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He was assassinated on September 6, 1901. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.
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The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) make the very first airplane.
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In 1906 San Francisco an earthquake happened.
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In 1908 Henry Ford made the Model T car which revolutionized the car business.
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He was elected into office on this day.
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The First World War started up in Europe.
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The USA entered World War I because of German sinking one of our ships.
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The First World War ended on November 11, 1918
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The Nineteenth Amendment was added for the right to get women to vote
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F. Scott Fitzgerald made the controversial book The Great Gatsby.
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Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in a season, which will not be broken for 30 years.
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The Stock Market crashed and the USA went into a Great Depression.
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Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States.
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By the time Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the Depression had reached desperate levels, including 13 million unemployed.
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President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
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Baseball player Henry Louis Gehrig, he had played 2,130 consecutive games..
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Hitler declares war on the United States via Germany blowing up a US ship.
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The United States wanted to end World War II, so they used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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Jackie Robinson first joined the MLB in 1947, as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Now Los Angeles Dodgers)
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made on this day, it has 28 countries in it, such as USA, Canada, Italy, etc
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Brown vs Board of Education was a big deal for segregation and African-Americans as a whole
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Rosa Parks started this, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was also in it.
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In Little Rock, AR there is a school that was getting a few African-Americans to go to
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Eisenhower signed off Hawaii as a state on August 21, 1959
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He made the I Have A Dream speech at the March on Washington
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He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
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He was assassinated outside his hotel room
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He was assassinated on June 6, 1968 when he finished a speech for the Hispanics
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The shooting was done on Kent State University by the officers there
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President Richard Nixon resigned on this day because of the Watergate scandal
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Bill Gates made the company Microsoft
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ESPN was used for broadcasting for the first day ever
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Pac-Man released on Oct 28, 1980
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President Ronald Reagan almost gets assassinated by a crazy man because he wanted Jodie Foster to notice him.
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Michael Jackson broke the color barrier for all African American artists with this 1982 album
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The TMNT became huge in 1989
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In 1993, there was a truck bomb placed in the WTC by Ramzi Yousef, it exploded and killed 6 people.
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In 1995, there was a bombing in OKC in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, it was done by Tommy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
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Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris hatched this wretched plan to shoot up their high school, and they did it on April 20, 1999. Hitler's birthday, fun fact
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He was elected in 2000, and became president in 2001.
