Can anyone give me some important dates about Israel to insert into my timeline? For example, here's what I have from 1930-1960:
1929-1940 The Great Depression. It is initiated in 1929 when the stock market crashes, and effectively ends in 1940 when the US shifts into war production mode for WWII.
1933 Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany.
1933-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt's U.S. Presidency. FDR died in 1945.
1935 The “Tewa Basin” study.
1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.
1938 the Anschluss -- Hitler's "annexation" of Austria.
1938 Mexico seizes foreign oil properties and nationalizes it's petroleum industry.
1939-1945 World War II.
1939 Adolf Hitler invades Poland.
1939 Aug 26. The first televised major league baseball games were shown on experimental station W2XBS – a double header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
1940s The computer was invented this decade.
1941: British and Russian forces invade Iran and Reza Shah is forced to abdicate in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran. Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi founds Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim Brotherhood's South Asian counterpart.
1941 "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live on in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." Japan bombs Pearl Harbor bringing USA into WWII.
1942 March. Isaac Asimov explicitly describes his famous "Three Laws of Robotics" in Runaround, published in Astounding Science Fiction. This is the first use of the word Robotics ever, and Asimov is given credit for the creation of the word.
1945-1952 Harry S. Truman's U.S. Presidency. Truman became President when President Roosevelt died in 1945.
1946: Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria are granted independence from Britain and France.
1947: India gains independence from Britain, and Pakistan is created from the region's Muslim-majority areas under the Leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Disputes over the status of Kashmir leads to the first Indo-Pakistani War; Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan.
1948: Arab countries attack the new state of Israel and suffer defeat in war with Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are displaced.
1949: Hasan al-Banna, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, is assassinated by Egyptian security forces.EastTurkestan Occupied by Chinese communist and gave it new name of Xinjiang.
1950 Otto Diels and Kurt Alder receive the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Diels Alder reaction.
1950's Laser invented this decade (1960?).
1951: Libya becomes independent.
1952: King Faruq of Egypt forced to abdicate.
1952-1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower's U.S. Presidency.
1953 J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick work out the double helix structure of DNA.
1953: Backed by American and British intelligence agencies, General Zahedi leads a coup against Mohammed Mossadegh, returning the Shah to power. Death of King Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. The foundation stone is laid to enlarge the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
1954: Algerian War of Independence begins.
1955 Albert Einstein dies.
1955 Rosa Parks, a black woman, refuses to move to the back of the bus, where blacks were usually forced to sit. Her decision sets off a chain reaction of black boycotts of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott is led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The boycotters demand integration and more black bus drivers.
1956: Morocco becomes independent. Tunisia becomes independent.
1957: The Bey of Tunisia is deposed, and Bourguiba becomes president. Enlargement of the Haram in Mecca begins.
1957 Aug 26. Soviet Union announces it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1958: October 7, President Iskander Mirza declares Martial Law. General Ayub Khan assumes the powers as Chief Martial Law Administrator.
1959 Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba.
1960 An international committee established the SI system (Systéme International) as a standard set of units for measurements. The units used are meter (length), kilogram (mass), second (time), kelvin (temperature), ampere (electric current), luminous intensity (candela), and amount of units of a substance (mole).
1960: Mali and Senegal become independent.
1960-1963 John F. Kennedy's U.S. Presidency. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson.
1960 The meter is defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of orange-red light emitted from a krypton-86 lamp. Previously it had been defined as the distance between two marks on a specific platinum-iridium bar kept under controlled conditions in France.
I welcome any dates however; not just ones in this time period.
Originally posted by Ice Cold2000: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip begin the Al-Aqsa Intifada, prompted by Ariel Sharon's visit to a disputed religious site holy to both Jews and Muslims.
I just cussed you out, but since it's 2007 and it's not on your time line, you cant see it. 😏
2000-2008 George W. Bush's U.S. Presidency.
2001 September 11 (9-11). Terrorists (probably under orders from Osama Bin Laden) fly hijacked commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers in New York, utterly destroying them and killing thousands of civilians. They also fly a plane into the Pentagon building. Over 3,000 people are killed.
2001-2002 United States working with the Afghanistan rebel group The Northern Alliance removed Taliban from power in Afghanistan militarily.
2003 March 19. U.S. began attack on Iraq with cruise missiles. March 20. U.S. landed ground troops in Iraq. The objective was to remove President Saddam Hussein and his administration from power. President George W. Bush claimed Hussein harbors "weapons of mass destruction" in violation of U.N. restrictions and that the Iraqi people were oppressed and needed liberation. No weapons of mass destruction were found.
2003: Iraq War.
2003: Shirin Ebadi becomes the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting human rights.
2004 a radical muslim group claims responsibility for bombings in Madrid's commuter railway and several trains. The terrorist attack killed 191, and wounds 1,460 others. See also Madrid Bombings. Nevertheless the Islamists' claim, latest unveilings suggest that perhaps the role of Islamic extremists was less capital than it has been officially presented.
2005: a radical muslim group claims responsibility for bombings in London's Underground. The terrorist attack kills 52, and wounds over 700 others. See also July 2005 London bombings
2005: Bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt kill at least 83 and wound hundreds.
2005: Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies. Fahd's brother Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, who had assumed de facto leadership of the country after King Fahd suffered a debilitating stroke in 1994, is declared king.
2005: A powerful, 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing upwards of 73,000 people, mostly in Pakistan.
2006: Military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel, primarily between Hezbollah paramilitary forces and Israel.
2006: Death of former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussain by Hanging for crimes against humanity. Hanging took place on Saturday the 30th December 2006 Same day as Eid-Ul-Adha. Muslim World condemning the execution on the day of Eid.
2007: Ice Cold cusses out AThousandYoung on the playtheimmortalgame.com forums.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungShow off 😞
2000: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip begin the Al-Aqsa Intifada, prompted by Ariel Sharon's visit to a disputed religious site holy to both Jews and Muslims.
2000-2008 George W. Bush's U.S. Presidency.
2001 September 11 (9-11). Terrorists (probably under orders from Osama Bin Laden) fly hijacked commercial airliners into the World Tra ...[text shortened]... f Eid.
2007: Ice Cold cusses out AThousandYoung on the playtheimmortalgame.com forums.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung2007 officer dibble is startled to discover the existence of playtheimmortalgame.com, in addition to rhp, tfc and caw
2000: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip begin the Al-Aqsa Intifada, prompted by Ariel Sharon's visit to a disputed religious site holy to both Jews and Muslims.
2000-2008 George W. Bush's U.S. Presidency.
2001 September 11 (9-11). Terrorists (probably under orders from Osama Bin Laden) fly hijacked commercial airliners into the World Tra ...[text shortened]... f Eid.
2007: Ice Cold cusses out AThousandYoung on the playtheimmortalgame.com forums.