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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese make a suprise attack on the US fleet based in Pearl Harbor, 2402 Americans are killed. This event pushes the United States into WWII. -
World War II Ends
The surrender of Japan ends WWII. -
Cold War Begins
After World War II, the US and the USSR emerged as world powers. The relationship between the two nations and the two political systems entered a new era of mutual hostility and conflict. As the two superpowers launched plans to construct and control nuclear arms, the world entered the Cold War. -
Roswell UFO Incident
Government confirms that a UFO has crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and alien bodies were recovered. But the source later cancels all accounts of the crash. -
NATO Is Formed
The US joins in forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a pact for mutual defense of Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the US. -
Korean War Begins
It was the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War. The real reason for the United States interviening was to help slow and stop the spread of communism. -
End of Korean War
The Korean War ends after three years of inconclusive fighting. An armistice is signed and the boundary between North and South Korea is drawn at the 38th parallel. -
Vietnam War Begins
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union launches the Sputnik satellite, the first man-made object to orbit the earth. About the same time, the Soviets test their first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile putting fear into the American people. -
Fidel Castro and Communism In Cuba
Fidel Castro installs the first communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations in 1961. -
Non-Stop Coast to Coast Flights in US
American Airlines launches the jet age in the U.S. transportation industry with the first transcontinental flights with a Boeing 707 aircraft. -
Bay of Pigs
U.S.-trained Cuban exiles attempt to overthrow the Castro government in Cuba with an invasion at the "Bay of Pigs." The invasion fails badly. -
First Men In Space
Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first man in space, beating the U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard by one month. -
Berlin Wall Created
The Berlin Wall is constructed to prevent East Berliners from defecting to the West. -
Walmart Founded
The Wal-Mart discount store in opened by Sam Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. President John F. Kennedy wins a standoff with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who reverses plans to install missile bases in Cuba. -
Kennedy Assasination
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Beatles in America
The Beatles make their U.S. television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The next morning practically every newspaper wrote that the Beatles were nothing more than a "fad," and "could not carry a tune across the Atlantic." They couldn't have more wrong. -
Legal Discrimination Ended
The U.S. Civil Rights Act is passed, ending legal discrimination in public places, promising equal voting rights and creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. -
Vietnam War Escalates
U.S. destroyers are allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. In response, President Johnson pushes through Congress a resolution allowing him to greatly increase U.S. troop levels in Vietnam. The escalation of the war begins. -
Marines Land in Da Nang
The first U.S. ground troops arrive in Vietnam when 3,500 Marines land in Da Nang. Before that, the U.S. had stationed military advisors in Vietnam. -
Unmanned Spacecraft On Moon
The Soviet Union lands the unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 on the moon. The U.S. lands Surveyor I on the moon and transmits TV images of the moon's surface back to Earth. -
First Child Born
Her first child and my father Brent Hill is born. -
First Super Bowl
In the first Super Bowl, Green Bay Packers beats the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 35-10. -
Second Child Born
My aunt Renee is born. -
My Lai Massacre
In the Vietnamese village of My Lai, U.S. troops massacre 347 men, women and children. -
Third Child Born
Third and last child my uncle Scott is born. -
Man on the Moon
Apollo 11 lands on the moon. More than 100 million people watch on television around the world as U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface. -
U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
United States troops pull out of Vietnam -
Terracotta Army Discovered
hree farmers were drilling holes in the hopes of finding water to dig wells when they came upon some ancient terracotta pottery shards. -
Elvis Found Dead
The disbelief that is still being nurtured by many across the world. Not yet ready to believe that the death has brought such an abrupt end to their so beloved idol. -
First Personal Computer
Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM. -
The Challenger
Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983, and it completed nine missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its tenth mission, resulting in the death of all seven crew members. -
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
An explosion of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine is the worst nuclear reactor explosion ever. -
Tiananmen Square
Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square. -
Berlin Wall Falls
Everyone celebrates as the wall dividing Communist East Germany and Capitolist West Germany is brought down. -
Operation Desert Storm
A U.N. Coalition War led by the U.S. in response to Iraq's invasion fo Kuwait. -
Cold War Ends
Official End of the Cold War a state of political and military tension between the Western World and Communist World. -
First Grandchild Born
First grandchild and my brother Cort was born. -
Second Grandchild Born
Second grandson, me, born. -
Killing Spree at Columbine High School
Two students of Columbine High School plant bombs and open fire on students killing 13. -
September 11th Attacks
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Washington D.C. and New York leave 2996 dead and pushes U.S. into the war on terror. -
War On Terror
An international campaign on terror in the middle east led by U.S. and U.K.
