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Gorge Wahington Carver museaum is dedicated to the tuskgre institute
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Battle of Midway
June 4-7 1942 The Battle of Midway is fought at Midway Islands in the Pacific with the Japanese fleet encountering its first major defeat of the war against the United States military. As the major defeat of the war against the United States Military. -
Festival of Britain
In 1951, only six years after World War II, Britain’s towns and cities still showed suffering of war that remained a constant reminder of the hard times of the previous years. With the aim of promoting the feeling of recovery, the Festival of Britain opened on the May fourth 1951. It was celebrating British industry, arts and science and inspiring the thought of a better Britain. This festival was to cheer up the people of Britain and show them that Britian is strong and will grow as strong as- -
Summer Olympics are Held in Helinski
Helinski was selcted to host the 1940 olymipics but that was canceled because of WW II. It also had the most amount of world records broken until the 2008 olympics. The activity consisted of Water sports(swimming,diving water polo), basketball, boxing, boating, cycling, trac, jumping,fencing, fiedld hockey, football-soccer, gymnastics, ect. Israel and the soviet union joined the olympics for the first time in the 1952 summer olympics. This affected modern day Europe because when it was canceled -
More than 1800 killed in flooding
Many of the people living on the east coast of Britain have died in some of the worst storms ever recorded. Northerly winds lashed the coastline and broke through flood defences from Yorkshire down to Kent throughout the night. Swelling tides and high winds mixed to form a fatal combination which took dozens of lives and flooded thousands of homes on low land and all along the east coast. Many people had to spend the night on their rooftops waiting to be rescued by over stretched emergency servi -
Cambridge Universitys James Watson and Francis Crick disovered DNA
Watson and Crick discovered that the double helix has human genes. They figured out the spape of the two strands used in the double helix and how exactly it was used. They discovered what it accually was after someone one else deigned one that was incorrect. Crick acaully announced to the local bar that he found the secret of life. It was formally announced on April twenty-fifth in a nature magizine. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/watson-and-crick-discover-chemical-structure-of-dna -
Elizabeth II crowned the Queen of England
Queen Elizebeth was crowned Juen second 1953, in Westminster Abbey. Her majesty was the thirty-ninth Sovereign to be crowned at Westminister Abbey. While Queen Elizabeth was the sixth Queen to have been crowned in Wstminister Abbey. The cerimony was just her accepting the crown and saying that she promised she would be an acceptable queen. She's been Queen for 63 calander years and is now tied for years with Queen Victoria. Queen Elizebeth II is still the queen today and people like her. -
France Celebrates Victory in Europe day
French Veterans shoot there guns, and everybody is lighting torches, bands play, and theres a huge celebration. It was a celebration of six years of war and the many lost people, city's familys and homes, which brought great suffering. It was rejoicing that Germany had surrendered. Ve day became a holiday and is celebrated today in Europe. http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/VE-Day/ -
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Space Race Is Starting to Develope
After World War II ended a new conflict began called the Cold War. It was United States against the Soviet Union. They fought to show off there newer and more improved than the others technology. They used nuclear weapons, they also fought through there different ideas and thoughts. The Soviets launched the first satelite whcih upset the U.S. so they launched their own. It caused Eisenhower to make the NASA orginization. The Soviets laucnched Luna two in 1959 the first probe to reach the moon. -
Concil of Europe Accepts the new flag of Europe
The new flag was a symobol of identityand exellence. The circle of stars are from the union of peoples. There are twelve stars because there are twelve gods, fruit of life, sons of Jacob, and many more. The concil of Europe a regional intergovernmental organisation whose stated goal is to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. In the following years it encouraged emerging european institutions to acopt it, and it's still there flag today. http://www.cvce.eu/en/education/unit-con -
Hungarian Revolution
The hungarian revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against hte government of the Gungarians people. It lasted from October twenty-third until November tenth of 1956. The defeat of the hungarian revlution was one of the darkest moments of the cold war. The hungarian revolution was when Soviet forces lanched major attacks on hungary. Hungar couldn't standup and they lost. The hungarian war affected modern day Europe because it had a hard impact on everybody, it killed many and wasn't a nice -
The First 'Cod War'
The cod wars were a series of fights between Britain and Iceland running from the 1950s to the 1970s . They fought over the rights to fish in Icelandic waters. Although it was never a war in the real sense of the word (the massive and well-equipped Royal Navy would have easily defeated the tiny Icelandic Navy), the peak of the Cod Wars saw thirty seven Royal Navy warships mobilised to protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed territory. This had an impact on them becuase if they wouldn't -
The Space Race Continued
Then both started to start making a plan to send the first person to sapce, this resulted in Apollo and so on. The United States continued to fight even after the cold war and they always had tensons between them. Things like the Berlin Wall happened. It also caused Eisenhower to make the orginization NASA one of the worlds best space orginizations. In addition, after this event many more people were into austronomy and space. http://www.history.com/topics/space-race -
Beatles Announced their Breakup
Paul a member of the beatles released his first solo album, he then later publicly announces that he had left the beatles This effected the beatles not to record in later years. -
Woman got voting rights in Switzerland
Woman got the right to vote Because of this Woman Can now vote in Switzerland and it couldve been held off. -
Major bomb in spain
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Spain
13 July 1980-IN an ambush in Orio, ETA attempts a repeat of the attac in Ispaster ealier in the year and kills two civil Guards, however a subsequent gun fight results in the death of two ETA members. -
U. K.
The wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer took place on July 29 1981 at St Paul/s Cathedral, Wales. The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. The wo most wealthy and next inline for king and queen of England.
