1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis. Iraqi officials claim that the bunker was a bomb shelter but United States military intelligence identified it as a military facility.
... the Indus Valley region circa 1500 BCE. There seems to be no clear
evidence that these hordes destroyed the existing Indus Valley culture.
(See Aryan invaders). But ...