What happened in the world and in Turkey
during the last 60 years?
1959
The silicon chip is
invented, paving the way
to the computer age.
1961
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin becomes the first
human to go to space.
1963
US President John F.
Kennedy is
assassinated.
1964
Beatles rocks the world
music lists.
1967
Anadol, Turkey’s first
automobile, hits the
roads.
1969
The first man on the
moon.
1973
The Bosphorus Bridge
opens, connecting Asia
and Europe.
1984
Turkish Radio Television
(TRT) begins colour
broadcasting.
1986
Explosion at the
Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant in Ukraine.
Radioactive clouds reach
Turkey.
1989
The Berlin Wall, symbol
of the Cold War, is torn
down.
1990
Turkey’s first private TV
station begins its
broadcast.
1997
Princess Diana dies in a
car crash.
2001
A new age begins in the
aftermath of the attacks
on the World Trade
Center.
2002
Turkish National Soccer
Team placed third at the
World Cup.
2003
Sertap Erener wins the
Eurovision Song
Contest.
2004
Facebook is founded.
2006
Orhan Pamuk receives
the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
2007
Apple introduces
iPhone.
2008
The economic crisis in
the US shakes the whole
world economy.
2015
Turkish scientist
Professor Aziz Sancar
receives the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry.