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Defining Events That Changed Our Lives: From 1950 to the Present
From the Korean War to Brexit, relive some of the most world-changing, life-altering developments from 1950 to today.
A single event can change the world forever—and this intriguing, richly photographed volume looks at some of the most significant political, social, and technological milestones from the mid-twentieth century on. Beginning in 1950 with Korea and the advent of the Cold War, it covers everything from the Cuban Revolution, moon landing, and 1960s student protests, to the Yom Kippur War, Watergate, Chernobyl, and end of the Berlin Wall, to 9/11, Apple’s introduction of the iPhone, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the fall of Raqqa, capital of the Islamic caliphate.
A single event can change the world forever—and this intriguing, richly photographed volume looks at some of the most significant political, social, and technological milestones from the mid-twentieth century on. Beginning in 1950 with Korea and the advent of the Cold War, it covers everything from the Cuban Revolution, moon landing, and 1960s student protests, to the Yom Kippur War, Watergate, Chernobyl, and end of the Berlin Wall, to 9/11, Apple’s introduction of the iPhone, the killing of Osama bin Laden, and the fall of Raqqa, capital of the Islamic caliphate.
224 pages, Hardcover
Published May 5, 2020
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June 3, 2022
Barbudos - means bearded ones
"Batista's armu surrounded the revolutionaries (Castro et al) and many were killed..only 12 remained in the mountains like the Apostles. "It was then I realized we could win" - Fidel castro.
"Si mi sbaglio mi corrigerate" - "if I make a mistake, you'll correct me" fist meeting as Pope - Pope John Paul who travelled 725,000 miles, 129 countries - and was the first non-Italian Pope.
"Ich bin ein berliner", (Iam a Berliner ) John F. Kennedy while visiting Berlin in 1963 to encourage citizens of East Berlin.
1962 Nobel proze for medicine was awarded to THREE RESEARCHERS - Francis Crick, James Watson and MAURICE WILKINS for the discovery of the DNA double helix three dimensional model.
"The region was in turmoil for more than a decade. In 1954, the colonial power was defeated by the Vietnamese after a war culminating in the victory of General Giap at Dien Bien Phu. The subsequent Geneva conference divided Ind-China into four states - Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam and North Vietnam."
Malcolm Little named himself Malcolm X - "He removed Little from his name, since it was a shameful legacy of the slave era in which slaves took the name of their white masters".
Malcolm X was initially against the non-violent path followed by Martin Luther King. "Earlier he converted to Islam and became an avid reader, while he was in prison."
"In 1969, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, it was the beginning of his umpteenth change of direction, the last transdormation. He would come to adhere to the line of Martin Luther King, who was against violence, which Malcolm X had always considered an integral part of life...In a twist of fate, it was this final transformation, one towards transformation, one towards moderation ..that cost him his life".
"The instigators and assasins were members of the Nation of Islam, a radical organization of which Malcolm X had been an outspoken member upto the previous year".
"Marin luther King Jr. makes the speech< "I have a dream:, before the Lincoln memorial in Washington. It would be remembered as a masterpiece of oratory, full of references to Lincoln and Gandhi with the cadence of the bible. (NY Times)
"For Israel, the success of the Six Day War meant the rebirth of Zionism, massive immigration especially from the Soviet Union, economic growth, the strengthening of ties with the United States and the allies and international prestige it had never enjoyed before. But it also created the condition of a new conflict which would break out six years later".
Post colonial war...called the Biofra war broke out on May 30th, 1967, following a period of bloody political instability (electoral fraud, a coup, attempts to secede, This provoked an explosion of ethnic-religious conflict between the Hausas, Yoruba and Igbos. The latter were excluded from political life, even though they were the majority in the region. Behind all this were strong economic interests linked to a land rich in oil resources, which were managed by major international corporations".
The formation of the the Republic of Biafra, proclaimed by by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu (supported by France, Portugal, Tanzania and foreign volunteers) provided the rational for the Nigerian Federal government led by general Yakubu Gowon (supported by the British government Harold Wilson USSR and the US)".
"The shocking experience in Biafra led a group of young French volunteer doctors to found Medicins sans frontiers in 1971".
After the Prague Spring.."the separation of the region into historically distinct states, what are called the Czech Republic and Slovakia".
Woodstock Festival:
"three days of peace, music and love", Bethel , New York State.
500,000 people
Max yasquis's farm land used
lots of psychedelic drugs.
Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix....etc played in non-stop music..
Bloody Sunday:
"In the 16th century England already controlled the whole of Ireleand, dividing the land and imposing their laws and language on the Irish. The Irish battle for independence lasted until the 1920's, and later concluded with the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. however, Northern Ireland composed of six of the nine counties of Ulster, with its capital in Belfast remained under British control. It was here that the clashes between the Republicans (Catholic Reppublicans who wanted an unified Ireland) and Unionists (protestant insurgents who wanted Ireland to stay in the UK) did not diminish, continuing for decades to the Troubles, which was a low intensity war with terrorist attacks, torture, propoganda and violent repression".
"On Black Sunday (1972) ..British forces fired without and justification and continued to fire even on injured demonstrators". "Peace was granted by PM Tont Blair in 1998. "
Coup de tate in Chile:
Salvador Allende Gosser - Socialist
General Augusto Pinochet supported by US, Hendry Kissinger
Voyager 1 and 2
"To boldlu go where no man has ever gone"
"Pale yellow dot" - picture of earth from Saturn...
Iran:
Shah had recognized Israel
Ayatollah Khomeini - wanted Muslim government in the region and supported the PLA - Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader to visit Iran after the Shah was deposed.
After the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan..Regional factions would count on the support of the US and Pakistan, armed groups independant of each other found common cause in revolting against the Soviets...They were given the name of Mujaheedins...- fighters of holy wars- becauseof their Sunni origin which was often fundamentalist...they called the Soviet invaders infidels...
Here the condition were created for the birth of the al-Queda, the jihadist network of the saudi Osama bin Laden, who rose quickly as a leader among the mujahideen...
1974;
The best computers at the time worked wit 4 megabyte CD's of memory and a hard disk of 20 MB ..
Prototype CD's would hold as much as 600 MB, which was just dta for most computers to handle..
The CD's were forced into retirement by a workd that in 30 years has converted almost every work of human intellect into sequences of 0's and 1's. Early in 2018, the last factory (in the US) producing CD's closed!
"Batista's armu surrounded the revolutionaries (Castro et al) and many were killed..only 12 remained in the mountains like the Apostles. "It was then I realized we could win" - Fidel castro.
"Si mi sbaglio mi corrigerate" - "if I make a mistake, you'll correct me" fist meeting as Pope - Pope John Paul who travelled 725,000 miles, 129 countries - and was the first non-Italian Pope.
"Ich bin ein berliner", (Iam a Berliner ) John F. Kennedy while visiting Berlin in 1963 to encourage citizens of East Berlin.
1962 Nobel proze for medicine was awarded to THREE RESEARCHERS - Francis Crick, James Watson and MAURICE WILKINS for the discovery of the DNA double helix three dimensional model.
"The region was in turmoil for more than a decade. In 1954, the colonial power was defeated by the Vietnamese after a war culminating in the victory of General Giap at Dien Bien Phu. The subsequent Geneva conference divided Ind-China into four states - Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam and North Vietnam."
Malcolm Little named himself Malcolm X - "He removed Little from his name, since it was a shameful legacy of the slave era in which slaves took the name of their white masters".
Malcolm X was initially against the non-violent path followed by Martin Luther King. "Earlier he converted to Islam and became an avid reader, while he was in prison."
"In 1969, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, it was the beginning of his umpteenth change of direction, the last transdormation. He would come to adhere to the line of Martin Luther King, who was against violence, which Malcolm X had always considered an integral part of life...In a twist of fate, it was this final transformation, one towards transformation, one towards moderation ..that cost him his life".
"The instigators and assasins were members of the Nation of Islam, a radical organization of which Malcolm X had been an outspoken member upto the previous year".
"Marin luther King Jr. makes the speech< "I have a dream:, before the Lincoln memorial in Washington. It would be remembered as a masterpiece of oratory, full of references to Lincoln and Gandhi with the cadence of the bible. (NY Times)
"For Israel, the success of the Six Day War meant the rebirth of Zionism, massive immigration especially from the Soviet Union, economic growth, the strengthening of ties with the United States and the allies and international prestige it had never enjoyed before. But it also created the condition of a new conflict which would break out six years later".
Post colonial war...called the Biofra war broke out on May 30th, 1967, following a period of bloody political instability (electoral fraud, a coup, attempts to secede, This provoked an explosion of ethnic-religious conflict between the Hausas, Yoruba and Igbos. The latter were excluded from political life, even though they were the majority in the region. Behind all this were strong economic interests linked to a land rich in oil resources, which were managed by major international corporations".
The formation of the the Republic of Biafra, proclaimed by by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu (supported by France, Portugal, Tanzania and foreign volunteers) provided the rational for the Nigerian Federal government led by general Yakubu Gowon (supported by the British government Harold Wilson USSR and the US)".
"The shocking experience in Biafra led a group of young French volunteer doctors to found Medicins sans frontiers in 1971".
After the Prague Spring.."the separation of the region into historically distinct states, what are called the Czech Republic and Slovakia".
Woodstock Festival:
"three days of peace, music and love", Bethel , New York State.
500,000 people
Max yasquis's farm land used
lots of psychedelic drugs.
Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix....etc played in non-stop music..
Bloody Sunday:
"In the 16th century England already controlled the whole of Ireleand, dividing the land and imposing their laws and language on the Irish. The Irish battle for independence lasted until the 1920's, and later concluded with the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. however, Northern Ireland composed of six of the nine counties of Ulster, with its capital in Belfast remained under British control. It was here that the clashes between the Republicans (Catholic Reppublicans who wanted an unified Ireland) and Unionists (protestant insurgents who wanted Ireland to stay in the UK) did not diminish, continuing for decades to the Troubles, which was a low intensity war with terrorist attacks, torture, propoganda and violent repression".
"On Black Sunday (1972) ..British forces fired without and justification and continued to fire even on injured demonstrators". "Peace was granted by PM Tont Blair in 1998. "
Coup de tate in Chile:
Salvador Allende Gosser - Socialist
General Augusto Pinochet supported by US, Hendry Kissinger
Voyager 1 and 2
"To boldlu go where no man has ever gone"
"Pale yellow dot" - picture of earth from Saturn...
Iran:
Shah had recognized Israel
Ayatollah Khomeini - wanted Muslim government in the region and supported the PLA - Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader to visit Iran after the Shah was deposed.
After the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan..Regional factions would count on the support of the US and Pakistan, armed groups independant of each other found common cause in revolting against the Soviets...They were given the name of Mujaheedins...- fighters of holy wars- becauseof their Sunni origin which was often fundamentalist...they called the Soviet invaders infidels...
Here the condition were created for the birth of the al-Queda, the jihadist network of the saudi Osama bin Laden, who rose quickly as a leader among the mujahideen...
1974;
The best computers at the time worked wit 4 megabyte CD's of memory and a hard disk of 20 MB ..
Prototype CD's would hold as much as 600 MB, which was just dta for most computers to handle..
The CD's were forced into retirement by a workd that in 30 years has converted almost every work of human intellect into sequences of 0's and 1's. Early in 2018, the last factory (in the US) producing CD's closed!
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