Nikki Gresh By nikki.gresh978 Period: Apr 16, 1897 to Apr 16, 1901 William McKinley Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Dec 31, 2011 Tori Prather Period: Apr 16, 1901 to Apr 16, 1909 Theodore Roosevelt Apr 18, 1901 President McKinley was assassinated Apr 18, 1902 Tyranosaurus Rex was discovered Apr 18, 1906 Women win right to vote in Finland Apr 18, 1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state Apr 18, 1908 Taiwan Earthquake Period: Apr 16, 1909 to Apr 16, 1913 William Howard Taft Apr 18, 1911 Mona List is stolen Period: Apr 16, 1913 to Apr 16, 1921 Woodrow Wilson Apr 18, 1914 Archduke Ferdinand assassinated Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 WW1 Apr 18, 1917 First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded Period: Nov 7, 1917 to Jun 18, 1923 Russian Revolution Apr 18, 1918 Daylight Savings Time Introduced Apr 18, 1919 Treaty of Versailles ends WWI Apr 18, 1920 Bubonic Plague in India Period: Apr 16, 1921 to Apr 16, 1923 Warren Gamaliel Harding Apr 18, 1922 Tomb of King Tut discovered Period: Apr 16, 1923 to Apr 16, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Apr 18, 1924 First Winter Olympic Games Apr 18, 1928 Bubblegum invented Period: Apr 16, 1929 to Apr 16, 1933 Herbert Hoover Apr 18, 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre Apr 18, 1931 Empire State Building completed Apr 18, 1932 Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across Atlantic Period: Apr 16, 1933 to Apr 16, 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Apr 18, 1936 Hoover Dam Completed Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939 Spanish Civil War Apr 18, 1937 Amelia Earhart Vanishes Period: Apr 1, 1939 to Apr 2, 1945 WWII Apr 18, 1939 Helicopter Invented Apr 18, 1941 Mount Rushmore Completed Apr 18, 1943 Italy joins the Allies Period: Apr 16, 1945 to Apr 16, 1953 Harry S Truman Apr 18, 1945 FDR Dies Period: Apr 18, 1945 to Apr 18, 1991 Cold War Period: Dec 19, 1946 to Aug 1, 1954 First Indochina War Apr 18, 1947 Polariod Comeras Invented Period: May 15, 1948 to Mar 10, 1949 Arab-Israeli War Apr 18, 1949 NATO Established Apr 18, 1950 First Organ Transplant Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Apr 18, 1952 Polio Vaccine Created Period: Apr 16, 1953 to Apr 16, 1961 Dwight D Eisenhower Apr 18, 1955 Disneyland Opens Apr 18, 1958 Hula Hoops Become Popular Apr 18, 1959 Castro Becomes Dictator Of Cuba Period: Apr 16, 1961 to Apr 16, 1963 John F Kennedy Apr 20, 1961 Berlin Wall Built Apr 20, 1962 Marilyn Monroe Found Dead Period: Apr 18, 1963 to Apr 18, 1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Apr 20, 1963 JFK Assassinated Apr 20, 1965 New York City Blackout Period: Apr 18, 1969 to Apr 18, 1974 Richard Nixon Apr 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon Apr 20, 1970 Kent State Shooting Apr 20, 1973 U.S. pulls out of Vietnam Period: Apr 18, 1974 to Apr 18, 1977 Gerald Ford Apr 20, 1975 Microsoft Founded Period: Apr 18, 1977 to Apr 18, 1981 James Carter Jr Apr 20, 1977 Elvis found dead Apr 20, 1978 First test tube baby born Period: Apr 18, 1981 to Apr 18, 1989 Ronald Reagan Apr 20, 1981 New plague identified as AIDS Period: Apr 2, 1982 to Jun 14, 1982 Falklands War Period: Oct 25, 1983 to Dec 15, 1983 Invasion of Grenada Apr 20, 1985 Wreck of Titanic found Apr 20, 1986 Challenger space shuttle explodes Apr 20, 1987 DNa first used to convict criminals Period: Apr 18, 1989 to Apr 18, 1993 Gerorge Herbert Walker Bush Apr 20, 1989 Berlin Wall Falls Period: Aug 2, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991 Gulf War Apr 20, 1992 Official end of the Cold War Period: Apr 18, 1993 to Apr 18, 2001 William Clinton Apr 20, 1993 World Trade Center bombed the first time Apr 20, 1995 Oklahoma City bombed Apr 20, 1997 Princess Diana dies in car crash Apr 20, 1999 Killing spree at Colombine High School Apr 20, 2000 USS Cole bombed Period: Apr 18, 2001 to Apr 18, 2009 George Walker Bush Sep 11, 2001 9/11 World Trade Center Bombed Period: Oct 7, 2001 to Apr 18, 2012 War on Terror Period: Oct 7, 2001 to Apr 18, 2012 Afghanistan War Period: Mar 20, 2003 to Dec 15, 2011 Iraq War Apr 20, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia explodes on reentry Apr 20, 2005 Lance Armstrong wins his record seventh win of Tour De France Apr 20, 2007 First female speaker of the house of representatives: Nancy Pelosi Period: Apr 18, 2009 to Apr 18, 2016 Barak Obama Apr 20, 2010 Taliban's top commander captured Apr 20, 2011 Osama Bin Laden killed Apr 20, 2011 Royal wedding of Prince William and Dutchess Catherine Apr 20, 2012 Washington state legalizes gay marriage Apr 20, 2012 Seven die in California school shooting
