1850, Los Angeles was incorporated as a U.S. city (official California statute). https://buff.ly/2OMqK5Z
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000. https://buff.ly/2UvklS6
1949 NATO is formed
12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty to establish what is today one of the world's most important military alliances. https://buff.ly/2UgL6uk
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. https://buff.ly/2p9qu4R
1969 Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart
The machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours. He died before a human heart could become available. https://buff.ly/2CW2IAN
1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). https://buff.ly/2UxBkTR
1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft
Microsoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world's largest software maker by revenue. https://buff.ly/2WN2yDv
2014 President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years
2018 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia https://buff.ly/2FRtZF8