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The Wright brothers brought in the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered heavier-than-air flying machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. The historic first flight of the Wright Flyer lasted 12 seconds, traveling 36 m (120 ft), with Orville piloting. -
The Great Depression is the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, it lasted from 1929 to 1939. The Great Depression was caused by a stock market crash. It happened in the USA, Europe, Japan, and much of Latin America. -
The Nazi's invasion of Poland made Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. Japan's bombing of pearl harbor made the USA join. -
America's first Black military pilots, these units confronted racism at home in addition to the enemy abroad escorting American bombers as they flew over Italy. As escorts, flying P-47s and later P-51s, they were responsible for protecting larger bombers from German fighter planes. -
D-Day was the largest invasion ever assembled. 156,000 Allied troops landed by sea and air on five beachheads in Normandy, France. D-Day was the start of the Allied operations that would ultimately liberate Western Europe, defeating Nazi Germany, and ending the Second World War. -
The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War 2. -
The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's activities in space. -
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth's orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. -
The journey of Ham the chimpanzee from a rainforest in Cameroon to the edge of space. On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States and returned to Earth alive for16 minutes and 39 seconds later. -
The Apollo 11 mission was to land on the moon and return to earth. They landed on the moon successfully and Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon. An estimated 650 million people watched the 3 astronauts walk on the moon. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".