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The Nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote.
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Charles Lindbergh flies his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, on the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
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This is the day of the stock market and marks the beginning of the great depression.
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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The U.S. Congress approves and enacts the first peacetime conscription draft.
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The US joins the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries.
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Landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy, Frace in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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The unconditional surrender of Germany at Reims, France concludes the military engagements of World War II in Europe. It is accepted by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his role as the commander of Allied troops in the European theater of the war
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The US drops the first atomic bomb to be used on a Japanese city.
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Three days after using an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the US drops a second atomic bomb on another Japanese city.
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Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrenders after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea
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he first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza.
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The US gets involved in the protection of south Vietnam from the communist north Vietnam
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the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard
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U.S. Congress passes a resolution authorizing the use of force to liberate Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm begins four days later with air strikes against Iraq.
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American space shuttle Apollo 11 lands on the moon with Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
