History
Indian Independence
August 15, 1947
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin (1961)
First man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong (1969)
Berlin Wall fell
November 9, 1989
Cold War period
1947-1991
End of Apartheid in South Africa
1994
Fall of the Soviet Union
1991
Launch of the European Union (EU)
1993 (Treaty of Maastricht)
Science & Technology
NASA established
July 29, 1958
NASA Headquarters
Washington, D.C., USA
First successful Moon landing
Apollo 11, July 20, 1969
First human to walk on the Moon
Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11)
First artificial satellite
Sputnik 1 (1957, USSR)
India's first satellite
Aryabhata (1975)
First manned mission to Mars
NASA's Mars mission in 2020
First vaccine developed
Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner (1796)
Global Positioning System (GPS) launched
1995
First human genome sequenced
2003
Culture & Society
Largest religion in the world
Christianity
Second largest religion in the world
Islam
Largest Muslim population
Indonesia
Largest Hindu population
India
First Olympic Games
776 BC, Greece
Most-watched television event in history
Super Bowl
First film made
The Horse in Motion (1887)
World's oldest university
University of Al-Qarawiyyin, Morocco (859 AD)
Longest-running Broadway show
The Phantom of the Opera
Best-selling book series
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Environment
Largest clean energy producer
China
First climate change treaty
Kyoto Protocol (1997)
Global warming mitigation agreement
Paris Agreement (2015)
Largest forest area
Russia
Global plastic pollution problem
8 million tons dumped into oceans yearly
Biggest source of freshwater
The Amazon River
World's largest renewable energy producer
China
Global carbon dioxide emission leader
China
Number of endangered species globally
Over 28,000