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Sound Cinema came out in the mid to late 1920's. It changed the history of film. Many actors lost their jobs because some didn't have the right sound. The first movie with sound to come out was The Jazz singer. The movie was made October 6, 1927. Sound Cinema has changed film forever. It added almost like a new realm to cinema. The audience could actually feel how the characters felt. They could feel the power and meaning of the words.
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The Great Depression was the worst economic downfall in the history of the industrialized world. It was caused by the stock market crash in October 1929. It sent Wall street into chaos and eradicated millions of stockholders financial portfolios.,. Over the years investment and consumer spending dropped causing companies to downsize, making countless people lose their jobs.
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The Great Depression is historically significant for numerous reasons. It brought unemployment upon numerous homes. The unemployment rate was 24.9%. The death rates also went up not only because of crime but because a few people couldn't afford to live through this time. And some households were selling their own children.
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George Herman, also known as "Babe Ruth" was an American professional baseball player who played in the MLB for 22 seasons. He was known as one of the best players in history. He first played for the Boston Red Sox. And then he became famous when he was on the New York Yankees team for his pitching and hitting. This is in our top 12 events because Babe Ruth changed the game of baseball. He was known as the most gifted player to ever play. And the day he announced his retirement baseball changed
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Elvis Presley was an extremely popular American Singer and Actor. He is also known as the King of Rock and Roll. He was one of Rock music's dominant performers from the mid-1950's until his death. Elvis was very Charismatic and universally adored. But those who did not love him found him scurvy by the way he moved and for combining black music with white. Elvis completely revolutionized music and he changed the industry forever and he challenged social/moral values and made a new generation.
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. This was such an important part of history because World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. The war dragged on for six years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.
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American President Harry S. Truman in the summer of 1945 when he authorized the use of the world’s first atomic bomb. In light of intelligence reports about Japan’s commitment to continue fighting. The Truman group unanimously declared that there was no guarantee that demonstrating the bombs to the Japanese in a deserted area would convince Japanese leaders to surrender.
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on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. This is such an important event in history and is known all over the country.
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The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 27, 1996, during the Summer Olympics. The blast directly killed one person and injured 111 others another person later died of a heart attack
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The Deep recession was the most significant economic downturn since The Great Depression.The Iranian Revolution was one of the causes that ignited a second colossal of oil price increases.But after efforts to tame inflation using restrictive monetary policy.As expected the American economy made a chaste recovery but fell once again in July 1981,until November 1982.The Deep recession shows a relapse of Economic history.It was the broadest worldwide decline of economic activity in 1982.
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April 19, 1995. an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door, and headed towards his getaway car. He ignited one timed fuse, then another. At precisely 9:02 a.m., the bomb exploded.
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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This was such an important and historical day in the U.S. And still to this day on September 11 we have a moment of silence in remembrance to all the thousands of people who died. This is in our top 12 because we truly changed our country so much. Now the U.S. is scared for terrorist attacks, especially in big cities like NY.
