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Dates: 1883/06/05 - 1946/04/21
Ocupation: Economist
Notable achievements:
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Adam Smith Award (1909) -
Dates: 1903/10/31 - 1983/08/05
Ocupation: Economist and university professor
Notable achievements: His first contributions in economics were in the area of imperfect competition, opposing a variant of the neoclassical-Marshallian tradition that dichotomized economics into perfect competition or absolute monopoly. Robinson participated as a collaborator in Keynes' greatest work: The General Theory of Occupation, Interest and Money receiving the author’s recognition in the prologue to the work. -
Dates: 1905/08/10 - 1989/06/06
Ocupation: Economic advisor to the British government, Professor of economics
Notable achievements: Commander of the Order of the British Empire Baron of Hampstead title -
Dates: 1908/10/15 - 2006/04/29
Ocupation: Economist, diplomat, politician, university professor and essayist
Notable achievements: Presidential Medal of the Freedom -
Dates: 1918/03/05 - 2002/03/11
Ocupation: American Keynesian economist.
Notable achievements: He was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1981. -
Dates: 1934/06/29 - ?
Ocupation: Political scientist, economist, sociologist, academic, philosopher and writer.
Notable achievements: Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 -
1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler at the height of his power. Nazi Germany unleashes the Blitzkrieg against Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France -
The first transposons are discovered in maize (Zea mays, aka corn) by Barbara McClintock. -
The antibiotic dactinomycin (actinomycin D) is first isolated by Selman Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff at Rutgers University. -
Chicago Pile-1 was constructed by a team led by Italian physicist Enrico Ferm
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Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before waking up is a famous painting by the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí made in 1944 -
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
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World Chess Championship 1948, The XIII Summer Olympics in London are canceled due to World War II. (1944) -
The first credit card was created -
The first radar was invented -
The USSR first participated at the Olympic Games in -
Stalin’s death - 1953 -
The 1953 Academy Awards become the first televised installment -
Dates: 1953/02/28 - ?
Ocupation: Columnist, economist, essayist, blogger, university professor, commentator, journalist and writer.
Notable achievements: Commemorative Nobel Prize in Economics -
Dates: 1954/07/17 - ?
Ocupation: Physical chemistry
Notable achievements: Federal Chancellor of Germany since 2005 -
Dates: 1957/11/05 - ?
Ocupation: Professor of Social Studies and Associate professor of Economic History at Malmö University College.
Notable achievements: He has been a prominent contributor to the economic debate in Sweden during the global financial crisis that began in 2008 -
The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy
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The Berlin Wall was built in order to prevent more people from leaving East Germany behind to enter capitalism. The night began in August 1961, when a temporary wall was erected.
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Coventry Cathedral was built -
John F. Kennedy is assassinated -
I HAVE A DREAM’ DE MARTIN Luther KING -
Luna 9 is launched -
Dates: 1971/05/07 - ?
Ocupation: Economist, university professor, writer and screenwriter
Notable achievements:
Honorary Doctorate, University of Johannesburg - 2015
Medalla Rectoral, Universidad de Chile - 2015
Yrjö Jahnsson Award - 2013
Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France - 2002 -
The TAC is created -
At the Olympic Games in Munich, the Palestinian terrorist group «Black September» caused the death of nine Israeli athletes. -
The first home video game console Magnavox Odyssey comes on the market -
Construction of New York Twin Towers completed -
The 1973 oil crisis began on October 16, following the decision of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries with members of the Persian Gulf of OPEC not to export any more oil to the countries that had supported Israel during the Yom Kippur war, which pitted Israel against Syria and Egypt. This included the United States and its Western European allies. -
Argentina’s President Juan Domingo Perón dies -
The USSR became the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. -
The book of the name of the rose by Umberto Eco is written -
The first videoconference is held -
Chernobyl disaster -
Perestroika, concerned with the economic restructuring of the Soviet Union, on the contrary glásnost concentrated on liberalizing the political system -
Fall of the Berlin Wall -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a popular revolt in the capital of East Germany, East Berlin, on 9 November 1989, as a result of which the defensive fortifications of that country that prevented free transit with the American, British and French sectors of occupation of Berlin, and the de facto open border were demolished.
