Organizations

Re-release of Hybrid Theory for 20th Anniversary

Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington

Passing of Chester Bennington

Release of One More Light

Release of The Hunting Party

Release of Recharged

Release of Living Things

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Soundtrack Contribution

Release of A Thousand Suns

Release of Minutes to Midnight

VanEck Files for Solana ETF, SOL Rises 8%

Solana Launches Blinks

Helium Successfully Completes Migration to Solana Network

SAGA Solana Mobile launched

Austin Federa head of Solana strategy on Bloomberg

Google Cloud Collaborates With Solana

Helium Community Approves Crypto Wireless Network's Migration to Solana

Solana Mobile Stack

Improvement Solana network

Solana and OpenSea Join Forces

Third Additional Protocol creates the red crystal emblem

Federation adopts its current name, emphasizing Red Crescent inclusion

New statutes define the modern International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

Additional Protocols expand protections in modern armed conflicts

Seven Fundamental Principles are proclaimed in Vienna

Four Geneva Conventions are adopted after World War II

Movement statutes formalize relations among its components

League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris

Revised Geneva Convention formally accommodates emblem pluralism

Henry Dunant receives the first Nobel Peace Prize

BBC Verify is unveiled to strengthen verification journalism

BBC marks its centenary

UK government announces controversial licence fee freeze

Current Royal Charter takes effect

BBC Television Centre closes as main broadcast hub

Director-General George Entwistle resigns during crisis

BBC iPlayer goes live

BBC News Online launches

National radio is reorganized and Radio 1 is launched

BBC Two is launched

Lyndon Buckingham is elected the 22nd General

Brian Peddle is elected the 21st General

The International Social Justice Commission is established in New York

The Salvation Army becomes a founding member of Religious at the United Nations

The Salvation Army launches the fundraiser that became National Donut Day

The Salvation Army Act 1931 reforms governance

Founder William Booth dies and leadership passes to Bramwell Booth

The first red kettle is used at Oakland Ferry Landing

William Booth publishes In Darkest England and the Way Out

The new name and office of General are embedded in the foundation deed

Artemis I launches NASA back toward the Moon

James Webb Space Telescope releases its first full-color images

Perseverance lands in Jezero Crater to seek signs of ancient life

Curiosity lands with the sky-crane system in Gale Crater

Spirit rover lands on Mars

International Space Station assembly begins with Zarya

Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit

Challenger disaster triggers a national reckoning

STS-1 begins the Space Shuttle era

Skylab launches as America’s first space station

Qatar hosts a landmark and controversial FIFA World Cup final

FIFA Council approves an expanded 32-team Women’s World Cup

Gianni Infantino is elected after governance reforms

Corruption arrests plunge FIFA into crisis

FIFA awards the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar

Sepp Blatter is elected FIFA president

FIFA launches the first Women’s World Cup

João Havelange becomes the first non-European FIFA president

FIFA expands in Zurich during the World Cup era

FIFA relocates its headquarters from Paris to Zurich

The East India Company is formally dissolved

Government of India Act ends company rule and begins the Raj

Indian Rebellion of 1857 erupts against company rule

Charter Act of 1833 ends the company’s commercial activities

Charter Act of 1813 breaks the company’s India trade monopoly

Pitt’s India Act tightens Crown supervision

Regulating Act begins parliamentary control over company rule

Treaty of Allahabad grants Diwani rights in Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa

Battle of Plassey transforms the company into a territorial power

Merger creates the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

Disney marks its 100th anniversary

Bob Iger returns as CEO amid strategic and financial turbulence

Disney+ launches and pushes Disney directly into the streaming wars

Disney closes the 21st Century Fox acquisition

Disney announces the Lucasfilm purchase

Disney completes its acquisition of Marvel Entertainment

Disney acquires Pixar and revitalizes its animation future

Bob Iger succeeds Eisner and begins a new strategic era

Disney completes the Capital Cities/ABC acquisition

Michael Eisner becomes chief executive during a critical turnaround era

The Salvation Army launches a global modern slavery and human trafficking strategy

The Salvation Army Act 1980 updates the organization’s legal framework in Britain

The election of General Wilfred Kitching underscores the Army’s non-dynastic future

Chicago fundraiser establishes what became National Donut Day

Evangeline Booth becomes the first woman elected General of The Salvation Army

The first High Council removes Bramwell Booth from office

The Salvation Army expands wartime support during the First World War

Death of founder William Booth and succession of Bramwell Booth

Ballington Booth’s departure produces the major schism that created Volunteers of America

Hadleigh Farm is established as a model social welfare project

WWF promotes a New Deal for Nature and People

WWF reports the first global wild tiger increase in about a century

WWF helps drive the TX2 tiger recovery goal at the St. Petersburg summit

A major Madagascar debt-for-nature agreement is announced

WWF organizes the first Earth Hour in Sydney

WWF adopts a 10-year ecoregion-focused conservation goal

WWF launches the Living Planet Report as a flagship assessment

A WWF-linked survey helps identify the saola in Vietnam

WWF carries out a landmark debt-for-nature swap in Costa Rica

The organization adopts the international name World Wide Fund for Nature

The 2024 Living Planet Report underscores WWF’s continuing global influence

WWF publishes an independent review on human rights abuses allegations

Earth Hour begins in Sydney with WWF support

WWF backs creation of Tumucumaque Mountains National Park

WWF launches the Living Planet Report

WWF and Unilever establish the Marine Stewardship Council

WWF helps launch the Forest Stewardship Council

WWF is prominent in the Rio Earth Summit era

WWF enters the era of debt-for-nature swaps

The organization adopts the name World Wide Fund for Nature

The Salvation Army launches Compass, its Global Strategic Framework for 2024-2027

The Salvation Army launches its Accountability Movement

Eva Burrows is elected General, becoming the first woman to lead the Army since 1934

The Salvation Army Act 1980 modernizes the organization’s legal framework in the United Kingdom

Evangeline Booth becomes the first woman elected General of The Salvation Army

The first High Council elects a General, reshaping Salvation Army governance

Founder William Booth dies and leadership passes to Bramwell Booth

The Salvation Army expands disaster relief work after the San Francisco earthquake and fire

The Salvation Army establishes its first hospital in Nagercoil

The first Christmas kettle fundraising campaign begins in the San Francisco Bay area

Oxford marks the centenary of women’s full admission

Oxford tops major world rankings amid intense scrutiny

Postwar Oxford enters the modern research era

Rhodes House opens as an international academic center

Women are admitted as full members of the University

Women’s higher education is organized in Oxford

Ashmolean Museum is founded

Sheldonian Theatre opens as Oxford’s ceremonial hall

Bodleian Library reopens as Oxford’s great research library

St Scholastica Day riot reshapes town-and-gown relations

Magen David Adom and Palestine Red Crescent Society are admitted to the movement

Third Additional Protocol creates the red crystal emblem

Federation takes the name International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

League adopts the name League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Additional Protocols extend humanitarian protections in modern conflicts

Seven Fundamental Principles are proclaimed in Vienna

Red Cross centenary is marked by a shared Nobel Peace Prize

Four Geneva Conventions are adopted, redefining the legal framework behind Red Cross work

ICRC receives a second Nobel Peace Prize during World War II

Revised Geneva Convention formally recognizes the red crescent alongside the red cross

Fair Housing Act expands civil rights protections to housing

Loving v. Virginia strikes down bans on interracial marriage

Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law

Bloody Sunday exposes the struggle for voting rights in Selma

Civil Rights Act of 1964 becomes law

16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four girls

March on Washington brings mass civil rights protest to the capital

Birmingham campaign escalates with the Children's Crusade

Freedom Riders depart Washington to test desegregation rulings

Greensboro sit-ins launch a new wave of student protest

WWF backs the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

WWF publishes the Independent Review on alleged abuses in conservation areas

WWF commissions an independent review after allegations of human rights abuses

Earth Hour becomes a global WWF campaign

WWF launches Earth Hour in Sydney

WWF helps launch Brazil’s ARPA protected areas program

WWF wins a key court ruling in the trademark dispute with the wrestling federation

WWF launches the first Living Planet Report

WWF promotes debt-for-nature swaps as a new conservation finance tool

WWF co-publishes the World Conservation Strategy

André Cox is elected General after an unexpected leadership transition

The “One Army, One Mission, One Message” international vision is launched

The international congress is held in Atlanta, underscoring the Army’s global reach

Chicago fundraiser establishes National Donut Day

Evangeline Booth becomes the first woman to lead the international Salvation Army

The Salvation Army Act 1931 reshapes the organization’s constitutional governance

The first High Council elects a General after a constitutional crisis

Salvation Army volunteers support troops in World War I and inspire the “Doughnut Lassies” legacy

Founder William Booth dies after leading the Army for nearly half a century

International Staff Training Lodge opens to prepare future leaders

Protocol III creates the red crystal as an additional protective emblem

The League becomes the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The Movement adopts updated statutes and its current official name

Additional Protocols I and II expand protections in modern conflicts

Seven Fundamental Principles are proclaimed in Vienna

Centenary year brings a shared Nobel Peace Prize to the ICRC and the League

The four Geneva Conventions modernize and expand humanitarian protection

The first International Red Cross Day is celebrated

The ICRC receives a second Nobel Peace Prize during World War II

Diplomatic revision formally recognizes the red crescent emblem

WWF campaigns around the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal biodiversity framework

WWF launches its New Deal for Nature and People campaign

WWF joins the Global Mangrove Alliance

WWF backs the TX2 tiger goal at the St. Petersburg Tiger Summit

The first Earth Hour takes place in Sydney

WWF releases the first Living Planet Report in London

WWF completes its first successful debt-for-nature swap in Ecuador

WWF broadens its identity and adopts the name World Wide Fund for Nature

WWF helps launch the World Conservation Strategy

WWF supports the new global endangered-species treaty framework

Quarter Pounder E. coli outbreak triggers a major food-safety crisis

McDonald's moves its headquarters to Chicago's West Loop

The company launches its global 'I'm lovin' it' campaign

McDonald's opens in Moscow at the end of the Cold War

Chicken McNuggets debut nationally in the United States

Happy Meal launches and deepens family marketing

Breakfast becomes a national business with the Egg McMuffin rollout

The Big Mac is rolled out nationally

McDonald's expands internationally to Canada and Puerto Rico

McDonald's goes public

Lonnie G. Bunch III is installed as the Smithsonian’s first African American Secretary

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens to the public

The National Museum of the American Indian opens on the National Mall

Congress creates the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Congress establishes the National Museum of the American Indian within the Smithsonian

The National Air and Space Museum opens during the U.S. Bicentennial

The Museum of History and Technology opens, later renamed the National Museum of American History

The National Museum building opens, later becoming the National Museum of Natural History

The Arts and Industries Building opens as the first U.S. National Museum building

A fire damages the Castle and destroys major early collections and records

Paris Agreement is adopted under the UN climate framework

UN adopts the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

South Sudan joins as the 193rd UN member state

General Assembly creates the Human Rights Council

World Summit endorses the responsibility to protect

Millennium Declaration is adopted at the Millennium Summit

Earth Summit opens in Rio and elevates sustainable development in the UN system

UN Peacekeeping Forces receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Security Council adopts Resolution 242 after the Six-Day War

UN launches major Congo operation, expanding peacekeeping’s scope

The Salvation Army marks its 150th anniversary with an international congress in London

A newly redeveloped International Headquarters building opens at 101 Queen Victoria Street

National Donut Day begins in Chicago to honor wartime Salvation Army service

Evangeline Booth becomes the first woman elected General

The Salvation Army Act 1931 places leadership succession on a legal footing

Edward Higgins becomes the first General elected by a High Council

The Army formalizes distinguished service recognition with the Order of the Founder

Founder William Booth dies and Bramwell Booth becomes General

The first red kettle campaign begins at Oakland Ferry Landing

William Booth publishes “In Darkest England and the Way Out,” expanding the Army’s social mission