A Day That Shook the World - British Pathé

A Day That Shook The World

: Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile (1979)

: Kennedy Inauguration (1961)

: First Hovercraft Run (1959)

: Peles World Cup Final Performance Thrills Crowds (1958)

: Manchester United Players Die In Munich Air Crash (1958)

: Suez Invasion (1956)

: First Nuclear Power Station (1956)

: Soviets Crush Hungarian Revolt (1956)

: Khrushchev Denounces Stalin (1956)

: Le Mans 24 Race Disaster (1955)

: French Surrender At Dien Bien Phu (1954)

: Roger Bannister Breaks Four Minute Mile (1954)

: Launch Of First Nuclear Submarine (1954)

: Britain Explodes First Atomic Bomb (1952)

: Yuri Gagarin Becomes The First Man In Space (1961)

: Erection Of The Berlin Wall (1961)

: Nixon First Us President To Resign (1974)

: Bloody Sunday In Northern Ireland (1972)

: Concorde Flies For First Time (1969)

: Soviets Put Down Prague Spring (1968)

: Paris Riots - France Comes Close To Revolution (1968)

: Grosvenor Square Anti-Vietnam Riots (1968)

: Six-Day War Begins (1967)

: Donald Campbell Dies In Bluebird Crash (1967)

: Aberfan Slag Heap Buries School (1966)

: Beatles Return From States In Triumph (1964)

: Kennedy Assassinated (1963)

: Martin Luther King Delivers His "I Have A Dream" Speech (1962)

: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

: Maos Communists Take Over In China (1949)

: Berlin Airlift Begins (1948)

: Hitler Annexes Austria (1938)

: Hindenburg Airship Crash (1937)

: Edward VIII Abdicates (1936)

: Hitler Becomes German Chancellor (1933)

: American Golfer Bobby Jones Wins Grand Slam (1930)

: Charles Lindbergh Flies The Atlantic Solo (1927)

: Start Of UK General Strike (1926)

: Suzanne Lenglen Breaks Wimbledon Record (1925)

: Irish Free State Treaty Signed (1921)

: Abdication Of The Tsar Nikolas (1917)

: Battle Of The Somme (1916)

: Emily Davison Throws Herself Under The Kings Derby Horse (1913)

: The Wright Brothers First Flight (1903)

: Germany Invades Poland (1939)

: Evacuation Of Dunkirk (1940)

: India And Pakistan Gain Independence (1947)

: Atomic Bomb Dropped On Hiroshima (1945)

: Labours Landslide Election Win (1945)

: First Atomic Bomb Test In New Mexico (1945)

: VE Day Celebrations (1945)

: Germans Surrender To Montgomery (1945)

: Big Three Meet At Yalta To Carve Up Post-War World (1945)

: Liberation Of Paris (1944)

: D-Day Landings (1944)

: Fall Of Stalingrad - German Army Surrenders (1943)

: Battle Of El Alamein Begins (1942)

: Pearl Harbour Attacked (1941)

: London Blitz Begins On Civilian Targets (1940)

: Queen Victorias Funeral (1901)

: Hurricane Katrina (2005)

: September 11th (2001)

: Concorde Crash (2000)

: Deciphering Of The Human Genome (2000)

: The Millennium (2000)

: NATO Bombing Of Chinese Embassy, Belgrade (1999)

: President Clintons Impeachment (1998)

: Hurricane Mitch (1998)

: Funeral Of Diana, Princess Of Wales (1997)

: Death Of Mother Teresa (1997)

: Princess Of Wales Dies In Paris Car Crash (1997)

: Dolly The Sheep Clone Unveiled (1997)

: 150 Die In Oklahoma Terrorist Attack (1995)

: Barings Bank Collapses (1995)

: Ipod (2001)

: Battle Of Tora Bora (2001)

: Israeli Invasion Of Lebanon (2006)

: Collapse Of Enron (2006)

: London Bombings (2005)

: London Awarded 2012 Olympics (2005)

: Super Jumbo Airbus (2005)

: Charles And Camilla (2005)

: Pope John Paul II Dies (2005)

: Kyoto Agreement (2005)

: Asian Tsunami (2004)

: Orange Revolution Ukraine (2004)

: Beslan School Siege (2004)

: Saddam Capture (2003)

: Fall Of Iraq (2003)

: Bosnian Crisis (1994)

: Yeltsin Crushes Political Rebels (1993)

: Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster (1989)

: Exxon Valdez- Worlds Worst Oil Spill (1989)

: Lockerbie Pan-Am Jet Explosion (1988)

: Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (1987)

: Chernobyl Disaster (1986)

: America Attacks Libya (1986)

: Challenger Spacecraft Explodes (1986)

: Heysel Stadium Riots (1985)

: Ethiopian Famine - BBC Reports Spark Huge Response (1984)

: IRA Bombs British Cabinet At Brighton (1984)

: HMS Sheffield Sunk In Falklands War (1982)

: British Task Force To Sail For Falklands (1982)

: British Sas Storm Iranian Embassy In London (1980)

: Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989)

: Berlin Wall Comes Down (1989)

: Arab Israeli Peace Agreement (1993)

: The Prince And Princess Separate (1992)

: Windsor Castle Damaged By Fire (1992)

: British Royal Family In Crisis (1992)

: Los Angeles Race Riots (1992)

: Maastricht Treaty (1991)

: Soviet Coup Failed (1991)

: Desert Storm - Gulf War (1990)

: Thatcher Falls From Power (1990)

: Iraq Invade Kuwait (1990)

: Nelson Mandela Released (1990)

: Ceausescu Overthrown (1989)

: Official End Of The Cold War - Bush/gorbachev Agree To Deal (1989)

: Lord Mountbatten Assassinated By IRA (1979)