first detonation of an atomic bomb; the trinity test. 

1969 saw Apollo 11 launch for the moon!

And, in 1045 the Great Schism began that would lead eventually to the renaissance and the triumphs of the Age of Reason, when Humbert of Silva Candida, cardinal and papal legate, excommunicated Michael Cerularius, patriarch of Constantinople, who retaliated by excommunicating the cardinal, which led to the schism between the churches of Rome and Constantinople.

Also; presumably 150,000 years ago some dinosaurs were born...