Silent Spring published
1962 · Work
Rachel Carson's expose of pesticides launches the modern environmental movement and the case against DDT.
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- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
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- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
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- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
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- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
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- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
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- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Six-Day War (1967)