Milestones Of Peace

1795 Immanuel Kant published Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
1896 The First Modern Olympic Games
1928 The Discovery of Penicillin
1945 The Foundation of the United Nations
1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1953 The discovery of the double helix of D.N.A.
1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
1964 Racial discriminiation outlawed in America
1969 Niel Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
1979 The eradication of smallpox
1987 The Montreal Protocol bans CFCs and ends ozone layer depletion
1989 First public use of the Internet
1990 Germany is reunified as a result of the fall of the Berlin Wall
1994 The opening of the Channel Tunnel
1996 Establishment of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee
1998 Construction of the first international space station
1999 The Good Friday agreement comes into force
2003 The completion of the Human Genome Project
2004 Facebook is launched
2016 Switzerland marks 200 years of peace

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