Stan Lee

1922 – 2018

Film & Entertainment

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics. He was Marvel's primary creative leader for two decades, expanding it from a small publishing house division to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.

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Their World

Global Events

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

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

2003 Human Genome Project completed

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

2008 Global financial crisis

2010 Arab Spring begins

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

2015 Paris Agreement on climate change adopted

2016 United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union

In Their Field

1927 The Jazz Singer: first feature-length talkie

1929 First Academy Awards ceremony held

1939 The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind released

1941 Orson Welles releases Citizen Kane

1946 Cannes Film Festival established

1950 Kurosawa releases Rashomon; Japanese cinema gains world stage

1960 Fellini releases La Dolce Vita

1960 French New Wave: Godard releases Breathless

1968 Kubrick releases 2001: A Space Odyssey

1972 Coppola releases The Godfather

1975 Spielberg releases Jaws; blockbuster era begins

1977 Star Wars released

1985 Miyazaki co-founds Studio Ghibli

1994 Pulp Fiction revitalizes independent cinema

1995 Toy Story: first fully computer-animated feature film

2009 Avatar pioneers 3D filmmaking technology