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Ferdinand was assainated when Gavrilo Princip stepped from the crowd and shot him and his wife sofie
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they declared a short war against serbia
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Germany invades belgium using the schlieffen plan
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they declared war on russia's ally france
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allies of france put up resistance in belgium to stop the germans from advancing to paris
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they entered the war on germanys side
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two parrellel systems of deep rat infested trenches crossed france from the belgain coast and swiss alps
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it was sunk by german u boats
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they declared war on germany and austria
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tanks were used at somme
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this alowed the germans to be unseen
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they luanched it on the western front
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this would bring every one to peace
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was signed by the germans
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prohibited the sale and manufacture of alchol
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arrested on charges of murder and robbery.
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They initiated regular radio broadcasts. Which was the first station to do so.
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Lectured about theory of relativity
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forms the American Birth Control League
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dies of an embolism after suffering ptomaine poisoning followed by pneumonia.
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model was mass prodused
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bugs morans men were shot by al capones men
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enforced for the act of 1924
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Massive number of people were trying to sell their stocks and nearly no one was buying.
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The Star Spangled Banner officially becomes the National Anthem of the United States
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it was the tallest building in the world - standing at 1,250 feet tall.
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Prohibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was outlawed.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt had just sat down after giving a speech at the Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida when five shots rang out.
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King Edward VIII was forced to decide between remaining the king of England or keeping the woman he loved,
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The first Diners Club credit cards were given out in 1950 to 200 people .The concept of the card grew and by the end of 1950, 20,000 people were using the Diners Club credit card.
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This first color program was a variety show simply called the "Premiere."
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After suffering from lung cancer for several years, King George VI died in his sleep on February 6, 1952 at age 56. Upon his death, his oldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became queen. Elizabeth was 25 years old.
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From December 5 to December 9, 1952, a thick fog settled on London. This fog mixed with trapped black smoke to create a deadly layer of smog.
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This first edition of Playboy was 44-pages long and had no date on its cover because Hefner wasn't sure there would be a second edition. In that first run, Hefner sold 54,175 copies of Playboy magazine at 50 cents each.
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After years of dreaming about it and seven weeks of climbing, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest.
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"A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races, or re-establish a state of involuntary servitude."
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On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened for a few thousand specially invited visitors; the following day, Disneyland officially opened to the public. Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California on what used to be a 160-acre orange orchard, cost $17 million to build.
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was visiting his relatives in Mississippi when he was snatched from his great-uncle's home on the night of August 28. He was then beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown into Tallahatchie River.
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On September 30, 1955, actor James Dean was driving his new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California when he was involved in a head-on collision with a 1950 Ford Tutor.
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December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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For Elvis' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday night at 8 p.m. on September 9, 1956, Ed Sullivan himself was not able to host since he had recently been in a very serious car accident that left him in the hospital. In his place, Oscar-winning actor Charles Laughton hosted the show.
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Arriving back in Cuba on December 2, 1956, Castro and his group of trained rebels (the 26th of July Movement) landed on Cuban soil with the intention of starting a revolution.
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November 3, 1957 with a living animal (Laika the dog) on board. Laika lived through the launch, but died in space since no return plan had been created for her.
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n November 10, 1958, the latest owner of the huge diamond, Harry Winston (a New York jeweler) donated the diamond to the Smithsonian Institute to be displayed as part of the National Gem and Mineral Collection in the National Museum of Natural History.
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John Kennedy made a campaign swing through Dallas and was assassinated.
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invaded cambodia which was a neutral country during the war
