Major Global Incidents (History to Present)
List of major global incidents along with their corresponding dates: September 11, 2001 – 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, USA. December 26, 2004 – Indian Ocean Tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters. March 11, 2011 – TÅhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, leading to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. November 9, 1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the end of the Cold War. April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). October 24, 1929 – Wall Street Crash, leading to the Great Depression. August 6, 1945 – Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during WWII. July 20, 1969 – Apollo 11 Moon Landing, first humans to walk on the moon. November 22, 1963 – Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, USA. June 28, 1914 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sparking World War I. October 1, 1949 – Founding of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong. December 7, 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor, USA, lead...