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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.
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The surrender of Japan ends WWII.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama.
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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.
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Fidel Castro installs the first communist regime in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. breaks off diplomatic relations in 1961.
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American Airlines launches the jet age in the U.S. transportation industry with the first transcontinental flights with a Boeing 707 aircraft.
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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.
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Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first man in space, beating the U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard by one month.
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The Berlin Wall is constructed to prevent East Berliners from defecting to the West.
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The Wal-Mart discount store in opened by Sam Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy wins a standoff with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who reverses plans to install missile bases in Cuba.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Her first child and my father Brent Hill is born.
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In the first Super Bowl, Green Bay Packers beats the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 35-10.
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My aunt Renee is born.
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In the Vietnamese village of My Lai, U.S. troops massacre 347 men, women and children.
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Third and last child my uncle Scott is born.
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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.
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United States troops pull out of Vietnam
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hree farmers were drilling holes in the hopes of finding water to dig wells when they came upon some ancient terracotta pottery shards.
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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.
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Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM.
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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.
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An explosion of the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine is the worst nuclear reactor explosion ever.
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Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square.
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Everyone celebrates as the wall dividing Communist East Germany and Capitolist West Germany is brought down.
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A U.N. Coalition War led by the U.S. in response to Iraq's invasion fo Kuwait.
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Official End of the Cold War a state of political and military tension between the Western World and Communist World.
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First grandchild and my brother Cort was born.
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Second grandson, me, born.
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Two students of Columbine High School plant bombs and open fire on students killing 13.
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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.
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An international campaign on terror in the middle east led by U.S. and U.K.
