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About this book
As one of Britain’s leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the most impact on the world today from the fall of the Berlin Wall to stepping onto the Moon.
News-breaking stories as told from The Times with commentary setting each event in context. Historian and editor, James Owens, has scoured The Times archive to bring front pages from the days after world changing events along with insightful articles published at the time.
The global events covered include;
• Assassination of JFK
• Release from prison of Nelson Mandela
• Armistice Day: First World War ends
• VE Day: Second World War ends
• First telephone call in 1876
• European revolutions of 1848
• Suez canal opens in 1869
• First personal computer 1977
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INDEX
Aberdeen, Earl of
Aberfan
Africa
North
African National Congress (ANC)
Ağca, Mehmet Ali
Ahern, Bertie
Akhenaten
Al-Fayed, Dodi
Al-Qaeda
Alamein
Albert, Prince
Aldrin, Buzz
Alexander III
Alexandra, Queen
Alice, Princess
Allen, Neil
Allies (First World War)
Allies (Second World War)
Alphand, M.
America
see also United States
American Civil War
Amery, Leo
Amundsen, Captain Roald
Anne, Princess
Antarctica
Apollo 11 mission
Arafat, Yasser
Arden, Lord
Argentina
Arizona ship
Armett, Sergeant R. J.
Armistice
Armstrong, Neil
Asquith, Herbert
Astor, Nancy
Astor, Waldorf
Atlantic
first solo flight across the
Attlee, Clement
Australia
Austria
Axis powers
Baghdad
Baird, John Logie
Balaklava
Baldwin, Stanley
Banana, Canaan
Bannerman, Charles
Bannister, R. G.
Barcelona
Barrington-Ward, V. M.
Barrow, Clyde
Bastille, fall of the
Bayeux, liberation
Beach Boys
Beatles
Belayeff, General
Belgium
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bellingham, John
Berger, M.
Berlin
Berlin airlift
B...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Georgian Times
- The Age of Victoria
- The Edwardian Era
- The Great War
- The Twenties and Thirties
- The Second World War
- From Austerity to Astronauts
- The Seventies and Eighties
- Modern Times
- Index
- About the Publisher