From Ebola to world records, here’s a look at historic anniversaries in 2026

It’s been a busy century.

Within the past 100 years, the world has seen World War II, the advent of space travel, the fall and rise of nations and plenty more.

Here’s a look at some major historic events recognizing 100, 50 or 10-year milestones this year, according to history.com.

• “Amos ‘n’ Andy” made their debut on a Chicago radio station as “Sam ‘n’ Henry” on Jan. 12, 1926
• TV is demonstrated publicly for the first time by John Logie Baird on Jan. 26, 1926
• The first liquid-fueled rocket is launched out of Auburn, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926
• The Ford Motor Company adopts the five-day, 40-hour work week on May 1, 1926
• Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles 
• Fidel Castro is born in Cuba on Aug. 13.
• Gertrude Ederle swims across the English Channel on Aug. 6, 1926, the first woman to do so
• Babe Ruth earns a world record with three home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals on Oct. 6
• The magician Harry Houdini died on Oct. 31 in Detroit

• Cambodia was renamed to Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot on Jan. 5, 1976
• The first Concorde planes with commercial passengers take off from airports in England and France on Jan. 21, 1976
• Paul Robeson—a singer, athlete and actor—died on Jan. 23, 1976. Sal Mineo, another actor, was killed in a stabbing in California.
• Frank DeLuca and Patricia Columbo were arrested on May 15, 1976, for the murder of her parents and brother in Illinois
• The National Basketball Association merges with the American Basketball Association on June 17, 1976
• The first recorded Ebola virus epidemic occurs in Sudan on June 27, 1976
• The United States Naval Academy admitted its first women on July 6, 1976, and the first female cadets were enrolled at West Point one day later
• Romanian Nadia Comăneci is first Olympic gymnast to earn a perfect 10 on July 18, 1976
• The Viking 1 probe made a successful landing on Mars on July 20, 1976
• An earthquake destroys the Chinese city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing an estimated 242,000 people
• Renée Richards,a transgender athlete, was barred from competing as a woman in the U.S. Open on Aug. 27, 1976
• Mao Zedong died on Sept. 9, 1976
• The movie “Rocky” released in theaters on Nov. 21, 1976

• El Chapo is apprehended by authorities in Mexico on Jan. 8, 2016
• The musician Prince died on April 21, 2016
• A gunman opens fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and injuring dozens of others
• A man drove a truck through a street filled with people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring hundreds of others on July 14, 2016
• Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. She was the first woman to lead a major party in the United States
• Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, chose not to stand for the national anthem during a game on Aug. 26, 2016, setting off a firestorm of controversy around the decision
• Mother Teresa was named Saint Teresa of Calcutta on Sept. 4, 2016
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on Sept. 24, 2016
• The Paris Agreement went into effect on Nov. 4, 2016, with the hope to curb carbon emissions and mitigate global warming
• The nation of Russia is accused of cheating in the Olympics by the World Anti-Doping Agency on Dec. 9, 2016