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===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; The [[Territorial Force]] (renamed [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dennis |first=Peter |date=1987 |title=The Territorial Army: 1906-1940 |url=https://archive.org/details/territorialarmy10000denn/page/14/mode/2up |publisher=Boydell Press |page=14 |isbn=0861932080}}</ref>
*[[1918]] &ndash; The [[Royal Air Force]] is created by the merger of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] and the [[Royal Naval Air Service]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/raftimeline19181929.cfm |title=RAF Timeline 1918-1929 |website=Royal Air Force |access-date=15 February 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812113116/http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/raftimeline19181929.cfm |archive-date=12 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; In newly formed [[Northern Ireland]], six Catholics are murdered in the [[Arnon Street killings]], one week after six others were killed in the  [[McMahon killings]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/10/27/the-dead-of-the-belfast-pogrom-counting-the-cost-of-the-revolutionary-period-1920-22/comment-page-1/ |title=The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom |last=Glennon |first=Kieran |date=27 October 2020 |website=The Irish Story |publisher= |access-date=25 March 2024 |quote=}}</ref> 
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[Adolf Hitler]] is sentenced to five years [[Festungshaft|fortress confinement]] for his participation in the "[[Beer Hall Putsch]]" but spends only nine months in jail.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fulda |first=Bernhard |date=2009 |title=Press and Politics in the Weimar Republic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=StNY-71yVXQC |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=69 |isbn=9780191563263}}</ref>
*  1924   &ndash; The [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] is formed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=Leslie |date=1959 |title=There Shall Be Wings: A History of the Royal Canadian Air Force |url=https://archive.org/details/thereshallbewing0000robe/page/54/mode/2up |location=Toronto |publisher=[[Clarke, Irwin & Company]] |page=55 |isbn=9781013416767}}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; The recently elected [[Nazism|Nazis]] under [[Julius Streicher]] organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of [[antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] acts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/julius-streicher-biography |title=Julius Streicher: Biography |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; India's central banking institution, the [[Reserve Bank of India]], is formed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rbi.org.in/history/Brief_History.html |title=Brief History |website=Reserve Bank of India |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Aden]] becomes a British [[crown colony]].
*  1937   &ndash; The [[Royal New Zealand Air Force]] is formed as an independent service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/rnzaf |title=Royal New Zealand Air Force |website=New Zealand History |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; Spanish Civil War: [[Generalissimo|Generalísimo]] [[Francisco Franco]] of the [[Francoist Spain|Spanish State]] announces the end of the [[Spanish Civil War]], when the last of the [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republican]] forces surrender.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holguín |first1=Sandie |date=December 2015 |title=How Did the Spanish Civil War End? ... Not So Well |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43697076 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=120 |issue=5 |pages=1767–1783 |doi=10.1093/ahr/120.5.1767 |jstor=43697076 |access-date=17 March 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Fântâna Albă massacre]]: Between two hundred and two thousand [[Romanians|Romanian]] civilians are killed by [[Soviet Border Troops]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/75-years-since-the-romanian-katyn-massacre-at-fantana-alba-3000-romanians-killed/ |title=75 Years Since 'The Romanian Katyn' Massacre At Fântâna Albă{{snd}}3,000 Romanians Killed |last=Lupu |first=Victor |date=1 April 2016 |website=Romania Journal |access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*  1941   &ndash; A [[1941 Iraqi coup d'état|military coup]] in [[Iraq]] overthrows the regime of [['Abd al-Ilah]] and installs [[Rashid Ali al-Gaylani]] as [[Prime Minister of Iraq|Prime Minister]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/coup.htm |last=Scott |first=James C |title=The Coup |work=Iraqi Coup |publisher=California State University, Sacramento |date=9 August 2001 |access-date=17 March 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024000835/http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/coup.htm |archive-date=24 October 2007}}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Navigation errors lead to an [[Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II#Schaffhausen|accidental American bombing]] of the Swiss city of [[Schaffhausen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/during-world-war-ii-america-accidently-bombed-switzerland-20077 |title=During World War II, America Accidently Bombed Switzerland |last=Peck |first=Michael |date=8 April 2017 |website=The National Interest |access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Tenth United States Army]] [[Battle of Okinawa|attacks]] the [[Thirty-Second Army (Japan)|Thirty-Second Japanese Army]] on [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Appleman |first1=Roy E. |last2=Burns |first2=James M. |last3=Gugeler |first3=Russel A. |last4=Stevens |first4=John |date=2000 |title=Okinawa: The Last Battle |url=http://www.history.army.mil/BOOKS/WWII/OKINAWA/chapter3.htm |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |page=68 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114000303/http://www.history.army.mil/BOOKS/WWII/OKINAWA/chapter3.htm |archive-date=14 January 2012}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; The 8.6 {{M|w}} [[1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake|Aleutian Islands earthquake]] shakes the [[Aleutian Islands]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VI (''Strong''). A destructive [[tsunami]] reaches the [[Hawaiian Islands]] resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in [[Hilo, Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1946/webpages/ |title=1946 Aleutian Tsunami |website=USC Thunami Research Group |access-date=17 March 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016033328/http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/alaska/1946/webpages/ |archive-date=16 October 2014}}</ref>
*  1946   &ndash; The [[Malayan Union]] is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the [[Federation of Malaya]] two years later.<ref>{{Cite web |last=PeKhabar |date=2016-04-01 |title=Penubuhan Malayan Union |url=https://pekhabar.com/h-i-d-s-penubuhan-malayan-union/ |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=PeKhabar |language=ms-MY}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; The only [[1947 Royal New Zealand Navy mutinies|mutiny]] in the history of the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]] begins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/post-war-1970/mutiny-at-hmnzs-philomel/ |title=Mutiny at HMNZS Philomel |website=Torpedo Bay Navy Museum |date=16 October 2015 |access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the ''[[Deutsche Mark]]'' by attempting to [[Berlin Blockade|force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Roger G. |date=2000 |title=To Save a City: The Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949 |url=https://archive.org/details/tosavecityberlin0000mill_b0n4/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater |location=College Station, TX |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |page=20 |isbn=9780890969670}}</ref>
*  1948   &ndash; [[Faroe Islands]] gain [[self-governance|autonomy]] from Denmark.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pomfret |first1=Richard |title=The Economic Integration of Europe |date=8 June 2021 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-24413-9 |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i14lEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA200 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Chinese Civil War]]: The [[Chinese Communist Party]] holds unsuccessful peace talks with the [[Kuomintang|Nationalist Party]] in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
*  1949   &ndash; The [[Government of Canada]] repeals [[Internment of Japanese Canadians|Japanese-Canadian internment]] after seven years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Adachi |first=Ken |date=1976 |title=The Enemy That Never Was |url=https://archive.org/details/enemythatneverwa0000adac/page/346/mode/2up |location=Toronto |publisher=McClelland and Stewart |page=346}}</ref>
*[[1954]] &ndash; United States President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] authorizes the creation of the [[United States Air Force Academy]] in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].<ref>{{cite news |date=2 April 1954 |title=Air Force Academy Act Signed by Eisenhower |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9G8pAAAAIBAJ&pg=6899%2C3318710 |work=The Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, WA |access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[EOKA]] rebellion against the British Empire begins in [[Cyprus]], with the goal of unifying with [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite book |last=French |first=David |date=2015 |title=Fighting EOKA: The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rrvuBgAAQBAJ |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=71 |isbn=9780198729341}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; The [[Television Infrared Observation Satellite|TIROS-1]] [[satellite]] transmits the [[:File:TIROS-1-Earth.png|first television picture from space]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/136061mainbmtiros3jpg |title=First Television Picture of Earth from Space, 1960 |website=National Air and Space Museum |date=April 2020 |access-date=17 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|British Admiralty]], [[War Office]] and [[Air Ministry]] are replaced by a unified [[Defence Council of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/15|title=Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964}}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; The [[Hawker Siddeley Harrier]], the first operational [[fighter aircraft]] with [[Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing]] capabilities, enters service with the [[Royal Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/aircraft-month/hawker-siddeley-harrier |title=Hawker Siddeley Harrier |date=April 2008 |website=Tangmere Military Aviation Museum |access-date=17 March 2023 |archive-date=17 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317171910/https://www.tangmere-museum.org.uk/aircraft-month/hawker-siddeley-harrier |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; President [[Richard Nixon]] signs the [[Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act]] into law.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.byrdcenter.org/blog/the-public-health-cigarette-smoking-act-of-1970 |title=The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1970 |last=Brumage |first=Jody |date=25 July 2017 |website=Robert C. Byrd Center |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>
*1970   &ndash; A [[Royal Air Maroc]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle]] [[1970 Berrechid Royal Air Maroc Caravelle crash|crashes]] near [[Berrechid]], Morocco, killing 61.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III CN-CCV Berrechid |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700401-1 |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]: The [[Pakistan Army]] [[Jinjira massacre|massacre]] more than a thousand people in [[Keraniganj Upazila]], [[Bangladesh]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Project Tiger]], a [[tiger]] conservation project, is launched in the [[Jim Corbett National Park]], India.
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[Local Government Act 1972]] of England and Wales comes into effect.<ref>{{Cite legislation UK |type=act |year=1972 |chapter=70 |act=Local Government Act 1972 |section=1 |date=1972 |accessdate=20 March 2023}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]] found [[Apple Computer|Apple Computer, Inc]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apple Fast Facts|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/business/apple-fast-facts/index.html|access-date=12 January 2022|website=CNN|date=July 2014}}</ref> 
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Iran]] becomes an [[Islamic republic]] [[1979 Iranian Islamic Republic referendum|by a 99% vote]], officially overthrowing the [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]].<ref>{{cite news |date=1 April 1979 |title=Fighting Is Renewed By Iran Tribesmen |work=The Commercial Appeal |page=2 |location=Memphis, Tennessee}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; Singer [[Marvin Gaye]] is [[Killing of Marvin Gaye|shot to death]] by [[Marvin Gay Sr.|his father]] in his home in [[Arlington Heights, Los Angeles|Arlington Heights]], Los Angeles, California.<ref name=gaye>{{Cite web |title=The tragic story of Marvin Gaye and the untimely death of a soul legend |url=https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/marvin-gaye/marvin-gaye-death-father-explained/ |access-date=31 March 2022 |website=Smooth |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal)]] cadres [[Sector Kanda|attack]] a number of police stations in [[Kathmandu]], seeking to incite a popular rebellion.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Malone |editor-first=David M |editor-last2=von Einsiedel |editor-first2=Sebastian |editor-last3=Pradhan |editor-first3=Suman |date=2012 |title=Nepal in Transition: From People's War to Fragile Peace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HyZ03y3S6eEC |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=71 |isbn=9781107005679}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s new [[local government]] tax, the [[Poll tax (Great Britain)|Community Charge]] (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in [[Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/poll-tax-glasgow-biggest-battle-12956258 |title=Fighting the poll tax - a look back at one of Glasgow's biggest battles captured in photos |last=Russell |first=Jennifer |date=1 April 2019 |website=GlasgowLive |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[NASCAR]] racer [[Alan Kulwicki]] is killed in a [[1993 Tennessee Fairchild Merlin crash|plane crash]] near the [[Tri-Cities Regional Airport]] in [[Blountville, Tennessee]].<ref name="ntsb">{{cite web |author= |date=16 March 1994 |title=National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Accident Final Report |url=https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001211X12077&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=MA |access-date=24 October 2017 |website=app.ntsb.gov |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=ATL93MA068 |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201030501/https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001211X12077&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=MA |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Comet Hale–Bopp]] is seen passing at [[perihelion]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/c-1995-o1-hale-bopp/in-depth/ |title=C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) |website=solarsystem.nasa.gov |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Nunavut]] is established as a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Canadian territory]] carved out of the eastern part of the [[Northwest Territories]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ntassembly.ca/visitors/creation-new-nwt |title=Creation of a New Northwest Territories |website=Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories |date=6 November 2012 |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; An [[EP-3E]] [[United States Navy]] [[surveillance aircraft]] [[Hainan Island incident|collides]] with a Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] [[Shenyang J-8]] [[fighter jet]]. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in [[Hainan]], China and is detained.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/04/01/us.china.plane.03/ |title=U.S. aircraft collides with Chinese fighter, forced to land |date=1 April 2001 |website=CNN |access-date=14 February 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211063330/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/04/01/us.china.plane.03/ |archive-date=11 December 2008}}</ref>
*  2001   &ndash; Former [[President of Yugoslavia|President]] of [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] [[Slobodan Milošević]] surrenders to police [[special forces]], to be tried on [[war crime]]s charges.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Yale Journal of International Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TupKAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Yale Law School|page=334}}</ref>
*  2001   &ndash; [[Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands|Same-sex marriage]] becomes legal in the [[Netherlands]], the [[Timeline of same-sex marriage|first]] contemporary country to allow it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/01/sm.10.html |title=Same-Sex Marriage Legalized in Amsterdam |date=1 April 2001 |website=CNN Transcripts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221411/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/01/sm.10.html |access-date=14 February 2023|archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Google]] launches its [[Email]] service [[Gmail]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Petrova |first1=Magdalena |last2=Elias |first2=Jennifer |date=26 October 2019 |title=Google's rocky path to email domination |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/gmail-dominates-consumer-email-with-1point5-billion-users.html |access-date=31 March 2022 |website=CNBC}}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Serious Organised Crime Agency]] (SOCA) of the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] is enforced, but later merged into [[National Crime Agency]] on 7 October 2013.
*[[2011]] &ndash; After protests against the [[Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy#2011 burning of the Quran|burning of the Quran]] turn violent, a mob attacks a [[United Nations]] compound in [[2011 Mazar-i-Sharif attack|Mazar-i-Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]], resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-04-02 |title=Afghanistan: Deadly Kandahar protest at Koran burning |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12944851 |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; The [[2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]] begins along the [[Line of Contact (Nagorno-Karabakh)|Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/83600 |title=12-year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan killed in Azeri shelling |date=2 April 2016 |website=Horizon |access-date=14 February 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404222825/http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/83600 |archive-date=4 April 2016}}</ref>