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This was the fateful day that the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank into the ocean in one of the deadliest maritime disasters of all time. Being that the Titanic was "The Unsinkable Ship" the whole event seems pretty ironic.
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The 16th Ammendment which gave Congress the power to collect taxes without a census was ratified.
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The 17th Ammendment which allowed voters to vote for Senators was ratified.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated which was the final nail in the coffin to start the first world war.
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The 19th Ammendment which gave women the right to vote was ratified on this day.
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Election day of 1920 was when the radio statiom KDKA made the first radio broadcast. The people who listened to the results of the election on the radio heard it much before the people who read it in the newspaper.
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President Warren Harding suffers a heart attack and dies. Vice President Calvin Coolidge takes office.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was published on this date.
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Charles Lindbergh's flight from Long Island to Paris concluded on this day. It was the first time someone flew across an ocean.
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The New York Stock Exchange plummeted in value and marked the start of the Great Depresssion.
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The construction for the Empire State Building in NYC. The construction took just over a year to complete and the building is 102 stories tall.
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The 21st Ammendment which ended the prohibition was passed on this day.
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Amelia Earhart became the first woman to take flight. She made the attempt to fly around the world. She went missing in July of the same year.
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The passenger zeppelin called the Hindenburg caught on fire and crashed while trying to land in Manchester Township, New Jersey. A total of 36 people died in the crash.
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At the 1939 New York World's Fair FDR went on TV making history as the first president to go on TV.
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The Jeep was created and saw frequent use in WWII as a quick and mobile vehicle
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FDR called this the day that would live in infamy over a radio broadcast. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor which sparked the US to enter WWII.
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President Roosevelt dies in office and his Vice PResident HArry Truman takes over his presidency.
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Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first black professional baseball player in the MLB.
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Truman overtakes Dewey in one of the biggest political upsets. It was so widely predicted that Truman would lose the newspapers already printed papers saying that Dewey won.
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The first Peanuts comic strip was published. It was only four panels long and didn't show Snoopy.
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The first TV broadcast with color picture was on CBS, Not many people were able to veiw it since they had black and white TVs. It was a variety show that featured many future hosts of their own shows.
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Disneyland opens up for some specially invited guests. It opened up in a large plot of land in Anaheim, Calafornia.
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The United States space program NASA founded by President Eisenhower in response to the Russians landing Sputnik.
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Fidel Castro takes the helm of Cuba as dictator and would keep that position of over 50 years when he gave power to his younger brother.
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The Presidential Debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was the first presidential debate to be aired on national TV.
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Construction of the Berlin Wall was completed, splitting the capital of Germany into an East and West section.
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Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published with a pro environmental message about how pesticides affect the environment.
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Martin Luther King Jr delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech during the March on Washington.
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One of the most well known and successful bands in history came over to the US from England. Later that year many other British bands crossed the Atlantic in what was known as the British Invasion.
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Several burgalers were arrested at Watergate building in Washington DC trying to steal secret documents and wiretap phones. They were believed to be a part of Nixon's presidential campaign.
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The United States completely pulled out of the highly unpopular Veitnam War.
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President Richard Nixon resigned from office. He was about to be the first president to complete the impeachment process but instead went out on his own terms. His Vice President Gerald Ford takes office.
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The VCR was invented.
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The nuclear reactor just outside of Middletown, Pa partially melted down. It was the most serious nuclear accident in the US.
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The hit arcade game Pacman was released in Japan on this date and the October of the same year in the US.
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A failed attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan
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Sally Ride becomes the first woman to enter space.
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The Space shuttle the Challenger explodes just 73 seconds after lif off killing all seven members.
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World Wide Web was created originally for scientists to share information.
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Nelson Mandela was released from prison after being locked in for 27 years.
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Operation Desert Storm started this day and lasted until February of 1991.
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The official ending of the Soviet Union
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OJ Simpson was found not guilty in the convicted murder.
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Hong Kong is returned to Chinese rule by Britan.
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Columbine High School was shot up by two students, a total of 13 people were killed and 21 others injured.
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Major terrorist attack where members of the group Al Qaeda flew planes into the World Trade Center.
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In response to 9/11 President Bush orders troops into Iraq to take out the leader of the terrorist group.
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The video sharing site Youtibe launches and is still popular 11 years later.
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Hurricane Katrina strikes and leaves millions of dolars in damage in her wake.
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Barrack Obama the first black president is sworn into office as the 44th President.
