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The Invention Of The Model T
in October, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972. -
The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would help Germany and be rewarded by recovering Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
The Armistice of 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
The 19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
The 25 year old aviator Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday refers to when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 1929, and investors suffered $5 billion in losses. -
Hitler's Elected Chancellor
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. Once Roosevelt took office, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. -
The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
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Invasion Of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Attack On Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, the attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6th 1945, the 393rd Bomb Squad, Heavy, 509th Composite Group's B-29: 'Enola Gay', with the crew B-9, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, was entrusted with the prototype "Little Boy" Atomic Bomb. Hiroshima was the target of the first nuclear bombing mission, with 1 mile destroyed figures released in 1945 state that 66,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and 69,000 were injured to varying degrees, with only 20,000 of the casualties belonging to the Japanese military. -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
On August 9, 1945, the 393rd Bomb Squad, 509th Composite Group's B-29: 'Bockscar', with crew from B-29: 'The Great Artiste' and piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney, commander of the 393rd, was entrusted with the prototype "Fat Man" Atomic Bomb, with Kokura as the main target and Nagasaki the Fallback. With 1 mile destroyed it's unknown how many people died in the blast, with reports ranging from 40 to 80,000, However unlike Hiroshima's military death toll, only 150 Japanese soldiers were killed. -
The Formation Of United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan, the American charge of affairs in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan’s analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America’s Cold War policy of containment. -
The Formation Of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Russians Acquire The Atomic Bomb
RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test was internally code-named First Lightning, and was code-named by the Americans as Joe 1. -
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The Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea. The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia with U.S. involvement ending in 1973. -
Rosa Parks Refuses To Give Up Her Seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus 63 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. The astronauts also returned to Earth with the first samples from another planetary body. -
The Watergate Break-ins
IN May 1972, as evidence would later show, members of Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (known derisively as CREEP) broke into the Democratic National Committee's Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office's phones. -
Nixon’s Resignation
By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a controversial pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. -
The Invention Of The Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall began the evening of 9 November 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks, with people using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
