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Ikea was invented
IKEA is a Dutch multinational of Swedish origin focused on the sale of furniture and other household items at reduced prices, which must be assembled on its own. The key concept for the success of this business model is to offer quality and design items at a low price, but without sacrificing certain requirements in the production process, such as the prohibition of child labor. -
Adidas was invented
Adidas is a German sports equipment company. Many people mistakenly think that Adidas is an acronym for All Day I Dream About Sports. In truth Adidas is a union between the two names of the founder, Adi Dassler. -
The world war 2 ended
It was the largest armed conflict in history and is estimated to have had a cost, in money and resources, greater than all other wars put together.
The war involved about 100 million soldiers and caused the death of between 50 and 60 million people, most of them civilians, 3% of the world's population at the time. -
Battle of Osan
The Battle of Osan was the first engagement between United States and North Korean forces during the Korean War, on July 5, 1950. Task Force Smith, a U.S. task force of 400 infantry supported by an artillery battery, was moved to Osan, south of the South Korean capital of Seoul, and ordered to fight as a rearguard to delay advancing North Korean forces while additional U.S. troops arrived in the country to form a stronger defensive line to the south. -
Disneyland opens
Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion. -
James Dean dies in a highway accident
At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an intersection. The driver of the other car, 23-year-old California Polytechnic State University student Donald Turnupseed, was dazed but mostly uninjured; Dean’s passenger, German Porsche mechanic Rolf Wütherich was badly injured but survived. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, is the war between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of Vietnam, and the United States of America and the dictatorial regime of South Vietnam. , which took place between 1954 and 1975, with the direct and indirect intervention of several foreign countries -
Nike was created
Nike, Inc. és una companyia americana que fabrica roba d'esport i equipament esportiu. La seu central està situada a Beaverton (Oregon), prop de l'àrea metropolitana de Portland. És la major productora de calçat atlètic i roba esportiva del món. La companyia fou fundada com Blue Ribbon Sports per Bill J. Bowerman i Philip H. Knight. Posteriorment, l'any 1978, va esdevenir Nike, nom basat en Nice, deessa grega de la victòria. -
Nutella was invented
Nutella is a brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread.Nutella is manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero and was first introduced in 1964, although its first iteration dates to 1963. -
Beatles have disbanded
But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. That all changed on April 10, 1970, when an ambiguous Paul McCartney “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup. -
Apollo 13 spacecraft
Apollo 13 was the seventh flight of the Apollo program, launched to the moon on April 11, 1970 by a Saturn 5 rocket. It was a space mission whose mission was to make a takeoff into Fra Mauro region, but an explosion aboard the ship on its way to the Moon forced the crew to abort the mission and orbit the Moon without achieving its task of landing on it. Apollo 14 was reassigned this task, which it successfully completed. -
Apple was created
Apple, formerly known as Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational company that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software for its products, offering various services such as Apple Arcade (A video game platform on demand), Apple News + (A digital news platform by subscription) -
Azores Islands had a earthquake
Striking the Autonomous Region of Azores on 1 January, the 1980 Azores Island earthquake killed 61 people and injured over 400, causing severe damage on the islands of Terceira and São Jorge. Measuring 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, it also shook the islands of Pico and Faial, and resulted from a strike slip fracture, typical of other historical Azorean earthquakes. -
Lady Diana Spencer and Chris The Prince married
Diana gained prominence in 1981 with her engagement to Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, after a brief courtship. Her wedding took place at St Paul’s Cathedral in 1981 and she became Princess of Wales, a role in which she was enthusiastically received by the public. The couple had two children, Princes William and Harry, who were then second and third in line of succession to the British throne. -
Motorola created the Dynatac 8000x
The Dynatac 8000x mobile phone was developed in 1983 by Motorola, being the first mobile phone in the world that could be held with one hand while talking; it went on sale on March 13 of the same year. It weighed 800 grams and measured 33 by 4.5 by 8.9 centimeters. At the time of launch of the product, it cost US $ 3,995, with a battery that only lasted an hour of talk time. A year later more than 300,000 users had bought DynaTAC terminals. -
Earthquake in Iran 50,000 kills
An earthquake near the Caspian Sea in Iran kills an estimated 50,000 and injures another 135,000 people on June 21, 1990. The 7.7-magnitude tremor wrecked havoc on the simply constructed houses in the area. Thirty minutes past midnight, with most people sleeping in their homes, a violent quake, centered along the shores of the Caspian Sea in northwestern Iran shattered the nighttime tranquility. A 20,000-square-mile area in the provinces of Zanjan and Gilan was absolutely devastated. -
Lech Walesa becomes president of Poland
In Poland, Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity trade union, wins a landslide election victory, becoming the first directly elected Polish leader. When protests broke out in the Gdansk shipyard over an increase in food prices in August 1980, Walesa climbed the shipyard fence and joined the thousands of workers inside. He was elected leader of the strike committee, and three days later the strikers’ demands were met. -
Supreme was created
Supreme is a skateboard and clothing store established in New York City in April 1994. The brand covers skateboarding, hip-hop and rock cultures, as well as youth culture in general (streetwear). The brand produces clothing and accessories and also manufactures skates. Its shoes, clothing and accessories are widely sold in the secondary market. The distinctive red box logo with blank "Supreme" Futura Heavy Oblique, is based on the propaganda art of Barbara Kruger. -
USS Cole bombing
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by the terrorist group al Qaeda against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while she was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. Seventeen U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 39 injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987. -
Playstation 2 Gaming Console
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on March 4, 2000, in North America on October 26, 2000, in Europe on November 24, 2000, and Australia on November 24, 2000. It is the successor to the original PlayStation, as well as the second instalment in the PlayStation console line-up. -
Michael Jackson died
On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Physician Conrad Murray said that he found Jackson in his room not breathing and with a weak pulse; he administered CPR to no avail, and security called 911 at 12:21 p.m. Paramedics treated Jackson at the scene, but he was pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. -
Haiti Earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest) and approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded. An estimated three million people were affected by the quake. -
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street, is a social movement of peaceful contest to denounce the abuses of financial capitalism that will begin on September 17, 2011, with a demonstration in Wall Street, the stock market district in New York. For weeks later, hundreds of protesters lived and slept in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, which they took as their base camp for operations. This movement has continued to make street art action and remains very active on virtual social media. -
Trump wins
Donald Trump shattered expectations on Tuesday with an election night victory that revealed deep anti-establishment anger among American voters and set the world on a journey into the political unknown. The Republican nominee has achieved one of the most improbable political victories in modern US history, despite a series of controversies that would easily have destroyed other candidacies, extreme policies that have drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle. -
COVID-19
It produces flu-like or cold-like symptoms, including fever, cough, dyspnea, myalgia, and fatigue. In severe cases, it is characterized by pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock that leads to about 3.75% of those infected to death according to the WHO. There is no specific treatment; the main therapeutic measures are to relieve symptoms and maintain vital functions. -
Kobe Bryant dies
He played with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA, gained fame throughout the United States for being the first escort in league history to be drafted directly from high school. He was one of the most outstanding players in all of NBA history. He won 5 NBA titles and was selected 18 consecutive times to be part of the NBA All-Star. He died on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter crash in the town of Calabasas along with his daughter Gianna. -
Black Lives Matter
The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.
Four recent polls including one released this week by Civis Analytics, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated.