🇺🇸 James Webb Space Telescope launched
An Ariane 5 rocket launched the James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana.
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2019
🇺🇸 First image of a black hole
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released the first direct image of a black hole, at the center of galaxy M87.
2016
🇺🇸 First direct detection of gravitational waves
The LIGO collaboration announced the detection of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger.
2015
🇫🇷 Paris Agreement
On Dec 12, 2015, 196 nations adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change, the first universal, legally binding global climate deal.
2012
🇺🇸 Curiosity rover lands on Mars
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission successfully landed the Curiosity rover in Gale crater.
🇨🇭 Discovery of the Higgs boson
ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
2003
🇺🇸 Human Genome Project completed
The international Human Genome Project announced completion of the human genome sequence, two years ahead of schedule.
1994
🇿🇦 South Africa’s first democratic election
The first elections in which citizens of all races could vote ended apartheid and inaugurated Nelson Mandela as president.
1990
🇺🇸 Hubble Space Telescope launched
NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.
🇿🇦 Release of Nelson Mandela
On Feb 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years of incarceration, ushering in negotiations to end apartheid.
1989
🇩🇪 Fall of the Berlin Wall
On Nov 9, 1989, East Germany opened its borders and crowds began dismantling the Berlin Wall, symbolising the end of the Cold War division of Europe.
🇨🇭 World Wide Web proposed at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee circulated his proposal "Information Management: A Proposal" at CERN, sketching what would become the World Wide Web.
1977
🇺🇸 UN International Women’s Day proclaimed
The UN General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as International Women’s Day for women’s rights and world peace.
1970
🇺🇸 First Earth Day
Twenty million Americans joined teach-ins and demonstrations, launching the modern environmental movement.
1969
🇺🇸 Apollo 11 Moon Landing
On Jul 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Watched live by an estimated 600 million people worldwide.
1964
🇺🇸 US Civil Rights Act signed
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
1963
🇺🇸 "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
1961
🇷🇺 First human in space
Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1, becoming the first human in outer space.
1957
🇷🇺 Launch of Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit.
1955
🇺🇸 Salk polio vaccine declared effective
Field-trial results showed Jonas Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine to be safe and effective.
1953
🇬🇧 Discovery of DNA’s double helix
Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin’s work on DNA was published in Nature, revealing the double-helix structure.
1950
🇫🇷 Schuman Declaration
French foreign minister Robert Schuman proposed pooling French and German coal and steel production, the founding act of European integration.
1948
🇫🇷 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On Dec 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — the foundation of international human rights law. Observed worldwide as Human Rights Day.
1947
🇮🇳 Independence of India
India gained independence from the United Kingdom and adopted its own dominion status.
1945
🇺🇸 United Nations Day
On Oct 24, 1945, the United Nations Charter came into force, marking the formal founding of the UN. Celebrated annually as United Nations Day.
🇰🇷 광복절
1945년 8월 15일, 일본 제국이 항복하면서 한국이 35년간의 식민 지배에서 해방되었다. 매년 8월 15일은 국가 공휴일로 기념된다.
1928
🇬🇧 Discovery of penicillin
Alexander Fleming noticed that a Penicillium mold inhibited bacterial growth in a Petri dish at St Mary’s Hospital.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom equal franchise
The Representation of the People Act 1928 extended voting rights to all women aged 21 and over on equal terms with men.
1914
🇵🇦 Panama Canal opens
The Panama Canal opened to ship traffic, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1911
🇳🇴 First expedition to reach the South Pole
Roald Amundsen and four companions became the first humans to reach the geographic South Pole.
1905
🇩🇪 Einstein publishes E=mc²
Albert Einstein’s paper "Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?" introduced mass-energy equivalence.
1903
🇺🇸 First powered, controlled flight
The Wright brothers made the first sustained, powered, heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1895
🇫🇷 First public film screening
The Lumière brothers held the first commercial public screening of projected motion pictures at the Grand Café in Paris.
🇩🇪 Discovery of X-rays
Wilhelm Röntgen observed a new kind of radiation while experimenting with cathode-ray tubes.
1893
🇳🇿 New Zealand grants women’s suffrage
New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant all adult women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
1885
🇫🇷 Pasteur’s first rabies vaccination
Louis Pasteur successfully administered his experimental rabies vaccine to nine-year-old Joseph Meister.
1879
🇺🇸 Edison’s practical incandescent light bulb
Thomas Edison successfully tested a carbon-filament lamp that burned continuously for over 13 hours.
1876
🇺🇸 First telephone call
Alexander Graham Bell made the first intelligible telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson.
1869
🇪🇬 Suez Canal opens
The Suez Canal opened to shipping, connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
1865
🇺🇸 US Thirteenth Amendment ratified
The amendment abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States was ratified by the required states.
1859
🇬🇧 On the Origin of Species published
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species introduced evolution by natural selection to a broad readership.
1822
🇫🇷 Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphs
Jean-François Champollion announced the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphic script using the Rosetta Stone.
🇧🇷 Independence of Brazil
Prince Pedro declared Brazil’s independence from Portugal beside the Ipiranga river.
1814
🇳🇴 Constitution of Norway signed
Delegates signed the Constitution of Norway at Eidsvoll, establishing one of the oldest written constitutions still in use.
1810
🇲🇽 Mexican Cry of Independence
Father Miguel Hidalgo issued the Grito de Dolores, beginning the Mexican War of Independence.
1789
🇫🇷 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The French National Constituent Assembly adopted a foundational document defining individual and collective rights.
🇫🇷 Storming of the Bastille
The Bastille fortress was stormed by Parisian revolutionaries, marking the symbolic start of the French Revolution.
1776
🇺🇸 United States Declaration of Independence
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, formally announcing the separation of thirteen colonies from Britain.
1687
🇬🇧 Newton’s Principia published
Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, setting out the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1543
🇵🇱 Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus
Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric model of the solar system was published shortly before his death.
1446
🇰🇷 한글날
1446년 10월 9일 (음력 9월), 세종대왕이 훈민정음을 반포하였다. 1926년부터 기념해 온 한글의 날.