The Counting Game

[mOctave]

1941:
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, invading Russia.
In December, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour, then invade Hong Kong, Shanghai, Thailand, the Philippines, present-day Malaysia, and Singapore, all within 48 hours, simultaneous to the Germans halting their advance on Moscow.

[wintergreen]

1942: Deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1943 ΑD After the defeat in Africa, Italy is invaded and forced to surrender. The Allies make a big step towards victory, alas the war will take two more years.

[JECE]

"1944 . . . Oct. 9. Dumbarton Oaks Conference. Delegates representing the U.S., the British Commonwealth, and the Soviet Union, after meeting from Aug. 21 to Sept. 27, published proposals for a permanent international organization to be known as the United Nations. The aim of the new society of nations was the preservation of world peace and security."

[Wattsthematter]

1945:

In an attempt to force the end of the second World War, two nuclear missiles are dropped on Japan by the United States under President Harry S Truman. One on August 6th in Hiroshima, and the second only three days later in Nagasaki. More than 210,000 human beings were killed.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1946:

10 January... The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1947: March 12 – The Cold War begins: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed, to help stem the spread of Communism.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1948 The NATO alliance comes into effect to defend against communist Russia. Communism is gone, but NATO remains.

On a more personal level, my father was born in 1948.

[wintergreen]

1949: Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party captures the capital of China, forcing Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang to retreat to the island of Taiwan.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1950 China annexes Thibet.

[Jamiet99uk]

1951 is pronounced one thousand nine hundred fifty one. Number 1951 is a prime number. The prime number before 1951 is 1949. The prime number after 1951 is 1973. Number 1951 has 2 divisors: 1, 1951. Sum of the divisors is 1952. Number 1951 is not a Fibonacci number. It is not a Bell number. Number 1951 is not a Catalan number. Number 1951 is not a regular number (Hamming number). It is a not factorial of any number. Number 1951 is a deficient number and therefore is not a perfect number. Binary numeral for number 1951 is 11110011111. Octal numeral is 3637. Duodecimal value is 1167. Hexadecimal representation is 79f. Square of the number 1951 is 3806401. Square root of the number 1951 is 44.170125650716. Natural logarithm of 1951 is 7.5760973406231 Decimal logarithm of the number 1951 is 3.2902572693945 Sine of 1951 is -0.070902579322199. Cosine of the number 1951 is -0.9974832450951. Tangent of the number 1951 is 0.071081473970461

[FlaviusAetius]

1952, Oxymandias, a DC anti-hero is born, this is a great excuse for me to talk about Ozymandias!

This was the Greek name for Ramses the Great, and also a famous poem by Percy Shelley, which tells the hubris of empires and how they think they will last forever...a good lesson for webdiplomacy! On an unrelated note...I may or may not have lost 6/7 SC's in one year in a gunboat game I'm in
;(

[Jamiet99uk]

In 1953, Joseph Stalin, longest-serving leader of the USSR, died at the age of 74.

Also in that year, Josip Broz Tito, the partisan war hero, became President of Yugoslavia, ushering in a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity in that region.

[miminena]

April 11, 1954 is considered the most boring day in the 20th century by the answer engine True Knowledge.

[DreamTrawler]

The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference (Indonesian: Konferensi Asia–Afrika), also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The twenty-nine countries that participated represented a total population of 1.5 billion people, 54% of the world's population.

[MythosOfMen]

In 1956 ad urbe condita (1203 ad) the obscure renaissance calendar based on years since the founding of Rome, Constantinople was placed under siege by the Fourth Crusade.

[burner]

1957 is the number which I was required to post in order to continue the counting game.

[FlaviusAetius]

In 1958 Pan Am opened up its New York to Paris flight which made this year the first year more people traveled the atlantic by plane than by ship :O

[damo666]

1959 the year in which Eamon de Valera became president of Ireland

[burner]

I hope I don't have to save the counting game 1960 times. There have been at least 1960 seconds between posts, and I'm afraid interest in the counting game has dropped by around 1960 percent.