Many Years Have Passed

Watt Letter Service is founded

Walt Disney Company founded

First Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France

First televisual image produce by Logie Baird

World population reaches 2 billion

First non-stop flight from New York to Paris

Wall Street crashes, bringing on the Great Depression which would be felt in Canada for the next decade

Uruguay hosts (and wins) the first FIFA World Cup

Construction is completed on the Empire State Building in New York City

Prohibition is abolished in the US

Bonnie and Clyde are shot to death in a police ambush

William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada

King Edward VIII abdicates

J. R. R. Tolkien publishes ‘The Hobbit’

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first feature-length animated movie to be released

DC Comics hero Superman has its first appearance

Ferrari founded in Modena, Italy

World War II begins

Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the UK

The Pentagon is completed

D-Day Landings in Normandy and the Liberation of Paris take place

End of WW II in Europe and Asia; Canada joins the United Nations

First pictures of the Earth taken from space

Jackie Robinson becomes the first baseball player of colour

George Orwell publishes ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

The actor James Dean dies in a car crash

The Space Age begins with the launch of Sputnik 1

NASA is formed, and the cassette tape is invented

The Beatles form in Liverpool

Yuri Gagarin, flying the Vostok 1 spacecraft as part of the Vostok program, becomes the first human in space

President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas

Canada celebrates 100 years

Both Martin Luther King Jnr (April) and Robert F. Kennedy (June) are assassinated

The Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York, attracts an audience of more than 400,000

The Beatles break up, and both Jimi Hendrix (September) and Janis Joplin (October) die

Jim Morrison and Louis Armstrong die within 3 days of each other

Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal

Microsoft founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen

The first Apple Computer is created

Elvis Presley dies from a heart attack at age 42

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female UK Prime Minister

John Lennon is assassinated

First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle; Bob Marley dies; AIDS epidemic officially starts in USA

Michael Jackson releases his landmark album Thriller, the best-selling album of all time

Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space; Marvin Gaye (April) and Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi are assassinated

Live Aid takes place in London and Philadelphia; Windows 1.0 is released

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds into its flight

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tim Berners-Lee publishes the first web site, which described the World Wide Web project

Premiere of Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film and the first Pixar Animation Studios film

Watt Solutions goes through rebranding, producing the tagline ‘Linking Data & Response’

9/11 terror attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon, USA

Facebook is formed by Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes

The first iPhone is released

Barack Obama is elected to become the first African-American President of the United States

The iPad is introduced; Instagram is launched

Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95

Watt Solutions undergoes rebranding incorporating the ‘Data • Mail • Print • Fulfillment’ taglline

Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States

‘Avengers: Endgame’ becomes the highest-grossing movie of all time

Kamala Harris becomes the first female, Black, and Asian vice president in U.S history