Adolf Hitler comes
to power in Germany
Germany invades
Poland
Starts WWII
(1939-1945)
France falls to
German invasion
Empire State Building
is completed
The Richter Scale
completed by
seismologist
Charles Richter
Precursor to first
computer is outlined
by Alan Turing
Xerography invented
by Chester Carlson
Nation of Islam
founded by Wallace
Ford Muhammad
Aldous Huxley,
Brave New World
Henry Miller,
Tropic of Cancer
Frank Lloyd Wright
builds Falling Water,
Bear Run, PA
Earnest Hemingway,
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Walter Benjamin writes
essay “The Work of Art
in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction”
Walker Evans and others document
America as part of New Deal
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
begins teaching at
the School of Design,
Chicago
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Japanese bombing of Pearl
Harbor brings USA into WWII
India gains independence
from Britain
First nuclear reactor
built by Enrico Fermi
Microwave oven invented
by Percy Spenser
The transistors is invented
at Bell Telephone Laboratories
Citizen Kane is
released in cinemas
John Paul Sartre,
Being and Nothingness
George Orwell,
Animal Farm
Anti-Communist HUAC
hearings in Hollywood
Matisse begins cut-paper
collage technique
Jean Dubuffet causes scandal with
exhibition at Galerie Rene Drouin
Alberto Giacometti
holds his first
post-war exhibition
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Korean War begins
Dwight Eisenhower
becomes US president
Treaty of Rome establishes
European Economic Union
Fidel Castro takes
power in Cuba
Francis Crick and James
Watson discover structure of DNA
Launch of Sputnik I,
first artificial satellite
Theodore Maiman
produces first laser
JD Salinger,
The Catcher
in the Rye
JRR Tolkein publishes
Lord of the Rings (Vol I)
Jack Keroac,
On the Road
Vladimir Nabokov,
Lolita
The Independent
Group begin
meeting in London
Jasper Johns begins
work on Flag
Hard-edged abstraction
debuts in Los Angeles
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East German
government
builds
Berlin Wall
John F. Kennedy assassinated.
LB Johnson becomes US president
Malcolm X
assassinated
Cultural Revolution
begins in China
Six Day War. Israel defeats
Egypt, Syria and Jordan
The Troubles begin
in Northern Ireland
US troops
invade Cambodia
Theodore Maiman produces
first laser
Yuri Gagarin becomes
first man in space
Broadcast of first transatlantic
television signals via satellite
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
discover cosmic background radiation
Christiaan Barnard
completes first successful
heart transplant
Neil Armstrong becomes
first man on moon
Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched
of the Earth
Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
Roy Lichtenstein stages
his first Pop art exhibition
Andy Warhol stages his
first Pop art exhibition
ADonald Judd publishes
essay “Specific Objects”
Joseph Kosuth creates
One and Three Chairs
Joseph Beuys performs
How to Explain
Pictures to a Dead Hare
“The Responsive Eye”
exhibition at MoMA
Valerie Solanas
shoots
Andy Warhol
Survey of Conceptual art,
“Information,” at MoMA, NY
Robert Smithson creates
Spiral Jetty
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