Discovery of the Higgs boson
The collider finds the Standard Model's missing piece
On 4 July 2012 CERN physicists announced that the Large Hadron Collider had found a particle predicted almost 50 years earlier. The Higgs boson completed the Standard Model, earning Peter Higgs and François Englert the Nobel Prize.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 4 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 23 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 21 years earlier
Middle East
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 22 years earlier
Africa
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 18 years earlier
Asia
- 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — 23 years earlier
- 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo — 21 years earlier
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 8 years earlier
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 1 year earlier
Americas
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 22 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 11 years earlier
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 9 years earlier
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 5 years earlier
Oceania
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 20 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 94)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 82)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 88)
- Fidel Castro (aged 86)
- Elizabeth II (aged 86)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 85)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 81)
- Pelé (aged 72)
- George H. W. Bush (aged 88)
- Chinua Achebe (aged 82)