# The Detail Department timeline

814 dated events from 350 case files at https://detailenjoyer.com/. Every date is stated in its case file; approximate dates say so, and planned or projected events are labeled.
Interactive version: https://detailenjoyer.com/timeline/


## Deep Time

- **Millions of years ago**: Evaporation of a shallower Gulf of Mexico leaves the thick salt layers that feed today's brine pools · [DD-049 Dead Pools](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/dead-pools/index.md)
- **About 5 million years ago**: A Pliocene marine incursion likely leaves the seawater that becomes Blood Falls' brine · [DD-725 The Glacier That Bleeds](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glacier-that-bleeds/index.md)
- **about 32,000 years ago**: The most recent Red Sea incursion adds to the Danakil salts · [DD-055 Danakil Depression](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/danakil-depression/index.md)
- **around 19 BCE**: Herod the Great begins enlarging the Temple Mount platform, with its western retaining wall · [DD-673 The Wailing Wall](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-wailing-wall/index.md)
- **70 CE**: Roman forces destroy the Second Temple; the retaining walls largely survive · [DD-673 The Wailing Wall](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-wailing-wall/index.md)
- **70 CE**: Roman forces capture Jerusalem and destroy the Second Temple · [DD-690 Arch of Titus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/arch-of-titus/index.md)
- **71 CE**: Vespasian and Titus hold their triumph in Rome · [DD-690 Arch of Titus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/arch-of-titus/index.md)
- **81-82 CE**: Titus dies; Domitian builds the arch for the deified Titus · [DD-690 Arch of Titus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/arch-of-titus/index.md)

## Before 1900

- **1016**: Canute becomes King of England · [DD-216 Canute the Great](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canute-the-great/index.md)
- **1018**: Canute becomes King of Denmark · [DD-216 Canute the Great](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canute-the-great/index.md)
- **1028**: Canute becomes King of Norway · [DD-216 Canute the Great](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canute-the-great/index.md)
- **1035**: Canute dies · [DD-216 Canute the Great](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canute-the-great/index.md)
- **Aug. 12, 1121**: King David IV wins the Battle of Didgori · [DD-572 Unlimited Bladeworks](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/unlimited-bladeworks/index.md)
- **1122**: David takes Tbilisi and makes it his capital · [DD-572 Unlimited Bladeworks](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/unlimited-bladeworks/index.md)
- **1206**: Temüjin is proclaimed Great Khan · [DD-222 Khan of Khans](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/khan-of-khans/index.md)
- **1227**: Genghis Khan dies · [DD-222 Khan of Khans](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/khan-of-khans/index.md)
- **1303**: The last of the earthquakes that ruined it · [DD-104 Lighthouse of Alexandria](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lighthouse-of-alexandria/index.md)
- **1334**: Sheikh Safi al-Din Ardabili dies · [DD-620 Ardabil](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ardabil/index.md)
- **1402**: The last of the earthquakes that wrecked it · [DD-100 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mausoleum-at-halicarnassus/index.md)
- **1480**: The Citadel of Qaitbay is built on its site · [DD-104 Lighthouse of Alexandria](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lighthouse-of-alexandria/index.md)
- **1494**: Demolition of the tomb is complete · [DD-100 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mausoleum-at-halicarnassus/index.md)
- **1501**: Ismail I founds the Safavid state · [DD-620 Ardabil](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ardabil/index.md)
- **1516**: Leonardo da Vinci moves to France as François I's first painter, architect and engineer · [DD-688 da Vinci's Double Helix](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/da-vincis-double-helix/index.md)
- **May 2, 1519**: Leonardo da Vinci dies · [DD-688 da Vinci's Double Helix](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/da-vincis-double-helix/index.md)
- **Sept. 6, 1519**: Construction officially begins at Chambord · [DD-688 da Vinci's Double Helix](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/da-vincis-double-helix/index.md)
- **1558**: Elizabeth I becomes queen · [DD-220 The Virgin Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-virgin-queen/index.md)
- **1588**: The Spanish Armada is defeated · [DD-220 The Virgin Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-virgin-queen/index.md)
- **1600**: Ieyasu wins the Battle of Sekigahara · [DD-223 SHŌGUN](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shogun/index.md)
- **1603**: Elizabeth I dies · [DD-220 The Virgin Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-virgin-queen/index.md)
- **1603**: Ieyasu becomes shogun · [DD-223 SHŌGUN](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shogun/index.md)
- **1629**: The Kaaba is rebuilt, largely in its present granite form · [DD-655 The Kaaba](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-kaaba/index.md)
- **1631**: Construction begins, around this year · [DD-123 Taj Mahal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/taj-mahal/index.md)
- **1653**: Construction ends, around this year · [DD-123 Taj Mahal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/taj-mahal/index.md)
- **1661**: Marcello Malpighi uses a microscope on a frog's lung and describes capillaries · [DD-649 Blood Watch](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/blood-watch/index.md)
- **1675**: Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers the gap · [DD-128 Saturn](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/saturn/index.md)
- **1759**: Martha marries George Washington · [DD-107 Martha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/martha/index.md)
- **1762**: Catherine becomes empress · [DD-219 Russia's Greatest Empress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/russias-greatest-empress/index.md)
- **June 7, 1776**: Richard Henry Lee proposes the independence resolution · [DD-726 Independence Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/independence-day/index.md)
- **July 2, 1776**: Congress votes for independence · [DD-726 Independence Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/independence-day/index.md)
- **July 4, 1776**: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence · [DD-726 Independence Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/independence-day/index.md)
- **Aug. 2, 1776**: Most delegates sign the parchment Declaration · [DD-726 Independence Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/independence-day/index.md)
- **June 8, 1783**: The Laki fissure eruption begins in Iceland · [DD-645 Fissure Flames](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fissure-flames/index.md)
- **1796**: Catherine dies · [DD-219 Russia's Greatest Empress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/russias-greatest-empress/index.md)
- **1799**: Napoleon seizes power · [DD-224 Le Petit Caporal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/le-petit-caporal/index.md)
- **Jan. 1, 1801**: Giuseppe Piazzi discovers Ceres · [DD-578 Second Impact](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/second-impact/index.md)
- **December 1804**: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French · [DD-224 Le Petit Caporal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/le-petit-caporal/index.md)
- **1812**: Burckhardt reaches Petra · [DD-114 Petra](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/petra/index.md)
- **1815**: Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo · [DD-224 Le Petit Caporal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/le-petit-caporal/index.md)
- **1820s**: Giuseppe Valadier restores the arch, filling missing parts with travertine · [DD-690 Arch of Titus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/arch-of-titus/index.md)
- **1828**: Bernard Lassimone patents a pencil sharpener in France · [DD-317 Sharpening Your Mind](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sharpening-your-mind/index.md)
- **1831**: The earliest record of the current Great Red Spot · [DD-129 Jupiter](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/jupiter/index.md)
- **1837**: Victoria becomes queen · [DD-221 The Famine Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-famine-queen/index.md)
- **1839**: Rudolph Wagner watches white blood cells roll along vessel walls in a frog's foot · [DD-649 Blood Watch](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/blood-watch/index.md)
- **1839**: The oldest known gyotaku, a crucian carp caught by Lord Sakai Tadaaki, is dated to this year · [DD-671 Gyotaku](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gyotaku/index.md)
- **1842**: Shanghai opened as a treaty port · [DD-430 Shanghai](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shanghai/index.md)
- **1843**: Lovelace publishes her translation and notes · [DD-095 Ada All-Time](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ada-all-time/index.md)
- **1855**: James Thomson explains the 'tears of wine' · [DD-024 Marangoni Motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/marangoni-motion/index.md)
- **1855**: An 1855 US patent covers an early version of the tube-squeezing pump · [DD-689 Peristaltic Pumps](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/peristaltic-pumps/index.md)
- **1857**: The Saucona Iron Company, Bethlehem Steel's earliest predecessor, is formed · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **1862**: The BEP's currency work begins · [DD-622 Fresh Fiat](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fresh-fiat/index.md)
- **1864**: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink an enemy warship · [DD-149 Subs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/subs/index.md)
- **1865**: Carlo Marangoni publishes his doctoral study of the effect · [DD-024 Marangoni Motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/marangoni-motion/index.md)
- **1868**: The emperor moves from Kyoto to Tokyo · [DD-195 The City of 10,000 Shrines](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-city-of-10000-shrines/index.md)
- **1868**: The Tokugawa shogunate ends · [DD-223 SHŌGUN](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shogun/index.md)
- **April 29, 1873**: Eli H. Janney receives US patent 138,405 · [DD-303 Knuckle Coupling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/knuckle-coupling/index.md)
- **Feb. 27, 1874**: Galton presents his board at a Royal Institution discourse · [DD-588 Central Limits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/central-limits/index.md)
- **1870s**: J. Willard Gibbs gives the full theory · [DD-024 Marangoni Motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/marangoni-motion/index.md)
- **1876**: Victoria becomes Empress of India · [DD-221 The Famine Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-famine-queen/index.md)
- **1877**: Galton describes a two-stage board in a letter to George Darwin · [DD-588 Central Limits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/central-limits/index.md)
- **1878**: Continuous observation of the spot begins · [DD-129 Jupiter](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/jupiter/index.md)
- **1882**: Élie Metchnikoff sees cells in starfish larvae swarm a rose thorn · [DD-044 Macrophagia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/macrophagia/index.md)
- **1882**: Construction of the Sagrada Família begins · [DD-197 Catalan Gothic](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/catalan-gothic/index.md)
- **1882**: Lindemann proves squaring the circle impossible · [DD-328 Squaring the Circle](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/squaring-the-circle/index.md)
- **1888**: The canonical five are killed between August and November · [DD-108 Jack](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/jack/index.md)
- **Oct. 30, 1888**: John J. Loud patents a ballpoint pen · [DD-304 Getting to the (Ball)Point](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/getting-to-the-ballpoint/index.md)
- **1889**: The tower is built as the entrance arch to the World's Fair · [DD-156 Eiffel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/eiffel/index.md)
- **1891**: Tesla develops the Tesla coil · [DD-405 Tesla's Coil](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/teslas-coil/index.md)
- **1893**: The Safety Appliance Act requires automatic couplers · [DD-303 Knuckle Coupling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/knuckle-coupling/index.md)
- **November 1894**: Nicholas II becomes emperor · [DD-218 The Last Czar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-last-czar/index.md)
- **1897**: Friedrich Ahlborn publishes his study of the Zanonia seed's stability · [DD-721 Alsomitra macrocarpa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alsomitra-macrocarpa/index.md)
- **1898**: 433 Eros discovered · [DD-380 433 Eros](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/433-eros/index.md)
- **1899**: The name Bethlehem Steel Company is adopted · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)

## 1900–1945

- **1901**: Victoria dies · [DD-221 The Famine Queen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-famine-queen/index.md)
- **1902**: Mount Pelée's pyroclastic flow destroys Saint-Pierre · [DD-414 Heavy Flavor, Heavy Flow](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/heavy-flavor-heavy-flow/index.md)
- **1904**: Charles M. Schwab forms Bethlehem Steel Corporation · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **1904**: Igo Etrich and Franz Wels fly a tailless glider modeled on the seed · [DD-721 Alsomitra macrocarpa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alsomitra-macrocarpa/index.md)
- **1906**: Rolls-Royce Limited is founded · [DD-183 Spirit of Ecstasy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spirit-of-ecstasy/index.md)
- **1906**: Kiwi shoe polish is launched in Melbourne · [DD-696 Shine Sublime](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shine-sublime/index.md)
- **1908**: Bethlehem's Grey mill rolls the nation's first wide-flange structural beams · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **1908**: Metchnikoff shares the Nobel Prize for his work on immunity · [DD-044 Macrophagia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/macrophagia/index.md)
- **1908**: Kiwi Dark Tan polish is introduced · [DD-696 Shine Sublime](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shine-sublime/index.md)
- **1909**: Ettore Bugatti founds the company · [DD-182 Hypercar Luxury](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hypercar-luxury/index.md)
- **1910**: First flight of the Etrich Taube, whose wing is based on the seed · [DD-721 Alsomitra macrocarpa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alsomitra-macrocarpa/index.md)
- **1911**: Hiram Bingham brings it to world attention · [DD-118 Machu Picchu](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/machu-picchu/index.md)
- **1911**: The Spirit of Ecstasy mascot appears · [DD-183 Spirit of Ecstasy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spirit-of-ecstasy/index.md)
- **1911**: C.T.R. Wilson builds the first cloud chamber at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory · [DD-623 Cloud Chambers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cloud-chambers/index.md)
- **1911**: Griffith Taylor discovers Blood Falls, and its color is first blamed on red algae · [DD-725 The Glacier That Bleeds](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glacier-that-bleeds/index.md)
- **1913**: B'nai B'rith founds the Anti-Defamation League in Chicago, led by Sigmund Livingston · [DD-674 Anti-Defamation League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anti-defamation-league/index.md)
- **1914**: World War I begins, with Bethlehem able to make 1.1 million tons of steel a year · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **March 1917**: Nicholas II abdicates · [DD-218 The Last Czar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-last-czar/index.md)
- **July 1918**: Nicholas II and his family are killed in Yekaterinburg · [DD-218 The Last Czar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-last-czar/index.md)
- **Jan. 15, 1919**: A molasses tank splits open in Boston's North End · [DD-753 Sweet Disaster](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/great-molasses-flood/index.md)
- **Oct. 26, 1919**: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is born in Tehran · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **1922**: The American Appliance Company is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts · [DD-621 Raytheon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/raytheon/index.md)
- **1922**: Böttcherstraße 4 in Bremen is rebuilt for Ludwig Roselius · [DD-698 Haus des Glockenspiels](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/haus-des-glockenspiels/index.md)
- **1922**: Colorado River Compact divides the river · [DD-718 Reservoir Ruin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/reservoir-ruin/index.md)
- **June 27, 1923**: First successful air-to-air refueling, over San Diego · [DD-711 Gassed Up...Way Up](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gassed-up-way-up/index.md)
- **1924**: Three southern Illinois coal men conceive a CO₂ blasting cartridge (1924 or 1925) · [DD-070 Gas Blasting](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gas-blasting/index.md)
- **March 18, 1925**: Tri-State Tornado strikes · [DD-085 Deadliest Tornado in History](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/deadliest-tornado-in-history/index.md)
- **1925**: The tank's owner is found liable after a 5-year legal fight · [DD-753 Sweet Disaster](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/great-molasses-flood/index.md)
- **1926**: Phreatic eruption forms Dallol's Black Lake · [DD-055 Danakil Depression](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/danakil-depression/index.md)
- **1926**: Antoni Gaudí dies · [DD-197 Catalan Gothic](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/catalan-gothic/index.md)
- **Jan. 10, 1927**: Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres in Berlin · [DD-714 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/metropolis-2026/index.md)
- **1927**: The Safety Mining Company takes over the patents under the trade name Cardox · [DD-070 Gas Blasting](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gas-blasting/index.md)
- **1927**: Wilson shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the cloud chamber · [DD-623 Cloud Chambers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cloud-chambers/index.md)
- **1928**: Compulsory sheep scab treatment begins to be enforced in Britain · [DD-602 Sheep Dipping](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sheep-dipping/index.md)
- **1930**: Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto · [DD-125 Pluto](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pluto/index.md)
- **1930**: The Chrysler Building passes it as the tallest structure · [DD-156 Eiffel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/eiffel/index.md)
- **May 1, 1931**: The Empire State Building opens · [DD-157 Empire State](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/empire-state/index.md)
- **1931**: The statue is dedicated · [DD-116 Christ the Redeemer](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/christ-the-redeemer/index.md)
- **1932**: Britain issues Explosives in Coal Mines (Cardox) Orders · [DD-070 Gas Blasting](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gas-blasting/index.md)
- **1932**: Arne Ölander first sees the shape-memory effect in a gold–cadmium alloy · [DD-616 Shape Memory](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shape-memory/index.md)
- **1932**: Carl Anderson finds the positron with a cloud chamber · [DD-623 Cloud Chambers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cloud-chambers/index.md)
- **1933**: Cowling publishes the anti-dynamo theorem · [DD-054 Axisymmetry](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/axisymmetry/index.md)
- **1933**: Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky propose that supernovae leave behind neutron stars · [DD-058 Neutron Spin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neutron-spin/index.md)
- **1933**: The British Cardox Orders are consolidated · [DD-070 Gas Blasting](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gas-blasting/index.md)
- **Dec. 18, 1933**: Orton Englehart files his impact sprinkler patent · [DD-581 Sprinkle Of Truth](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sprinkle-of-truth/index.md)
- **1934**: The Securities Exchange Act creates the SEC · [DD-187 Fair & Efficient Markets](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fair-efficient-markets/index.md)
- **1934**: 30 Meissen porcelain bells are added to Bremen's Haus des Glockenspiels · [DD-698 Haus des Glockenspiels](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/haus-des-glockenspiels/index.md)
- **April 16, 1935**: US Patent 1,997,901 is granted · [DD-581 Sprinkle Of Truth](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sprinkle-of-truth/index.md)
- **1935**: Iran asks foreign governments to use 'Iran' instead of 'Persia' · [DD-204 Iran](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/iran/index.md)
- **1935**: Hoover Dam completed, creating Lake Mead · [DD-718 Reservoir Ruin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/reservoir-ruin/index.md)
- **Oct. 13, 1935**: Production begins in the LaFetra family barn · [DD-581 Sprinkle Of Truth](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sprinkle-of-truth/index.md)
- **1937**: Guðjón Samúelsson is commissioned to design the church · [DD-567 Hallgrímskirkja](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hallgrimskirkja/index.md)
- **June 15, 1938**: László Bíró files his British patent · [DD-304 Getting to the (Ball)Point](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/getting-to-the-ballpoint/index.md)
- **April 19, 1939**: Ali Khamenei is born in Mashhad · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **1939**: Enzo Ferrari founds Auto Avio Costruzioni · [DD-180 The Prancing Horse](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-prancing-horse/index.md)
- **1939**: Jack Northrop founds Northrop Aircraft in Hawthorne, California · [DD-604 Northrop Grumman](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/northrop-grumman/index.md)
- **1940**: Auschwitz opens · [DD-471 In Remembrance](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/in-remembrance/index.md)
- **Sept. 16, 1941**: He becomes shah after his father abdicates under British-Soviet occupation · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **December 1941**: Big Boy No. 4014 delivered to Union Pacific · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **1943**: The German navy begins building the bunker at Bremen-Farge · [DD-571 Bunker Valentin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bunker-valentin/index.md)
- **1943**: The Battle of Stalingrad ends in February with a Soviet victory · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **1940s**: The Tbilisi hilltop is set aside for a 100-meter Stalin monument that's never built · [DD-028 The Chronicles of Georgia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chronicles-of-georgia/index.md)
- **1944**: Larry Ellison is born in New York City · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **1944**: The Tiger II enters combat · [DD-146 King Tiger](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/king-tiger/index.md)
- **Jan. 27, 1945**: Auschwitz liberated · [DD-471 In Remembrance](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/in-remembrance/index.md)
- **March 27, 1945**: RAF 617 Squadron's Grand Slam bombs break through part of the roof · [DD-571 Bunker Valentin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bunker-valentin/index.md)
- **1945**: Its combat use ends · [DD-146 King Tiger](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/king-tiger/index.md)
- **1945**: Born in Tel Aviv · [DD-564 Adelson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/adelson/index.md)
- **1945**: Construction begins · [DD-567 Hallgrímskirkja](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hallgrimskirkja/index.md)
- **Aug. 6, 1945**: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima · [DD-330 Nuclear Shadows](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nuclear-shadows/index.md)
- **Aug. 9, 1945**: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki · [DD-330 Nuclear Shadows](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nuclear-shadows/index.md)

## 1946–1999

- **July 25, 1946**: The Baker test detonates underwater at Bikini Atoll · [DD-270 Kiloton](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kiloton/index.md)
- **1947**: The 125 S, the first Ferrari-named car, appears · [DD-180 The Prancing Horse](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-prancing-horse/index.md)
- **1947**: Dennis Gabor invents holography · [DD-630 HoloFans](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/holofans/index.md)
- **Dec. 6, 1947**: President Truman dedicates Everglades National Park · [DD-619 The Glades](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glades/index.md)
- **May 14, 1948**: Israel declares independence · [DD-206 The Land of Israel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-land-of-israel/index.md)
- **1948**: Beryozka ensemble founded · [DD-466 Little Birch Dance](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/little-birch-dance/index.md)
- **April 8, 1949**: Plitvice proclaimed Croatia's first national park · [DD-717 Plitvice Pure](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/plitvice-pure/index.md)
- **June 8, 1949**: Secker & Warburg publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four in London · [DD-045 Orwellian](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/orwellian/index.md)
- **1949**: B-50A Lucky Lady II flies nonstop around the world using in-flight refueling · [DD-711 Gassed Up...Way Up](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gassed-up-way-up/index.md)
- **July 18, 1950**: Richard Branson is born · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **Oct. 18, 1951**: RDS-3 air-dropped test · [DD-412 Fall Marya](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fall-marya/index.md)
- **April 15, 1952**: Boeing YB-52 makes its first flight · [DD-708 B52 Stratofortress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/b52-stratofortress/index.md)
- **1952**: Photo 51 is taken in Franklin's lab · [DD-093 Rosalind](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rosalind/index.md)
- **May 25, 1953**: Grable test: the M65 Atomic Cannon fires the only nuclear artillery shell in history · [DD-004 Atomic Annie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/atomic-annie/index.md)
- **May 29, 1953**: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reach Everest's summit · [DD-084 Tenzing on Top](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tenzing-on-top/index.md)
- **1953**: Watson and Crick publish the double-helix model · [DD-093 Rosalind](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rosalind/index.md)
- **1953**: HEW created · [DD-539 HHS](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hhs/index.md)
- **August 1953**: He briefly flees, then returns after a coup ousts Prime Minister Mosaddegh · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **Nov. 22, 1954**: The prototype makes its first tethered flight · [DD-584 Flying Bike](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/flying-bike/index.md)
- **January 1955**: First free flight at the Brooklyn Army Terminal · [DD-584 Flying Bike](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/flying-bike/index.md)
- **1955**: Born in Seattle · [DD-565 Gates](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gates/index.md)
- **1955**: B-52 enters US Air Force service · [DD-708 B52 Stratofortress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/b52-stratofortress/index.md)
- **1956**: Testing moves to Fort Eustis, Virginia · [DD-584 Flying Bike](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/flying-bike/index.md)
- **1957**: North American Aviation's B-70 design is chosen · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1957**: Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, launches · [DD-255 Eyes in the Sky](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/eyes-in-the-sky/index.md)
- **1958**: Jack Kilby's 'solid circuit' has a single transistor · [DD-018 Shrinking Circuits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shrinking-circuits/index.md)
- **1958**: The bomber is named Valkyrie · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1958**: Project Orion begins · [DD-496 Project Orion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/project-orion/index.md)
- **July 29, 1958**: NASA is established · [DD-259 Not the Space Force](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/not-the-space-force/index.md)
- **1959**: Nitinol is discovered at the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory · [DD-616 Shape Memory](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shape-memory/index.md)
- **July 21, 1959**: No. 4014's final revenue run · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **1960**: Fairchild's first planar integrated circuit has four transistors · [DD-018 Shrinking Circuits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shrinking-circuits/index.md)
- **1960**: A Soviet missile shoots down Gary Powers's U-2 · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **March 1961**: President Kennedy cancels the B-70 bomber · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1961**: Davy Crockett deployed with U.S. Army units · [DD-083 The Atomic Gun](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-atomic-gun/index.md)
- **Dec. 7, 1961**: No. 4014 retired after 1,031,205 miles · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **1962**: Shimomura and colleagues report aequorin and GFP · [DD-056 Crystal Jellies](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/crystal-jellies/index.md)
- **1962**: Watson, Crick and Wilkins share the Nobel Prize · [DD-093 Rosalind](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rosalind/index.md)
- **1962**: Sea Dragon design proposed · [DD-498 Sea Dragon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sea-dragon/index.md)
- **1962**: The last of 744 B-52s, a B-52H, is delivered · [DD-708 B52 Stratofortress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/b52-stratofortress/index.md)
- **Nov. 23, 1962**: Nicolás Maduro is born in Caracas · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **Nov. 29, 1962**: UK and France sign the Concorde treaty · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **Feb. 7, 1963**: Harbin's first government ice-lantern show opens in Zhaolin Park · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **1963**: The White Revolution is ratified by referendum · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **1963**: Maarten Schmidt identifies the redshift of 3C 273 · [DD-106 Quasi-Stellar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/quasi-stellar/index.md)
- **1963**: Ferruccio Lamborghini founds the company · [DD-181 Lamborghini](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lamborghini/index.md)
- **1963**: Bruce McLaren founds his racing team · [DD-185 McLaren Automotive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mclaren-automotive/index.md)
- **1963**: Steve Papell invents ferrofluid at NASA · [DD-260 Ferromagnetism](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ferromagnetism/index.md)
- **1963**: Partial Test Ban Treaty · [DD-496 Project Orion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/project-orion/index.md)
- **1963**: Surtsey emerges · [DD-550 Lava Land](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lava-land/index.md)
- **1963**: Construction of the statue begins · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **1963**: Ace Books' Metropolis paperback dates the story to 'The World of 2026 A.D.' · [DD-714 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/metropolis-2026/index.md)
- **1963**: Glen Canyon Dam completed, creating Lake Powell · [DD-718 Reservoir Ruin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/reservoir-ruin/index.md)
- **Sept. 17, 1963**: Women vote in a parliamentary election for the first time · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **1960s or 1970s**: The lake's water forest is planted _Sources disagree: the 1960s (for flood control) or the 1970s._ · [DD-027 Water Forest Park](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/water-forest-park/index.md)
- **1960s**: Josef Kaiser invents the grass ski in Germany (sources give 1960 to 1966) · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **1964**: The SR-71 first flies · [DD-117 Blackbird](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/blackbird/index.md)
- **1964**: Nikolai Kardashev proposes his scale · [DD-263 Type I](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/type-i/index.md)
- **1964**: 76/62 enters service · [DD-558 OTO 76/62](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/oto-76-62/index.md)
- **1964**: Eames-designed Galton boards appear at the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair · [DD-588 Central Limits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/central-limits/index.md)
- **Sept. 21, 1964**: XB-70 AV-1 makes its first flight · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1965**: Project Orion ends · [DD-496 Project Orion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/project-orion/index.md)
- **Jan. 3, 1966**: AV-2 first reaches Mach 3 · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **April 12, 1966**: AV-2 reaches Mach 3.08 · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **June 8, 1966**: AV-2 is lost after an F-104 chase plane collides with it · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1966**: Freeze branding is invented by WSU veterinarian R. Keith Farrell · [DD-006 CryoBranding](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cryobranding/index.md)
- **1966**: The Miura appears · [DD-181 Lamborghini](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lamborghini/index.md)
- **1966**: The team enters Formula One · [DD-185 McLaren Automotive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mclaren-automotive/index.md)
- **1967**: Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish detect the first pulsar · [DD-058 Neutron Spin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neutron-spin/index.md)
- **1967**: Kennedy Shores subdivision is founded · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **Oct. 15, 1967**: The memorial complex is dedicated · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **1968**: Patek Philippe launches the Golden Ellipse · [DD-348 The Golden Ellipse](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-golden-ellipse/index.md)
- **March 2, 1969**: Concorde 001 makes its first flight from Toulouse · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **1969**: AV-1 flies its last research missions · [DD-048 XB-70 Valkyrie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/xb-70-valkyrie/index.md)
- **1969**: The first Apollo Moon landing · [DD-259 Not the Space Force](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/not-the-space-force/index.md)
- **1969**: First Apollo Moon landing · [DD-541 One Small Fall for Man...](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/one-small-fall-for-man/index.md)
- **1970**: More than 8 million copies have sold in the U.S. · [DD-045 Orwellian](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/orwellian/index.md)
- **1970**: The World Trade Center's North Tower tops out and passes it · [DD-157 Empire State](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/empire-state/index.md)
- **1971**: The first grass-skiing European Cup is held · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **1971**: Davy Crockett withdrawn · [DD-083 The Atomic Gun](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-atomic-gun/index.md)
- **1971**: President Nixon suspends the dollar's convertibility to gold · [DD-186 Money Isn't Real?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/money-isnt-real/index.md)
- **1971**: Gabor receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for holography · [DD-630 HoloFans](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/holofans/index.md)
- **1971**: Eric Wood first uses cured-in-place pipe in London · [DD-676 CIPP](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cipp/index.md)
- **July 9, 1971**: Andreessen born · [DD-555 Andreessen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/andreessen/index.md)
- **July 31, 1971**: Apollo 15's David Scott and James Irwin make the first drive on the Moon in the LRV · [DD-609 Lunar Roving](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lunar-roving/index.md)
- **Aug. 15, 1971**: President Nixon suspends the dollar's convertibility to gold · [DD-622 Fresh Fiat](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fresh-fiat/index.md)
- **Nov. 6, 1971**: Cannikin is detonated 5,875 feet beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska · [DD-026 Cannikin Quake](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cannikin-quake/index.md)
- **Nov. 15, 1971**: Intel releases the 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, with 2,300 transistors · [DD-018 Shrinking Circuits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shrinking-circuits/index.md)
- **1972**: The protest group becomes the Greenpeace Foundation, and U.S. tests at Amchitka end · [DD-026 Cannikin Quake](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/cannikin-quake/index.md)
- **1972**: The Virgin Records label launches · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **1972**: The original sword is replaced with a slotted steel blade · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **1972**: Rovers are driven on the Moon on Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 · [DD-609 Lunar Roving](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lunar-roving/index.md)
- **1973**: Karl von Frisch shares the Nobel Prize · [DD-174 Busy Busy Bees](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/busy-busy-bees/index.md)
- **1973**: KEITH Manufacturing introduces the WALKING FLOOR unloading system · [DD-665 Walking Floors](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/walking-floors/index.md)
- **Jan. 23, 1974**: Construction begins on Buzludzha Peak · [DD-573 Buzludzha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buzludzha/index.md)
- **1974**: A semi-automatic mahjong table that only flips tiles appears in Japan · [DD-017 Modern Mahjong](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/modern-mahjong/index.md)
- **1974**: 33 Thomas Street completed · [DD-400 The Titanpointe](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-titanpointe/index.md)
- **1974**: Ernő Rubik invents the cube · [DD-442 Painting Rubik](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/painting-rubik/index.md)
- **1974**: The tower and side wings are completed · [DD-567 Hallgrímskirkja](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hallgrimskirkja/index.md)
- **1975**: Bardeen and Petterson predict that a thin disk's inner part aligns with the black hole's spin · [DD-054 Axisymmetry](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/axisymmetry/index.md)
- **1975**: The AH-64 Apache first flies · [DD-150 Helo](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/helo/index.md)
- **Jan. 21, 1976**: Air France and British Airways begin scheduled service · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **Jan. 27, 1976**: Julius Erving wins the first dunk contest with a free-throw-line dunk · [DD-713 Air Jordan](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/air-jordan/index.md)
- **1976**: The first European Championships; Germany's ski association adds a grass-skiing section · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **1976**: It sets the air-breathing speed record · [DD-117 Blackbird](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/blackbird/index.md)
- **1976**: Duga-1 begins operating in July, and the Woodpecker signal appears worldwide · [DD-592 Duga](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/duga/index.md)
- **1976**: Ken Carter begins his St. Lawrence 'Super Jump' rocket-car project · [DD-740 Kenny POWERs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kenny-powers/index.md)
- **1977**: The original B-1A is canceled · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1977**: Virgin signs the Sex Pistols · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **1977**: Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates found Software Development Laboratories · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **1978**: Patent filed for a device that automatically assembles mahjong tiles · [DD-017 Modern Mahjong](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/modern-mahjong/index.md)
- **1978**: Austria's ski association adds a grass-skiing section · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **July 25, 1978**: Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born · [DD-320 Synthetic Conception](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/synthetic-conception/index.md)
- **Jan. 16, 1979**: The shah leaves Iran · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **April 1, 1979**: The Islamic Republic is declared · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **April 1979**: Mobile Suit Gundam premieres · [DD-234 Mobile Suit Gundam](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mobile-suit-gundam/index.md)
- **1979**: Oracle Version 2, the first commercial SQL relational database, is released · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **1979**: The first World Championships are held at Bryce Resort, Virginia · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **1979**: After the revolution, Khamenei joins the Revolutionary Council · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **1979**: The revolution makes Iran an Islamic republic · [DD-204 Iran](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/iran/index.md)
- **1979**: UH-60 enters U.S. Army service · [DD-480 Black Hawk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/black-hawk/index.md)
- **1979**: Renamed HHS · [DD-539 HHS](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hhs/index.md)
- **Sept. 26, 1979**: With Carter away, Kenny Powers makes the jump; the car travels about 506 ft and lands short · [DD-740 Kenny POWERs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kenny-powers/index.md)
- **Oct. 26, 1979**: Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List · [DD-717 Plitvice Pure](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/plitvice-pure/index.md)
- **c. 1980**: Fully automatic tables that shuffle and build the walls arrive in Japan · [DD-017 Modern Mahjong](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/modern-mahjong/index.md)
- **1980**: The site goes to Zurab Tsereteli's project · [DD-028 The Chronicles of Georgia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chronicles-of-georgia/index.md)
- **1980**: The Alvarez team proposes that an asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous · [DD-693 Chicxulub Crater](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chicxulub-crater/index.md)
- **1980**: Rick Charls is the world tandem high-diving champion · [DD-742 Rick Charls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rick-charls/index.md)
- **July 27, 1980**: He dies in Cairo · [DD-065 The Shah](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-shah/index.md)
- **April 12, 1981**: The first Space Shuttle flight launches · [DD-257 It IS Rocket Science](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/it-is-rocket-science/index.md)
- **April 12, 1981**: The Space Shuttle program's first mission launches · [DD-615 On A Glide](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/on-a-glide/index.md)
- **1981**: The program is revived as the B-1B · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1981**: First Space Shuttle flight · [DD-360 Thrust](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/thrust/index.md)
- **1981**: Construction of the Sanctuary of Truth begins · [DD-379 Sanctuary of Truth](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sanctuary-of-truth/index.md)
- **1981**: Pilgrimage access to Kailash reopens, according to Britannica · [DD-607 Mount Kailash](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mount-kailash/index.md)
- **Aug. 23, 1981**: Todor Zhivkov opens the monument · [DD-573 Buzludzha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buzludzha/index.md)
- **October 1981**: Khamenei is elected president of Iran · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **1982**: A pulsar spinning 642 times a second sets the speed record · [DD-058 Neutron Spin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neutron-spin/index.md)
- **1982**: The UK agrees to buy Trident II under the Polaris Sales Agreement · [DD-627 Ballistic Trident](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ballistic-trident/index.md)
- **1983**: Ford shows the Probe IV concept car, built with Ghia, with a drag coefficient of about 0.15 · [DD-002 Probe IV](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/probe-iv/index.md)
- **1983**: UNESCO lists Machu Picchu · [DD-118 Machu Picchu](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/machu-picchu/index.md)
- **1983**: UNESCO lists the Taj Mahal as a World Heritage Site · [DD-123 Taj Mahal](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/taj-mahal/index.md)
- **1983**: The memorial sculpture 'Vernichtung durch Arbeit' is erected · [DD-571 Bunker Valentin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bunker-valentin/index.md)
- **1983**: UNESCO inscribes the Ellora Caves, including the Kailasa temple, as a World Heritage Site · [DD-605 Kailasa Temple](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kailasa-temple/index.md)
- **1983**: Matsushita airs the National Neo Hi-Top 'Because the Building Is There' ad · [DD-731 National NEO](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/national-neo/index.md)
- **1983**: ABC's Wide World of Sports stages its last World Record High Dive at SeaWorld San Diego · [DD-742 Rick Charls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rick-charls/index.md)
- **Sept. 5, 1983**: Ken Carter is killed during a rocket-car jump in Peterborough, Ontario · [DD-740 Kenny POWERs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kenny-powers/index.md)
- **Feb. 7, 1984**: McCandless and Stewart make the first untethered MMU flights · [DD-652 Spacewalker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spacewalker/index.md)
- **June 22, 1984**: Virgin Atlantic flies its first flight · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **1984**: Nineteen Eighty-Four tops the U.S. all-time bestseller list · [DD-045 Orwellian](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/orwellian/index.md)
- **1984**: Michael Radford's film adaptation, with John Hurt as Winston · [DD-045 Orwellian](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/orwellian/index.md)
- **1980s**: 'Cage homes' spread in Hong Kong · [DD-046 Coffin Homes](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coffin-homes/index.md)
- **1980s**: Toshio Fukuda's CEBOT (cellular robot) applies one connector to a whole robot, in the late 1980s · [DD-061 Self-Made Modular](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/self-made-modular/index.md)
- **1984**: Dragon Ball begins serialization · [DD-229 RIP Akira Toriyama](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rip-akira-toriyama/index.md)
- **1984**: Becomes NIAID director · [DD-537 Fauci](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fauci/index.md)
- **1984**: The U.S. National Fishing Enhancement Act calls for a national artificial reef plan · [DD-632 Concrete Reefs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/concrete-reefs/index.md)
- **1984**: Giorgio Moroder's re-scored Metropolis adds a 2026 title card · [DD-714 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/metropolis-2026/index.md)
- **November 1984**: STS-51A crew uses MMUs to capture two stranded satellites, the MMU's last flight · [DD-652 Spacewalker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spacewalker/index.md)
- **Jan. 5, 1985**: The first Harbin Ice and Snow Festival opens · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **1985**: Tsereteli begins the Chronicle of Georgia · [DD-028 The Chronicles of Georgia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chronicles-of-georgia/index.md)
- **1985**: The first B-1B is delivered · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1985**: The FIS takes over grass skiing; the International Grass Ski Federation dissolves · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **1985**: UNESCO lists Petra · [DD-114 Petra](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/petra/index.md)
- **1985**: Marrakech's medina becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site · [DD-198 The Red City](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-red-city/index.md)
- **1985**: The first National Artificial Reef Plan is adopted · [DD-632 Concrete Reefs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/concrete-reefs/index.md)
- **1985**: Randy Dickison dives from 172 ft in Hong Kong but breaks his femur · [DD-742 Rick Charls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rick-charls/index.md)
- **Sept. 10, 1985**: Katakai successfully launches its first 4-shaku shell, recognized by Guinness · [DD-680 Yonshakudama](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/yonshakudama/index.md)
- **April 26, 1986**: Reactor 4 at Chernobyl explodes · [DD-105 The Red Forest](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-red-forest/index.md)
- **April 26, 1986**: Reactor 4 at Chernobyl explodes and burns · [DD-297 NUCLEAR DISASTER](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nuclear-disaster/index.md)
- **1986**: UCLA's Nancy Kedersha and Leonard Rome discover vaults in rat-liver cells · [DD-015 The Vault](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-vault/index.md)
- **1986**: Pripyat, near Chernobyl, is evacuated · [DD-066 Nature's Reclamation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/natures-reclamation/index.md)
- **1986**: Voyager 2 flies past Uranus · [DD-127 Uranus](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranus/index.md)
- **1986**: The Apache enters US Army service · [DD-150 Helo](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/helo/index.md)
- **1986**: Challenger is lost · [DD-257 It IS Rocket Science](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/it-is-rocket-science/index.md)
- **Oct. 1, 1986**: The B-1B reaches initial operating capability on nuclear alert · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **Oct. 26, 1986**: The nave is consecrated and the church is complete · [DD-567 Hallgrímskirkja](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hallgrimskirkja/index.md)
- **December 1986**: The Elephant's Foot is found below the reactor · [DD-297 NUCLEAR DISASTER](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nuclear-disaster/index.md)
- **c. 1987**: Rudy Rucker imagines a 3D Mandelbrot · [DD-047 Mandelbulbs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mandelbulbs/index.md)
- **1987**: UNESCO lists the Great Wall · [DD-111 The Great Wall](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-great-wall/index.md)
- **1987**: Michael Jordan wins his first NBA Slam Dunk Contest · [DD-713 Air Jordan](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/air-jordan/index.md)
- **1987**: Olivier Favre breaks his back attempting 177 ft · [DD-742 Rick Charls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rick-charls/index.md)
- **Feb. 6, 1988**: Michael Jordan's free-throw-line dunk wins the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in Chicago · [DD-713 Air Jordan](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/air-jordan/index.md)
- **1988**: All 100 B-1Bs are delivered · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1988**: UNESCO lists Chichen Itza as a World Heritage Site · [DD-120 Chichen Itza](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chichen-itza/index.md)
- **Nov. 15, 1988**: Buran's only spaceflight: two orbits and an automatic landing · [DD-570 Baikonur Cosmodrome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baikonur-cosmodrome/index.md)
- **June 1989**: After Khomeini's death, the Assembly of Experts chooses Khamenei as leader · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **1989**: A snow-sculpture fair on Sun Island adds 60-plus works · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **1989**: Voyager 2 flies past Neptune · [DD-126 Neptune](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neptune/index.md)
- **1989**: Dragon Ball Z premieres · [DD-229 RIP Akira Toriyama](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rip-akira-toriyama/index.md)
- **1989**: The B-2 first flies publicly · [DD-295 2-Billion Dollar B=2](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/2-billion-dollar-b2/index.md)
- **1989**: Maintenance stops after the end of communist rule · [DD-573 Buzludzha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buzludzha/index.md)
- **1989**: It loses the title of the world's tallest statue · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **1989**: The signal stops in December · [DD-592 Duga](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/duga/index.md)
- **1989**: Previous record season: 6.7 million hectares burned · [DD-730 Canadian Wildfires](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canadian-wildfires/index.md)
- **April 24, 1990**: Hubble launches aboard Discovery · [DD-256 Keep Looking, What Do You See?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/keep-looking-what-do-you-see/index.md)
- **1990**: The B-1B is officially named 'Lancer' · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1990**: Berlin surgeons bridge an 8-year-old to heart transplant with the EXCOR · [DD-577 Berlin Heart](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/berlin-heart/index.md)
- **1990**: ASAE names the Rain Bird impact sprinkler a historic landmark · [DD-581 Sprinkle Of Truth](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sprinkle-of-truth/index.md)
- **1990**: Trident II D5 is first deployed · [DD-627 Ballistic Trident](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ballistic-trident/index.md)
- **1990**: The current set of porcelain bells begins playing · [DD-698 Haus des Glockenspiels](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/haus-des-glockenspiels/index.md)
- **February 1991**: The number of oil fires peaks as the ground war begins · [DD-719 Not So Well](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/not-so-well/index.md)
- **March 6, 1991**: Tyler Okonma is born in Los Angeles · [DD-207 Tyler, The Creator](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tyler-the-creator/index.md)
- **June 15, 1991**: Mount Pinatubo's climactic eruption sends an ash column more than 35 km high · [DD-636 Doom Plume](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/doom-plume/index.md)
- **1991**: USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) is commissioned · [DD-147 Destroyer](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/destroyer/index.md)
- **1991**: Mount Pinatubo's climactic eruption · [DD-375 Wakey Wakey](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/wakey-wakey/index.md)
- **1991**: Hildebrand and colleagues identify Chicxulub as the impact crater · [DD-693 Chicxulub Crater](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chicxulub-crater/index.md)
- **Nov. 6, 1991**: Last burning well capped · [DD-719 Not So Well](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/not-so-well/index.md)
- **November 1991**: The Rolling Stones sign with Virgin · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **March 1992**: Branson sells Virgin Music to Thorn EMI for about $1 billion · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **1992**: GFP gene sequenced · [DD-056 Crystal Jellies](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/crystal-jellies/index.md)
- **1992**: Horacio Pagani founds Pagani Automobili · [DD-184 Pagani Automobili](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pagani-automobili/index.md)
- **1992**: An infant system with a 10 mL pump is first implanted in Berlin · [DD-577 Berlin Heart](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/berlin-heart/index.md)
- **1992**: Britain deregulates sheep scab control after eradication fails · [DD-602 Sheep Dipping](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sheep-dipping/index.md)
- **Sept. 16, 1992**: Black Wednesday · [DD-535 Soros](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/soros/index.md)
- **December 1992**: The Klais concert organ is inaugurated · [DD-567 Hallgrímskirkja](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hallgrimskirkja/index.md)
- **1993**: Astronauts correct the flaw in its mirror · [DD-256 Keep Looking, What Do You See?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/keep-looking-what-do-you-see/index.md)
- **1993**: The Buran program is suspended · [DD-570 Baikonur Cosmodrome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baikonur-cosmodrome/index.md)
- **Oct. 14, 1993**: Charlie Kirk is born in Arlington Heights, Illinois · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **Oct. 15, 1993**: Luxor Las Vegas opens · [DD-686 Lux or Luxor](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lux-or-luxor/index.md)
- **1994**: The U.S. ends the B-1's nuclear mission · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1994**: Hong Kong passes the Bedspace Apartments Ordinance · [DD-046 Coffin Homes](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coffin-homes/index.md)
- **1994**: Miguel Alcubierre publishes the warp-drive metric in Classical and Quantum Gravity · [DD-060 Alcubierre Drive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alcubierre-drive/index.md)
- **1990s**: Mark Yim, Gregory Chirikjian and Satoshi Murata build chain and lattice modular robots, in the early 1990s · [DD-061 Self-Made Modular](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/self-made-modular/index.md)
- **1994**: The Eurofighter Typhoon first flies · [DD-148 Typhoon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/typhoon/index.md)
- **1994**: Netscape founded · [DD-555 Andreessen](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/andreessen/index.md)
- **1994**: Amazon founded · [DD-556 Bezos](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bezos/index.md)
- **1994**: Russia and Kazakhstan sign the Baikonur lease ($115 million a year) · [DD-570 Baikonur Cosmodrome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baikonur-cosmodrome/index.md)
- **1994**: Northrop acquires Grumman and becomes Northrop Grumman · [DD-604 Northrop Grumman](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/northrop-grumman/index.md)
- **December 1994**: Construction of the Three Gorges Dam formally begins · [DD-643 Three Gorges](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/three-gorges/index.md)
- **1995**: Orbiter 1.02 and the OK-MT mockup are moved into the MZK · [DD-570 Baikonur Cosmodrome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baikonur-cosmodrome/index.md)
- **1995**: Berdzenishvili and Gabunia win the State Prize of Georgia for the memorial · [DD-572 Unlimited Bladeworks](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/unlimited-bladeworks/index.md)
- **1995**: Sahai and Nyman measure the Boomerang Nebula with the SEST radio telescope in Chile · [DD-752 Cosmic Freezer](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coldest-place-universe-v2/index.md)
- **July 7, 1995**: Bagger 293 goes into service at the Hambach open-pit mine · [DD-639 Earth Movers II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/earth-movers-ii/index.md)
- **1996**: Boeing buys Rockwell's defense business and takes over the program · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **1996**: The Inuyasha manga begins · [DD-227 Half-Human Half-Dog Demon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/half-human-half-dog-demon/index.md)
- **1996**: The program completes 21 B-2s · [DD-295 2-Billion Dollar B=2](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/2-billion-dollar-b2/index.md)
- **1997**: Chalermchai Kositpipat begins rebuilding Wat Rong Khun at his own expense · [DD-042 The White Temple](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-white-temple/index.md)
- **1997**: Pfenning and Ford estimate a 100-meter warp bubble needs more negative energy than the visible universe holds · [DD-060 Alcubierre Drive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alcubierre-drive/index.md)
- **1997**: The annual Didgoroba commemoration begins at the monument · [DD-572 Unlimited Bladeworks](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/unlimited-bladeworks/index.md)
- **1997**: Two hotel towers bring Luxor to about 4,400 rooms · [DD-686 Lux or Luxor](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lux-or-luxor/index.md)
- **1997**: Rosie the great white is caught in tuna nets off South Australia (some sources say 1998) · [DD-709 Resting Rosie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/resting-rosie/index.md)
- **1997**: Park expanded to cover the lakes' catchment · [DD-717 Plitvice Pure](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/plitvice-pure/index.md)
- **June 1998**: The first ECO Cycle opens at Kochi University of Technology · [DD-755 Vertical Parking](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-parking/index.md)
- **1998**: The first ECO Cycle underground bike park opens · [DD-009 Vertical Parking II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-parking-ii/index.md)
- **1998**: The Air Force retires it · [DD-117 Blackbird](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/blackbird/index.md)
- **1998**: Lamborghini comes under Audi ownership · [DD-181 Lamborghini](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lamborghini/index.md)
- **1998**: The first ISS module launches · [DD-258 Look Up, Can You See It?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/look-up-can-you-see-it/index.md)
- **1998**: Dutch breeder Jan Steverink first imports the Ayam Cemani to Europe · [DD-576 Ayam Cemani](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ayam-cemani/index.md)
- **1999**: Harbin Ice and Snow World opens for the millennium · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **1999**: The Zonda appears · [DD-184 Pagani Automobili](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pagani-automobili/index.md)
- **1999**: The Naruto manga begins · [DD-235 Believe It!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/believe-it/index.md)
- **1999**: The Burj Al Arab opens · [DD-251 Astonishing Arabian Architecture](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/astonishing-arabian-architecture/index.md)

## 2000–2019

- **Jan. 31, 2000**: Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes · [DD-455 Alaska Airlines 261](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alaska-airlines-261/index.md)
- **2000**: Branson is knighted · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **2000**: A World Cup replaces the European Cup · [DD-074 Grass Skiing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/grass-skiing/index.md)
- **2000**: The Inuyasha anime premieres · [DD-227 Half-Human Half-Dog Demon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/half-human-half-dog-demon/index.md)
- **2000**: Steps down as CEO · [DD-565 Gates](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gates/index.md)
- **2000**: Congress approves the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan · [DD-619 The Glades](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glades/index.md)
- **July 25, 2000**: Air France Flight 4590 crashes near Paris · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **November 2000**: The ISS becomes continuously crewed · [DD-258 Look Up, Can You See It?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/look-up-can-you-see-it/index.md)
- **2001**: Bethlehem Steel goes bankrupt · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **2001**: The festival merges with Heilongjiang's International Ski Festival · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **2001**: Construction of Palm Jumeirah begins · [DD-250 Life on The Palm](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/life-on-the-palm/index.md)
- **2001**: NEAR Shoemaker lands on Eros · [DD-380 433 Eros](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/433-eros/index.md)
- **2001**: A Spanish expedition is refused permission to climb Kailash · [DD-607 Mount Kailash](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mount-kailash/index.md)
- **Sept. 11, 2001**: Original Twin Towers destroyed · [DD-473 One World Trade Center](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/one-world-trade-center/index.md)
- **May 12, 2002**: The MIK 112 roof collapses, destroying the flown Buran and killing eight workers · [DD-570 Baikonur Cosmodrome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baikonur-cosmodrome/index.md)
- **2002**: The Naruto anime premieres · [DD-235 Believe It!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/believe-it/index.md)
- **2002**: SpaceX founded · [DD-522 SpaceX](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spacex/index.md)
- **2002**: eBay acquires PayPal · [DD-554 Thiel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/thiel/index.md)
- **2002**: Moscow begins a yearly Maslenitsa festival near Red Square · [DD-575 Maslenitsa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/maslenitsa/index.md)
- **2003**: Bethlehem Steel is dissolved · [DD-010 Bethlehem Steel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bethlehem-steel/index.md)
- **2003**: Construction stops, with the monument never fully finished · [DD-028 The Chronicles of Georgia](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chronicles-of-georgia/index.md)
- **2003**: Palantir is founded · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)
- **2003**: The Typhoon enters service · [DD-148 Typhoon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/typhoon/index.md)
- **2003**: BMW takes over Rolls-Royce Motor Cars · [DD-183 Spirit of Ecstasy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spirit-of-ecstasy/index.md)
- **2003**: The first Fullmetal Alchemist anime airs · [DD-225 Is This Equivalent Exchange](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/is-this-equivalent-exchange/index.md)
- **2003**: The Death Note manga begins · [DD-231 Shinigami Love Apples](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shinigami-love-apples/index.md)
- **2003**: Columbia is lost · [DD-257 It IS Rocket Science](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/it-is-rocket-science/index.md)
- **2003**: ICE created · [DD-488 On ICE](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/on-ice/index.md)
- **2003**: Tesla founded · [DD-520 Tesla](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tesla/index.md)
- **Oct. 24, 2003**: British Airways flies the last commercial Concorde service · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **2004**: The Delmarva bird flu outbreak exposes problems with existing culling methods · [DD-043 Death Foam](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/death-foam/index.md)
- **2004**: Branson founds Virgin Galactic · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **2004**: Karp starts at Palantir as CEO, per Forbes · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)
- **2004**: The Bleach anime premieres · [DD-232 A 1,000 Year Blood War](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/a-1000-year-blood-war/index.md)
- **2004**: Delta IV Heavy first flight · [DD-374 Delta IV Heavy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/delta-iv-heavy/index.md)
- **2004**: Facebook launched · [DD-536 Zuckerberg](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/zuckerberg/index.md)
- **2004**: Thiel invests in Facebook · [DD-554 Thiel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/thiel/index.md)
- **2004**: The EU stops allowing atrazine, largely because of groundwater limits · [DD-679 Feminizing Frogs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/feminizing-frogs/index.md)
- **2005**: Rocky desertification affects 37,600 km² of Guizhou · [DD-032 Guizhou Solar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/guizhou-solar/index.md)
- **2005**: Volkswagen begins building the Veyron · [DD-182 Hypercar Luxury](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hypercar-luxury/index.md)
- **2005**: The Mall of the Emirates opens · [DD-252 Mall of the Emirates](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mall-of-the-emirates/index.md)
- **2005**: Ski Dubai opens · [DD-253 A Winter Oasis](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/a-winter-oasis/index.md)
- **2005**: Hurricane Wilma's eye shrinks to about 2 nautical miles across · [DD-712 Eye of the Storm](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/eye-of-the-storm/index.md)
- **2006**: JR East begins testing a power-generating floor at Tokyo Station · [DD-014 Footstep Power](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/footstep-power/index.md)
- **2006**: USDA and the AVMA conditionally approve water-based foam for floor-reared poultry · [DD-043 Death Foam](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/death-foam/index.md)
- **2006**: PSR J1748-2446ad, spinning 716 times a second, is reported as the fastest known pulsar · [DD-058 Neutron Spin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neutron-spin/index.md)
- **2006**: Maduro becomes Venezuela's foreign minister · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **2006**: The IAU reclassifies Pluto as a dwarf planet · [DD-125 Pluto](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pluto/index.md)
- **2006**: The Death Note anime premieres · [DD-231 Shinigami Love Apples](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shinigami-love-apples/index.md)
- **2006**: Sony's Bravia Paint ad · [DD-462 Art Is an Explosion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/art-is-an-explosion/index.md)
- **2006**: The Veterinary Medicines Directorate suspends cypermethrin sheep dips over water pollution · [DD-602 Sheep Dipping](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sheep-dipping/index.md)
- **2006**: The main dam body is completed · [DD-643 Three Gorges](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/three-gorges/index.md)
- **c. 2006**: The Tree of Prosperity show debuts at Wynn Macau, by its show integrator's date · [DD-659 ProsperiTree](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/prosperitree/index.md)
- **Aug. 24, 2006**: Ceres is reclassified as a dwarf planet · [DD-578 Second Impact](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/second-impact/index.md)
- **2007**: Alan Weisman's The World Without Us lays out how a city empty of people would go green · [DD-066 Nature's Reclamation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/natures-reclamation/index.md)
- **2007**: Named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-111 The Great Wall](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-great-wall/index.md)
- **2007**: Named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-114 Petra](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/petra/index.md)
- **2007**: Named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-118 Machu Picchu](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/machu-picchu/index.md)
- **2007**: The Colosseum is named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-121 The Colosseum](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-colosseum/index.md)
- **2007**: He co-founds Odd Future · [DD-207 Tyler, The Creator](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tyler-the-creator/index.md)
- **2007**: Naruto Shippuden premieres · [DD-235 Believe It!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/believe-it/index.md)
- **2007**: The first floating PV system is built in Aichi, Japan · [DD-608 Floatovoltaics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/floatovoltaics/index.md)
- **2007**: The National Artificial Reef Plan is revised · [DD-632 Concrete Reefs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/concrete-reefs/index.md)
- **July 7, 2007**: Named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-116 Christ the Redeemer](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/christ-the-redeemer/index.md)
- **July 7, 2007**: Chichen Itza is named one of the New 7 Wonders · [DD-120 Chichen Itza](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chichen-itza/index.md)
- **November 2007**: Daniel White publishes a spherical-coordinate formula on Fractal Forums · [DD-047 Mandelbulbs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mandelbulbs/index.md)
- **May 2, 2008**: Iron Man opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-243 The Birth of the MCU](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-birth-of-the-mcu/index.md)
- **June 13, 2008**: The Incredible Hulk opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-244 The Strongest There Is](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-strongest-there-is/index.md)
- **2008**: Tokyo Station's Yaesu North gates trial makes over 500 kW·s a day · [DD-014 Footstep Power](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/footstep-power/index.md)
- **2008**: Soundpower's piezoelectric mat at Shibuya Station lights a holiday display · [DD-014 Footstep Power](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/footstep-power/index.md)
- **2008**: Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Shimomura, Chalfie and Tsien · [DD-056 Crystal Jellies](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/crystal-jellies/index.md)
- **2008**: The Dubai Mall opens · [DD-252 Mall of the Emirates](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mall-of-the-emirates/index.md)
- **2008**: Roadster launched · [DD-520 Tesla](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tesla/index.md)
- **2008**: The first commercial floating PV system is installed on a winery pond in Napa Valley, California · [DD-608 Floatovoltaics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/floatovoltaics/index.md)
- **2008**: Severe winter storms badly damage southern China's power grid · [DD-699 Drone De-icing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/drone-de-icing/index.md)
- **2008**: Lost Metropolis footage is found at the Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires · [DD-714 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/metropolis-2026/index.md)
- **January 2009**: Bitcoin launches · [DD-188 Future of Finance](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/future-of-finance/index.md)
- **2009**: An upgraded 204-bike ECO Cycle is introduced at JR Chiba Station · [DD-009 Vertical Parking II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-parking-ii/index.md)
- **2009**: White and Nylander's power-8 Mandelbulb · [DD-047 Mandelbulbs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mandelbulbs/index.md)
- **2009**: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood premieres · [DD-225 Is This Equivalent Exchange](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/is-this-equivalent-exchange/index.md)
- **2009**: The Attack on Titan manga begins · [DD-233 FIGHT!!!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fight/index.md)
- **2009**: The Palm Jumeirah Monorail opens · [DD-250 Life on The Palm](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/life-on-the-palm/index.md)
- **2009**: The ADL becomes independent of B'nai B'rith · [DD-674 Anti-Defamation League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anti-defamation-league/index.md)
- **2009**: Titanoboa cerrejonensis is described in Nature · [DD-694 Snake Supreme](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/snake-supreme/index.md)
- **2009**: Kenny Powers dies · [DD-740 Kenny POWERs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kenny-powers/index.md)
- **January 2010**: The Burj Khalifa opens · [DD-158 Burj Khalifa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/burj-khalifa/index.md)
- **May 7, 2010**: Iron Man 2 opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-245 The Saga Continues](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-saga-continues/index.md)
- **2010**: Japan's IKAROS flies a solar sail between planets · [DD-039 Solar Sailing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/solar-sailing/index.md)
- **2010**: The Burj Khalifa becomes the tallest building · [DD-251 Astonishing Arabian Architecture](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/astonishing-arabian-architecture/index.md)
- **2010**: The German navy's use of the bunker ends · [DD-571 Bunker Valentin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bunker-valentin/index.md)
- **2010**: Scotland makes sheep scab notifiable again · [DD-602 Sheep Dipping](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sheep-dipping/index.md)
- **2010**: UNESCO inscribes the shrine ensemble as a World Heritage Site · [DD-620 Ardabil](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ardabil/index.md)
- **2010**: Eyjafjallajökull's ash, drifting over Europe in April and May, leads to more than 100,000 cancelled flights · [DD-636 Doom Plume](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/doom-plume/index.md)
- **2010**: A Dragon of Fortune show joins the Rotunda · [DD-659 ProsperiTree](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/prosperitree/index.md)
- **July 23, 2010**: A record 8.0-inch hailstone falls in Vivian, South Dakota · [DD-633 Hail Storming](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hail-storming/index.md)
- **Sept. 1, 2010**: State Flag Square opens · [DD-661 State Flag Square](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/state-flag-square/index.md)
- **March 2011**: Conversion to conventional-only is completed under New START · [DD-036 Supersonic Striker](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supersonic-striker/index.md)
- **March 27, 2011**: Iron Dome is declared operational near Beersheba · [DD-606 The Iron Dome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-iron-dome/index.md)
- **April 7, 2011**: Iron Dome makes its first interception · [DD-606 The Iron Dome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-iron-dome/index.md)
- **May 6, 2011**: Thor opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-246 The God of Thunder](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-god-of-thunder/index.md)
- **2011**: MIT's femto-photography films light at an effective rate of about a trillion frames per second · [DD-067 Photon Film](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/photon-film/index.md)
- **2011**: The Huayra follows · [DD-184 Pagani Automobili](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pagani-automobili/index.md)
- **2011**: McLaren Automotive launches the MP4-12C · [DD-185 McLaren Automotive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mclaren-automotive/index.md)
- **2011**: Goblin is released · [DD-207 Tyler, The Creator](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tyler-the-creator/index.md)
- **2011**: Minecraft is fully released · [DD-208 Yeah I Dig](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/yeah-i-dig/index.md)
- **2011**: A BBC crew films a brinicle forming in Antarctica · [DD-264 The Fingers of Death](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-fingers-of-death/index.md)
- **2011**: Final Space Shuttle flight · [DD-360 Thrust](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/thrust/index.md)
- **2011**: Construction begins at the Robbinsville campus · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **July 21, 2011**: The final Space Shuttle flight lands · [DD-257 It IS Rocket Science](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/it-is-rocket-science/index.md)
- **July 21, 2011**: Atlantis makes the final Space Shuttle landing · [DD-615 On A Glide](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/on-a-glide/index.md)
- **July 22, 2011**: Captain America: The First Avenger opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-247 I Can Do This All Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/i-can-do-this-all-day/index.md)
- **Dec. 16, 2011**: The FDA approves the EXCOR Pediatric under a Humanitarian Device Exemption · [DD-577 Berlin Heart](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/berlin-heart/index.md)
- **Jan. 25, 2012**: The golden spider-silk cape goes on show at the V&A · [DD-583 Silk Harvest](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/silk-harvest/index.md)
- **May 4, 2012**: The Avengers opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-248 Avengers Assemble!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/avengers-assemble/index.md)
- **June 2012**: Kirk and Bill Montgomery co-found Turning Point USA · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **2012**: Wildlife Wonderland closes, leaving Rosie in her tank · [DD-709 Resting Rosie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/resting-rosie/index.md)
- **July 4, 2012**: The last main generator is completed, bringing capacity to 22,500 MW · [DD-643 Three Gorges](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/three-gorges/index.md)
- **Oct. 14, 2012**: Baumgartner jumps from 38,969.4 m, from a balloon capsule launched at Roswell, New Mexico · [DD-637 Felix Falls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/felix-falls/index.md)
- **October 2012**: Maduro becomes vice president under Hugo Chávez · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **Jan. 29, 2013–Feb. 6, 2013**: IBM researchers at Almaden make the film's 242 frames · [DD-663 Atomic Stop-motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/atomic-stop-motion/index.md)
- **March 5, 2013**: Hugo Chávez dies, and Maduro becomes interim president · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **April 14, 2013**: Maduro narrowly wins the special presidential election · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **April 30, 2013**: IBM Research releases 'A Boy and His Atom' · [DD-663 Atomic Stop-motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/atomic-stop-motion/index.md)
- **May 3, 2013**: Iron Man 3 opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-277 We Create Our Own Demons](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/we-create-our-own-demons/index.md)
- **2013**: The Attack on Titan anime premieres · [DD-233 FIGHT!!!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fight/index.md)
- **2013**: Dubai Police begin adding supercars to the fleet · [DD-249 Supercar Police](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/supercar-police/index.md)
- **2013**: East Pacific Center Tower A completed · [DD-363 Towering Tower](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/towering-tower/index.md)
- **2013**: One World Trade Center completed · [DD-473 One World Trade Center](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/one-world-trade-center/index.md)
- **2013**: Stewart revives and describes additional Arapaima species, such as A. leptosoma · [DD-684 Arapaima Gigas](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/arapaima-gigas/index.md)
- **2013**: Union Pacific reacquires 4014 from Pomona · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **July 2, 2013**: Proton-M crash with GLONASS satellites · [DD-451 Proton-M](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/proton-m/index.md)
- **Nov. 8, 2013**: Thor: The Dark World opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-278 To Be Worthy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/to-be-worthy/index.md)
- **Jan. 31, 2014**: NASA's Curiosity rover photographs Earth and the Moon in the Martian evening sky · [DD-603 Mars Nights](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mars-nights/index.md)
- **February 2014**: The war begins as Russia occupies Crimea · [DD-205 Russia & The Ukraine](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/russia-the-ukraine/index.md)
- **April 4, 2014**: The Winter Soldier opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-279 BUCKY?!?!?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bucky/index.md)
- **May 5, 2014**: An earthquake centered in nearby Mae Lao damages the site · [DD-042 The White Temple](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-white-temple/index.md)
- **2014**: In a test, the EKV tells its target apart from countermeasures · [DD-011 EKV: Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ekv/index.md)
- **2014**: U.S. data centers use 58 TWh of electricity · [DD-029 Data Centers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/data-centers/index.md)
- **2010s**: Guizhou starts covering barren hills with solar panels · [DD-032 Guizhou Solar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/guizhou-solar/index.md)
- **2014**: Big Hero 6's wormhole climax uses a stylized Mandelbulb interior · [DD-047 Mandelbulbs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mandelbulbs/index.md)
- **2014**: Artist Mark Rademaker and NASA physicist Harold White present the IXS Enterprise concept art · [DD-060 Alcubierre Drive](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/alcubierre-drive/index.md)
- **2014**: Russia annexes Crimea · [DD-205 Russia & The Ukraine](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/russia-the-ukraine/index.md)
- **2014**: Microsoft buys Mojang for $2.5 billion · [DD-208 Yeah I Dig](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/yeah-i-dig/index.md)
- **2014**: SpaceX picks Boca Chica for its South Texas launch site · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **2014**: The complex is added to UNESCO's tentative list · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **Aug. 1, 2014**: Guardians of the Galaxy opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-280 Rise of the Star-Lord](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rise-of-the-star-lord/index.md)
- **September 2014**: Ellison steps down as Oracle CEO and becomes executive chairman and CTO · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **Oct. 11, 2014**: A 464.826 kg shell at Kounosu, Saitama, sets the Guinness record · [DD-680 Yonshakudama](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/yonshakudama/index.md)
- **March 6, 2015**: Dawn enters orbit around Ceres · [DD-578 Second Impact](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/second-impact/index.md)
- **May 1, 2015**: Age of Ultron opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-281 No Strings On Me](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/no-strings-on-me/index.md)
- **May 16, 2015**: Proton-M loses MexSat-1 · [DD-451 Proton-M](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/proton-m/index.md)
- **2015**: A study finds evaporative cooling also drives wine tears · [DD-024 Marangoni Motion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/marangoni-motion/index.md)
- **2015**: First shipboard no-load EMALS shots on USS Ford push the empty shuttle past 180 knots · [DD-025 Sending EMALS](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sending-emals/index.md)
- **2015**: Studies find 20 tree species regenerating in Pripyat and abundant wildlife around Chernobyl · [DD-066 Nature's Reclamation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/natures-reclamation/index.md)
- **2015**: Construction of the Shiziguan floating bridge begins · [DD-658 Buoyancy Bridge II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buoyancy-bridge-ii/index.md)
- **2015**: Jonathan Greenblatt becomes ADL CEO · [DD-674 Anti-Defamation League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anti-defamation-league/index.md)
- **2015**: Laso Schaller leaps from a 193 ft cliff, counted as a jump, not a dive · [DD-742 Rick Charls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rick-charls/index.md)
- **2015**: 6,656 homicides, about 105 per 100,000 · [DD-751 Salvadoran Salvation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/salvadoran-salvation/index.md)
- **July 2, 2015**: Valve adds the Kazotsky Kick taunt to Team Fortress 2 in the Gun Mettle Update · [DD-647 Kazotsky Kick](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kazotsky-kick/index.md)
- **July 2015**: Rocket League launches · [DD-109 Now You Know Rocket League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/now-you-know-rocket-league/index.md)
- **July 2015**: New Horizons flies past Pluto · [DD-125 Pluto](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/pluto/index.md)
- **July 17, 2015**: Ant-Man opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-282 A MOVIE FOR ANTS](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/a-movie-for-ants/index.md)
- **Nov. 8, 2015**: The Denkort Bunker Valentin memorial officially opens · [DD-571 Bunker Valentin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bunker-valentin/index.md)
- **c. 2016**: About 36 ECO Cycle units at 13 sites store 6,605 bikes · [DD-009 Vertical Parking II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-parking-ii/index.md)
- **2016**: All eight pangolin species are listed on CITES Appendix I · [DD-141 Scaly Anteaters](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/scaly-anteaters/index.md)
- **2016**: The IUCN moves the giant panda from Endangered to Vulnerable · [DD-159 Panda Panda Panda](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/panda-panda-panda/index.md)
- **2016**: The Solo Leveling web novel is published · [DD-230 He Keeps Getting Stronger](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/he-keeps-getting-stronger/index.md)
- **2016**: Nissan shows the Intelligent Parking Chair · [DD-417 Self-Parking Chairs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/self-parking-chairs/index.md)
- **2016**: Captain America: Civil War released · [DD-509 Civil War](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/civil-war/index.md)
- **2016**: Doctor Strange released · [DD-510 The Sorcerer Supreme](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-sorcerer-supreme/index.md)
- **2016**: Neuralink founded · [DD-527 Neuralink](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neuralink/index.md)
- **2016**: The Boring Company founded · [DD-528 The Boring Company](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-boring-company/index.md)
- **2016**: Beijing's Shougang soil cleanup builds what researchers called China's first negative-pressure membrane yard · [DD-631 Construction Covers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/construction-covers/index.md)
- **2016**: Saudi Arabia announces tougher drifting penalties, up to SR60,000 and confiscation · [DD-656 Hajwala](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hajwala/index.md)
- **2016**: The floating bridge opens · [DD-658 Buoyancy Bridge II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buoyancy-bridge-ii/index.md)
- **2016**: IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 drills Chicxulub's peak ring · [DD-693 Chicxulub Crater](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/chicxulub-crater/index.md)
- **2016**: Nielsen and colleagues use eye-lens radiocarbon to estimate Greenland shark ages · [DD-701 Shark Senescence](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shark-senescence/index.md)
- **July 25, 2016**: Ural's keel is laid at Baltic Shipyard · [DD-579 Uranium Ural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranium-ural/index.md)
- **April 20, 2017**: Anduril Industries is incorporated by Palmer Luckey and four co-founders · [DD-727 Anduril](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anduril/index.md)
- **May 31, 2017**: USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is delivered to the Navy · [DD-710 USS Gerald R. Ford](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uss-gerald-r-ford/index.md)
- **2017**: Transistor features reach around 10 nanometers, a thousandfold shrink since the early 1970s · [DD-018 Shrinking Circuits](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shrinking-circuits/index.md)
- **2017**: The Cassini spacecraft plunges into Saturn · [DD-128 Saturn](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/saturn/index.md)
- **2017**: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 released · [DD-511 Boosting My EGO](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/boosting-my-ego/index.md)
- **2017**: Spider-Man: Homecoming released · [DD-512 Homecoming](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/homecoming/index.md)
- **2017**: Thor: Ragnarok released · [DD-513 Ragnarok](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ragnarok/index.md)
- **2017**: Life-extended D5LE missiles enter the fleet · [DD-627 Ballistic Trident](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ballistic-trident/index.md)
- **2017**: A radar survey traces a brine pathway more than 300 feet long inside Taylor Glacier · [DD-725 The Glacier That Bleeds](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glacier-that-bleeds/index.md)
- **July 22, 2017**: USS Gerald R. Ford is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk · [DD-710 USS Gerald R. Ford](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uss-gerald-r-ford/index.md)
- **July 28, 2017**: An F/A-18 Super Hornet makes the first fighter launch from the ship · [DD-025 Sending EMALS](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sending-emals/index.md)
- **Aug. 17, 2017**: GW170817 neutron star merger detected · [DD-542 Neutron Binary](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neutron-binary/index.md)
- **Aug. 26, 2017**: Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens in Atlanta · [DD-617 Mercedes Stadium](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mercedes-stadium/index.md)
- **Nov. 15, 2017**: It becomes the first professional sports stadium certified LEED Platinum · [DD-617 Mercedes Stadium](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mercedes-stadium/index.md)
- **2018**: Lunavity's hover-backpack prototype appears at SXSW in Austin · [DD-007 Gravity, or Lunavity?](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lunavity/index.md)
- **2018**: The alien in Annihilation takes the form of a partial Mandelbulb · [DD-047 Mandelbulbs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mandelbulbs/index.md)
- **2018**: Caltech's T-CUP reaches 10 trillion frames per second in a single shot · [DD-067 Photon Film](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/photon-film/index.md)
- **2018**: The Jujutsu Kaisen manga begins · [DD-226 You Are My Special](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/you-are-my-special/index.md)
- **2018**: The Chainsaw Man manga begins · [DD-228 KICK BACK!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kick-back/index.md)
- **2018**: The webtoon adaptation begins · [DD-230 He Keeps Getting Stronger](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/he-keeps-getting-stronger/index.md)
- **2018**: The Dubai Frame opens · [DD-251 Astonishing Arabian Architecture](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/astonishing-arabian-architecture/index.md)
- **2018**: Black Panther released · [DD-514 Wakanda Forever](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/wakanda-forever/index.md)
- **2018**: Avengers: Infinity War released · [DD-515 Perfectly Balanced](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/perfectly-balanced/index.md)
- **2018**: Ant-Man and the Wasp released · [DD-516 Ant-Man and the Wasp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ant-man-and-the-wasp/index.md)
- **2018**: After African swine fever spreads, China bans feeding food waste to pigs · [DD-569 Food Recycling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/food-recycling/index.md)
- **2018**: Europa Nostra lists it among Europe's seven most endangered heritage sites · [DD-573 Buzludzha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buzludzha/index.md)
- **2018**: Northrop Grumman acquires Orbital ATK · [DD-604 Northrop Grumman](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/northrop-grumman/index.md)
- **2018**: An urban explorer's video of Rosie goes viral · [DD-709 Resting Rosie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/resting-rosie/index.md)
- **2018**: Jongerius ecoduna's 1-hectare algae plant opens in Bruck an der Leitha · [DD-724 Algaecultural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/algaecultural/index.md)
- **July 2018**: The retractable roof is demonstrated, opening in 8 minutes 10 seconds · [DD-617 Mercedes Stadium](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mercedes-stadium/index.md)
- **Nov. 1, 2018**: The Dawn mission ends · [DD-578 Second Impact](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/second-impact/index.md)
- **Feb. 21, 2019**: Rosie is craned out and moved to Crystal World, Devon Meadows · [DD-709 Resting Rosie](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/resting-rosie/index.md)
- **May 2019**: 4014 returns to service · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **May 25, 2019**: Ural is launched in Saint Petersburg · [DD-579 Uranium Ural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranium-ural/index.md)
- **2019**: The Pentagon cancels the Redesigned Kill Vehicle meant to replace the EKV · [DD-011 EKV: Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ekv/index.md)
- **2019**: Nepal begins government-funded clean-up campaigns on Everest · [DD-063 Foreverest](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/foreverest/index.md)
- **2019**: Epic Games buys Psyonix · [DD-109 Now You Know Rocket League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/now-you-know-rocket-league/index.md)
- **2019**: The U.S. Space Force is founded · [DD-259 Not the Space Force](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/not-the-space-force/index.md)
- **2019**: Captain Marvel released · [DD-517 Captain Marvel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/captain-marvel/index.md)
- **2019**: Avengers: Endgame released · [DD-518 On Your Left](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/on-your-left/index.md)
- **2019**: Spider-Man: Far From Home released · [DD-519 Far From Home](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/far-from-home/index.md)
- **2019**: Prototype flight testing begins · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **2019**: The stadium hosts Super Bowl LIII · [DD-617 Mercedes Stadium](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mercedes-stadium/index.md)
- **2019**: Bellwether Industries is founded in London · [DD-734 Volar eVTOL](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/volar-evtol/index.md)
- **Nov. 22, 2019**: The U.S. ban on methylene chloride in consumer paint and coating removers takes effect · [DD-642 Paint Removers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/paint-removers/index.md)
- **December 2019**: Russia reportedly fields its first hypersonic weapons · [DD-059 Hypersonic Missiles](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hypersonic-missiles/index.md)

## 2020 to Now

- **April 2020**: Raytheon merges with United Technologies · [DD-621 Raytheon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/raytheon/index.md)
- **2020**: The sculptures use about 220,000 cubic meters of ice · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **2020**: China likely fields hypersonic weapons · [DD-059 Hypersonic Missiles](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hypersonic-missiles/index.md)
- **2020**: EPFL and Canon unveil MegaX, the first megapixel SPAD camera · [DD-067 Photon Film](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/photon-film/index.md)
- **2020**: IGOR wins the Grammy for Best Rap Album · [DD-207 Tyler, The Creator](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tyler-the-creator/index.md)
- **2020**: The Jujutsu Kaisen anime premieres · [DD-226 You Are My Special](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/you-are-my-special/index.md)
- **2020**: Crew Dragon flies astronauts to the ISS · [DD-522 SpaceX](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spacex/index.md)
- **2020**: Leaves Microsoft board · [DD-565 Gates](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gates/index.md)
- **2020**: A major restoration is completed · [DD-590 The Motherland Calls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-motherland-calls/index.md)
- **2020**: The Three Gorges project is certified complete · [DD-643 Three Gorges](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/three-gorges/index.md)
- **2020**: Patsyk, Sivan, Segev and Bandres report the first observation of branched flow with light, in Nature · [DD-739 Branched Flow](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branched-flow/index.md)
- **July 31, 2020**: MD-160 is towed from Kaspiysk to Derbent, Dagestan, for display · [DD-704 Ekranoplan](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ekranoplan/index.md)
- **Aug. 4, 2020**: Ammonium nitrate explodes at the Port of Beirut · [DD-266 The Beirut Blast](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-beirut-blast/index.md)
- **September 2020**: Rocket League goes free-to-play · [DD-109 Now You Know Rocket League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/now-you-know-rocket-league/index.md)
- **Sept. 30, 2020**: Palantir begins trading on the NYSE through a direct listing · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)
- **October 2020**: The Charlie Kirk Show begins as a daily program on Salem's radio network · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **Jan. 10, 2021**: Saudi Arabia announces The Line as the centerpiece of NEOM · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **March 2021**: Elon Musk announces plans for a city called Starbase · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **April 29, 2021**: China adopts its Anti-Food Waste Law · [DD-569 Food Recycling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/food-recycling/index.md)
- **2021**: Panthalassa's Ocean-1 prototype · [DD-022 Ocean-3](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ocean-3/index.md)
- **2021**: Census: the median subdivided unit is 11 m², about 6 m² per person · [DD-046 Coffin Homes](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coffin-homes/index.md)
- **2021**: EPFL's team reconstructs a laser pulse moving through space in 4D · [DD-067 Photon Film](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/photon-film/index.md)
- **2021**: The US Navy pauses its railgun program · [DD-151 Railguns](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/railguns/index.md)
- **2021**: Bugatti becomes part of Bugatti Rimac · [DD-182 Hypercar Luxury](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hypercar-luxury/index.md)
- **2021**: The Global SuperTanker ends operations · [DD-340 Boeing's Red Rain](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/boeings-red-rain/index.md)
- **2021**: Renamed Meta · [DD-536 Zuckerberg](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/zuckerberg/index.md)
- **2021**: Optimus announced · [DD-545 Tesla Bot](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tesla-bot/index.md)
- **2021**: Researchers revive an Adineta rotifer from 24,000-year-old Siberian permafrost · [DD-641 Bdelloid Rotifers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/bdelloid-rotifers/index.md)
- **2021**: Workers file a federal lawsuit alleging forced labor; BAPS says the artisans were volunteers · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **July 11, 2021**: Branson flies to the edge of space on Unity 22 · [DD-053 Branson](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/branson/index.md)
- **November 2021**: Half-scale Antelope prototype makes eight free flights in Dubai · [DD-734 Volar eVTOL](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/volar-evtol/index.md)
- **Dec. 25, 2021**: The James Webb Space Telescope launches with Northrop Grumman's sunshield · [DD-604 Northrop Grumman](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/northrop-grumman/index.md)
- **Jan. 15, 2022**: Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai's plume reaches about 57 km, into the mesosphere · [DD-636 Doom Plume](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/doom-plume/index.md)
- **Feb. 24, 2022**: Russia launches a full-scale invasion of The Ukraine · [DD-205 Russia & The Ukraine](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/russia-the-ukraine/index.md)
- **March 2022**: State of exception declared after at least 92 killings · [DD-751 Salvadoran Salvation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/salvadoran-salvation/index.md)
- **2022**: The design puts a city strip between two mirrored walls 500 meters tall and 170 km long · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **2022**: Rocky desertification is down to 15,500 km² · [DD-032 Guizhou Solar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/guizhou-solar/index.md)
- **2022**: A SoCO survey finds subdivided flats rent for a median HK$50 per sq ft · [DD-046 Coffin Homes](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coffin-homes/index.md)
- **2022**: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for entanglement experiments · [DD-080 Entanglement](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/entanglement/index.md)
- **2022**: New antennas raise it to about 330 m · [DD-156 Eiffel](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/eiffel/index.md)
- **2022**: Call Me If You Get Lost wins the same award · [DD-207 Tyler, The Creator](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tyler-the-creator/index.md)
- **2022**: The Chainsaw Man anime premieres · [DD-228 KICK BACK!](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kick-back/index.md)
- **2022**: The Thousand-Year Blood War anime premieres · [DD-232 A 1,000 Year Blood War](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/a-1000-year-blood-war/index.md)
- **2022**: Hashem Al-Ghaili releases the EctoLife concept video · [DD-324 Ectogenesis](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ectogenesis/index.md)
- **2022**: Luigi Cani's Amazon seed drop · [DD-403 Spreading Seeds](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/spreading-seeds/index.md)
- **2022**: Steps down · [DD-537 Fauci](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/fauci/index.md)
- **Oct. 13, 2022**: UT Austin chemists publish light-patterned hard-and-soft polymers in Science · [DD-057 Smart Plastics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/smart-plastics/index.md)
- **October 2022**: Ural goes through sea trials · [DD-579 Uranium Ural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranium-ural/index.md)
- **November 2022**: The US study of the EXCOR Active driver begins · [DD-577 Berlin Heart](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/berlin-heart/index.md)
- **Nov. 22, 2022**: Ural's flag is raised, marking its entry into service · [DD-579 Uranium Ural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranium-ural/index.md)
- **Dec. 2, 2022**: Ural leaves Murmansk on its first icebreaking mission · [DD-579 Uranium Ural](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uranium-ural/index.md)
- **March 29, 2023**: First rocket-powered flight · [DD-508 Mk-II Aurora](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mk-ii-aurora/index.md)
- **May 16, 2023**: A van falls from the bridge and five people die; the scenic area closes · [DD-658 Buoyancy Bridge II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buoyancy-bridge-ii/index.md)
- **June 18, 2023**: The submersible Titan implodes near the Titanic wreck · [DD-593 Imploder](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/imploder/index.md)
- **2023**: U.S. data centers use 176 TWh, 4.4% of the nation's electricity · [DD-029 Data Centers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/data-centers/index.md)
- **2023**: A leaked draft board presentation puts full completion at $8.8 trillion by 2080 · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **2023**: Japan's defense agency reports a ship-based railgun test · [DD-151 Railguns](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/railguns/index.md)
- **2023**: Optimus Gen 2 shown · [DD-545 Tesla Bot](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tesla-bot/index.md)
- **2023**: Raytheon Technologies renames itself RTX · [DD-621 Raytheon](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/raytheon/index.md)
- **2023**: AeroFarms files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · [DD-657 Vertical Farming](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-farming/index.md)
- **2023**: USS Gerald R. Ford makes its first full deployment · [DD-710 USS Gerald R. Ford](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/uss-gerald-r-ford/index.md)
- **2023**: An analysis finds the red comes from iron-rich nanospheres, not crystalline rust · [DD-725 The Glacier That Bleeds](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-glacier-that-bleeds/index.md)
- **2023**: Record season: about 15 million hectares burned · [DD-730 Canadian Wildfires](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/canadian-wildfires/index.md)
- **2023**: Bellwether announces a propulsion partnership with Schubeler for its Oryx prototype · [DD-734 Volar eVTOL](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/volar-evtol/index.md)
- **2023**: NORA-B52 NG 'Perun' unveiled at the Partner 2023 exhibition · [DD-736 Shoot-and-Scoot](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/shoot-and-scoot/index.md)
- **July 2023**: IMO adopts revised Biofouling Guidelines · [DD-705 Battling Barnacles](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/battling-barnacles/index.md)
- **Oct. 8, 2023**: BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham is dedicated · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **October 2023**: Twelve of the original plaintiffs withdraw their claims · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **Oct. 18, 2023**: The temple opens to the public · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **Dec. 8, 2023**: The FDA approves Casgevy and Lyfgenia, the first cell-based gene therapies for sickle cell disease · [DD-613 Sickled Cells](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/sickled-cells/index.md)
- **December 2023**: GITAI and KDDI announce robots attaching an antenna to a 5-meter test tower · [DD-061 Self-Made Modular](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/self-made-modular/index.md)
- **Dec. 29, 2023**: The Guanling base connects its first 1,050 MW phase to the grid · [DD-032 Guizhou Solar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/guizhou-solar/index.md)
- **Jan. 1, 2024**: Pyeongchang LPG station explosion · [DD-401 Gassy Accidents II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/gassy-accidents-ii/index.md)
- **January 2024**: The Solo Leveling anime premieres · [DD-230 He Keeps Getting Stronger](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/he-keeps-getting-stronger/index.md)
- **March 1, 2024**: Akira Toriyama dies · [DD-229 RIP Akira Toriyama](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/rip-akira-toriyama/index.md)
- **March 2024**: GITAI announces robots building and taking apart the tower · [DD-061 Self-Made Modular](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/self-made-modular/index.md)
- **April 9, 2024**: Delta IV Heavy final flight · [DD-374 Delta IV Heavy](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/delta-iv-heavy/index.md)
- **April 2024**: Electric Atlas unveiled · [DD-552 Robot Parkour](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/robot-parkour/index.md)
- **April 23, 2024**: NASA launches ACS3 to test lightweight carbon-fiber sail booms · [DD-039 Solar Sailing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/solar-sailing/index.md)
- **April 30, 2024**: EPA finalizes a ban on most uses of methylene chloride · [DD-642 Paint Removers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/paint-removers/index.md)
- **June 5, 2024**: A 54-day clean-up ends after recovering four bodies and a skeleton · [DD-063 Foreverest](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/foreverest/index.md)
- **June 24, 2024**: Hashem Al-Ghaili posts the Cognify concept video · [DD-305 A Prison for Your Mind](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/a-prison-for-your-mind/index.md)
- **2024**: Lockheed Martin is chosen to build the Next Generation Interceptor · [DD-011 EKV: Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ekv/index.md)
- **2024**: Ocean-2 and Wavehopper prototypes prove power, propulsion and computing at sea · [DD-022 Ocean-3](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ocean-3/index.md)
- **2024**: Data centers worldwide use about 415 TWh, around 1.5% of global electricity · [DD-029 Data Centers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/data-centers/index.md)
- **2024**: Nepal sets aside about Rs5 million ($37,400) for each body recovered · [DD-063 Foreverest](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/foreverest/index.md)
- **2024**: First human implant · [DD-527 Neuralink](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/neuralink/index.md)
- **2024**: The EPA sets atrazine's aquatic level of concern at 9.7 µg/L · [DD-679 Feminizing Frogs](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/feminizing-frogs/index.md)
- **2024**: Vasuki indicus is described as a possible rival to Titanoboa in size · [DD-694 Snake Supreme](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/snake-supreme/index.md)
- **2024**: 114 homicides reported by the Attorney General · [DD-751 Salvadoran Salvation](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/salvadoran-salvation/index.md)
- **2024**: Dragon drones first widely documented · [DD-757 Dragon Drones](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/dragon-drones/index.md)
- **July 2024**: The electoral council declares Maduro the winner of a disputed presidential election · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **July 26, 2024**: The Paris Olympics opening ceremony · [DD-283 The Opening Ceremony](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-opening-ceremony/index.md)
- **September 2024**: Uncrewed test flight · [DD-500 The Space Perspective](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-space-perspective/index.md)
- **Sept. 26, 2024**: Helene makes landfall in Florida · [DD-560 Hurricane Helene](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hurricane-helene/index.md)
- **November 2024**: Bowery Farming shuts down · [DD-657 Vertical Farming](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/vertical-farming/index.md)
- **Dec. 11, 2024**: Karp adopts a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan for up to 9.975 million shares · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)
- **Dec. 28, 2024**: The Shiziguan tourist area reopens after upgrades · [DD-658 Buoyancy Bridge II](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buoyancy-bridge-ii/index.md)
- **Jan. 5, 2025**: NYC congestion pricing begins · [DD-540 Traffic Controls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/traffic-controls/index.md)
- **Jan. 20, 2025**: DOGE established by executive order · [DD-521 DOGE](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/doge/index.md)
- **Jan. 21, 2025**: The government announces GOV.UK Wallet, starting with the Veteran Card · [DD-667 Digital ID](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/digital-id/index.md)
- **Jan. 28, 2025**: Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator breaks the sound barrier · [DD-568 Commercial Supersonics](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/commercial-supersonics/index.md)
- **Jan. 29, 2025**: Potomac River midair collision · [DD-480 Black Hawk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/black-hawk/index.md)
- **February 2025**: Fortune reports about $1.88 billion in Karp stock sales since the start of 2024 · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)
- **Feb. 24, 2025**: Maslenitsa 2025 begins · [DD-575 Maslenitsa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/maslenitsa/index.md)
- **March 2, 2025**: Forgiveness Sunday ends Maslenitsa 2025 · [DD-575 Maslenitsa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/maslenitsa/index.md)
- **March 18, 2025**: Disney Research's Blue joins Jensen Huang onstage at the GTC 2025 keynote, where NVIDIA announces Newton · [DD-614 NVIDIA's Blue](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nvidias-blue/index.md)
- **March 25, 2025**: Iranian state media shows a large underground missile facility · [DD-733 Iranian Missile Cities](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/iranian-missile-cities/index.md)
- **April 2, 2025**: U.S. announces broad new tariffs · [DD-538 Trade Wars](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/trade-wars/index.md)
- **May 3, 2025**: Voters approve incorporation, 212 to 6 · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **May 2025**: Puding's 600 MW first phase is due for full grid connection · [DD-032 Guizhou Solar](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/guizhou-solar/index.md)
- **May 20, 2025**: Cameron County certifies Starbase as a city · [DD-582 Starbase](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/starbase/index.md)
- **June 2025**: Indian pilgrimages to Kailash resume after a pause of about five years · [DD-607 Mount Kailash](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/mount-kailash/index.md)
- **June 2025**: Anduril is valued at $30.5 billion · [DD-727 Anduril](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anduril/index.md)
- **June 2025**: Israel-Iran war; analysts report strikes on missile bases · [DD-733 Iranian Missile Cities](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/iranian-missile-cities/index.md)
- **June 26, 2025**: A new Kiswah is installed for 1 Muharram 1447 · [DD-655 The Kaaba](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-kaaba/index.md)
- **2025**: Ice and Snow World covers about 1.2 million m² · [DD-034 Winter in Harbin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/winter-in-harbin/index.md)
- **2025**: U.S. executive order adopts Gulf of America name · [DD-486 The Gulf](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-gulf/index.md)
- **2025**: China launches 20 city pilot programs to turn food waste into animal feed · [DD-569 Food Recycling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/food-recycling/index.md)
- **2025**: A federal probe closes and the civil case resumes · [DD-660 BAPS NJ](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/baps-nj/index.md)
- **July 2025**: Acquired by Eos X Space · [DD-500 The Space Perspective](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-space-perspective/index.md)
- **July 17, 2025**: Baumgartner dies in a motorized paragliding crash at Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy · [DD-637 Felix Falls](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/felix-falls/index.md)
- **July 21, 2025**: The Tesla Diner opens on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood · [DD-638 Tesla Diner](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/tesla-diner/index.md)
- **Aug. 5, 2025**: The US Coast Guard releases its Marine Board of Investigation report · [DD-593 Imploder](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/imploder/index.md)
- **August 2025**: The first World Humanoid Robot Games draw just over 500 robots · [DD-023 WHRGs 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/whrg-2026/index.md)
- **August 2025**: Shangrao Lingshan's cliffside escalator begins trial operation · [DD-707 Lingshan Lift](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lingshan-lift/index.md)
- **Sept. 10, 2025**: Kirk is shot and killed at a TPUSA event at Utah Valley University · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **September 2025**: Construction is suspended with about 2.4 km of foundation work done · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **September 2025**: Ellison briefly becomes worth more than $400 billion, per Forbes · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **September 2025**: Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia become Oracle co-CEOs · [DD-069 Ellison](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ellison/index.md)
- **Sept. 18, 2025**: Erika Kirk is elected CEO of Turning Point USA · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **Sept. 19–23, 2025**: SAWES's S1500 aerostat flies at 1,500 m in Hami, Xinjiang · [DD-050 Airborne Wind Turbines](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/airborne-wind-turbines/index.md)
- **Sept. 26, 2025**: Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a national digital ID, to be mandatory for right-to-work checks · [DD-667 Digital ID](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/digital-id/index.md)
- **Sept. 29, 2025**: Newton is contributed to the Linux Foundation and released in beta · [DD-614 NVIDIA's Blue](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nvidias-blue/index.md)
- **Oct. 1, 2025**: FBI Director Kash Patel announces the FBI is ending its partnership with the ADL; the ADL issues a statement · [DD-674 Anti-Defamation League](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anti-defamation-league/index.md)
- **Oct. 14, 2025**: Kirk is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **October 2025**: Reports say the escalator has opened to visitors · [DD-707 Lingshan Lift](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/lingshan-lift/index.md)
- **Oct. 31, 2025**: The Fury (YFQ-44A) uncrewed combat aircraft first flies · [DD-727 Anduril](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anduril/index.md)
- **November 2025**: Iran's passive-defense chief says underground sites are largely intact · [DD-733 Iranian Missile Cities](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/iranian-missile-cities/index.md)
- **Dec. 8, 2025**: Parliament debates the 'Do not introduce Digital ID cards' petition · [DD-667 Digital ID](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/digital-id/index.md)
- **Jan. 3, 2026**: U.S. forces capture Maduro and Cilia Flores in Caracas · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **Jan. 5, 2026**: The S2000 rises to 2,000 m and feeds 385 kWh into the grid · [DD-050 Airborne Wind Turbines](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/airborne-wind-turbines/index.md)
- **January 2026**: The government drops the plan to require the digital ID itself for right-to-work checks · [DD-667 Digital ID](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/digital-id/index.md)
- **Jan. 20, 2026**: A drone-placed de-icing robot is first used in Zhejiang · [DD-699 Drone De-icing](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/drone-de-icing/index.md)
- **Jan. 25, 2026**: A winter storm hits New York City · [DD-702 New York Hot Tub](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/new-york-hot-tub/index.md)
- **Jan. 27, 2026**: DSNY starts eight snow melters, its first use of them since 2021 · [DD-702 New York Hot Tub](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/new-york-hot-tub/index.md)
- **Feb. 16, 2026**: Maslenitsa 2026 begins · [DD-575 Maslenitsa](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/maslenitsa/index.md)
- **Feb. 28, 2026**: Khamenei is killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **March 1, 2026**: The Basic Housing Units Ordinance sets minimum standards for subdivided flats · [DD-046 Coffin Homes](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/coffin-homes/index.md)
- **March 8, 2026**: The Assembly of Experts names Mojtaba Khamenei supreme leader · [DD-076 Ali Khamenei](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ali-khamenei/index.md)
- **March 2026**: NEOM cancels a roughly $1 billion tunneling contract · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **April 10, 2026–July 29, 2026**: Coast-to-coast America250 tour · [DD-720 Big Boy 4014](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/big-boy-4014/index.md)
- **May 4, 2026**: Panthalassa announces a $140 million Series B led by Peter Thiel · [DD-022 Ocean-3](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ocean-3/index.md)
- **May 15, 2026**: Obsession opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-732 I'm Obsessed...](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/im-obsessed/index.md)
- **May 2026**: Semafor reports the project is on hold until after 2030 · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)
- **May 2026**: A $5 billion round values Anduril at $61 billion · [DD-727 Anduril](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/anduril/index.md)
- **June 15, 2026**: A B-52H radar test aircraft crashes on takeoff at Edwards AFB, killing all eight crew · [DD-708 B52 Stratofortress](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/b52-stratofortress/index.md)
- **June 27, 2026**: CRAFT toroidal field magnet passes acceptance in Hefei · [DD-738 Hefei Fusion](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/hefei-fusion/index.md)
- **June 30, 2026**: Israel's defense ministry and Rafael complete Iron Dome upgrade tests, including joint use with Iron Beam · [DD-606 The Iron Dome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-iron-dome/index.md)
- **2026–28**: First-phase construction projected (planned) · [DD-016 TeraFab](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/terafab/index.md)
- **2026**: Ocean-3 pilot series planned for the northern Pacific (planned) · [DD-022 Ocean-3](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ocean-3/index.md)
- **2026**: The AVMA's depopulation guidelines rank water-based foam as Tier 2, below whole-house gassing · [DD-043 Death Foam](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/death-foam/index.md)
- **July 4, 2026**: The United States marks its 250th anniversary · [DD-726 Independence Day](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/independence-day/index.md)
- **July 17, 2026**: Christopher Nolan's film adaptation opens in U.S. theaters · [DD-728 The Odyssey](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-odyssey/index.md)
- **July 21, 2026**: The government cancels the national digital ID programme · [DD-667 Digital ID](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/digital-id/index.md)
- **Aug. 6, 2026**: Texas announces SpaceX's Terafab chip plant in Grimes County · [DD-016 TeraFab](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/terafab/index.md)
- **August 2026**: IBM joins two cryogenic modules into one ultra-cold environment · [DD-012 Quantum Infrastructure](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/quantum-cryogenics/index.md)
- **August 2026**: Crowdsourced maps count over 137,000 U.S. license-plate cameras, more than 80% of them Flock's · [DD-030 The Flock](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-flock/index.md)
- **August 2026**: Work on a new roof and windows officially begins · [DD-573 Buzludzha](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/buzludzha/index.md)
- **Aug. 21, 2026**: Reclamation adopts the 2027-2036 Decision Framework · [DD-718 Reservoir Ruin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/reservoir-ruin/index.md)
- **Aug. 22–26, 2026**: The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games bring 2,056 robots to Beijing · [DD-023 WHRGs 2026](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/whrg-2026/index.md)
- **Sept. 1, 2026**: A judge orders Tyler Robinson to stand trial on seven counts · [DD-672 Kirk](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/kirk/index.md)
- **Oct. 15, 2026**: Maduro pleads not guilty to a superseding indictment in New York · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **October 2026**: Israel receives the first Tamir interceptors fully produced in the US (East Camden, Arkansas) · [DD-606 The Iron Dome](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-iron-dome/index.md)
- **Oct. 16, 2026**: Lake Mead at a record low of 1,037.43 ft · [DD-718 Reservoir Ruin](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/reservoir-ruin/index.md)
- **Oct. 17, 2026**: Forbes estimates Karp's net worth at $19.9 billion · [DD-062 Karp](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/karp/index.md)

## Planned and Projected

- **June 14, 2027**: Scheduled start of Maduro's trial in New York (planned) · [DD-068 Nic Mad](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/nic-mad/index.md)
- **2027**: Commercial deployments targeted (planned) · [DD-022 Ocean-3](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/ocean-3/index.md)
- **January 2028**: Revised ball distance testing at a 125 mph clubhead speed takes effect (planned) · [DD-695 Golf Balling](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/golf-balling/index.md)
- **2028**: Commercial operations expected to begin (planned) · [DD-016 TeraFab](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/terafab/index.md)
- **2028**: Berkeley Lab projects U.S. data centers at 325–580 TWh (6.7–12%) (projected) · [DD-029 Data Centers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/data-centers/index.md)
- **2030**: The IEA expects global data-center demand of about 945 TWh (projected) · [DD-029 Data Centers](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/data-centers/index.md)
- **2035–36**: Final (fourth) phase in state incentive filings, about $119.4 billion in all (planned) · [DD-016 TeraFab](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/terafab/index.md)
- **c. 2070**: Expected completion of the nine-building plan (planned) · [DD-042 The White Temple](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-white-temple/index.md)
- **2080**: Full-completion date in the leaked 2023 draft, before the project was put on hold (planned) · [DD-031 The Line](https://detailenjoyer.com/case/the-line/index.md)