Twentieth Century in Numbers
by Hiscorical facts and numbers of the 20th Century.
CRIME OF THE CENTURY: Today, humanity will not forgive the one who pressed the button. The decision to activate a trigger of mass destruction will weigh on the conscience of the player while you live, if you can live in peace. The decision to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occupy this respectable place for many years, hoping that such a decision has been banished forever from the face of the planet.
CULTURAL EVENT OF THE CENTURY: Considered as a real revolution in culture, fashion and art in general, the formation, growth, maturity and decline of British musical group The Beatles between 1969 and 1970, is listed as the most relevant the culture of this century, over development that have taken the media (cinema, television, radio, video) and the development achieved in the press flat. When to “Let it be” British musicians put an end to his long and winding road, all latitudes men knew they had done something very beautiful.
Many of the cultural events that have occurred in this century have been closely linked to technological development. The emergence of the tape, digital recording, the first talkie, and others have set new standards in the development of culture. This also has been a century of great artists who have gone on to become history’s heritage. Figures such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Charles Chaplin also marked milestones in the history of world culture.
Other important events in the cultural context in this century have been, for example, the first concert of the great tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras and Placido Domingo) on July 7, 1990, the return of Guernica to Spain (10 September 1981), restoration of the Sistine Chapel between 1990 and 1998 and the premiere of Pedro Almodovar memorable film “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” on March 21, 1989.
VOICES OF THE CENTURY: The experts agree in considering the male voice of the century as the great Enrico Caruso, while among the women highlights the voice of Mary Kalegeropoulos Greek, known as the legendary Maria Callas.
Other voices have been prominent in this century including Alfredo Krauss German, Italian, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé Catalan, English and American Freddie Mercury Judy Garland.
DANCERS OF THE CENTURY: In the world of dance has highlighted a number of dancers. Nobody has been able to wrest the transcendental primacy to Isadora Duncan, but also have marked milestones in the Russian Anna Pavlova and Maya Pliseskaya and Cuban Alicia Alonso. Among men folk dance has found more support as the case of the legendary Fred Astaire, joined another mythological figure like Gene Kelly.
DISEASE OF THE CENTURY: When TB was going to win this privileged place in history, appears on the threshold of the XXI Century, a new disease (1983). Converted into a pandemic, the initials that identify the human immunodeficiency virus shudder to all mankind. About 18.5 million people worldwide AIDS crawl in his veins. Of these 4.5 million have the disease. In 2000 the world will have 10 million orphans of HIV wedges. About every 20 minutes a new person becomes infected in the world. In the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, one in 40 people is infected with the virus. The solution is still far. The hope is for everyone.
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