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Establishing term limits for presidents.
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Restricted immigration into the US.
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Became the 34th. President.
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McCarthy hearings held by US Senate subcommittee find communist in America.
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It is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.
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14 year old African American boy is murdered after reportedly flirting with a white women.
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Nationalist try to unify country under communist control.
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Montgomery bus boycott is sparked after Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
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Nasa was formed as the US became interested in space exploration.
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Pioneering our way to an "A".
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The United States embargo against Cuba (known in Cuba as el bloqueo) is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo imposed on Cuba by the United States.
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The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.
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Extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
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JFK is assasinated in Dallas.
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24th Amendment, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Beverage is introduced in 1965 by a researchers at UF.
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Assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress.
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One small step for man, one giant step for mankind.
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This beautiful women was born.
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The National Environmental Policy Act was signed into law.
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The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1968, and began his solo career in 1971.
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President Nixon fired three top legal advisers over the disposition of secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor in regard to the Watergate scandal.
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Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home run.
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President Richard Nixon becomes the first and only President to resign from office.
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft Corporation.
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Salsa dancing originated in New York in the mid-1970s.
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President Ford was uninjured after a failed assassination attempt by Manson Family cult member Lynette Fromme in Sacramento, California.
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Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc.
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New York City blackout of 1977: A twenty-five hour blackout, resulting in looting and other disorder, took place.
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The United States Department of Energy is established.
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The US became the first country to recognize the strange illness among a small number of gay men in 1981.
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler announces Dr. Robert Gallo and fellow NCI researcher's discovery of HTLV-III as the virus that causes AIDS.
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San Ysidro McDonald's massacre: A mass shooting in San Ysidro, California left 22 (including the perpetrator) dead and injured 19 others; being the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time
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The first Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is observed.
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During a visit to Berlin, President Reagan challenged Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall", referring to the Berlin Wall.
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The Yellowstone fires of 1988 burned 793,880 acres of Yellowstone National Park.
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Live Aid, a concert attended by 100,000 people and watched by 1.9 billion viewers in 150 countries at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, was held, raising global awareness of famine in Ethiopia.
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The United States Department of Veterans Affairs was established.
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched during a mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
