What important events happened in 1901-1966's?

Answer 1

1903 : First controlled flight of an aircraft that is heavier-than-air; by Wright brothers

1905 : Einstein's Special Relativity theory published

1914 : First World War (WW I) broke out in Balkans of Europe

1916 : Einstein's General relativity theory published

1917 : Russian revolution and establishing a Communist state, USSR

1918 : End of WW I; dismemberment of Ottoman Empire leaving Anatolia (Asia minor) as remnant of Turkish Republic; break-up of Austro-Hungarian Empire setting many nations free; end of German Empire & Treaty of Versailles

1924 : de Broglie waves proposed as part of Qauntum theory

1926 : Sommerfeld's Qauntum mechanical model tom was for published (and many more Scientific discoveries that got Nobel prizes for their authors, too numerous)

1938 : Spanish Civil War and Dictatorship of Gen.Franco in Spain

1939 : WW II started

1944 : Bretton Wood twins, 'International Monetary Fund' and 'International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)', which today is part of the World Bank Group were formed

1945 : Germany defeated; Japan (first ever) nuclear bombed culminating in its defeat; end of WW II; Germany was partitioned between the allies (USA, UK, France & USSR) and the western portion (of USA, UK & France) formed into Federal Germany (FDR)

1945 : UN founded (it replaced League of Nations)

*Many dozens of countries got independence - Indonesia (1945), India & Pakistan (1947), Burma & Ceylon (SriLanka) in 1948 and so on till late sixties (1960s)

1948 : Israel came into existence on Palestinian land

1949 : Communist take over of mainland China

1952 : First Hydrogen Bomb tested by USA at Bikini Atoll; it started a nuclear weapons race between USA & USSR in the already-in-progress 'Cold War'

1953 : Non-aligned conference at Bandung, Indonesia in which two dozen countries participated; China was the leading participant along with Soekarno (Indonesia), Tito (Yugoslavia), JL Nehru (India), Nasser (Egypt)

1954 : First Transistor (Silicon) was made (by Gordon Teal; Texas Instruments) that started the Solid State device revolution in miniature Electronics paving the way for future Electronics

1957 : Man launches the first artificial satellite (USSR launched 'Sputnik')

1957 : Laser - Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow (Bell Labs) began a serious study of the infrared laser. As ideas developed, they concentrated upon visible light (Optical Maser; Maser being an earlier development in 1953).

1960 : First 'Field Effect Transistor' (FET) was made (Kahng and Atalla at Bell Labs in 1960) that made a host of devices possible (watches, calculators, displays, computers and cell-phones are some leading examples)

1962 : World came to the brink of WW III when President Kennedy (USA) successfully quarantined Cuba, to prevent USSR missiles from reaching Cuba and to dismantle the ones aleardy there

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Answer 2

This time period was the lifespan of Walter Elias Disney.