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Francis Ferdinand assassinated
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Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan.
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Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary andthe Ottoman Empire closes the Dardanelles.
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The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place
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Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
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The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli
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British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia
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First use en masse of tanks at the Somme
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Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
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USA declared war on Germany
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks
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Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army
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Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
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Boston Police Strike occurs.
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Prohibition was legal ban on sale and transportation of liquor and manufacturing.
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Albert Einstein lectures in New York about his theory of relativity
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Unknown soldier of World War I buried
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was created.
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President Harding dies
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Discovery Of King Tut's Tumb
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Former President Woodrow Wilson dies
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Congress passes a new and more restrictive immigration law
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Scottish inventor John Baird invents the first form of a television
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A diphtheria epidemic in Alaska occurs
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U. S. Marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a revolt and will stay until 1933
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Spirit of St. Louis and pilot Charles Lindbergh land in Paris
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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Stock markets crash and begin the great depression.
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As I Lay Dying Published
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Brave New World Published
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Charles Lindbergh's son discovered dead
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Air Conditioning Invented
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Adolf Hitler takes power
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Prohibition Ends
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Tortilla Flat Published
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Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police
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Hindenburg Disaster
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Panay Incident
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Amelia Earhart declared legally dead
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The Start of WWII
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"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" Released
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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Naval Expansion Act is signed
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Non-Aggression Pact Signed
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited park
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The U.S. Congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues his dominance
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Executive order 9066 is signed
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The Battle of the Midway is fought
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The development of the first atomic bomb
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The United States Marines land on Guadalcanal
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North Africa is invaded by United States
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The Tehran Conference is held for three days
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The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed
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The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs
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The last campaign speech of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Thirty thousand United States Marines land on Iwo Jima
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The first atomic bomb, the Trinity Test
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Germans attack America
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in Japan has ordered the Shinto religion disestablished
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emerged triumphant and eager to suppress those who supported fascism and Germany
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creates the Central Intelligence Agency
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in the Soviet Union that, "In substance, Mr. Churchill now stands in the position of a firebrand of war."
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occupation of Indochina is officially ended
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Stalin is hostile toward the Marshall Plan -- not yet approved by the U.S. Congress
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President Truman speaks to a joint session of Congress, blames the Soviet Union for the Communist take over in Czechoslovakia
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The Russian newspaper Trud claims that the United States is planning war.
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President Truman sees fears of a Communist takeover or influence on the U.S. government
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The U.S. begins Voice of America radio transmissions into the Soviet Union, viewed by Russians as hostility
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unit has been in China to disarm the Japanese
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The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Korea
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The Soviet Union is unhappy with the policies toward Germany by the U.S. Britain and France
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In the United States, George F. Kennan is concerned about public opinion
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George C. Marshall retires. Dean Acheson replaces him as secretary of state
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Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service
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Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States. Twelve days later, the navigation satellite, Transat 1-b is launched.
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In the Soviet Union, a United States U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot done by Soviet forces, leading to the capture of U.S. pilot Gary Powers and the eventual cancellation of the Paris summit conference
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The fifty star flag of the United States is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reflecting the admission of Hawaii into the union in 1959.
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The presidential race to succeed two term president Dwight D. Eisenhower is won by Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate from Massachusetts, over incumbent Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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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 Seattle Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair held in the United States since World War II, opens under the theme of space exploration
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The United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain agree to a limited nuclear test-ban treating, barring all nuclear testing above ground.
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1960 Olympic champion Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) wins the World Heavyweight Championship in Boxing from current champ Sonny Liston.
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The Watts race riots in Los Angeles begin a five day siege, culminating in the death of thirty-four people and property destruction in excess of $200 million.
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The first public burning of a draft card occurs in protest to the Vietnam War. It is coordinated by the anti-war group of students, National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam
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Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins.
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The Outer Space Treaty is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Robert F. Kennedy, is shot at a campaign victory celebration in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan
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President Richard M. Nixon announces his new Vietnam policy, declaring the Nixon Doctrine that expected Asian allies to care for their own military defense.
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London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
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Watergate Scandal Begins
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U.S. President Nixon Resigns
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Microsoft Founded
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Elvis Found Dead
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Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
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Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC
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Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
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Wreck of the Titanic Found
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U.S. Bombs Libya
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Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space
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Official End of the Cold War
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O.J. Simpson Arrested for Double Murder
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U.S. President Clinton Impeached
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George Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the USA
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Barack Obama is sworn in as 44th president of the USA
