Where were you when? : 180 unforgettable moments in living history
Harrison, Ian, 1965-2006
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Examines 180 historically and culturally momentous events in politics, war, science, sports, and the arts, spanning over sixty years from 1939 to 2005, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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Imprint:
Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest, c2006.
Collation:
228 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
1939-1949: Outbreak of World War 2 - Release of 'Gone with the wind' - Dunkirk - The Battle of Britain - The blitz - Pearl Harbor - The Battle of Midway - The D-Day landings - The taking of Iwo Jima - Allies discover the Nazi death camps - V-E Day - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - V-J Day - The baby boom - End of the Raj - Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier - Assassination of Gandhi - The birth of Israel - The Berlin airlift. 1950-1959: The McCarthy witch hunts - The Korean War - China invades tibet - The first jet airliner - Television comes of age - The conquest of Everest - The coronation of Elizabeth II - Roger Bannister's four minute mile - Bill Haley rocks around the clock - Disneyland opens - James Dean dies in a car crash - Rosa Parks rides in the front of a bus - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier - Elvis on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - The Hungarian uprising - The Suez crisis. 1960-1969: The Sharpeville massacre - Gary Powers' U2 spy plane is shot down - The Pill goes on sale - Yuri Gagarin is the first man in orbit - The Berlin Wall goes up - The death of Marilyn Monroe - Dr. No, the first Bond movie - The cuban Missile Crisis - 'I have a dream...' - Beatlemania - The assassination of John F. Kennedy - The United States enters the Vietnam War - Dylan goes electric - The Great Northeast Blackout - The swinging sixties - Canadian centennial - The first human heart transplant - The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - Student riots in Paris - Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia - Bob Beamon's long jump - Man walks on the moon - Woodstock. 1970-1979: Apollo 13 crisis - The October crisis - Mark Spitz's seven gold medals - Israeli athletes murdered at the Olympics - Paul Henderson scores for Canada - The rise of the women's movement - The Watergate scandal - Cyclone Tracy - The fall of Saigon - USA and USSR meet in space - The death of Franco - The first supersonic passenger flight - The Entebbe hostage crisis - The release of 'Star Wars' - The death of Elvis - Birth of the first test-tube baby - The launch of 'Space invaders' - Crisis at Three Mile Island - The USSR invades Afghanistan. 1980-1989: Failed attempt to rescue US hostages in Iran - The SAS storms the Iranian embassy in London - Who shot JR? - John Lennon is murdered - Assassination attempt on ronald Reagan - The wedding of Charles and Diana - The Falklands War - Ash Wednesday bushfires - AIDS - Apple launches the Mac - The Brighton bomb - Disaster at Bhopal - 'Live Aid' - The Challenger disaster - Chernobyl - Lockerbie - Exxon Valdez oil spill - The Tiananmen Square massacre - The fall of the Berlin Wall. 1990-2005: The release of Nelson Mandela - The first Gulf War - The collapse of communism - Rabin and Arafat shake hands at the White House - Microsoft launches Windows 95 - O. J. Simpson is acquitted - Quebec referendum - Dolly the sheep is born as the first cloned animal - Pathfinder sends back pictures from Mars - The death of Diana, Princess of Wales - Globalization - Total eclipse of the sun - The arrival of the new millennium - The controversial election of George W. Bush - 9/11 - The Bali bombs - Global protest against the war in Iraq - US-British invasion of Iraq - Harry Potter and 'The Order of the Phoenix' - The capture of Saddam Hussein - The last episode of 'Friends' - Seige at Beslan - The murder of Theo van Gogh - Tsunami - The death of Pope John Paul II - Hurricane Katrina.
ISBN:
9780762106912 (hardback)
Dewey class:
909.82
Local class:
909.82
Language:
English
BRN:
51766
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 909.82 WHE | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |