Family history

  • Peace corps founded

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    Mom

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK Assassinated

  • Martin Luther King Jr. makes "I have a dream" speech

  • MLK and Ralph Abernathy aressted

  • Civil Rights act passed

  • Malcom X assinssinated

  • U.S. sends troops to vietnam

  • Three U.S. astronauts killed during simulated launch

  • Palestinian group hijacks five planes

  • Kent State shootings

  • terrorist attack at the olympic games in munich

  • Abortion legalized in U.S.

  • Sears tower built

  • U.S. pulls out of vietnam

  • Terractotta Army discovered in China

  • Nixon Resigns

  • Arthur Ashe First African American man to win wimbledon

  • Microsoft founded

  • Elvis found dead

  • Mother Theresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island

  • John Lennon Assassinated

  • Assassination Attempt on Reagan

  • First Woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

  • Vietnam War Memorial opened in Washington DC

  • U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed

  • Sally Ride first American woman in space

  • Wreck of the Titanic Found

  • Challenger Space shuttle explodes

  • U.S. Bombs Libya

  • New York Stock Exchange suffers huge drop on "Black Monday"

  • Operation Desert Storm

  • Official End of Cold War

  • World Trade center Bombed

  • O.J. Simpson Arrested for double murder

  • Oklahoma City Bombing

  • Pathfinder sends back images from Mars

  • Tiger Woods Wins Masters

  • Clinton Impeached

  • USS Cole Bombed

  • U.S. begins military strikes in Afghanistan

  • 9/11

  • President Bush defines axis of evil

  • U.S. launches war against Iraq

  • NASA mars Rover lands safely on Mars

  • Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf

  • Obama announces candidacy for president

  • Obama wins U.S. Presidential election

  • Obama is inaugurated as America's first black president

  • JFK Jr. Dies in plane accident