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Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot and killed.
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Austria declares war on Serbia
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Germany invades Belgium
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Britain declares war on Germany
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The Battle of the Marne Started.
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Italy decalares war on Germany and Austria
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the Battle of Loos started
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the Battle of Verdun starts
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the Battle of Jutland starts
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Lloyd George becomes British Prime MInister
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USA declares war on Germany
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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Britian captures Jerusalem from the Turks
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the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Germany and Russia. that marks the end of the war
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League of nations are established
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Women get the right to vote
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President Warren G. Harding declared peace in World War I
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The first Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City
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Reader's Digest is founded
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The Lincoln Memorial is located in Washington D.C.
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The 12th century Aztec Ruins are made a national monument
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Time magazine published for the first time
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the first winter olympics are in the French alps
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the IBM corporation is founded
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected the first women govener
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the Grand Ole Opry transmits first radio broadcast
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NBC is formed by Westinghouse, General Electric, and RCA
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work on Mount Rushmore begins
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Amelia Earhart flies across the atlantic ocean
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The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key
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The construction on the Empire State building is completed
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Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped
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Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time
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The 21st amendment was passed, ending prohibition
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The U.S pulls troops out of Haiti
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Babe Ruth retires from major league baseball
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The Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt
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Summer Olympics Games held in Berlin, Germany
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Wallace H. Corothers patents the polymer
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German airship Hindenburg bursts into flames
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The Golden Gate Bridge is open to pedestrian
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Naval expansion act passed
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The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in New York
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The United States declares neutrality in the European war
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft
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The U.S. occupies Iceland in fear of an attack
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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The development of the first atomic bomb started
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The U.S. invades North Africa
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The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthday
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Allied soldiers invade the beaches of France to begin the World War II
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The first atomic bomb is tested
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400,000 mine workers begin to strike
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The island of the Philippines are given their independence
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Jackie Robinson breaks MLB's barrier against colored players
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Harry S. Truman becomes president
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NATO is formed by the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations
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U.S. withdraws its troops from Korea
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The Korean war begins its three year conflict
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The United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign the ANZUS Treaty, a security pact
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Richard Buckminster Fuller patents the Geodesic Dome
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Russia shot down a US U-2 plane
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The fifty star flag of the United States is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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The first U.S. manned sub-orbital space flight is completed with Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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The construction of the Berlin Wall begins by the Soviet bloc
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Lt. Colonel John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut in orbit in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule
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The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
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The United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain agree to a limited nuclear test-ban
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom culminates with Dr. Martin Luther King
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President Lyndon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election with a victory over Barry M. Goldwater
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The first Earth Day celebration is held
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Nixon resigns the office of the presidency, avoiding the impeachment process
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Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts, killing fifty-seven people and costed $3 billion
