80 moments that shaped the world

EQUALITY FOR GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE CHINESE BASKETBALL PLAYER YAO MING IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION DISCOVERY OF THE FOSSIL ‘AUSTRALOPI- THECUS SEDIBA’ INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB MASS PRODUCTION OF PENICILLIN NELSON MANDELA GROWTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY THE HOLOCAUST WORLD WAR TWO BIRTH CONTROL PILL MAHATMA GANDHI FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AUNG SAN SUU KYI AKIRA KUROSAWA NORWEGIAN ATHLETE GRETE WAITZ EMERGENCE OF HIV/AIDS THE GULF WAR SUCCESSFUL CLONING OF A MAMMAL FROM AN ADULT SHEEP’S CELL THE COLD WAR MICHAEL JACKSON HOME COMPUTERS SAMUEL BECKETT’S PLAY WAITING FOR GODOT PROTEST SONG ‘WE SHALL OVERCOME’ ‘ARAB SPRING’ UPRISINGS MOBILE PHONES THE BREAK-UP OF THE SOVIET UNION SOCIAL MEDIA INVENTION OF THE LASER INVENTION OF THE CREDIT CARD SPREAD OF ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001 DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHIPPING CONTAINER DOUBLE-HELIX STRUCTURE IN DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY US CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LOW-COST AIR TRAVEL INVASION OF IRAQ WIKIPEDIA ASSASSINATION OF US PRESIDENT KENNEDY PARA– LYMPIC GAMES OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INVENTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB EQUALITY FOR WOMEN ALBERT EINSTEIN CT SCANNER LIVE AID CREATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION NUCLEAR ENERGY YAO MING ERADICATION OF SMALLPOX GLOBAL POPULARITY OF FOOTBALL INVENTION OF THE DIGITAL CAMERA SOUTH AFRICA WINNING THE RUGBY WORLD CUP THE INSTANT NOODLE MUHAMMAD ALI LA NOUVELLE VAGUE THE OPEN UNIVERSITY WALT DISNEY YURI GAGARIN THE LONG MARCH DESIGNATION OF WORLD HERITAGE SITES MARTIN LUTHER KING CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING EMAIL THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENT ANDY WARHOL JESSE OWENS DNA CHRISTO AND JEANNE- CLAUDE WRAPPING THE REICHSTAG MOBILE PHONES MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS GROWTH OF LOW-COST AIR TRAVEL PABLO PICASSO THE 2004 TSUNAMI PUBLIC TELEVISION PINA BAUSCH GEORGE ORWELL 80 MOMENTS THAT SHAPED THE WORLD www.britishcouncil.org

80 moments that shaped the world

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