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Roosevelt campaigned hard, and the McKinley–Roosevelt ticket won based on a platform of victory, peace and prosperity. McKinley was assassinated in September 1901 and Roosevelt was sworn in as the youngest person to become president of the United States. -
Insulin was discovered by Sir Fredrick Banting, Charles Best and JJR Macleod in 1921 at the University of Toronto. Before its creation, people with type 1 diabetes had a life expectancy of 2 years or less. Insulin is considered one of medicals greatest discoveries and remains the only treatment for type 1 diabetes today. -
The Hoover Dam was constructed during the Great Depression. It became a symbol showing the world that the United States can still be powerful even in the roughest of times. The dam is America's largest water reservoir spanning about 228 million square miles and capable of holding over 28 million acre-feet of water. It took thousands of workers from April 20, 1931 to May 29,1935 to build the grand dam and all features were completed March 1, 1936 -
President Truman ordered that the US drop atomic bombs over 2 cities in Japan, Hiroshima ad Nagasaki, on August 6, 1945, in hopes to end the war. His decision killed over 200,000 people, including innocent lives. The Japanese government surrendered in a radio address. The effect of the bombs can not be measured. It is said that Hiroshima is uninhabitable for 75 years. -
John F. Kennedy and his advisors were preparing for his next campaign. There was no formal announced but it was promising that he would be reelected. In September if 1968 he began a tour the United States. In November he stopped in Dallas and was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Johnson was sworn in later that afternoon. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott is one of the earliest civil rights protests in American history. The boycott began when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. During this time, whites and minorities were segregated due to laws but her actions sparked the ed of segregation on public transit. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. Became the voices of the Civil Rights movement. The boycott lasted over a year (381 days) -
On April 29th 1970 the United States of America invaded Cambodia. This is known as the Cambodian campaign period. President Nixon delivered a speech on National Television the day after the attacks and his decision was to put American forces in Cambodia with the mission of capturing the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam. After five years of fighting the Republican government was defeated -
Tim Breners-Lee proposes the idea of the World Wide Web. Fast-forward to 1991 and the web is Born the first web pages begin to appear. On April 30th 1993. 4 years after the initial proposal Breners-Lee released the first code for the world's first web browser. Later browsers developed and the web begin to transition to mainstream and available to the public. In 1996 Internet Explorer was created next can Google,Blog comments and other pages used daily in today's world. -
Oklahoma City bombing is considered the most horrific homegrown Terror attacks done in America. On April 19th 1995 Timothy McVeigh parked his truck rental in front of a federal building walked away and set it off. The death toll was astronomical with 168 lives lost including the lives of children. Many injuries and building damage was reported in the radius of the explosion.McVeigh was sentenced to death on June 13th 1997 and Terry Nichols was found guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. -
Y2K also known as the year 2000 was referring to a widespread programming shortage that was expected to cause Panic as the year turned from 1999 to 2000. At the time the US and UK worked diligently to fix whatever issue while other governments like Russia did not acknowledge that the bug actually existed. The public also exhibited widespread panic but in the end the world still stood and made it another year around the Sun.