Historical Milestones

• The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg (~1440)
• The signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
• The first successful flight by the Wright brothers (1903)
• The moon landing by Apollo 11 (1969)

Scientific Breakthroughs

• Publication of Newton’s Principia Mathematica (1687)
• Discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming (1928)
• Completion of the Human Genome Project (2003)
• First image of a black hole captured (2019)

Cultural Moments

• Premiere of Shakespeare’s plays in London (late 1500s–early 1600s)
• Release of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
• The fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
• The rise of social media platforms in the 2000s