Historic Events 1900-2020

By sonjahawks

  • United States is Attacked in the Philippines

  • William McKinley’s Second Election to the Presidency

  • William McKinley Assassinated by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz

  • United States Acquired the Panama Canal Zone Treaty

  • Theodore Roosevelt’s Election as President of the United States

  • William Howard Taft Elected President of the United States

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established

    (fun fact: it was established on my birth date, 96 years before I was born)

  • Woodrow Wilson Elected President

  • Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified

  • Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • World War 1 Begins

  • Panama Canal Opens to Traffic

  • First Long Distance Telephone Service Between New York and San Francisco

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the First Woman Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

  • Puerto Rico Becomes a U.S. Commonwealth

  • United States Entry into World War 1

  • Worldwide Spanish Flu Epidemic Strikes

    (20 million dead worldwide and 500,000 in the US)

  • Armistice Ended World War 1

  • Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified

  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

  • US Joining of League of Nations is Denied in the US Senate

  • Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified

    https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=63

  • President Harding Dies

  • President Calvin Coolidge becomes President

  • Charles Lindbergh First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight

    (Spirit of the St. Louis)

  • Herbert Hoover Elected President

  • Stock Market Crash Marks the Beginning of the Great Depression

  • Al Capone is Convicted of Tax Evasion

  • Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President of the United States

  • First New Deal Programs Enacted by FDR

  • Hitler Comes to Power in Germany

  • Civilian Conservation Corps Begins

  • Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified

  • John Dillinger's Shootout at Little Bohemia

  • Bonnie and Clyde are Killed

  • Works Progress Administration Begins

  • Fair Labor Standards Act is Passed

  • Kristallnacht in Germany

  • U.S. Declares Neutrality at the Beginning of WWII

  • WWII Begins with Germany’s Invasion of Poland

  • Tripartite Pact is Signed Between Germany, Italy, and Japan

  • Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

  • United States Entry into WWII

  • D-Day Invasion by American, British, and Canadian Troops

  • Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Meet at Yalta

  • Cold War is Termed and Begins Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Dies and Harry Truman Succeeded Him as President

  • Victory in Europe Day

  • U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • U.S. drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

  • Unconditional Surrender of Japan

  • Victory Over Japan Day

    (End of WWII)

  • Presidential Succession Act Signed by President Truman

  • Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin Accuses People of Communist Activities and Hearings Begin

  • Korean War Begins

  • Twenty Second Amendment to the Constitution is Ratified

  • President Truman Removed General Douglas MacArthur as Head of the Far East Command

  • President Eisenhower Elected President

  • US Detonates its First Hydrogen Bomb

  • Korean War Ends in an Armistice

  • Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Decision Ends Segregation

  • Russia Detonates its First Hydrogen Bomb

  • Rosa Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama

    Rosa Parks is Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama

  • Martin Luther King, Jr and Others Set Up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • President John F. Kennedy is Elected President

  • Bay of Pigs in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall is Built in Germany

  • President John F. Kennedy is Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act Signed

  • March at Selma, Alabama

  • Voting Rights Act Signed

  • Edward W. Brooke Becomes First African American U.S. Senator

  • Richard Nixon Elected President

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

  • Watergate Investigation Begins

  • House Recommends Impeachment of Nixon

  • Nixon Resigns as President

  • Apple is Founded

  • Jimmy Carter Becomes President of the United States

  • Ronald Reagan Elected President of the United States

  • Sandra Day O’Connor is Sworn in as the First Woman Supreme Court Justice

  • Berlin Wall Torn Down

  • Saddam Hussein Invades Kuwait

  • Operation Desert Storm Begins

    (Persian Gulf War)

  • U.S.S.R. Collapses and Communism Comes to An End

  • Yahoo is Founded

  • Amazon is Founded

  • Netflix is Founded

  • Google is Founded

  • Apple Debuts the iPod

  • Twin Towers Attack

    (9/11)

  • Human Genome Project is Completed

  • YouTube is Founded

  • Barack Obama, the First African American US President is Elected

  • Michael Jackson Dies

  • Zoom Video Conferencing is Founded

    Zoom Video Conferencing is Founded

  • Donald Trump Elected President of US

  • Cameron Boyce Dies

  • Coronavirus Pandemic Begins

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