| 1900 December 14 | Event | Professor Max Plank of Berlin University | first revealed his revolutionary Quantum Theory. |
| 1900 June 13 | Event | Chinese Boxer rebellion begins | against Christians and Foreigners. |
| 1901 June 11 | Event | Cook Island annexed | and becomes part of New Zealand. |
| 1902 April 14 | Event | Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium | a radioactive element. |
| 1902 May 24 | Event | Empire day first celebrated in England. | |
| 1904 April 8 | Event | Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale | Which is a mutual recognition of each other's colonial interests. |
| 1904 July 23 | Event | Invention of the Ice cream Cone | |
| 1905 October 30 | Event | Russia granted a constitution | by Tsar NIcholas II. |
| 1906 April 11 | Event | Einstein introduces Theory of Relativity | E=mc2 |
| 1906 November 22 | Event | SOS as a distress signal | Officially adopted as the new universal signal of distress by the International Radio Telegraphic Conference. |
| 1908 April 8 | Event | Herbert Henry Asquith becomes Prime Minister | of England |
| 1908 July 26 | Event | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed | in the US of A. |
| 1908 June 12 | Event | Lusitania sets Atlantic crossing record | in 4 days and 15 hours. |
| 1908 October 1 | Event | Introduction of the Model T | by Henry Ford. |
| 1909 April 18 | Event | Joan of Arc | sanctified and declaired a Saint. |
| 1909 April 6 | Event | North Pole Reached | by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson |
| 1909 July 25 | Event | First Airplane flight | across the English Channel. |
| 1910 April 5 | Event | Kissing banned on French Railways | |
| 1910 May 10 | Event | First Air show held | at Hendon in England |
| 1910 May 6 | Event | King George V ascends to British Throne. | |
| 1911 April 12 | Event | 1st Paris-London non stop flight | by Pierre Prier in 3 hours and 56 minutes. |
| 1911 December 14 | Event | The first men to reach the South Pole | Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his three companions reached the South Pole 35 days ahead of Scott’s expedition and planted the Norwegian flag on top of an ice mound. |
| 1912 April 13 | Event | Formation of the Royal Flying Corps | Later to become the RAF. |
| 1912 April 15 | Event | Titanic Sinks | after hitting an Iceberg on her maiden voyage. 1,513 died and 732 survive. |
| 1912 April 16 | Event | Harriet Quimby - American flies the English Channel. | The first woman to do so. |
| 1912 April 9 | Event | Titanic sails | from Queenstown Ireland for New York. |
| 1912 May 13 | Event | Royal Flying Corps formed in England | |
| 1913 November 18 | Event | Loop the Loop first performed by Lincoln Deachey | |
| 1914 May 25 | Event | Irish Home Rule | passed by British Government. |
| 1915 June 10 | Event | Girl Scout movement | is founded. |
| 1915 May 10 | Event | Zeppelin drops hundreds of bombs on Southend-on-Sea | |
| 1915 May 23 | Event | Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany | in the Great War. |
| 1916 April 24 | Event | Easter rebellion begins | of Irish against British Occupation. |
| 1916 May 17 | Event | British Summer Time Introduced | (Daylight Saving) |
| 1916 October 16 | Event | Opening of the first Birth Control Clinic | in New York by Margaret Sanger. |
| 1917 April 6 | Event | America declare war on Germany | and enter the First World War |
| 1917 July 17 | Event | British royal family changed name | to Windsor. |
| 1917 November 7 | Event | October Revolution | causes overthrow of Russian Provisional Government. |
| 1918 December 14 | Event | First Woman to be elected to the British Parliament. | The first woman elected to Parliament was Constance, the Countess Markievicz who won for Sinn Fein contesting a Dublin seat. She was unable to take her seat as she was in Holloway Prison, London, which is why Lady Astor is officially recognized as the first woman member (1919). The 1918 General Election was also the first time women in Britain had the vote. |
| 1918 November 10 | Event | Battle for Mons | Just before the end of the great War on 11th November 1918. |
| 1919 June 28 | Event | Treaty of Versailles | is signed and ends the Great War. |
| 1920 December 14 | Event | The first recorded Air Disaster occured. | The first scheduled airliner disaster in aviation history occurred when an airliner with six passengers and two crew took off from Cricklewood Airport, London, for a flight to Paris. Barely airborne, the plane crashed into a house in neighbouring Golders Green, killing the crew and two passengers. The others escaped from the wreckage. |
| 1920 May 16 | Event | Joan of Arc (Jean D'Arc) canonised as a Saint. | |
| 1920 November 8 | Event | Rupert the Bear | appears in the Daily Express for the first time. |
| 1922 April 3 | Event | Joseph Stalin appointed Communist Party General Secretary | |
| 1922 April 3 | Event | Emily Pankhirst Jaled for three years. | For inciting supporters to put explosives at David Lloyd Goerge's home. |
| 1922 November 26 | Event | The Tomb of Tutankhamun first opened. | Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon, Carter’s sponsor, became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed 3,000 years before. Having escaped detection by tomb robbers, it was complete with golden statues and golden throne inlaid with gems. |
| 1922 November 4 | Event | Tomb of King Tutankhamen discovered | by Howard Carter. |
| 1922 October 18 | Event | The British Broadcasting Corporation is formed | the "BBC" or "Auntie Beeb" as more affectionately known. |
| 1922 October 28 | Event | Benito Mussolini takes control | of the Italian Government. |
| 1925 April 15 | Event | James Barrie donates copyright fees to Great Ormond Street | Hospital for Children from his Peter Pan story. |
| 1925 July 10 | Event | TASS established | The ofiicial News Agency of the USSR. |
| 1926 May 12 | Event | British General Strike ends. | |
| 1926 September 25 | Event | Henry Ford announces the start of the five day week. | |
| 1927 May 20 | Event | Saudi Arabia becomes independent of England | |
| 1928 April 9 | Event | Mae West debues | in "Diamond Lil" a daring new play in New York. |
| 1928 May 15 | Event | Debut of Mickey Mouse | in Steam Boat Willie (?) |
| 1929 June 7 | Event | Vatican City becomes a Sovereign State | |
| 1929 June 7 | Event | Vatican City created | when the Vatican becomes a sovereign state. |
| 1929 October 24 | Event | Black Thursday starts the collapse of the US Stock Market | |
| 1930 May 5 | Event | Any Johnson takes off from England | on the first solo female flight to Australia. |
| 1931 May 1 | Event | Empire State Building Opens | in New York City. |
| 1931 October 17 | Event | Gangster Al Capone sentenced to eleven years | for tax evasion in the USA. |
| 1932 December 14 | Event | Floodlit Rugby League starts. | when the first floodlit rugby league match was held at London’s White City Stadium between Leeds and Wigan. |
| 1932 October 3 | Event | Iraq becomes independent. | Gaining this from Britain. |
| 1932 September 23 | Event | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is formed | and today is the National day! |
| 1933 April 13 | Event | First flight over Mount Everest | by Lord Clydedale. |
| 1934 June 9 | Event | Premier of the first Donald Duck cartoon | called "The wise little hen". |
| 1934 May 18 | Event | TWA begin commercial flight service. | |
| 1935 September 3 | Event | 300mph Land Speed record broken | by Sir Malcolm Campbell. |
| 1936 February 26 | Event | Volkswagen "The Peoples Car" launched | by Hitler, the car having been designed by Ferdinand Porsche. |
| 1937 April 17 | Event | Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd and Petunia Pig | make their debut today! |
| 1937 June 3 | Event | Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) marries Wallis Simpson | in France. |
| 1938 October 30 | Event | War of the Worlds first broadcast on Radio | Orson Welles radio broadcast panics the American nation as fears are that the invasion is for real. |
| 1939 April 5 | Event | Membership in Hitler Youth became obligatory | |
| 1939 April 6 | Event | Great Britain and Poland sign military pact. | |
| 1939 December 2n | Event | Newcastle Steamer Dalryan sank after striking mine | A Southeast lifeboat comes inshore fully laden after putting out to the Newcastle steamer Dalryan, which sank after striking a mine. All the crew were saved.
Daily Mail Sat Dec 2nd 1939 |
| 1939 September 3 | Event | Britain declare war on Germany | followed six hours later by the French. |
| 1939 September 3 | Event | Britain and France declare war on Germany | Two days after Germany invades Poland,Britain and France
declare war on Germany,and also helps to begin WWII |
| 1940 April 9 | Event | German invades Norway and Denmark | Denmark Surrenders. |
| 1940 July 10 | Event | Battle of Britain begins | as germany starts attack by Air. |
| 1940 June 10 | Event | Italy declares war | on France and Britain. |
| 1940 June 10 | Event | Italy declares war | on England and France. |
| 1940 June 18 | Event | French Retreat | |
| 1940 June 4 | Event | Completion of evacuation of Dunkirk | of 300,000 British troops. |
| 1941 May 27 | Event | German Battleship Bismarck | sunk by British naval force. |
| 1941 October 23 | Event | "Dumbo" is released | by Walt Disney. |
| 1942 April 16 | Event | Island of Malta awarded the George Cross | for its' heroism during the Second World War. |
| 1942 June 14 | Event | Walt Disney releases "Bambi" | |
| 1942 May 31 | Event | Luftwaffe bomb Canterbury | in England. |
| 1942 October 2 | Event | Self sustaining Nuclear reaction is demonstrated | for the first time in Chicago. |
| 1943 April 6 | Event | British and American forces join up in Africa | |
| 1943 April 7 | Event | LSD First Synthesized | Full name Lysergic Acid Diethylamide by Albert Hoffman in Switzerland |
| 1944 April 10 | Event | Allies liberate first Nazi Concentration Camp | Buchenwald in Czech. |
| 1944 April 6 | Event | British Government introduces Pay as you Earn Taxation | A system devised by Sir Cornelius Gregg |
| 1944 June 12 | Event | 1st V-1 bomb attack on London | during the 2nd world war. |
| 1945 April 15 | Event | Battle of Berlin | Starts today. |
| 1945 August 14 | Event | VJ Day | Japan surrenders at the end of the second World War. |
| 1945 August 6 | Event | First Atom omb dropped on Hiroshima | by the crew of the "Enola Gay". |
| 1945 August 9 | Event | Nagasaki bombed by second atom bomb. | |
| 1945 July 16 | Event | 1st Atomic Explosion | at Trinity Site, Alamogrodo in New Mexico, |
| 1945 June 26 | Event | UN Charter is signed | by 50 nations in San Francisco. |
| 1945 May 23 | Event | Lord Haw-Haw arrested on Danish boundary. | |
| 1945 May 8 | Event | Germany surrenders | thus ending the second world war in Europe. |
| 1945 November 21 | Event | The Nuremberg Trials commence | where the War Crimes of Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop and Streicher, amongst others were tried. The trials lasted for 218 days. |
| 1945 October 21 | Event | Women allowed to vote in France | for the first time. |
| 1945 October 24 | Event | United Nations Charter | goes into effect. |
| 1945 September 02 | Event | V-J Day | Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri. |
| 1946 April 21 | Event | Syria gains independence | from France |
| 1946 May 26 | Event | US patent filed for H-Bomb | |
| 1947 October 14 | Event | First supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager | He attains Mach 1.015 at an altitude of 12,800m |
| 1949 April 4 | Event | Formation of North Atlantic Treaty | Eleven countries initially signed the treaty in Washington |
| 1949 August 29 | Event | Russia explodes their first atomic bomb | and so started the cold war? |
| 1950 April 18 | Event | First Trans-Atlantic passenger jet trip. | |
| 1950 April 9 | Event | Bob Hope, Actor, makes first TV appearance. | |
| 1950 June 25 | Event | El Al commences air service. | |
| 1950 October 2 | Event | Peanuts the cartoon strip premiers | in nine different newspapers. |
| 1951 June 14 | Event | UNIVAC revealed for the first time | The first Computer? |
| 1951 September 20 | Event | First crossing of the North Pole by Jet aircraft. | |
| 1952 November 1 | Event | Explosion of the 1st Hydrogen bomb | at Eniwetok Atoll on the pacific. |
| 1953 July 26 | Event | Fidel castro starts revolution | against Batista. |
| 1953 October 22 | Event | Laos gains full independance | from France. |
| 1954 April 12 | Event | Bill Halley records "Rock around the Clock" | The frst record to sell more than a million in the UK. |
| 1954 May 6 | Event | Roger Bannister of Britain breaks four minute mile | in a time of 3:59:04 |
| 1955 April 15 | Event | MacDonalds open the first shop | in California. |
| 1957 August 23 | Event | Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) | is formed. |
| 1958 May 31 | Event | US Perform atmospheric Nuclear test | at Bikini Island. |
| 1958 October 2 | Event | Gunea gains Independance | |
| 1959 December 14 | Event | Shortest Murder trial in England takes place | The shortest murder trial in British legal history took place. In 30 seconds at Winchester Assizes, Brian Cawley pleaded guilty to murder of Rupert Steed and was later sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 1959 March 17 | Event | The Dalai Lama flees Tibet | for India due to troubles in the country. |
| 1959 May 24 | Event | Empire Day renamed Commenwealth Day | in England. |
| 1959 May 30 | Event | Testing of Hovercraft (SR-N1) | The worlds first at Cowes in England. |
| 1959 October 7 | Event | First photographs of the far side of the moon | taken by Luna 3. |
| 1960 April 11 | Event | Satellite Tiros 1 Launched | The first weather satellite. |
| 1960 August 20 | Event | Three dogs are carried into Orbit | by Sputnik 5 |
| 1961 April 11 | Event | Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins | in Israel. |
| 1961 April 12 | Event | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in Space | after his flight in the Russian Vostok 1 craft. |
| 1961 August 13 | Event | Berlin Wall erected in East Germany | |
| 1962 December 14 | Event | First close up pictures of Venus recieved | when US Mariner II sent the pictures of the planet back to earth. |
| 1962 June 27 | Event | X-15 plane flies | at 4105 MPH |
| 1962 October 18 | Event | Watson, Crick and Wilkins get Nobel Prize for Medicine | for their work on the structure of DNA. |
| 1963 July 25 | Event | USA, Russia and England sign | nuclear test ban treaty. |
| 1963 June 21 | Event | Pope Paul VI | elected (Giovanni Battista Montini) |
| 1963 June 27 | Event | X-15 plane flies | over 87km high. Robert Rushworth at the controls. |
| 1963 June 4 | Event | Minister of War John Profumo resigns | over Christine Keeler affair. |
| 1963 May 3 | Event | Martin Luther King Jr delivers speach | "I have a dream...." |
| 1963 November 22 | Event | John F. Kennedy assasinated | as he was driven in an open car on his official visit to Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was subsequently charged with the murder. |
| 1963 November 22 | Event | Boxer Mike Tyson becomes the youngest heavyweight champ | when he beats Trevor Berbick in a fight in Las Vegas lasting just two rounds. |
| 1964 April 13 | Event | Sidney Piotier wins an Oscar | for best actor in "Lillies in the Field" the first black actor to do so. |
| 1964 October 24 | Event | Zambia gains independance | from Britain. |
| 1964 September 27 | Event | Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone | decides the Warren Commission. |
| 1965 October 28 | Event | Jews not collectivelty guilty of crucifixion | says Pope Paul VI. |
| 1966 April 3 | Event | USSR Spacecraft Luna 10 orbits moon for the first time | |
| 1967 April 17 | Event | Surveyor 3 is Launched | for the moon it lands on April 20th |
| 1967 April 8 | Event | Sandy Shaw wins Eurovision Song Contest | Barefoot with a rendition of "Puppet on a String" |
| 1967 April 9 | Event | First Boeing 747 Aircraft rolls off production line. | |
| 1967 June 12 | Event | End of the Six Days War | Israel win. |
| 1967 June 4 | Event | Start of six days war | between Israel and Arab neighbours. |
| 1968 April 18 | Event | London bridge is sold to Robert McCullough. | The Oil Tycoon buys the old bridge for £1 million and has it re-built at Lake Havasu in the USA. |
| 1968 August 22 | Event | Soviet Union invade Czechoslovakia. | |
| 1969 April 9 | Event | First flight of Concorde 002 | from Filton-Bristol airfield. |
| 1969 August 16 | Event | Start of the Woodstock musical festival | in the United States. |
| 1969 July 20 | Event | First Men to land on the moon | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin establish Tranquility base at 09:18 GMT. |
| 1969 May 10 | Event | Appolo 10 transmits first colour pictures | to Earth from Space. |
| 1969 May 11 | Event | Monty Python Commedy Troupe forms. | |
| 1970 April 13 | Event | Appolo 13 announces "Houston we've got a problem" | after a Beech-built oxygen tank explodes. Roumer has it that the actual transmittion was "Houston we have had a problem" when the astronaughts failed to hear the explosion due to listening to classical music at high volume in the capsule! |
| 1970 April 17 | Event | Appolo 13 lands safely after a bad mission! | |
| 1970 April 9 | Event | The Beatles split up | Paul McCartney officially anounces the split. |
| 1970 October 8 | Event | Alexander Solzhenitsyn gets Nobel Prize | for Literature. |
| 1971 April 22 | Event | Soyuz 10 Launched | |
| 1971 April 29 | Event | Launch of Salyut 1 | First Space Station. |
| 1971 July 30 | Event | Apollo 15 lands | on Mare Imbrium. |
| 1972 April 16 | Event | Launch of Apollo 16 | 5th Lunar Landing at Descartes Highlands. |
| 1972 September 4 | Event | Seven Olympic medals are won by Mark Spitz | at swimming. He is the first person ever to do this feat. |
| 1973 April 5 | Event | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter | |
| 1973 December 14 | Event | John Paul Getty II released by kidnappers | when the teenage grandson of the oil tycoon, was set free by his Italian kidnappers after part of his ear had been cut off and sent by post, together with a ransom note demanding $750,000 which was paid by his grandfather. |
| 1973 October 24 | Event | Yom Kippur War ends | |
| 1973 September 23 | Event | Largest known prime number is calculated | and it is..... (2^132,049 -1) so there you go! |
| 1974 April 5 | Event | The then tallest building in the world opens, The WTC | Both towers of which were brought down by terrorist action on 11th September 2001 with a loss of aproximately 3000 lives. |
| 1974 August 9 | Event | President Nixon resigns | after Watergate affair. |
| 1974 August 9 | Event | President Nixon resigns | after Watergate affair. |
| 1974 September 12 | Event | Emperor Haile Selassie of Etheopia os overthrown. | |
| 1974 September 16 | Event | president Ford announces provisional amnesty | for deserters during the Vietnam war. |
| 1975 April 30 | Event | US forces leave Vietnam | after Saigon surrenders. |
| 1975 June 11 | Event | Oil pumped from the North Sea for the first time | to Great britain. |
| 1976 July 4 | Event | Raid on Entebbe | Israel rescues 229 Air france passengers. |
| 1977 June 10 | Event | Apple ship forst Apple II computer | |
| 1977 June 10 | Event | Apple ships first Apple II computer | |
| 1977 June 4 | Event | Apple II, first personal computer | goes on sale for the first time. |
| 1978 October 16 | Event | Pole Karol Wojtyla elected Pope | John-Paul II |
| 1979 June 12 | Event | First man powered flight across English Channel | as Bryan Allen flew "Gossamer Albatros" across in 2 hrs and 49 mins. |
| 1979 May 3 | Event | margaret Thather becomes 1sy female Prime Minister | in England. |
| 1979 September 24 | Event | Compuserve starts service | as the first public computer information service. |
| 1980 April 18 | Event | Aimbabwe declares independence from the UK. | Formerly Southern Rodesia |
| 1980 April 23 | Event | US Mission to save hostages in Iran fails, | 52 Hostages in total but 8 die in the operation. |
| 1980 January 25 | Event | Paul McCartney | Deported from Japan for importing marijuana.
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| 1980 March 27 | Event | The Alexander Kieland oil rig collapsed | |
| 1980 March 4 | Event | Robert Mugabe | Elected 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, aged 52.
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| 1980 May 5 | Event | Iranian embassy siege ends | SAS storm London embassy, 5 of the 6 terrorists shot dead
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| 1980 November 18 | Event | Voyager discovered the 15th moon of Saturn | |
| 1980 October 11 | Event | Earthquake in El Asnam, Algeria | 20,000 die
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| 1981 April 10 | Event | IRA Hunger Striker Bobby Sands elected | to English Parliament. |
| 1981 April 12 | Event | Maiden Voyage of Space Shuttle Columbia | Starting the USA's era of nearly re-useable space craft. |
| 1981 April 14 | Event | 1st Space shuttle Columbia returns to Earth | after a successful mission. |
| 1981 April 23 | Event | IBM Introduce the IBM-PC | |
| 1981 April 3 | Event | Brixton Riots | Youths riot in the suberb of Brixton, South London, starting fires, throwing petrol bombs, looting and attacking police. |
| 1982 April 5 | Event | British task force sets sail | to recover the Falkland Islands from an invasionary Argentinian occupation force. |
| 1982 June 12 | Event | Battle of Mount Longdon | in the Falklands conflict. |
| 1982 June 14 | Event | Britain wins the Falklands conflict | and regains the Iselands from the Argentinians. |
| 1982 June 17 | Event | Ronald Reagan delivers "Evil Empire" speach. | |
| 1982 May 26 | Event | Atlantic Conveyor and HMS Coventry hit | during the Falklands conflict. |
| 1983 April 5 | Event | Maiden voyage of STS Space Shuttle Challenger | |
| 1983 April 9 | Event | Jenny Pitman wins the Grand National | and becomes the first woman to train a winner with horse Corbiere. |
| 1983 June 13 | Event | Pioneer 10 leavs the solar system | and is the first man-made object to achieve this feat. |
| 1983 June 18 | Event | Sally Ride becomes first woman in space | on board Challenger. |
| 1983 November 26 | Event | Brinks Mat robbery occurs in England | The Brinks Mat security warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed of £25 million worth of gold bars weighing three tons. It was the biggest UK bank heist and none of the gold has ever been recovered. |
| 1984 April 23 | Event | Aids Virus identified | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| 1984 April 6 | Event | Shuttle Mission 41-C-Challenger 5 launched | The 11th space shuttle mission. |
| 1984 October 11 | Event | First Woman walkes in Space | Kathy Sullivan makes the walk. |
| 1984 September 18 | Event | First solo crossin of the Atlantic by Balloon | undertaken by Joe Kittinger. |
| 1985 June 11 | Event | Vega I lands on Venus | for the Russians. |
| 1985 May 11 | Event | Bradford City football stadium fire | kills 40 and injures 150 more. |
| 1985 October 16 | Event | Introduction of the 32-bit 80386 processor | by Intel Corporation. |
| 1986 April 26 | Event | Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in Russia Leaks | Causing a massive radiation problem. |
| 1986 April 8 | Event | Clint Eastwood elected Mayor | of Carmel California. |
| 1986 May 25 | Event | Live Aid benefit concert | watched by 30,000,000 people. |
| 1989 April 10 | Event | Intel announce shipping of new 80-486 chip. | |
| 1989 April 5 | Event | Solidarity granted legal status in Poland | |
| 1989 April 7 | Event | A Soviet Nuclear Sub Sinks | off the coast of Norway after catching fire. Loss of 40 lives. |
| 1990 April 24 | Event | Hubble Space Telescope put into orbit | by Shuttle Discovery. |
| 1990 August 2 | Event | Invasion of Kuwait | by Saddam Hussein of Iraq. |
| 1991 April 22 | Event | Intel release 486sx | Processor Chip. |
| 1991 September 19 | Event | Man's body found on Alpine Glacier | after 5,300 years! |
| 1992 April 6 | Event | Microsoft Corporation announce Windows 3.1 | Which upgrades Windows 3.0! |
| 1992 April 6 | Event | Serbian troops start siege of Sarajevo | |
| 1993 April 24 | Event | IRA 100kg bomb explosion | in London killing one person. |
| 1993 April 25 | Event | Boris Yeltsin wins election | The first ever Russian democratic election. |
| 1993 September 7 | Event | South African Government agrees to Power-share with Blacks | and began to dismantle Anti-Apartheit |
| 1994 April 8 | Event | Unveiling of restored fresco in the Cistine Chapel | Michaelangelos work is restored in an "incredible" result. |
| 2002 April 9 | Event | Burial of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | Queen Mother |
