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McCarthy gave speech.
At a speech in Wheeling West Virginia, on February 9, 1950, McCarthy launched his first salvo. He proclaimed that he was aware of 205 card-carrying members of the Communist Party who worked for the United States Department of State. -
Korean War
The Korean War was between North and South Korea. A United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
22nd Amendment ratified were only 2 terms per president
The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for election to the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951. -
Emmett Till's Murder
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up seat on bus.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show
Elvis had been on television before, but nothing compared to his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show when 60 million viewers tuned in. It was a high profile cultural moment and national event when 82% of the television viewing audience watched Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show. -
Explorer 1, first American satellite is launched
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year. The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations -
John Glenn becomes first U.S Astronaut to orbit Earth
He was selected as one of the "Mercury seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the third person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. -
Martin Luther King Jr Gives "I have a dream" Speach
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
President Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly known as Jack Kennedy or by his initials JFK. He was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
Nike was founded as Blue Ribbon Sports
The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as Blue Ribbon Sports. Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight were the founders. -
President Johnson Signs the Civil Rights Act
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act. He signed in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House. -
25th Amendment Ratified
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President. It's also responding to Presidential disabilities. -
Marther Luther King Jr Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 pm that evening. -
Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. He died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later. -
Richard Nixon is the 37th persident
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States. He served from 1969 to 1974 -
26th amendment is ratiied lowering the voting age from 21 to 18
The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old the right to vote. The voting age went from 21 to 18. -
Nixon Resigns
He was the only U.S. president to resign the office. Ford took the office after Nixon left -
Jimmy Carter is the 39th president
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. -
Nike changed name from BRS to Nike
officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971. The company takes its name from Nike (Greek Νίκη, pronounced [nǐːkɛː]), the Greek goddess of victory. -
First Case of AIDS found in San Francisco
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. First case was discovered in San Francisco. -
John Lennon's Murder
He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on Monday, 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. -
First person to die due to AIDS in NY
The first man to die from aides died in New York. The earliest known infection of an identified human being dates back to 1959, found in a plasma sample taken from an adult male living in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). -
Ronald Reagan is the 40th president
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and conservative spokesman who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as an actor and union leader in Hollywood. -
US Hostages held in Iran for 444 days released
Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail." -
President Reagan is shot in chest
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan survived. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. It was termed as "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars, known as proxy wars, in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. -
Reagan's second term
Reagan was twice elected as President of the Screen Actors Guild, where he tried to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s he was a spokesman for General Electric. He died at the age of 93. -
Space shuttle challanger expode 73 seconds after lift off
Space shuttle challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. Seven crew members, which included five NASA Astronauts and two payload specialists. -
Les Miserables premiered on Broadway.
The musical then premiered on Broadway on March 12, 1987 at The Broadway Theatre. Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle reprised their roles from the London production.The $4.5 million production had a more than $4 million advance sale prior to its New York opening. -
George H.W Bush is 41st president
A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States, a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest living former President and Vice President. -
World Wide Web/ Internet was made
Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and former CERN employee, is the inventor of the Web. On 12 March 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.
