigeria source
196521 January – The Shalom Meir Tower officially opens, becoming the tallest building in the Middle East (standing at 142 m).Israel source
1965April 23 – The Pennine Way officially opens.source
1965April 26 – Rede Globo is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.source
196517 May – Centenary of the International Telecommunication Union was celebrated.Malaysia source
19651 July - Road Water Electricity General Directorate was founded.Turkey source
1965July 16 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel, a highway tunnel between France and Italy, is inaugurated by presidents Charles de Gaulle and Giuseppe Saragat.source
1965August 30 – An avalanche buries a dam construction site at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, killing 90 workers.source
19652 October – The commissioning of Darkhan Thermal Power Plant in Darkhan City, Selenge Province.Mongolia source
1965November 13 – British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan says "fuck" during a discussion on BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.source
196527 November – Singapore's first underground carpark is officially opened in Raffles Place, with a public garden built on top.Singapore source
1965November - The Wapi Project begins.Laos source
196516 December - The Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (Chile) is created, in charge of the planning, development and construction of houses, in addition to planning the urbanization of cities.Chile source
1965New Tallinn Bus Station was built.Estonia source
19663 January – First pipeline of Turkey between Batman and İskenderunTurkey source
196624 March – The beginning of the Israeli Educational Television broadcasts.Israel source
1966April 21 – The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.source
1966April 24 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.source
1966May 4 – Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.source
19664 May – SS Al-Abbas, the first ocean-going vessel constructed by the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works is launched.Pakistan source
196617 July – The completion of Touliao Guesthouse construction in Daxi Township, Taoyuan County.Taiwan source
1966August 5 – The Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, United States.source
1966August 6 – The Salazar Bridge (later the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon, Portugal.source
196626 August – A new TV studio is officially opened for Radio and Television Singapore in Caldecott Hill.Singapore source
1966October 5 – Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic.source
1966October 14 – The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.source
1966October 27 – Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.source
1966November 26 – In the Canadian Football League, the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Ottawa Rough Riders to win the 54th Grey Cup at Vancouver's Empire Stadium 29–14. Saskatchewan are led by quarterback Ron Lancaster.source
19661 December – First Malaysia Plan was implemented.Malaysia source
1966December 18 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS in the United States. It becomes a Christmas tradition.source
1966Divis Tower in Belfast is built.Northern Ireland source
19673 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made carTurkey source
196727 January – The Chartered Industries of Singapore is established to produce ammunition for the Singapore Armed Forces.Singapore source
1967March 4 – The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.source
1967April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (A-100 series) takes its maiden flight.source
1967April 28 – Expo 67 opens to the public, with over 310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as noted by Expo officials.source
1967April 28 – The U.S. aerospace manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft (it becomes part of The Boeing Company three decades later).source
1967April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished.source
19672 May – US-made Sikorsky S-61 military transport helicopter renamed Nuri was used by the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the first time.Malaysia source
19674 May: Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport was foundedSpain source
196715 May – In the midst of Israel's Independence Day celebrations, Egyptian ground forces cross the Suez Canal and enter the Sinai peninsula. This move led Israel to an emergency state, known as the "waiting period".Israel source
196716 May – The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Fo Guang Shan in Dashu Township, Kaohsiung County.Taiwan source
1967May 23 – A significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.source
1967June 17 – Project 639: The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.source
1967June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, UK.source
1967July 1 – Seaboard Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to become Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation.source
1967August 1 – The UAC TurboTrain makes its first journey.source
1967August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the act and continues broadcasting.source
19676 September - Myrina is launched from the Musgrave Yard slipway at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, the first supertanker and (at around 192000 DWT) largest ship built in the United Kingdom up to this date.Northern Ireland source
1967September 30 – In the United Kingdom, BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4.source
1967October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.source
1967November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
1967November 7 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.source
1967November 19 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.source
196723 November – Mangla Dam, built for irrigation and power generation, is inaugurated.Pakistan source
1967December 15 – The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people.source
1967PAL is first introduced in Germany.source
196817 January – The Radio Malaysia and Television Malaysia service were moved from Tunku Abdul Rahman multipurpose hall at Jalan Ampang to the new building at Angkasapuri.Malaysia source
1968February 1 – The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.source
1968March 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding.source
1968March 13 – The first Rotaract club is chartered in North Charlotte, North Carolina.source
19685 April – Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company takes over operations from the Ulster Transport Authority, managing Northern Ireland Railways, Ulsterbus, Northern Ireland Carriers and Northern Ireland Airports.Northern Ireland source
1968April 18 – London Bridge is sold to U.S. entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch for reconstruction at Lake Havasu City, Arizona.source
196827 April – Ayub Khan inaugurated Kamalapur railway station in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).Pakistan source
1968May 2 – The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.source
19682 May – The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.Israel source
1968May 18 – Mattel's Hot Wheels toy cars are introduced in the United States.source
1968May 30 – Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 automobile race.source
1968June 7 – Ford sewing machinists strike for equal pay starts at the Ford Dagenham plant in London.source
1968July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel is founded in what becomes known as the Silicon Valley of California.source
196818 July – The commissioning of Unit 1 of Linkou Power Plant in Taipei County.Taiwan source
19681 September – The Singapore Air Defence Command is formed.Singapore source
1968November 8 – The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals is signed and ratified.source
1968November 17 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.source
1968November 28 – Ana Maria Alvarado, journalistMexico source
1968December 18 – ABS-CBN opens its present-day headquarters, the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center on Bohol Avenue (renamed as Sgt. Esguerra Avenue in 1989), Quezon City, the most advanced broadcast facility in the country during that time.Philippines source
1968Drainage of the Flevopolder in the Netherlands is completed, creating by some definitions the largest artificial island in the world.source
1969February 9 – The Boeing 747 "jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington.source
19691 March – The establishment of Aero Industry Development Center in Taichung.Taiwan source
1969April 7 – RFC series begins with Network Working Group RFC 1 on ARPANET host software.source
19691 July – The first SAF Day was commemorated.Singapore source
1969July 19 – Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.source
1969July 20 – 1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time.source
1969August 8 – MBC Television officially launched service to nationwide.South Korea source
19699 September – Operation Raviv: During the War of Attrition, an IDF armored force is landed on the Egyptian shore of the Suez Canal disguised as an Egyptian military force, inside six Egyptian tanks and three Egyptian armoured personnel carriers which had previously been captured by the IDF. Masquerading as an Egyptian force, the raiders meet no significant resistance. The IDF armored force raids Egyptian military bases along the west coast of the Gulf of Suez attacking Egyptian radar stations, military vehicles and other military targets. The Egyptian Army suffers an estimated 100-200 casualties and had 12 outposts destroyed. The Israeli forces suffers no losses.Israel source
1969October 1 – The Beijing Subway begins operation.source
1969October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.source
1969October 5 – Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television.source
196911 October – Radio Malaysia and Television Malaysia merged into a single broadcasting service Radio Television Malaysia.Malaysia source
1969October 15 – DZKB-TV Channel 9, the Philippines' sixth TV station, is launched.source
1969October 15 – TV station DZKB-TV Channel 9, owned by Roberto S. Benedicto, is launched.Philippines source
196922 October — 1969 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Bulgaria 1-0 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
1969October 29 – The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.source
1969November 21 – The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet).source
1969Summer – Invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics).source
1969Minière des Grands Lacs Africains (MGL) is merged with Kivumines, Phibraki and Cobelmin, based in Kamituga.Democratic Republic of the Congo source
1970March 12 – Citroën introduces the Citroën SM, the world's fastest front-wheel drive auto at this time, at the annual Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland.source
197031 March – Northern Ireland Railways runs the last regular steam-hauled passenger train on a national network in the British Isles, 17.25 Whitehead, County Antrim–Carrickfergus, hauled by Class WT 2-6-4 tank locomotive No. 4.Northern Ireland source
197027 May – 1970 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Romania 1-0Albania source
1970June 19 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.source
1970July 1 – Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California, United States.source
1970July 16 - Three Rivers Stadium opens in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, home to NFL Steelers and MLB Pirates.source
1970July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.source
197030 July – War of Attrition: A large-scale dogfight, codenamed Rimon 20, takes place west of the Suez Canal, in which Israeli pilots down five Soviet-piloted MiGs, while the Israeli Air Force suffers no casualties except a damaged Mirage.Israel source
197016 September - Inauguration of the Lo Prado tunnel on Route 68, which connects Santiago de Chile with Valparaíso.Chile source
19701 October – The first shopping mall in Singapore, the People's Park Complex, is opened.Singapore source
1970October 4 – Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One World Driving Champion, the first to earn the honor posthumously.source
1970October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.source
1970October 15 – A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.source
1970October 28 – Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame (part fuelled by LNG) to an official land speed record of 622.407 mph on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.source
1970October – Mitsubishi Motors is founded. The Mitsubishi keiretsu had already begun making cars as far back as 1917, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had made many vehicles in the postwar era, but the actual company would not be founded until this date.Japan source
1970November 14 – The Soviet Union enters the International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.source
1970November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.source
1970December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.source
1970December 30 – Construction of the Gezhouba Dam started.China source
1970The South African Railways places the first of eighty Class 6E mainline electric locomotives in service. Two are also built for Iscor for use at the Sishen iron ore mine.South Africa source
1971January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'.Soviet Union source
19713 January – Jurong Bird Park opens to the public.Singapore source
1971January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.source
1971January 25 – Intelsat IV (F2) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26.source
1971February 20 – The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning across the nation's radio and television stations, meant to be a standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Some stations cease broadcasting until the message is rescinded, as required by federal rules, while most ignore it.source
1971March 7 – The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.source
1971March 7 – Die Sendung mit der Maus airs its first episode on Das Erste.source
19713 April – Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) was founded.Malaysia source
1971April 20 – National Public Radio (NPR) airs its first broadcast.source
1971May 1 – Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.source
19714 June – Israel announces the exposure of a Syrian espionage network in the Golan Heights.Israel source
1971June 13 – Racing drivers Gijs van Lennep of the Netherlands and Helmut Marko of Austria win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K.source
1971July 4 – The first plane lands at Seychelles International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe).source
1971July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America.source
1971July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 ft, making it the second-tallest building in the world after the North Tower that had topped out in December 1970.source
1971August 5 – The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 enters service with American Airlines.source
1971August 10 – Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published, in the U.K.source
1971August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.source
1971August 15 – Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.source
1971September 30 - U.S Steel Tower opens in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.source
1971November 15 – Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.source
1971November 17 - Fidel Castro visits the municipal stadium and the huachipato plant in Concepción, ChileChile source
19713 December – The establishment of China Steel in Taipei.Taiwan source
19716 December – India becomes the first country to recognize the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra radio station becomes Bangladesh BetarBangladesh source
1971December 18 – The world's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union, begins operations.source
1971December 19 – Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.source
1971Bulanti motorcar built in Australia.source
1971Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers, in late 1971.source
19711970–71 Mexican Primera División season.Mexico source
1972January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
19729 January - The Palais de Justice, housing the European Court of Justice, is opened on the Kirchberg plateau, Luxembourg City, marking the start of the development of the 'European quarter'.Luxembourg source
1972February 11 – President Salvador Allende visits the Italian American Cloth Factory (FIAP) in the commune of Tomé.Chile source
1972February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.source
197217 March – The commissioning of Unit 2 of Linkou Power Plant in Taipei County.Taiwan source
1972April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar enters service with Eastern Airlines.source
1972May 5 – Viru Hotel was opened.Estonia source
1972May 27 – Mark Donohue wins the Indianapolis 500 in a Penske Racing McLaren–Offenhauser.source
1972June 11 – Henri Pescarolo (France) and co-driver former World Drivers' Champion Graham Hill (Britain) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670.source
1972June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.source
197219 June – TV Pendidikan, Malaysia's first and only educational TV network was officially launched.Malaysia source
1972June 30 – The International Time Bureau adds the first leap second (23:59:60) of this year to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).source
1972July 27 – The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft makes its first flight in the United States.source
1972August 4 – August 1972 solar storms: A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in the U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.source
1972August 19 – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show The Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City, to be aired on September 4.source
1972September 10 – Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion at the age of 25.source
1972All communications and public utilities are seized by the military and placed under their control upon Marcos' orders. Some of several media establishments which immediately closed down, being the government's mouthpieces, are later reopened but under censorship. Meanwhile, seized public utilities include Meralco, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, and Iligan Integrated Steel Mill.Philippines source
19721 October – Singapore Airlines starts its first flights.Singapore source
1972October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time.source
1972November 29 – The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.source
1972November 29 – Atari in the United States release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.source
197229 November – The legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands begins with the opening "tea house" Mellow Yellow, on the Amstel River in Amsterdam.Netherlands source
1972November – The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions.source
19739 January - The European Court of Justice building is opened in Kirchberg, Luxembourg City.Luxembourg source
197330 March – RTS partitions its two channels among language lines, after ten years of television broadcasts in all four languages on the same channel. Channel 5 was used to broadcast in English and Malay and Channel 8, Chinese and Tamil.Singapore source
19731 April – The establishment of Taiwan Water Corporation.Taiwan source
1973April 3 – The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.source
1973May 3 – The Sears Tower in Chicago, United States, is topped-out, becoming the world's tallest building at 1,451 ft.source
1973May 11 – The Data Act (Sw. Datalagen) − the world's first national data protection law − is enacted in Sweden.source
197321 May – Official opening of the Rantau Panjang – Sungai Golok Bridge of Malaysia-Thailand border in Kelantan.Malaysia source
1973June 10 – Henri Pescarolo and co-driver Gérard Larrousse (both France) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670B.source
1973June 24 – Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.source
1973July 5 – A catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in Kingman, Arizona, United States, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion becomes a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.source
197318 July – The office of Governor of Northern Ireland, at this time held by The Lord Grey of Naunton, is abolished under Section 32 of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a UK cabinet office created in 1972, takes over the functions of the Governor on 20 December 1973 under Letters patent.Northern Ireland source
1973September 9 – Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart becomes World Drivers' Champion when his Tyrrell 003-Cosworth finishes fourth in the 1973 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.source
1973October 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait for the first time in history.source
1973November 4 – Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation began radio-television operations.Philippines source
1973November 16 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.source
197311 December – Tal Berman, Israeli TV host and Radio broadcaster.Israel source
1973Eesti Power Plant were commissioned.Estonia source
19741 January – The first piling works for the KOMTAR building in Penang were undertaken.Malaysia source
1974January – Cargolux takes over Loftleiðir's maintenance and engineering departments, which were subsequently transferred from New York City to Luxembourg City.Luxembourg source
19745 March – Israel completes its pullback from the west side of the Suez Canal to the east side of the canal, as agreed upon in the Agreement on Disengagement.Israel source
197410 March - 1973–74 Albanian Cup: FK Dinamo Tirana defeats FK Partizani Tirana 1-0 at Qemal Stafa Stadium, TiranaAlbania source
1974March 29 – Launch of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced.source
19741 April – The Urban Redevelopment Authority is formed to redevelop the Central Area.Singapore source
1974May 18 – Nuclear weapons testing: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.source
197421 May – The Ulster Workers' Council Strike comes to an end.Northern Ireland source
1974First Saaremaa Rally took place.Estonia source
1974In 1974, the students of Nishtar Medical College had an altercation with the Ahmadis in the Rabwah Railway Station. This event turned into a massive and violent anti-Ahmadiyya movement resulting in many casualties among Ahmadis and destruction of Ahmadiyya property.Pakistan source
1975January 2 – A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.source
1975January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra, causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.source
1975March 1 – Australian television switches to full-time colour.source
1975March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.source
1975March 10 – An extended portion of Sanyō Shinkansen between Okayama Station and Hakata Station opens, giving the Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail network access to the country's second island, Kyushu.source
1975March 12: The first transmission of television in the nation began under the name Televisão Experimental de Cabo Verde or TEVEC (now RTC)Cape Verde source
1975April 20 – Taman Mini Indonesia Indah opens to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia.source
197522 May – General Motors announces the closure of its assembly line in Bienne (BE) by the end of August. 450 people will lose their jobsSwitzerland source
1975June 5 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.source
1975June – The piling works for the Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR) in Penang were completed.Malaysia source
1975July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).source
197526 July – The opening of Beipu Station of Taiwan Railways Administration in Xincheng Township, Hualien County.Taiwan source
1975August 25 – The Victoria Falls Conference between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and the United African National Council is held in a South African Railways coach on the Victoria Falls Bridge, officiated by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Prime Minister John Vorster.source
1975September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.source
1975Domestic football: Mohammedan SC won 1975 Dhaka First Division League title, while Team JIC came out runners-up.Bangladesh source
1975VAPCO manufacturing company is established in Amman.Jordan source
1975AGS (motorcycle manufacturer) is established.Netherlands source
1975José Antonio Abreu founds El Sistema, a music education programme.Venezuela source
197616 March - Downtown Radio, an adult contemporary music station, begins broadcasting from Newtownards to the Belfast area, the first Independent Local Radio in Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1976March 27 – The first 7.4 km of the Washington Metro subway system opens.source
1976March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico.source
1976April 1 – Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California.source
1976April 9 - Air France launches a weekly service of its Concorde supersonic aircraft on the Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Caracas/Maiquetía route. This service continues until March 27, 1982.Venezuela source
1976April 17 – Everland, as well known for theme park in nation's, officially was open in Gyeongi-doSouth Korea source
1976May 24 – Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.source
1976May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 km.source
1976June 11 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh gathers 126 of the UK's leading engineers at Buckingham Palace to form the Fellowship of Engineering, later to be known as the Royal Academy of Engineering.source
1976June 26 – The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.source
1976July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.source
1976September 1 – Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.source
1976September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.source
19761 October – The OCBC Centre is officially opened.Singapore source
1976October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.source
197627 November – The opening of Hsinchu CKS Baseball Stadium in North District, Hsinchu City.Taiwan source
1976December 15: The Trolleybuses in Guadalajara start operating.Mexico source
1976The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).source
1976The Samjhauta Express, the only rail link between Pakistan and India, starts running.Pakistan source
197639th government of Turkey (also called first MC)Turkey source
19773 January – Kirkuk-Iskenderun pipeline officially opens.Turkey source
1977January 11 – The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku Kakkonen ("Little Number Two") is aired on Yle TV2.source
1977January 18 – Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.source
197727 February – The Upper Peirce Reservoir is officially opened as Singapore's fourth reservoir. On the same day, a 10-year plan to clean up the Singapore River is announced by the late Lee Kuan Yew.Singapore source
1977April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.source
1977May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.source
197722 June – The government abandons plan to build a nuclear power plant at Remerschen, due to fears that the country wouldn't have enough police to protect the site from protestors.Luxembourg source
19777 July – The 25th anniversary of Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) was celebrated.Malaysia source
1977July 31 – the Caricuao Zoo Park opens to the public.Venezuela source
1977August 25 – Radio Shack’s new TRS-80 Micro Computer System uses a computer keyboard to plug into an included 64 column video monitor, programmed by cassette tapes played on a home cassette player, shown at the Boston Computer Show on August 25, 1977. From left, visitors Robert Lundgren of Des Plaines, Illinois, Malcolm MacLeod of Montreal, and Radio Shack salesman Steven Carlozzi of Brockton, MassachusettsUnited States source
1977September 5 - Invited to participate in the ratification of the Panama Canal agreements, Augusto Pinochet travels to United States, where he meets with President Jimmy Carter and other Latin American leaders.Chile source
1977September 15 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in Turin, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) begins operation of two telephone exchanges.source
1977October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.source
1977November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, United States, fails, killing 39 people.source
1977November 22 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.source
1977November 22 – The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol. See Packet Radio Vansource
1977Domestic football: Abahani KC won 1977 Dhaka First Division League title, while Rahmatganj MFS came out runners-up.Bangladesh source
1977Development of Tallinn Lasnamäe area begins.Estonia source
1978February 2 - the Reunion Tower opens in Dallas Texas.source
1978February 8 – United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.source
1978February 9 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.source
1978March 8 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.source
1978April 1 – Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.source
1978April 11 - Color television is introduced, Chile adopts the US standard NTSC-M and channels 13, 9, UCV and TVN begin broadcasting in full color.Chile source
1978April 18 – The U.S. Senate votes, 68–32, to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.source
1978May 8 – Norway opens a natural gas field, in the Polar Sea.source
1978May 15 – First Timezone Opens in Perth, Western Australiasource
1978May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.source
197818 June – The Karakoram Highway is completed.Pakistan source
1978October 8 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.6 mph (511.13 km/h) at Blowering Dam, Australia.source
1978October 31 – The South African Railways sets a still unbeaten world rail speed record on Cape gauge.source
1978November 2: 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's second television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004).source
197810 December – The commissioning of first unit of Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Taipei County.Taiwan source
197828 December – Colour television was introduced by Radio Television Malaysia on RTM1Malaysia source
1978In Seoul, South Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2.source
1978Trade union UNTC-CS establishedCape Verde source
1978Belfast Zoo reopens following renovation by Belfast City Council.Northern Ireland source
1978The PBA on GTV (sports program)Philippines source
197817 and 24 June - 1978 Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1979January 1 – United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the International Year of the Child. Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF Concert fund, among them ABBA, who write the song Chiquitita to commemorate the event.source
19798 February – The opening of Chongde Station and Heping Station of Taiwan Railways Administration in Xiulin Township, Hualien County.Taiwan source
1979February 13 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1.3 km long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.source
1979February 18 – The 1979 Daytona 500 is televised on CBS, the first ever full airing of a 500-mile race on US television, Richard Petty wins after Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison battle for first place on the final lap and crash out, leading to a fist fight. This race brought NASCAR to a wider audience.source
1979February 26 – The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.source
1979March 1 – Philips publicly demonstrate a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.source
1979March 8 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.source
1979March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the UK collapses, killing two workers.source
1979March 19 – C-SPAN, an American television channel focusing on government and public affairs, is launched.source
197919 March – The government, steel companies, and trade unions reach an agreement on restructuring the steel industry.Luxembourg source
1979April 1 – Nickelodeon launches from QUBE's Pinwheel experiment and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.source
1979April 7 – In Japan, Yoshiyuki Tomino directs Mobile Suit Gundam, the first series of the metaseries of the same name.source
1979April – nearly nine years after the decision to produce it was taken, the Israeli developed and produced battle tank Merkava was first introduced to the IDF forces.Israel source
1979April – Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan opened its factories in Shah Alam, Selangor.Malaysia source
1979May 24 – Thorpe Park: Opens its doors having attractions such as Phantom Fantasia also next door had a farm called Thorpe Farmsource
1979May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.source
1979June 23 – New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway in Sydney. It operates as a shuttle between Central and Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.source
1979July 1 – The Sony Walkman goes on sale for the first time in Japan.source
1979August 11 – The Machchu-2 dam in Morbi, India, collapses, killing between 1800 and 25000 people in one of the worst ever dam failures.source
1979September 30 – The MTR in Hong Kong begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System, the Kwun Tong Line.source
1979October 1 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.source
1979October 9 – Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record six laps, with a lap record on the last lap.source
197910 October – The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.Finland source
197915 October – The first automated teller machine (ATM) in Singapore is launched.Singapore source
1979October 20 – The first McDonald's in Singapore opens at Liat Towers in Orchard Road.source
1979November 16 – Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).source
1979November 29 – After 12 years of environmental controversy and legal action, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam project is completed. It remains the last dam to be built by the agency as of 2023.source
1979December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.source
1979The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.source
1979NBC introduces a new version of its famous peacock, used in conjunction with the 1975-style N, for the Fall season.source
1979Domestic football: Team BJMC won 1979 Dhaka First Division League title, while Abahani KC came out runners-up.Bangladesh source
1979Museo Rufino Tamayo in Oaxaca opens.Mexico source
1980January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.source
19801 February – The opening of Dong-ao Station, Hanben Station and Wuta Station of Taiwan Railways Administration in Nan'ao Township, Yilan County.Taiwan source
1980March 28 – The Talpiot Tomb is discovered by construction workers in Jerusalem.source
198010 April – Andy Ram, Israeli tennis playerIsrael source
1980June 1 – The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN), is launched.source
1980June 23 – Tim Berners-Lee begins work on ENQUIRE, the system that will eventually lead to the creation of the World Wide Web in autumn 1990.source
198025: Prime minister Dries van Agt hands the 37 first inhabitants of Almere their house keys.Netherlands source
1980August 2 – Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the Bologna Centrale railway station in Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.source
1980August 7–31 – Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard in the Polish People's Republic.source
198031 August – Colour television launched in Sabah and Sarawak by Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)Malaysia source
1980September 5 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel, at 16.3 km, stretching from Göschenen to Airolo beneath the Gotthard Pass.source
1980September 30 – Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.source
1980October 14 – The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating American railroads.source
1980October 20 – In continuous production since 1962, the last MG MGB roadster rolls off the assembly line at the Abingdon-on-Thames (England) factory, ending production for the MG Cars marque.source
1980October - The religious show Ang Dating Daan starts its radio broadcast through DWWA.Philippines source
198017 December – A new ferry terminal will be built in Sentosa, which will be finished by September 1981.Singapore source
1980Mohammedan SC won 1980 Dhaka First Division League title, while Team BJMC came out runners-up.Bangladesh source
1980Work begins on the building of the Foyle Bridge in Derry.Northern Ireland source
1981January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.source
19812 March – The establishment of Construction and Planning Agency in Taipei.Taiwan source
19811 April – Daylight saving time was implemented for the first time in the USSRSoviet Union source
1981April 12: The Python roller-coaster is opened in the Efteling theme park.Netherlands source
1981April 15 – The first Coca-Cola bottling plant in China is opened.source
198122 April: The Israeli government indicates that it may be willing to back down from its controversial plans to takeover the Palestinian Jerusalem District Electricity Company.Palestine source
1981May – Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari project in the Amazon basin.source
1981June 18 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter makes its first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51), Nevada.source
1981June 20–21. First All-Polish meeting of independent publishers takes place in Warsaw. Among participating offices, are ABC (Kraków), Alternatywy (Gdańsk), 3 Maja (Warsaw), Krąg (Warsaw), Młoda Polska (Gdańsk), Spotkania (Lublin-Kraków-Warsaw), NOWa (Warsaw).Poland source
1981June 27 – The first game of paintball is played, in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States.source
1981July 9 – Donkey Kong is released in Japan by Nintendo, marking the first release in both the Donkey Kong and Mario series of games. The arcade game proves to be Nintendo's first major hit.source
1981August 1 – The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.source
1981August 9 – 1981 Major League Baseball strike ends in the United States, and Major League Baseball resumes with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.source
1981August 12 – The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.source
1981September 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, D.C.source
198117 September – The new Rajang Area Security Command (RASCOM) headquarters was officially opened in Sibu, Sarawak.Malaysia source
1981September 26 – The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.source
1981September 26 – The Sydney Tower opens to the public in Australia.source
1981September 27 – TGV high-speed rail service between Paris and Lyon, France, begins.source
1981Luxor AB presents the ABC 800 computer.source
1981Abahani KC won 1981 Dhaka First Division League title.Bangladesh source
1981Liberia's first ambassador to the People's Republic of China, John Daniel Cox, retires.Liberia source
1982January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).source
19821 January – The time zone in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore changed to GMT+08:00, and it has not changed since.Malaysia source
1982January 30 – The first computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year old Rich Skrenta, is found. It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk.source
1982February 19 - The Boeing 757 is flown for the first time.source
1982April 17: Utilities company Electra establishedCape Verde source
1982April – Syria closes its oil pipeline with Iraq causing significant decrease in Iraqi oil exports.Iraq source
1982May 2 – The Weather Channel airs on cable television in the United States as the first 24-hour all-weather network.source
1982May 6 - Thaksin bridge is opened by the King and Queen.Thailand source
1982May 21 – The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is established.source
1982May 30 – Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date, Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history.source
198227 June – The opening of Taitung Station in Taitung City, Taitung County.Taiwan source
1982July 23 – Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan, destroy bridges and kill 299.source
1982August 2 – The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system in Finland, opens to the general public.source
1982August 17 – The first compact discs (CDs) are produced in Germany.source
1982September 8: Dutch general election, 1982Netherlands source
1982October 1 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc (CD) player (model CDP-101).source
1982November 3 – A gasoline (petrol) tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.source
1982December 11 – Swedish pop group ABBA make their final public performance on the British TV programme The Late, Late Breakfast Show.source
1982December 26 – Time magazine's Man of the Year is given, for the first time to a non-human, the computer.source
1982Construction of Muuga Harbour was started.Estonia source
1982Pakistan builds its first workable nuclear device.Pakistan source
1983January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).source
1983January 27 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) in Japan, breaks through.source
1983February 5–6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Léna win the 24 Hours of Daytona automobile race in a Porsche 935.source
1983February 13 - The launching of Ang Iglesia ni Cristo the first religious program on MBS Channel 4 (now PTV-4).Philippines source
1983February 28 – The final episode of the TV series M*A*S*H, entitled Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, airs on CBS, to a total audience of 121.6 million.source
1983March 9 – The 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hull.source
1983April 15 – Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.source
1983April 18 – The Disney Channel launches in the United States.source
1983April 21 – John Glenn announces a presidential run.source
1983June 13 – The first worldwide mobile telephone, the Motorola DynaTAC, enters the market.source
1983June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.source
1983July 15 – Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.source
19831 August – The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation launches SBCtext on SBC 5 and SBC 8.Singapore source
198314 August – The 1983 Austrian Grand Prix is held at the Österreichring, and is won by Alain Prost in a Renault.Austria source
1983October 13 – The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States.source
1983October 25 – Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.source
198331 October – The opening of Guandu Bridge which links Taipei and New Taipei.Taiwan source
19831 December - Lao National Television is established.Laos source
1983Abahani KC won 1983 Dhaka First Division League title while Mohammedan SC became runner-up.Bangladesh source
1983Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tengku Ampuan AfzanMalaysia source
1983The first F-16 is inducted into the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).Pakistan source
1984January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States.source
1984February 17: the national airport authority, Aeroportos e Segurança Aérea, was establishedCape Verde source
1984April 15 – Pittsburgh Light Rail opens to the public.source
1984May 2 – South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam.source
1984May 5 – The Itaipu Dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, begins generating power; it is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.source
19845 May – Dayabumi, the famous landmark in Kuala Lumpur was opened.Malaysia source
1984May 14 – The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.source
1984June 22 – Virgin Atlantic makes its inaugural flight.source
198424 July – Arieh Sharon (born 1900), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli architect.Israel source
198427 July – The commissioning of first unit of Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant in Pingtung County.Taiwan source
198428 August - Gaddafi lays the foundation stone in Sarir area for the commencement of the construction of the Great Man-Made River Project.Libya source
1984October 9 – Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by Britt Allcroft broadcasts its first two episodes in the United Kingdom.source
198417 October - Foyle Bridge in Derry is officially opened, with the longest span in Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1984October 20 – Monterey Bay Aquarium is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.source
198431 October – Creative Technology launches a made-in-Singapore computer called the Cubic 99.Singapore source
1984November 9–11 – The first Hackers Conference is held.source
1984December 1 – The Light Rail Transit in Manila begins service with the opening of its southern segment, as the first rapid transit service in Southeast Asia.source
1984December 1 – Manila LRT Line 1 is opened.Philippines source
1984The Chrysler Corporation introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as "minivans". They are branded as the Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager.source
1985January 1 – The Internet's Domain Name System is created.source
198523 January – Teleantioquia launches as a television programadora.Colombia source
198521 February - 1985 Kuwaiti general electionKuwait source
1985April 1 – Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco, respectively.source
19852 April – The NTUC Pasir Ris Resort starts construction. When completed, the resort will have a wide array of recreational activities, supporting up to 1,400 people at any time. The resort is officially opened in 1988.Singapore source
19853 July - Thousands of Loyalists demonstrate against a proposed Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) decision to re-route a church parade away from the 'Tunnel' (the Catholic Obins Street) area of Portadown.Northern Ireland source
198510 July – The first Malaysian national car Proton Saga was officially launched by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad with the first cars coming off from the production line in July 9.Malaysia source
1985September 13 – Super Mario Bros by Nintendo, the start of the Mario series, officially comes out.source
1985September 22 – Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, for two weeks (22 Sep. – 5 Oct. 1985). The Pont Neuf Wrapped attracts three million visitors.source
1985October 18 – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America, helping revitalize the home video game industry after the video game crash of 1983.source
1985October 19 - The first Blockbuster store opened in Dallas, Texas.source
198519 October – The start of the construction to expand Yunlin Prison in Huwei Township, Yunlin County.Taiwan source
1985October 25 – The airline Emirates is established in Dubai and makes its first flight, to Karachi, Pakistan.source
1985November 6 – The Argentine tourist village of Villa Epecuén is permanently flooded through the collapse of a dam and dyke.source
1985November 8 – SM City North EDSA is opened as the first SM Supermall in the Philippines.Philippines source
1985November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first U.S. release of Windows 1.0, as version 1.01. International support comes with the release of Windows 1.02 in Europe in May 1986.source
1985The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the US.source
1985The LIII Legislature Congress of Mexico begins its inauguration.Mexico source
1986January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened.source
1986January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.source
1986February 25 – The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. The General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: Glasnost and Perestroika.source
198622 March – The P. Ramlee Memorial at Jalan Dedap, Taman P. Ramlee, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur was opened to the public.Malaysia source
1986April 21 – Lorimar-Telepictures launches as a mass media company.source
1986May 16 – Paramount Pictures releases Top Gun.source
198620 May – The designing of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus starts.Soviet Union source
1986June 7 - Washington DC metro opens Falls Church, Vienna, and Dunn Loring train stations on the Orange line.source
1986June 23 – Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software.source
1986August 6 – A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 mm of rain in a day on Sydney.source
1986August 21 – A power failure hits Metro Manila and most of Luzon at evening, which is purportedly caused by a malfunction at the Ambuklao hydroelectric plant in Benguet. Power in most areas of the capital is restored overnight, but remains disrupted in the rest of Luzon by early morning of the following day.Philippines source
1986October 3 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens at Chalk River Laboratories.source
19863 October – Raffles City, a mixed-use development, is officially opened. During the opening, several proposals to revamp tourism attractions are announced, including upgrading Haw Par Villa, enhancing historic areas like Chinatown and Bugis, a heritage link in the city, revamp of Sentosa and Fort Canning Park, and hosting more sports and cultural events.Singapore source
19866 October – TRT 2, the second TV channel, starts airing.Turkey source
1986October 9 – News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the Fox Broadcasting Company.source
198623 October – The beginning of experimental broadcasts of the Israeli Channel 2.Israel source
1986October 30 – The National Park Passport Stamps program begins in the United States.source
1986November – Giant's Causeway and the Causeway Coast is included in the first tranche of UNESCO World Heritage Sites designated in the UKNorthern Ireland source
1986The first commercially available 3D printer is sold.source
1986Jardim Botânico Nacional Grandvaux Barbosa, Cape Verde's only botanical garden was created.Cape Verde source
1987January 4 – Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home."source
1987March 2 – TV Patrol was launched as its first flagship evening newscast replacing the former flagship national news program Balita Ngayon.Philippines source
19877 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.India source
1987March 17 – Three explosions damage the railway line between Newcastle and Johannesburg.South Africa source
1987March 31 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, conducts a 45-minute interview on Soviet television.source
1987April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.source
1987May 27 – In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the Golden Gate Bridge and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.source
1987June 1: Asahi TV starts broadcasting the popular short factual television programme See the World by Train (世界の車窓から)Japan source
1987June 13 – At the Paris Air Show, Boeing announces the sale of their 1,842nd Boeing 737, making the 737 the best-selling airliner of all time.source
1987July 25 – The East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway in the North West of England, is opened between Bury and Ramsbottom.source
1987July 31 – Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II.source
1987July - Air travel and telephone links are re-established between Tunisia and Libya after being paused since 1985.Libya source
1987July – Opening of the Petronas petroleum and gas refinery in Kerteh, Terengganu.Malaysia source
1987August 4 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on controversial issues.source
1987August 11 – Apple introduces Hypercard, a precursor to the World Wide Web.source
1987August 15 – Great Basin National Park is dedicated; it is the 49th national park in the United States and the first in the state of Nevada.source
1987September 1 – Honda announces plans to build a second U.S. assembly plant, the East Liberty Auto Plant.source
1987November 1 – The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238 km/h (147.88 mph).source
1987November 7 – Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.source
1987November 22 – Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion – unknown perpetrators hijack the signal of WGN-TV for about 20 seconds, and WTTW for about 90 seconds, and displays a video of a man in a Max Headroom mask.source
1987December 1 – NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.source
19875 December - Downpatrick & Ardglass Railway begins public operation, the first Irish gauge heritage railway in Ireland.Northern Ireland source
198712 December – The second section of the MRT was opened, stretching from Novena to Outram Park.Singapore source
1988January 1 – The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).source
198812 March – The MRT system is officially opened, with the opening of a new section from Tiong Bahru to Clementi.Singapore source
198818 June – The Saint Esprit Tunnel in Luxembourg City is officially opened.Luxembourg source
198822 June – Omri Casspi, the first Israeli basketball player in the NBA.Israel source
1988July 3 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.source
19883 July – Second bridge over the Bosporus opens.Turkey source
1988July – Opening of the Sultan Ismail Power Station in Paka, Terengganu, the largest power station in Malaysia.Malaysia source
19887 October – The Russian tricolor is raised openly for the first time in the Soviet Union during a demonstration in Leningrad.Soviet Union source
198819 October - Broadcasting ban against Sinn Féin and other paramilitary linked groups begins.Northern Ireland source
1988November 7 – The Tower of Power transmitter was inaugurated by President Aquino and GMA Network board of directors following the transmitter's opening and a musical special.Philippines source
1988November – TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed. This led to more robust connections between the American and European Internet.source
1988Near the end of the year, the first proper and official intercontinental Internet connection between North America (through the National Science Foundation Network) and Europe (through NORDUnet) is permanently established between Princeton, New Jersey, United States, and Stockholm, Sweden.source
1989January 1 – The New York Times discloses involvement of West German company Imhausen and Salzgitter AG in building a chemical weapon plant in Rabta, Libya.source
1989January 11 – The Lexus and Infiniti luxury car brands are launched at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit with the unveiling of the 1990 Lexus LS and Infiniti Q45 sedans.source
1989February 5 – Eurosport, a multiple-language sports broadcasting station in Europe, begins broadcasting, from Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France.source
19898 March – Proton Saga Knight, the first Rally, Race, Research (R3) sports car was launched at Batu Tiga Circuit, Shah Alam.Malaysia source
19898 March – The establishment of EVA Air.Taiwan source
1989April 21 – The Nintendo Game Boy has its first official release in Japansource
1989April 25 – Motorola introduces the Motorola MicroTAC personal cellular telephone, the world's smallest mobile phone at this time.source
1989April 26: The Dragon Ball Z anime series starts on Fuji TV.Japan source
1989May 2 – The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles 240 km of barbed wire fencing along the border with Austria.source
1989May 3 – Cold War: Perestroika – The first McDonald's restaurant in the USSR begins construction in Moscow. It will open on January 31, 1990.source
1989May 25 – The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens four games to two to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup in ice hockey.source
1989June 3 – The world's first high-definition television (test) broadcasts commence in Japan, in analogue.source
1989June 4 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.source
1989July 17 – The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber makes its first flight, in the United States.source
1989August 8 — The Ministry of Gas Industry changes Gazprom, an energy production and sales organization to a state-run enterprise.Soviet Union source
1989August 24 – Indonesia's first commercial television network, RCTI (stands for Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia), is established, and went on air for the first time.source
1989August – Gazprom, an energy production and sales organization in Russia, becomes state-run enterprise, changing from the Soviet Ministry of Gas Industry.source
1989A group of 15 former top officials and military officers, having formed what they call a third force to try to bridge the gap between Kabul and the guerrillas, issues a manifesto calling for an end to both Soviet and U.S. interference. Calling themselves the National Salvation Society, most of them served the deposed King Zahir Shah, and the government does not oppose the group because it might help lure the 74-year-old former monarch home from exile in Italy. The king is still a popular figure in Afghanistan, and his return might lend Najibullah the legitimacy he seeks at home and abroad. The king's return might also fracture the squabbling rebel alliance, since the leaders of the seven Pakistan-based rebel groups range from bitter antimonarchists to former palace advisers.Afghanistan source
19894 November – The sixth section of the MRT system is opened from Marina Bay to Tanah Merah.Singapore source
1989November 9 – Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: East German official Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect "immediately". Late this evening, East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades. In the first week, travel visas will be issued to around 25% of the East German population. One of several significant events on 9 November in German history.source
1989November – The first commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America is made, by The World STD.source
1989December 22 – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is reopened.source
1989HAVK Mladost became champion of Yugoslavia in water polo.Croatia source
1989Music group Café Tacuba is founded.Mexico source
1990January 1 – The first Internet companies catering to commercial users, PSINet and EUnet begin selling Internet access to commercial customers in the United States and Netherlands respectively.source
1990January 10 – McDonnell Douglas MD-11 wide-body trijet airliner takes its first flight, in the US.source
1990January 15 – Martin Luther King Day Crash: Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.source
1990March 27 – The United States begins broadcasting Radio y Televisión Martí to Cuba.source
199016 April - The Doi Luang National Park, covering areas in Chiang Rai, Lampang, and Phayao provinces, was inaugurated.Thailand source
19906 May – More than 1,200,000 people form a human chain along the Prut River, on a length of 700 km. For six hours, Romanians were allowed to cross the Prut River in the Moldavian SSR without passports and visas.Romania source
1990June 1 – Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.source
1990On June 7 Universal Studios Florida opens to the public along with Nickelodeon Studios.source
1990August 1 – RELCOM is created in the Soviet Union by combining several computer networks. Later in August, the Soviet Union got its first connection to the Internet.source
1990August 24 – Indonesian commercial television network SCTV was established as the nation's third television station after RCTI, and also debuted as local television channel in Surabaya. During its earlier days, SCTV was the rival for RCTI, the first commercial television network. SCTV began broadcasting nationwide from Jakarta by January 29, 1991.source
1990September 10 – The first Pizza Hut opens up in the Soviet Union.source
1990September 11 – First Pizza Hut opens in the People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened there in 1987.source
19908 October – The inauguration of the current Taipei City Council building at Xinyi District, Taipei.Taiwan source
1990October 10 — National postal service Hrvatska pošta (Croatian Post) established.Croatia source
1990October 15 – South Africa ends segregation of libraries, trains, buses, toilets, swimming pools, and other public facilities.source
1990October 15 – United Airlines announces a purchase order of 128 wide-body aircraft from Boeing, including several Boeing 777s, in an order totaling $22 billion, the largest order in aviation history to that point.source
1990October 24 – Soviet nuclear testsSoviet Union source
1990October 30 – The first transatlantic fiber optic cable TAT-8 fails, causing a slowdown of Internet traffic between the United States and Europe.source
1990Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what would become the Web concept.source
19903 November – Construction starts on bridges linking mainland Singapore to Sentosa and Pulau Brani, which will be completed by 1992.Singapore source
1990November 13 – The first known web page is written.source
1990November – The earliest known portable digital camera sold in the United States ships.source
1990December 1 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.source
1990December Unknown date – A first convenience store retail GS25 (then LG25) open in downtown Seoul.South Korea source
1990The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics began operating.Cyprus source
1991February 20 – Python, a programming language created by Guido van Rossum, Is released.source
199111 April – Thiago Alcântara, footballerSpain source
1991April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time in history, at 3,004.46.source
1991May – Eritrean Airlines was founded.Eritrea source
19916 June – The Civil Defence Academy starts construction. When completed in 1995, the S$63 million complex spanning nine-hectares will train Singapore Civil Defence Force officers, as well as offer computer simulations.Singapore source
1991July 1 – The world's first GSM telephone call is made in Finland.source
1991July 1 – In the U.S., telephone services go down in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San Francisco as a result of a software bug, affecting nearly 12 million customers.source
19911 July – The maiden flight of EVA Air.Taiwan source
1991August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist working at CERN, announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The first website, "info.cern.ch", is created.source
1991August 25 – Linus Torvalds posts messages to the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix, regarding the new operating system kernel he has developed, called Linux.source
1991October – RTL broadcasts the first ever daily news programme in Luxembourgish.Luxembourg source
1991November 9 – The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.source
19919 December – SBS Television, a major nationwide television station, starts official regular broadcasting service.South Korea source
1991December 19 – Skarnsund Bridge opens in Norway, becoming the world's longest cable-stayed bridge for two years with a span of 530 m.source
1991The first TVyNovelas Awards Colombia are held.Colombia source
1991The Namibia Press Association was renamed to the Namibia Press Agency.Namibia source
19921 January – Radio Luxembourg shuts down its English language terrestrial signal on 208 MW.Luxembourg source
199212 January – Lahore-Islamabad motorway project launched.Pakistan source
199218 March - In a radio broadcast from Kabul, Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah indicated his readiness to step down. UN envoy Benon Sevan reportedly influenced Najibullah's decision to make this statement.Afghanistan source
1992April 6 – Windows 3.1 is released to manufacturers by Microsoft.source
19929 April – The garden exhibition Floriade 1992 opensNetherlands source
1992April 30 – Brčko bridge massacre: around 100 Croat and Bosniak civilians are blown up while crossing the bridge across the Sava in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.source
19925 October – The opening of Central Signal Station of Taiwan Railways Administration in Shizi Township, Pingtung County.Taiwan source
199224 December - Duna TV channel is launched.Hungary source
1992The Old Boots sculpture in Cartagena is demolished for the construction of the Heredia Bridge.Colombia source
1992Work starts on the Basra Water Canal and the Haditha Dam Reservoir Projects.Iraq source
1993January 11 – WWE introduce their television program, Monday Night Raw.source
1993January 30 – The Red Line (later known as the B Line) officially begins service in Los Angeles, becoming the first underground rapid transit line to open in almost 70 years.source
1993April – Telefónica Romania, the first mobile phone operator in Romania, launches the Telemobil service.Romania source
1993June 29 – The first mobile phone call was made in Greece, marking the launch of mobile telephony services in the country by Telestet (now NOVA).source
19936–14 June – Tajikistan takes part in the 1993 ECO Cup in Tehran.Tajikistan source
19934 July: Argentina defeats Mexico 2-1 to win the 1993 Copa America and their fourteenth Copa America title.Argentina source
199318 August – The 14th-century Kapellbrücke covered wooden truss bridge in Lucerne is largely destroyed by fire.Switzerland source
199321 September – Ngee Ann City is officially opened.Singapore source
1993September 25 – The Nipah Dam incident: Indonesian security forces shoot and kill four protesters opposing the construction of a dam.source
1993Early October – The national government tentatively agrees to drop fraud charges against Westinghouse Electric Corporation in exchange for power-generating equipment, in an effort to end a decade-long dispute over a nuclear power plant which was eventually mothballed after the ouster of President Marcos. Earlier in May, the company has been cleared of charges of bribery in relation to the contract with the Marcos administration.Philippines source
1993November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.source
1993November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari Most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.source
199320 November – AirAsia, Malaysia's first low-cost carrier was established.Malaysia source
19931993 Caribbean Series played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán.Mexico source
1994January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.source
19941 February - Radio Singapore International (RSI) is launched as Singapore's first international shortwave radio station.Singapore source
1994February – Proton Saga Iswara cars are used as taxicabs in Kuala Lumpur, replacing Isuzu taxicabs.Malaysia source
19941 March – The opening of the civil section of Kinmen Airport in Kinmen County.Taiwan source
1994March 2 – 18 – Charles L. Abernethy visits the country to write a report for the International Irrigation Management Institute.Burkina Faso source
1994March 29 – The Philippines gets connected to the Internet. The Philippine Network Foundation (PHNet) connected the country to Sprint in the United States via a 64 kbit/s link.Philippines source
1994March – China gets its first connection to the Internet.source
1994May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.source
19943 June - Sections of the A13 motorway between Sanem and Lankelz and Esch-sur-Alzette and Schifflange open.Luxembourg source
1994June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.source
1994c. August – Pizza Hut becomes the first restaurant to offer online food ordering, in California.source
1994September 16 – Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.source
1994November 6 – Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.source
1994November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.source
1994November 14 – The first Eurostar train passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.source
1994December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.source
1994December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.source
1994Baghdad tower, a landmark of the city of Baghdad is opened to the public. Work on the tower started in 1991 and stalled due to being damaged during the Gulf war and the subsequent sanctions.Iraq source
1994Bienvenido-Welcome of Gabriel RetesMexico source
1995February 16: Correios de Cabo Verde established after the dissolution of Empresa Pública dos Correios e TelecomunicaçöesCape Verde source
1995March 1 – Yonhap Television News was official start on broadcasting for 24-hours news channel.South Korea source
199528 March – The start of Muzha Refuse Incineration Plant commercial operation in Wenshan District, Taipei.Taiwan source
1995April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatized system.source
19953 May - The launch of the first Internet network at the Azerbaijan National Academy of SciencesAzerbaijan source
199521 June - The A3 motorway extension from Croix de Gasperich to Bonnevoie, in Luxembourg City, opens.Luxembourg source
1995August 24 – Microsoft releases Windows 95 to the public.source
199511 November – The Bilbao Metro begins operation.Spain source
1995The first SampTA conference for mathematicians, engineers and applied scientists is held in Riga, Latvia.source
1995Pacific Access, a supply chain management and an engineering services company is founded.Hong Kong source
1995Pakistan invests in the private sector to boost power production.Pakistan source
19961 January – The inauguration of the new Penghu Great Bridge in Penghu County.Taiwan source
1996April 1 – The Halifax Regional Municipality encompassing the City of Halifax, the City of Dartmouth, the Town of Bedford, and the Municipality of the County of Halifax is formed in Nova Scotia, Canada.source
199617 April – President Ion Iliescu and prime minister of Canada Jean Chretien inaugurate the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant.Romania source
1996July 5 – Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.source
19963 August – A widespread power outage in Peninsular Malaysia began at 5:17pm. The states of Peninsular Malaysia including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Putrajaya, Johor, Melaka, and Negeri Sembilan lost power for several hours. A transmission line near Sultan Ismail Power Station in Paka, Terengganu tripped at 5:17pm causing all power stations in Peninsular Malaysia to collapse resulting in a massive power failure. Supply was back to normal by 11:00pm. After this blackout, utility giant Tenaga Nasional's stock fell considerably.Malaysia source
1996August 21 – In the UK, Queen Elizabeth II issues letters patent on divorced former wives of British princes, taking away from the ex-wives the attribute and style of Royal Highness. With that Sarah, Duchess of York as well as Diana, Princess of Wales legally cease to be Royals, but they remain as non-royal Duchess and Princess.source
1996August 28 – Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales, due to the Queen's letters patent issued a week earlier.source
199624 September – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace. This sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days, 16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinians were killed in the riots.Palestine source
19961 October - Radio station Belfast CityBeat begins broadcasting.Northern Ireland source
19962 December – The Government announced the building of Terminal 3 in Changi Airport to handle more passengers, with completion initially targeted by 2004. However, several crises have delayed the project, which started operating on 9 January 2008. An airport hotel is also considered for travellers, which is ultimately built as Crowne Plaza Changi Airport.Singapore source
1996December 4 – In Kabul, Afghanistan, Radio Shariat (Radio Islamic Law) announced that women should be covered from head to foot.Afghanistan source
1996The Eritrean Telecommunication Services Corporation was founded.Eritrea source
1997January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.source
199715 January – The proceeds of the first Iraqi sale of oil are deposited at a special UN account as part of the Oil-for-Food Programme.Iraq source
19971 February – The Poznań Fast Tram was opened.Poland source
1997May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.source
1997May 21 – Radiohead releases OK Computersource
1997May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.source
1997May: National television channel TCV was establishedCape Verde source
1997August 13 – Trey Parker and Matt Stone's animated television comedy series, South Park, started broadcasting with the first episode, Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, on Comedy Central.source
1997August 29 – Netflix, Inc. is founded as a DVD-by-mail rental service.source
1997October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.source
19971 November – Thai Sky TV Station Broadcasting ceased at 6:00 AM.Thailand source
1997November 9 – BBC News 24 has launched a new channel at 5:30pm, after the final closedown with the last national anthem of God Save the Queen, which occurred at approximately 2:57am for BBC One, following the death of Lady Diana Spencer.source
1997November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.source
19971 December – The Palestinian Information Center news website is established in Arabic.Palestine source
199730 December – The Antonio Escobar Camargo bridge between Zambrano, Bolívar and Plato, Magdalena, the longest viaduct in the country, opens.Colombia source
1997Abahani Ltd. won the title of Bangladesh Federation Cup while Arambagh KS became runner-up.Bangladesh source
1997Ukrainian Processing Center is founded.Ukraine source
19982 February - All ferry routes from Jordan Road Ferry Pier were open.Hong Kong source
1998February 20 – The Nashville Banner publishes its last issue; the newspaper ceases operation after 122 years.source
1998April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.6 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.source
19988 April – the headquarters of BALTRON minesweeping squadron was opened in Tallinn.Estonia source
1998May 11 – Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti): India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device.source
1998May 15 – The Windows 98 operating system is released to manufacturing.source
1998June 12 – The 1995 Stock is used on the Northern line in London.source
199823 June – Bangabandhu Bridge, the longest multipurpose bridge in Bangladesh, is inaugurated by the prime minister.Bangladesh source
199810 July – Caracol Televisión and RCN Televisión are both launched as television networks.Colombia source
1998July 21–September 5 – 1998 Sydney water crisis: suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney, Australia.source
199823 September – Helios Airways, the first independent, privately owned airline in the country, was founded.Cyprus source
1998October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.source
199826 October – 1998 Indonesia Open starts.Indonesia source
1998November 19 – Valve Corporation releases their first-person shooter video game Half-Life to critical acclaim. The game would be deemed one of the most influential titles of its genre, and one of the greatest video games of all time.source
199824 November – The Yasser Arafat International Airport opens.Palestine source
1998Cabo Verde Express airline establishedCape Verde source
19998 January – United States officials admit to using UNSCOM to collect intelligence against the Iraqi government.Iraq source
199918 January – Over 10,000 miners begin a march to Bucharest.Romania source
1999March 24 – A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.source
1999June 1 – Napster, a music downloading service, is created; it would later inspire other file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, LimeWire, Gnutella, Kazaa, Morpheus, BearShare, and ΜTorrent 1999–2010 period which some called the "Second Golden Age of Piracy".source
1999June 2 – The King of Bhutan allows television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time, coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee.source
1999July 15 – T-Mobile Park (formerly known as Safeco Field) opens for the first time.source
1999August 26 – WWE introduce their secondary program, SmackDown, which started its broadcast on UPN.source
1999September 3 - ProTV Chișinău is established.Moldova source
199911 November – The opening of Xindian Line of Taipei Metro.Taiwan source
1999November 19: Wie is de Mol? was first broadcast on Dutch television.Netherlands source
1999December 1:NTN Entertainment founded, as predecessor name was Hangame Communication.South Korea source
1999See :Category:1999 in Spanish televisionSpain source
1999The Sierre Tunnel opens in the canton of Valais.Switzerland source