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They took off towards Kitty Hawk in the Flyer. They finished building the lane in June 1903.
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A major earthquake devastated San Francisco and led to a major fire.
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The "unsinkable" Titanic was the largest man-made structure at the time. It hit an iceburg, causing it to sink.
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The Panama Canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans allowing easier trade and traveling routes.
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This flu outbreak killed more people than World War I. It somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history.
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Women gain the right to vote with the nineteenth ammendment to the Constitution.
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The stock market crash lead to the Great Depression.
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Sir Frank Wittle's plane was the first jet airplane to take flight under control of Flight Lieutenant Sayer.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor causing the US to enter World War II. It killed 2,304 people and destroyed 188 planes.
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The United States Army under General Eisenhower invaded the beaches of Normandy, marking the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe.
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Hilter's creation of Jewish concentration camps is revealed.
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United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki causing Japan to surrender and end World War II. It wiped out 90 percent of the population and instantly killed 80,000 people.
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The United Nations was developed to help develop and unite the world.
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James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA. This find started the time of new biology that led to the sudy of the human body.
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Russia launched the first satelite into space, beginning the Space Race.
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Yuri Gagarin from Russia became the first human in space. He made 108 minute flight in Vostok 1.
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Alan Shepard was the first American in space. He flew 116 miles above the earth's surface, was weightless for about five minutes, and landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Communist East Germany built a wall between East Germany and Democratic West Germany.
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth in Friendship 7.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the World ever came to a nuclear war.
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President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan from Palestine.
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Neil Armstrong was the commander of Apollo 11, which was America's first attempt to land on the moon. This mission was successful and Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon.
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Richard Nixon resigned after the Watergate scandals. Gerald Ford took office after him.
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The first cases of AIDS were found in gay men, however they now know that it can exist in any human.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and killed the crew including the school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The launch was highly publicized because it was the first time a school teacher was allowed to travel in space.
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A Russian nuclear plant exploded killing 7,000 people.
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East Germany lifted the travel restrictions, opening up the border between East Germany and West Germany. The Fall of the Berlin Wall became known as a symbol of the end of the Cold War.
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The Pathfinder was the first US spacecraft to land on Mars. It sent back astonishing pictures of the findings on Mars.
