Europe in the twentieth century (1914 – 2000). Two world wars, decolonisation and the technologies that made the present. These articles cover the century within living memory.
Rifleman William Eve's diary says soldiers 'played football' on December 25, 1914; the National Archives' review of unit war diaries records no such match.
· 1914Signed June 28, 1919, it took Germany's land and army and fixed its liability; Germany called it a Diktat, Keynes Carthaginian, the U.S. Senate refused it.
· 1919The surge of January 31–February 1, 1953 was later rated a 300-year level. The Delta Committee set a 10,000-year standard; Britain capped defenses at 1953.
· 1953Tip No 7 fell on Aberfan on October 21, 1966. A Tribunal blamed the National Coal Board; £150,000 of disaster-fund money paid for tip removal until 1997.
· 1966At 01:23:04 on April 26, 1986, a turbine rundown test began at Chernobyl Unit 4; 45 seconds later a fuel channel ruptured. INSAG-7, Pripyat and the counts.
· 1986At 6:50 p.m. Günter Schabowski read a draft travel rule live and said it took effect 'sofort, unverzüglich.' By 11:30 p.m. Bornholmer Straße was open.
· 1989
