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George Harrison

George Harrison

1943 – 2001
Music

George Harrison was an English musician who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Known as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison played a significant role in shaping the band's musical direction and established a successful solo career, particularly through his interest in non-Western musical influences.

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Contemporaries

Bob Hope
Bob Hope
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 Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
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 Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
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 Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
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 Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
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 Stan Lee
Stan Lee
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 Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
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 Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
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 B.B. King
B.B. King
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 Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
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 Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
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 James Watson
James Watson
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Their World

Global Events
1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy
1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends
1945 United Nations founded
1947 India and Pakistan gain independence
1948 State of Israel established
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
1950 Korean War begins
1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure
1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins
1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power
1961 Berlin Wall constructed
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States
1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence
1973 1973 oil crisis
1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends
1979 Iranian Revolution
1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 Tiananmen Square protests
1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1994 Rwandan genocide
1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections
1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned
1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland
2001 September 11 attacks
In Their Field
1948 Columbia Records introduces the LP record
1954 Elvis Presley records first single at Sun Studio
1959 Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue
1964 The Beatles arrive in America; British Invasion begins
1967 The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1969 Woodstock music festival
1975 Bohemian Rhapsody released by Queen
1979 Hip hop emerges in the South Bronx
1982 Michael Jackson releases Thriller
1985 Live Aid concerts held globally
1991 Nirvana releases Nevermind; grunge goes mainstream
1999 Napster launches, transforming music distribution