A century in five minutes

Main article in: . http://empollonintegrista.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/siglo/ More things like this in my blog: . http://empollonintegrista.wordpress.com/ Music: Marche triomphante, Aida, Giuseppe Verdi. Slavonic dance nº7,Antonín Dvořák. Each year: 1900 - Boxers' rebellion. 1901 - Queen Victoria's death. 1902 - Mount Pelee eruption. 1903 - Wright brothers' flight. 1904 - Russo-Japanese war. 1905 - Special relativity, by Albert Einstein. 1906 - San Francisco earthquake. 1907 - Rasputin meets the king. 1908 - Tunguska event. 1909 - R.E. Peary reaches the North Pole. 1910 - Comet Halley. 1911 - Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole. 1912 - The Titanic disaster. 1913 - The Panama Canal is finished. 1914 - Franz Ferdinand is killed. 1915 - First air combats. 1916 - Battle of the Somme. 1917 - Russian revolution. 1918 - End of World War I. 1919 - Spanish flu pandemic. 1920 - Al Capone begins to stand out in the crime scene. 1921 - Irland's independence. 1922 - Coup d'etat in Italy. 1923 - Kanto earthquake. 1924 - Howard Carter finds Tutankhamon's tomb. 1925 - Three states tornado. 1926 - Coup d'etat in Portugal. 1927 - Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic. 1928 - Hirohito is crowned emperor of Japan. 1929 - Wall Street crash. 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1931 - Second Spanish Republic. 1932 - James Chadwick discovers the neutron. 1933 - Hitler comes to power in Germany. 1934 - Serious sandstorms in the U.S. 1935 - Hoover Dam is finished. 1936 - Spanish civil war. 1937 - Hindenburg disaster. 1938 - Germany occupies Checoslovaquia. 1939 - Beginning of World War II. 1940 - Hitler attempts the invasion of Russia. 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. 1942 - The war extends to the Pacific. 1943 - First defeats of the Nazis. 1944 - The Holocaust gets worse. 1945 - Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1946 - The U.N. is created. 1947 - Independence of Pakistan. 1948 - Foundation of Israel. 1949 - Foundation of the People's Republic of China. 1950 - Korean war begins. 1951 - United Nations building is inaugurated. 1952 - The European Coal and Steel Community is founded. 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach Everest summit. 1954 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine. 1955 - Poliomyelitis vaccine is developed. 1956 - First Elvis Presley hits. 1957 - Sputnik is succesfully launched. 1958 - Brussells Universal Exposition. 1959 - Cuban revolution. 1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, reach the bottom of the Marianas trench. 1961 - Yuri Gagarin, first man in space. 1962 - Cuban missile crisis. 1963 - Assasination of J.F. Kennedy. Compete list and errata in: . http://empollonintegrista.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/feliz-2009/