Olive saw a lot in 96 years. 2 World Wars, numerous technological and medicinal breakthroughs, political reforms, depressions and so on. A brief run-down on the many changes seen in her lifetime is listed here. For more details on specific events, search google.com. 1907 events are detailed here.
1908 - Ford Model T car is introduced. An earthquake in Messina, kills 100,000 people. Cellophane invented.
1909 - Frenchman Louis Bleriot is the first to fly across the English Channel. Instant coffee invented.
1910 - Mexican revolution begins. Edison demonstrates the first talking motion picture. The neon light is invented.
1911 - Amundsen reaches South Pole
1912 - Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, 1,500 die. Scott reaches the South Pole but dies, during the return trip. First Balkan War where Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro fight Turkey.
1913 - Second Balkan War: Bulgaria is defeated by Greece, Serbia, Romania and Turkey. The crossword puzzle, bra and zip is invented.
1914 - First World War begins, continuing until 1918.
1915 - The Germans introduce poison gas into warfare. Pyrex is invented.
1916 - Battle of the Somme, the British suffer 60,000 casualties. Stainless steel is invented.
1917 - Bolshevik (Communist) revolution in Russia.
1918 - First World War ends at 11th hour of 11th day of 11th Month. Influenza ("Spanish Flu"), kills an estimated 20-40 million people worldwide.
1919 - Treaty of Versailles. The pop-up toaster and short wave radio is invented.
1920 - The League of Nations is established. The Band Aid is invented.
1921 - First Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City. The first robot is built, as is the first lie-detector.
1922 - First world championship athletics for women, held in Paris. BBC (British Broadcasting Company) is established. China is hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die. The first 3D movie is shown.
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.Time magazine first published. Wembley stadium opens. Frozen food and traffic signals are invented.
1924 - First Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France. Spiral bindings for notebooks are invented.
1925 - Olive celebrates her 18th birthday while John Logie Baird tests the first working television in his lab.
1926 - First flight over the North Pole. First transatlantic telephone call.
1927 - Lindbergh makes first solo transatlantic flight. The first quartz crystal watch is invented, and the aerosol can is patented.
1928 - Olive and Reg get married. Walt Disney makes first animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. Amelia Earhart is the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane. Penicillin is discovered. Bubblegum is invented.
1929 - Stock Market Crash in the USA causes World Depression. Car radio is invented.
1930 - Sliced bread is introduced. The planet, Pluto is discovered. The analog computer is invented.
1931 - Empire State Building is completed, and the US officially gets a national anthem. The Electron Microscope is invented.
1932 - Scientists split the atom, and air-conditioning is invented as is the zoom lens and a light meter.
1933 - Loch Ness Monster is first spotted. Stereo records are invented along with FM radio.
1934 - Monopoly board game goes on sale, as does the cheeseburger. Cats eyes and the first tape recorder are also developed.
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded. First greeting telegram is sent in Britain. An earthquake in Pakistan kills 50,000 people. The first canned beer appears. Radar is patented.
1936 - Spanish civil war begins. The Hoover dam is completed. The Colt revolver is patented.
1937 - Japan invades China. The Hindenburg zeppelin disaster. The photocopier is invented.
1938 - Nylon is available. Teflon and freeze dried coffee are invented.
1939 - World War II begins, continuing until 1945. The first successful helicopter is built.
1940 - The Battle of Britain.
1941 - The Jeep is invented.
1942 - The T-Shirt is introduced.
1943 - The World's largest office building, The Pentagon is completed. Food and shoe rationing begins in the US. The aqualung and Synthetic rubber are invented.
1944 - Ball-point pens are available in shops. The kidney dialysis machine is invented.
1945 - U.S. drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . UN founded. First computer built. Hitler commits suicide. First microwave oven invented.
1946 - Bikinis introduced. Winston Churchill gives his Iron Curtain speech.
1947 - Sound barrier broken. Polaroid Cameras Invented. Tupperware patented.
1948 - Big Bang theory formulated. The Frisbee and Velcro invented.
1949 - China becomes communist. First non-stop flight around the World. NATO established.
1950 - Korean war begins, and continues until 1950. First organ transplant. First credit card introduced.
1951 - Colour TV introduced. Superglue invented.
1952 - Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen Elizabeth II of England. Car seat belts introduced. The Hydrogen bomb is built.
1953 - Mount Everest, tallest mountain in the world is sucessfully climbed by Hillary. Also in this year the Polio vaccine is introduced. DNA is discovered. Black Box flight recorder invented.
1954 - A report shows that cigarettes cause cancer. The solar cell is invented.
1955 - McDonalds fast food chain opens.
1956 - Revolution in Hungary. TV remote control and the hovercraft were invented.
1957 - Sputnik 1 is the first satellite to orbit the Earth by the Russians. A month later a dog is launched into space on Sputnik 2.
1958 - Lego is introduced, and NASA is founded. The integrated circuit is invented.
1959 - Fidel Castro becomes dictator in Cuba. The internal pacemaker is invented, as is the Barbie doll.
1960 - First weather satellite launched. Lasers and halogen lamps are invented.
1961 - Construction of the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from fleeing west. Also in this year Vostok 1 took the first human, Yuri Gagarin into space. Valium is invented.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet Union began placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, causing a confrontation with the US, which brought the two countries extremely close to war. The audio cassette and silicone breast implants are invented.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot.
1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison
1965 - US in war with Vietnam. Great blackout in New York city.
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus." The passenger ship, the QE2 is launched into service.
1967 - First human heart transplant performed.
1968 - Earthquake in Iran kills 12,000. Mauritius gains independence from Britain.
1969 - In Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong becomes the 1st man to walk on the moon, and Buzz Aldrin is the second. Armstrong says, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The ATM and bar-code scanners are invented.
1970 - Floppy disks and the daisy wheel printer are introduced for computers.
1971 - London Bridge is brought to the USA. UK goes decimal. The micro-processor, LCD, VCR and dot matrix printer are all invented.
1972 - Hurricane Agnes hits US east coast; 118 die. Illegal fireworks factory in Rome explodes killing 15 people.South Korean bus tradedy, kills 77. Train derailment in S.Africa kills almost 50.
1973 - Bahamas declares Independence from UK. US bombs Cambodia. The disposable lighter is invented.
1974 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres of land. The post-it note and liposuction are invented.
1975 - Cival war in Lebanon. The laser printer is invented.
1976 - Viking 1, an unmanned probe lands on Mars and sends back images to Earth. Tangshan earthquake kills more than 240,000 people. The ink-jet printer is invented.
1977 - Elvis Presley found dead. Siver Jubilee celebrated in the UK.
1978 - Olive and Reg celebrate 50th Wedding anniversary. First test tube baby born.
1979 . Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman UK prime-minister. Cellular phones , the walkman and rollerblades are invented.
1980 - John Lennon is killed. The hepatitis-B vaccine is invented.
1981 - Space Shuttle Columbia is the first re-usable space vehicle to be launched into Space. Bob Marley dies. AIDS disease identified. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer marry.
1982 - First permanent artificial heart implanted. Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina. King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose is raised After 437 Years.
1983 - Ronald Reagan announces a defense plan called Star Wars.
1984 - Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India. CD-ROM is invented.
1985 - Famine in Eithiopia. Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered. The first Windows operating system appears for PC's.
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes killing it's crew of seven. Also in the same year, there was a nuclear meltdown at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, instantly killing 32 people. The disposable camera is invented, as is synthetic skin.
1987 - Black Monday on New York stock exchange.
1988 - Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
1989 - Berlin Wall is taken down. China's Tiananmen Square massacre.
1990 - Earthquakes in Algeria, Peru, Philippines and China kill over 650 people, and more than 40,000 die in Iran. HTML and HTTP is invented.
1991 - US war with Iraq. The USSR is dissolved.
1992 - Clinton wins US presidential election. Earthquake in Germany.
1993 - Apartheid ends in South Africa. Pentium processor invented.
1994 - Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa. Rwandan genocide: 800,000 Tutsi killed. Channel Tunnel opens between England and France.
1995 - Galileo spacecraft arrives on Jupiter. Terrorist bombing kills 168 in Oklahoma City.
1996 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce.
1997 - Princess Diana dies in road accident. Sheep sucessfully cloned. Hong Kong is given back to China.
1998 - US and Britain bomb Iraq in Operation Desert Fox.
1999 - Millenium madness celebrated across the world. Y2K bug in computers causes widespread panic. NATO begins bombing Serbian forces in Kosovo.
2000 - Air France Concorde crashes near Paris.
2001 - World Trade Centre is destroyed by Terrorists. Artificial liver invented.
2002 - Floods in China. Jerusalem bus bombing. Afghanistan earthquake kills 3000+.
2003 - Olive passes away.