TREATY OF VERSILE TO BERLIN 1919 AD: Treaty of Versailles signed in Paris. 1920 AD: League of Nations comes formally into existence (Jan 13). 1924 AD: Death of Lenin. 1933 AD: Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. 1939 AD: World War II declared (Sept 1). 1941 AD: Hitler invades Russia. The USA enters World War II (June 22). Japan attacks Pearl Harbour ( Dec 7). 1942 AD: Battle of El Alamein. 1945 AD: Death of President E. D. Roosevelt of U.S.A (Apr 12); End of World War II against Germany officially declared ( June 8); First Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) (Aug 6); Second Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Japan) (Aug 9); United Nations comes into existence; The U.N. Charter comes into force (Oct 24). 1948 AD: Burma achieves independence (Jan 14); Ceylon achieves independence (Feb 6); Jewish State of Israel formed in Palestine (May 14); The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1949 AD: Indonesia declared a Republic (Aug 17). 1952 AD: Accession of Queen Elizabeth II of England. 1953 AD: Death of Stalin (Mar 6); First Conquest of Mt Everest by Tenjing Norge and Edmond Hillary. 1954 AD: USA signs Military Aid Pact with Pakistan. 1955 AD: Austria declared independent (May 15). 1956 AD: Suez Canal nationalised by President Nasser (July 20). 1957 AD: Russia launches the first artificial satellite “Sputnik” (Oct 4). 1959 AD: Charles de Gaulle installed as France’s 17th President and the first President of the fifth Republic of France (Jan 8). 1960 AD: France explodes an atom bomb device in the Sahara (Africa) (Feb 13); John F. Kennedy elected President of the U.S.A. (Nov 9). 1961 AD: Man’s first entry into space. USSR successfully launches her spaceship “VOSTOK- I” carrying for the first time a human being Major Yuri Gagarin into space (Apr 12). 1962 AD: Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty between US-USSR signed (Aug 5). 1963 AD: Malaysia, a new South-Asian State, formed (Sept 16); President John F. Kennedy of USA shot dead (Nov 22). 1964 AD: China explodes her first atom bomb device (Oct 16). 1965 AD: Lyndon B. Johnson inaugurated as 36th President of USA (Jan 20); Death of Sir Winston Churchill (Jan 24); Singapore becomes sovereign independent nation (Aug 9). 1966 AD: Tashkent Declaration between India and Pakistan signed (Jan 10); Luna- 9, a Russian spacecraft, softlands on the moon (Feb 24). . 1967 AD: Gen. Suharto sworn in as President of Indonesia (March 12); Arab- Israel War (June 5); China conducts hydrogen bomb test (June 17); The U.N. General Assembly approves Outer Space Treaty (Dec 20). 1968 AD: UNCTAD-II opens in New Delhi on Feb 1; Martin Luther King, American black leader, assassinated (April 4); The U.N. approves Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (June 12); Five Warsaw Pact Powers (East Germany, Poland, U.S.S.R. Bulgaria and Hungary) invade Czechoslovakia (Aug 21). 1969 AD: Richard Nixon becomes 37th President of U.S.A. (Jan 20); Ayub Khan hands over power to Yahya Khan in Pakistan (March 25); Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon (July 21). 1970 AD: China becomes fifth space power (April 25); Russo-German Non-aggression Treaty (Aug 8); Fiji achieves independence (Oct 10). 1971 AD: Pakistan starts genocide in Bangladesh (March 25); Apollo-15 launched. Man’s first drive on the moon (July 26); India and the Soviet Union sign 20-year treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation (Aug 9); U.N. expels Taiwan, replaces it with the People’s Republic of China (Oct 26); Indo-Pak War (Dec 3-17). Pakistan thoroughly defeated and Bangladesh becomes new nation. 1972 AD: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman released (Jan 8) and assumes Prime Ministership of Bangladesh Republic (Jan 12); Pioneer-10 launched towards Jupiter (March 3); Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka Republic (May 22). 1973 AD: Fourth Arab- Israel war breaks out (Oct 6); Second ceasefire takes effect in West Asia (Oct 24). 1974 AD: UN accords observer status to PLO (Nov 24); Malta becomes a republic (Dec 14). 1975 AD: China announces new Constitution (Jan 19); Cambodian Government surrenders to Red forces (April 17); South Vietnam surrenders to NLF and North Vietnam forces (April 30); Suez Canal reopened (June 5); Mozambique achieves independence (June 25); Apollo and Soyuz dock in space (July 17); U.S.A. launches Viking-I spaceship to look for life on Mars (Aug. 20); Egypt and Israel sign Sinai pact (Sept 4). 1976 AD: Death of Chou En-lai, Prime Minister of China (Jan 8); Death of Mao Tse-tung (Sept 9). 1977 AD: Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th President of the USA (Jan 20); Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, elected President of the Soviet Union (June 16); Army take-over in Pakistan, Gen Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq, the army Chief, topples Bhutto in a bloodless coup (July 5); USA and Panama reach agreement on control over Panama Canal (Aug. 10). 1978 AD: Israel-Egypt peace conference (Jan 17); Israel and Egypt reach accord at Camp David (Sept 18). 1979 AD: Shah of Iran quits his country (Jan 16); Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed President of Iran (Feb 12); China invades Vietnam (Feb 17); Z.A. Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, executed (April 4); Conservatives swept to power in Britain, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Britain (May 4); Russian troops enter Kabul (Dec 27). 1980 AD: Rhodesia achieves independence and named Zimbabwe (April 18); Undeclared war starts between Iraq and Iran (Sept 22). 1981 AD: Ronald Reagan sworn in as the 40th President of the U.S.A. (Jan 20); The USA launches space shuttle “Columbia” (April 12); Nepal goes to the polls in its first general election in 22 years (May 9); Iraqi nuclear reactor destroyed in Israeli attack (June 8); President Sadat of Egypt assassinated (Oct 6). 1981 AD: Lt. Gen H.M. Ershad, the Bangladesh army chief, seizes power in a bloodless coup (March 24). 1982 AD: Canada’s new Constitution comes into force (April 18); Argentina forces in Falklands surrender (June 14). 1983 AD: Jayewardene takes over as Sri Lanka’s first elected President (Feb 4); Democracy starts functioning in Thailand after 51 years of military domination (April 25); South-Asian Regional Conference (SAARC) opens in New Delhi (Aug 1); A.S. Korean Jumbo Jet Airlines Boeing 747, carrying 269 p a s s e n g e r s , shot down by the Soviet Union for violating the Soviet airspace (Sep 1). 1984 AD: Egypt resumes d i p l o m a t i c relations with Soviet Union (June 29); China and Britain sign agreement to return Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997 (Sept 26). 1985 AD: Pakistan’s first civilian government in eight years, headed by Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo, is sworn in (April 11); More than 20,000 people die as volcano erupts in Colombia (Nov 14). 1986 AD: The US Space Shuttle, Challenger, explodes 45 seconds after take-off (Jan 28); More than 1800 people are killed in an earthquake in El Salvador. 1987 AD: India and Sri Lanka sign a historic peace accord to end the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka (July 29); Fiji is declared a de facto republic (Sept 29). 1988 AD: Pakistan and Afghanistan sign a US and USSR guaranteed accord to create conditions for Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan (April 14); 290 people are killed as USA downs Iranian plane (July 3); President Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan is killed in an air crash (Aug 17); Palestine State, with Jerusalem as its capital, declared (Nov 15); Benazir Bhutto takes over as Prime Minister of Pakistan (Dec 2). 1989 AD: First China-USSR summit in three decades is held in Beijing, China (May 15); Mikhail Gorbachov is elected first Executive President of USSR (May 25); Poland holds first democratic Parliamentary elections in Eastern Europe in more than 40 years (June 4) ; At least 3000 people are killed in firing by soldiers in Beijing, China (June 5); Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia formally ends (Sept 26). 1990 AD: Nelson Mandela is released by the government of South Africa after 27 years in prison (Feb 11); Namibia gets freedom (Mar 22); North and South Yemen merge into a unified Republic of Yemen (May 22); Inaugural session of G-15 summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 1); Iraq invades Kuwait (Aug 2); Asian Games open in Beijing, China (Sept 22); East and West Germany unite (Oct 3).
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