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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.