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The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment.
Between 1956 and 1962, almost 20 African countries achieved their independence from France. [175] Through the efforts of Amílcar Cabral and others, the Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau , Cape Verde , Angola , Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe followed suit and achieved independence during the mid-1970s, in what was to be the last ...
January 20: John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States. April 12: Yuri Gagarin, flying the Vostok 1 spacecraft as part of the Vostok program, becomes the first human in space. April 17 – 20: Bay of Pigs Invasion by Cuban exiles ends in failure.
An influenza pandemic, Spanish Flu, killed anywhere from 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919. A new viral disease, called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, arose in Africa and subsequently killed millions of people throughout the world. HIV leads to a syndrome called Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.
[20] The two schools were the Mendelians, such as Bateson and de Vries, who favoured mutationism, evolution driven by mutation, based on genes whose alleles segregated discretely like Mendel's peas; [21] [22] and the biometric school, led by Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon. The biometricians argued vigorously against mutationism, saying that ...
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).. The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
In September 1963, Secolul 20 magazine featured a short story by Pavel Spasov, translated from the Bulgarian by Neagu and Valentin Deșliu. [36] Alongside Radu Nistor, he was working on a translation of Armando López Salinas ' Año tras año, published in 1965. [37]
Stepper's work was ignored in post-war Romania, although texts by him were first translated and republished in 1986 Bucharest-based magazine Secolul 20. [2] Additional interest for his literature was raised by literary critic and West University professor Adriana Babeţi. [7]