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Year

1940s

1947 Kenneth Arnold's UFO sighting sparks the "flying saucer" craze 1 item

1950s

1952 Accession of Queen Elizabeth II 3 items 1954 Elvis records "That's All Right" at Sun Studio 3 items 1955 Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's franchise 2 items 1957 Sputnik 1 launched, dawn of the space age 1 item 1958 NASA founded 3 items 1959 Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy 3 items

1960s

1960 Hitchcock's Psycho premieres 1 item 1961 Yuri Gagarin, first human in space 2 items 1962 Andy Warhol exhibits Campbell's Soup Cans, his first pop-art show 3 items 1963 MLK delivers "I Have a Dream" speech 6 items 1964 IBM announces the System/360 mainframe 6 items 1965 The Beatles are awarded MBEs by the Queen 6 items 1966 Star Trek premieres on television 6 items 1967 The Doors release their debut album 9 items 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres 23 items 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing 30 items

1970s

1970 Simon & Garfunkel release "Bridge Over Troubled Water" 51 items 1971 Intel releases the 4004 microprocessor 73 items 1972 The Godfather premieres 68 items 1973 Skylab, first US space station, launched 57 items 1974 Rubik's Cube invented 51 items 1975 Microsoft founded 57 items 1976 Concorde begins supersonic passenger service 41 items 1977 Star Wars premieres 39 items 1978 Grease tops the box office 28 items 1979 Sony Walkman released 28 items

1980s

1980 Pac-Man arcade game released 23 items 1981 MTV launches 17 items 1982 Compact Disc format launched commercially 18 items 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP, birth of the internet 19 items 1984 Apple Macintosh launched 23 items 1985 Live Aid concert 10 items 1986 Voyager 2 flies by Uranus 9 items 1987 Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech 24 items 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics 16 items 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 16 items

1990s

1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison 18 items 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union 36 items 1992 Maastricht Treaty forms the European Union 27 items 1993 World Wide Web released into the public domain 23 items 1994 Mandela elected President, end of apartheid 24 items 1995 Dayton Accords end the Bosnian War 22 items 1996 Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal 20 items 1997 Handover of Hong Kong to China 22 items 1998 Good Friday Agreement 10 items 1999 Euro currency introduced 31 items

2000s

2000 Y2K and the turn of the millennium 23 items 2001 Wikipedia launches 41 items 2002 Euro banknotes and coins enter circulation 30 items 2003 Human Genome Project completed 21 items 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 16 items 2005 Hurricane Katrina 21 items 2006 Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet 22 items 2007 iPhone launched 18 items 2008 Obama elected first Black US President 5 items 2009 Death of Michael Jackson 33 items

2010s

2010 33 Chilean miners rescued 13 items 2011 South Sudan becomes independent 23 items 2012 London Summer Olympics 13 items 2013 Pope Francis elected 10 items 2014 Philae lander touches down on a comet 25 items 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change adopted 11 items 2016 Brexit referendum 29 items 2017 Great American total solar eclipse 23 items 2018 SpaceX Falcon Heavy's first launch 29 items 2019 First-ever image of a black hole released 14 items

2020s

2020 COVID-19 pandemic declared 17 items 2021 Global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines 16 items 2022 James Webb Space Telescope's first images 22 items 2023 Coronation of King Charles III 23 items 2024 Paris Summer Olympics 30 items 2025 Second inauguration of Donald Trump 52 items 2026 tbc 10 items