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A nation wide labor protest that started in July and saw major wide spread violence and confrontation between workers and authority. -
In 1885 France gifted the United States with a huge statue. The statue is now known as the "Statue of Liberty". -
U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed a bill recommending that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their dispute by arbitration. -
In 1905 the Russian Revolution started to to a combinations of things, but the major reason was due to the Russo- Japanese war. On January 22, a no violent protest was fired on by the tsar troops in St. Peters burg. -
A British ship called the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Shaped boat causing the death of 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. -
The Jazz age kicked off in 1925. This era saw new dances and music that all became popular. " The Great Gatsby" written by, F. Scotts Fitzgerald was publish in 1925 and it helped show the rise of the Jazz age. -
President Roosevelt was dedicated to build the Hoover Dam on September 30. -
Germany surrender the war after realizing that the United States won the nuclear weapons race after hearing about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing. -
Rosa Parks a civil rights legend refused to give up her seat to a white man while she was on a bus and got arrested for doing so. -
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law and the first US combat troops came back from Vietnam. -
April 30th With the fall of Saigon the Vietnam War ended. -
A multiple concert event in London went live for over 2 billion people in the world. -
In 1995 OJ Simpson a famous football player was charged with killing his ex-wife and his friend. He got in a huge cop chase which was the 2nd most watched thing in 1995. -
A massive hurricane called Hurricane Katrina caused a widespread disaster along the Gulf of Mexico leading to a huge number of deaths and property damage. -
a category 3.6 earthquake that affected the following countries: The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Turks, and Caicos Islands. -
Barack Obama became the first African American president after beating Republican John McClain. -
By 8–9 July 2015, the Shanghai stock market had fallen 30 percent over three weeks as 1,400 companies, or more than half listed, filed for a trading halt in an attempt to prevent further losses. -
In 2018 Nickolas Cruz a student in Stone man Douglass High School brought a loaded fire arm to school and killed 17 innocent students. -
On January 26, 2020 the legendary NBA player Kobe Bryant along with his daughter and friends were found dead after a helicopter crash. -
On January 1, 2025 the beginning of this year marked the end of Gen Alpha and started Gen Beta.