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Steve
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Location: London, England
Registered: November 2006
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The World Almanac is a very prestigious and serious annual publication that has now been published for more than two centuries!
In the 2004 edition it lists the 12 most significant events of the 20th century. I thought it might be interesting to see how much people here agree with the items and the order of significance. Here are the events in descending order of significance as given by the World Almanac 2004.
1. August 6th 1945: an atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima
2. September 1st 1939: Germany invades Poland and starts WW2
3. June 28th 1914: Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which caused WW1
4. November 7th 1917: Outbreak of Russian Revolution
5. September 11th 2001: Moslem terrorist attack on USA
6. June 6th 1944: D-Day, the beginning of the end of Nazi domination of Europe
7. July 20th 1969: Man lands on the moon
8. November 9th 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
9. September 27th 1908: First private automobile (Ford Model T) off the assembly line
10. May 14th 1948: Declaration of the State of Israel
11. November 22nd 1963: Assassination of President J.F Kennedy
12. August 15th 1947: India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain
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