Timeline Assignment By KamrynD Sep 8, 1900 Galveston Hurricane Sep 6, 1901 President McKinley Was Assassinated Mar 4, 1909 President Taft Was Elected the 27th President 1910 First Military Air Flight Takes Place in San Antonio Apr 6, 1917 U.S. Enters WWI 1919 Prohibition Goes into Effect in Texas Jan 19, 1919 League of Nations Meet for the First Time Dec 7, 1941 Japan Attacks Hawaii 1942 Beaumont Riot 1945 The Ending of WW2 Period: 1950 to 1975 Vietnam War Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Begins 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education Nov 1, 1954 First hydrogen bomb is detonated by the U.S. on Eniwetok, an atoll in the Marshall Islands Jan 31, 1958 Explorer I, first American satellite, is launched 1962 Maned Spacecraft Center Opens in Houston 1963 President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas Aug 28, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivers His ―I Have a Dream speech 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Jan 20, 1977 Jimmy Carter is Inaugurated as the 39th President Jan 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan is Inaugurated as the 40th President Jan 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes Jan 20, 1989 George H. W. Bush Was Inaugurated as the 41st President Aug 2, 1990 Persian Gulf War Jan 20, 1993 Bill Clinton Was Inaugurated as the 42nd President Apr 19, 1993 Waco Seige 1994 Nelson Mandela Was Elected President of South Africa Apr 19, 1995 Bombing of Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City Kills 168 People Dec 19, 1998 House of Representatives Votes to Impeach President Clinton 1999 Columbine Shooting Dec 20, 1999 MY BIRTHDAY
