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1607 English settlers arrived in search of a new land. It was the first settlement to arrive to the Americas.
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The United States singed a paper freeing them from the British rule.
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The Bill of Rights or rules for the United states was adopted or pruposed.
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The United States stunned the world by declaring war on Great Britain
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The war over slavery,sectionalism and and president LIncolns election.
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The day the United states had the most deaths in a battle even more than all deaths in all wars.
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The tide of war turns against the South as the Confederates are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
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The week after the Civil War the President of the United States was assasinated by John Wilkes Both.
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Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway
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Amid rumors of a possible American invasion, Japanese oust the French colonial government which had been operating independently and seize control of Vietnam, installing Bao Dai as their puppet ruler.
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First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets
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First Atomic Bomb is successfully tested in the U.S
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United Nations is born.
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Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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(Montgomery, Ala.) NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 2 1956
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The 49 state admitted into the United States.
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Alaska is the 50th state admitted into the united states.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws.
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, Texas.
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(Memphis, Tenn.) Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.
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On July 20, Apollo 11 lands first man on the moon; at the controls is Ohio astronaut Neil Armstrong. NASA Lewis takes pride in its contributions. Bruce T. Lundin is named Center Director. And the Space Power Facility is completed.
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At 8:35 a.m., the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the United States presence in Vietnam. North Vietnamese troops pour into Saigon and encounter little resistance. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over.
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On September 11 of 2001 the World Trade Center ,and the Pentagon where attacked with highjacked airplanes by terrorist.
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Democrat from Illinois.
