Events that Changed Our World

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I've just watched this programme on a satellite channel - details found here:

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Anyway, the programme looked at world-changing events as follows:

February 1953 Crick and Watson unravel DNA: 1190 Votes
September 2001 Terrorist attacks in the USA: 846 Votes
July 1969 The Moon landing: 668 Votes
November 1993 First internet browser introduced: 594 Votes
November 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall: 553 Votes
August 1963 Martin Luther King Speech: 222 Votes
May 1948 Founding of the state of Israel: 156 Votes
October 1962 The Cuban missile crisis: 77 Votes
May 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected British PM: 58
January 1979 Iranian revolution: 8

I was suprised that the following wasn't mentioned:

Einstein's E=MC2 equation.
The first nuclear reactor
The Atomic bomb
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Russian Revolution
The Wall Street crash, 1929
The Great Depression
Pearl Harbour, 1941
The world's first public demonstration of a working television system, 1925

And I wondered - what 20th/21st Century event does the FreeOnes forum consider world-changing? Or do you agree with the list shown?

Fire away, folks!
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