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He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, which started WW I
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Kaiser William II promised german support for Austria against Serbia.
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Germany invaded Belgium, and then to paris. The German army went to sweep through Russia.
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27,000 French soldiers are killed in a single day trying to push through Paris an into German boarders.
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The Battle of Tannenberg is a total loss for the russians, and they lost 250,000 soldiers.
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An unofficial Christmas truce is declared by soldiers along the Western Front.
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The very first Zeppelin raid was on belgium.
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Britain announces a blockade of all German ports.
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British liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-Boat with the loss of 1,198 civilians including 128 American lives.
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The Battle of Verdun begins as the Germans launch a massive attack against Verdun in what will become the longest battle of the war.
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President Wilson publicly calls for the German's to stop their submarines of sinking all ships in enemy waters.
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Battle of the Somme, with the British military suffering its greatest number of casualties in a single day 60,000.
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Black Tom island munitions are destroyed, the germans a suspected to have done it.
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U.S. forces are victorious in their first major action, Battle of Cantigny.
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Armistice day as fighting ceases at 11am - World War I ends. Central Powers are forced to annul the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
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Women were granted the right to vote by he 21st admendment.
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the lincold memorial was dedicated in washington D.C
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Aaztec ruins in new mexico are proclaimed a national monument in new mexico.
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The first time magazine was published
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President Warren G.Harding dies in office after giving a speech in alaska.
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All indians are proclaimed american citizans by the goverment because o calvin coolage.
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the first flight to the north pole accomplished by floyd bennett.
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The great mississippi flood happends
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Amelia Earnheart is the first woman to cross the atlantic ocean,
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Martin Luther king Jr was born on this day in his grandfathers house in atlanta Georgia
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Al Capone and his fellow gangsters comitted the valentines day massacre
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American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discover the planet Pluto at the Lowell Observatory
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The United States pulls its troops from Haiti.
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Hawley-Smoot teriff act would effective rate hikes would slash world trade.
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The ruins the ancient Indian villages around Canyon de Chelly are designated a national monument by Herbert Hoover.
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The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key is approved by Hoover and Congress to be the national anthem.
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Nevada legalizes gambling
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The highest continuous paved road in the United States, the Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, is opened to traffic.
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President Franklin D. Roosivelt is inaugurated for the first time.
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In South Dakota a strong dust storm strips topsoil from depression era farms.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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the Historic Sites Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
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William Henry Hastie is the first African-American to become a federal judge.
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The Appalachian Trail, extending two thousand miles completed.
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June 28, 1938 - The National Minimum Wage is enacted within the federal legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act. minimum wage of $0.25 at the time (approx. $3.22 in 2005),
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Albert Einstein tells Franklin D. Roosevelt about an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project
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1940 The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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the great smokey mountains are the most visited park in america and roosivelt dedicated it on this day.
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congress makes the first peacetime draft.
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The United States occupies Iceland, attempting to stop an invasion by Nazi Germany
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the japanese attacked pearl harbor in a supprise attack
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the start of the battle of midway
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North Africa is invaded by United States and Great Britain.
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america losses for the first time in a theater to take over kasserain pass.
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The Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthda.
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries.
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The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs when two ships explode, the accident killed three hundred and twenty people
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The United States military begins to retake the island of Guam after Japanese troops had occupied the island during World War II. .
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Yalta confrence begins the cold war
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Thirty thousand United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.
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Roosivent has a brain hemmorage.
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he first atomic bomb the Trinity Test, is exploded at Alamogordo,
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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The Soviet Union begins its land blockade of the Allied sectors of Berlin, Germany.
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Harry Truman approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June
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This is the beginning of the korean war
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Rosenberg spy executions
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American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over Russia.
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Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina
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Cuba invaded at Bay of Pigs by an estimated 1,200 anti-Castro exiles aided by U.S.
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USSR fires a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, biggest explosion in history.
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Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth three times in 4 hr 55 min
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Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of 1961 invasion attempt.
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Pope John XXIII dies
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Civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King gives “I have a dream” speech
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U.S. Supreme Court rules that congressional districts should be roughly equal in population
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Harold Holt takes over as Australia's seventeenth Prime Minister.
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Black teenagers riot in Watts, Los Angeles; two men killed and at least 25 injured
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Mickey Mantle hits the 536th and last home run of his 18-year
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Five members of the Chicago seven are convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots.
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The first Earth Day is held, millions of American participating in anti-pollution demonstrations
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Four students from Kent State in Ohio were killed in a protest against the bombing of cambodia
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The United States Post ofice is made independent in a reform for the first time in two centuries.
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A ban on the television advertisement of cigarettes goes into affect
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Walt Disney World opens in Florida
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The supreme Court ruled Roe vs. Wade that a woman can not be prevented in having an abortion during six months of pregnancy
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Two defendants in the Watergate break-in trial are convicted
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President Nixon creats the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
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Communist forces complete their takeover of South Vietnam,
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Amercia celebrates its 200th year as a nation
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The Viking 1 space probe successfully lands on Mars.
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29 people in the American Legion convention in Philadelphia are killed mysteriously
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Microsoft becomes a registered trademark, one year after its name for microcomputer software is first thought of by Bill Gates
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Chrysler Bailout is approved by the federal government. A $1.5 billion loan.
