the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people were killed in the camp.
Jesse Jackson is born
Mount Rushmore Completed
Pearl Harbor is attacked
First African Americans accepted into US Navy
13yr old Anne Frank makes first entry in her Diary
Elvis Presley Dies at Graceland
Casablanca Movie premiers in Hollywood Theater in NYC
Race Riots in LA
Race Riots in Harlem NYC
Batman and Robin first appear in comics
United Negro College fund is incorporated
D DAY - 150,000 Allied troops land in Normandy France
Race Riots in Athens Alabama
1st Rocket is launched
Japanese Surrender - WWII Ends
Women in France allowed to vote
Congress officially acknowledges "The Pledge of Allegiance"
President Truman officially declares end of WW II
1st 45 RPM record released
Women of Greece given right to vote
First TV dinner put on sale
Disneyland Opens
Rosa Parks arrested for not going to the back of the bus
Rosa Parks starts Historic Bus Boycott
Congress ends race segregation on buses
Postage Stamp was $.03
NASA is Created
Alaska becomes 49th state
Fidel Castro takes over Power in Cuba
Hawaii becomes 50th state
US Supreme Court declares AR schools must integrate
John F Kennedy wins election
First US Astronaut - Alan B Shepard into space
JFK Shot and Killed
Lee Harvey Oswald Shot and killed
Nelson Mandelia sentenced to Life in Prison
Civil Rights act of 1964
Dr Martin Luther King Jr and 2600 protestors arrested in Alabama
Malcolm X shot to death at Harlem Ralley
190,000 US Troops are in Vietnam
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Blacks Riot for 4 days in LA
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as First Black Supreme Court Justice
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Martin Luther King Jr is murdered in Memphis
Richard Nixon sworn in as President
Neil Armstrong is the first Man to walk on the moon
4 Kent State students are slain by National Gruardsmen for Protesting Vietnam War
Beatles Break up
US involvement in VIetnam War ends
First Class stamp is 13 cents
IBM introduces the first personal computer
Michael Jackson releases Thriller Album
US postage stamp is 22 cents
Oprah Winfrey Show first hits National TV
Berlin wall comes down
Nelson Mandelia is freed after 27yrs
Persian Gulf War ends
LA Riots over aquittal of officers in Rodney King Beating
OJ Simpson arrested for killing Nicole and Rodman
Million Man March
US Postage Stamp 33 cents
12 students and one teacher killed at Columbine High School
Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center - 9-11
Space Shuttle Columbia explodes
Barack Obama is elected as first Black President of the United States