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Houdini performs buried alive escape
Houdini was buried, without a casket, in a pit of earth six feet deep. He became exhausted and panicky trying to dig his way to the surface and called for help. -
End of World War 1
Lasted for four years, known as the war to end all wars. Over 16 million people died during this war. -
First Miss america Pageant
In 1921, the first Miss America Pageant took place with a total of eight contestants in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The winner, a 16-year old girl from Washington, D.C., was Margaret Gorman. -
Wall Street Crash "Black Thursday"
Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. -
Opening of the Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. -
Inauguration of Hitler
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Hindenburg Airship Crash
The Hindenburg airship caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States -
The Holocaust
The Nazi’s genocide of millions of other groups of people. Adolf Hitler was the leader of this group and they killed Jews, homo-sexuals, and many others that were not like them. It did not matter if they were German or not. The total victims amounted between 11-17 million. -
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Killed over 129,000 -
First man in space
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, made history on April 12, 1961 when he became the first person in the world to enter space. He also became the first man to orbit the earth. They named his shuttle the Vostok 1. He made approximately a ten minute orbital flight. America matched the accomplishment less than a month later. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights act became effective July 2nd, 1964. The legislation outlawed discrimination against African Americans and women including racial segregation. It ended racial segregation in public places and schools. It allowed women to vote in the United States. The bill changed American history forever. -
First Super Bowl
On January 15, 1967 Super Bowl I took place. It took place in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers came out on top, winning 35 to 10. An American tradition was born on this day in history. The name came from Lamar Hunt seeing his daughters Super Ball and decided to call the major game to Super Bowl. It didn’t stick until a couple years later. -
Fall of Berlin wall
Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
September 11th attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001. 19 terrorist from the al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally steered two planes in to the twin towers and one into the pentagon. There was also another plane headed towards the White House but I was wrecked into a field. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks. -
Emily Keoghan
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Oscar
On this day Oscar torres was born. -
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Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans
As the center of Hurricane Katrina passed southeast of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds downtown were in the Category 1 range with frequent intense gusts and tidal surge. -
Death of Michael Jackson
On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. His personal physician, Conrad Murray, said he had found Jackson in his room, not breathing and with a barely detectable pulse, and that he administered CPR on Jackson to no avail. -
Boston Marathon bombing
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs.
