Chronology

1950s Beginning of green revolution
1969–1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States
1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
1981 UN World Health Organization International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes
1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
1994 Zapatista Army for National Liberation insurrection in Chiapas, Mexico
1997 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, banning the production of chemical weapons; Kyoto Protocol on global warming
2000–2010 Warmest decade in recorded history
2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on World Trade Center and U.S. Pentagon
2001 U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
2003 U.S.-led coalition invades Iraq; Human Genome Project completes sequencing of human genome
Table : CHRONOLOGY