Important dates in U.S History

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  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • Stock Market Crash

  • FDR's First Fireside chat

    FDR started a series of radio broadcasts that would help people during the time of the great depression

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    President Truman chose to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

  • U.S Army-McCarthy Hearings

    The United States investigated McCarthys' alleged communist activities in the entertainment industry.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • Watergate Scandal

    Richard Nixon resigned as president after covering up the break in at the DNC.

  • PATCO Strike

    Professional air traffic controllers organization went on strike to weaken the power of labor unions.

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • The Monica Lewinsky Affair

    Bill Clinton had affairs with Monica Lewinsky which later led to his impeachment in 1998

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

    Islamic terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the world trade center and the Pennsylvania countyside.

  • Election of Donald J Trump

    Donald Trump was elected as the President of the United States

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation