1869:The Suez canal was built by french developer Ferdinand DE Lesseps which took 10 years and opened in November 17 , 1869
1917:The Bolshevik party led by Marxists Vladimir Lenin overthrew the current Government and murdered the royal family. 1948:On June 24, 1948 the soviets blocked all Rail and road traffic to Berlin and electricity was cut off coming from the soviet part of the city. 1961:the USA sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government but failed miserably 1961:In the year of 1961 the Berlin wall was built by the communists government of east Berlin to prevent people from fleeing 1962:the soviet union began to install nuclear missiles in Cuba 1985:Mikhail Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the soviet union. 1991:The soviet union began to collapse in the late 1980 s and finally gave way when the country broke up in 15 different independent states |