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Taking place in Kitty Hawk North Carolina the Wright Brothers first flight lasted about 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. They made three more flights that day, the longest one covered 852 feet in 59 seconds.
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The united states congress declares war on Germany and joins the allies in world war I. On June 28, 1919 the treaty of Versailles is signed ending World war I
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The 19th amenment gave all american woman the right to vote.
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Postwar prosperity ends with the stock market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses of an estomated $50 billion and strated the worst american depression in history.
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The drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. The Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression and drove many farming families on a desperate migration in search of work.
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After an attack on pearl harbow Hawaii the united states declares war on Japan officially entering world war II. On December 11, 1941, the United States declares war on Germany and Italy, responding to their declaration of war against America.
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President Harry S. Truman gives the go-ahead for the use of the atomic bomb with the bombing of Hiroshima. Three days later, the second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. On August 15, Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrenders.
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three year conflict when troops of North Korea, backed with Soviet weaponry, invade South Korea. This act leads to U.S. involvement when two days later, the United States Air Force and Navy are ordered by President Truman to the peninsula. On June 30, ground forces and air strikes are approved against North Korea.
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In response to the Soviet Union building offensive missiles in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island. An agreement is eventually reached with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the removal of the missiles, ending the potential conflict after thirty-eight days, in what many think was the closest the Cold War came to breaking into armed conflict.
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A large march on the capital as a way of prodding Congress and the administration of President John F. Kennedy to act on civil rights. "I have a dream" speech was given.
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A woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
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Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden.
