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The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, flew a powered airplane for the very first time.
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Remembered as one of the worst natural disaster to ever occur, an earthquake hits San Francisco resulting in a fire that killed above 3,000 people.
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented plastic. It revolutionized products and packaging.
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The Titanic, also called "The Unsinkable", hit an iceburg hidden under the water and sinks.
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The first major car assembly is organized by Henry Ford. The was the first affordable car available to middle class citizens.
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After the sinking of the Lucitania, the United States enters into the war.
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Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in a single season setting a record that lasted for 34 years.
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Alexander Fleming discover penicillon: the first antibiotic. This forever changed the way bacterial infections were treated.
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After the stock market crashes the Great Depression begins. Millions of people lost their jobs and money was hard to make.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and immediately uses his power. When the Enabling Act was passed, the Chancellor gained full control.
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Adolf Hitler orders Nazis to commit acts of violence against German Jews. Kristallnacht means "night of broken glass".
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After cutting off Japan of oil, the United States of America is bombed by Japan and enters into WW2.
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United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki: Japan surrenders to end World War II.
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Jackie Robinson joins the American baseball League as the first colored player.
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Doctor Jonas Stak's creates a polio vaccine. It was proven affective at the University of Pittsburgh through testing.
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Soviet Russian launches Sputnick which is the first satellite to in space. The space race against democratic America began.
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China tries to modernize their country with the "Great Leap Forward", yet an estimated twenty million people die due to famine.
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The Berlin Wall is built dividing the communist East Berlin and the deomcratice West Berlin.
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During the Cold War, Soviet Russian sent nuclear missiles to Cuba. Threatened the United States said they would go to nuclear war if the Russian ships didn't turn around.
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Martin Luther King gives the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington D.C.
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The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated while driving with his wife. He was the fourth president to be assassinated
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The Congress passes the Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation. The act was passed with 73 votes against 27 votes,
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The Voting Rights Act is put in by Congress. It outlawed measures to supress the minorities votes.
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James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, shot civil rights activist Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.
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Niel Armstrong is the first human to land on the moon. When it comes to the space race, American wins over Russia.
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The Roe versus Wade case makes having an abortion legal in the United States.
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Thw WAtergate scandal in which a break in at the Democratic National committee headquarters in Watergate lead to President Nixon to resignation.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen start the Microsoft Corporation to develop software for Altair computers.
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes during take off killing the whole crew. The shuttle exploded only 73 seconds after the launch.
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The Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes taking with it an estimated seven thousand lives.
