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They were arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard.
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Women gain the right to vote.
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China's Communist Party was founded.
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He was appointed prime minister of Italy
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King Tut's tomb was discovered in Egypt.
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Membership had reached 4.5 million.
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He made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
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The last Model T Ford was made.
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Henry Ford introduced his Model A automible.
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The stock market crashed.
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There were 8.02 million Americans unemployed.
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Charles Lindbergh's son is taken from their home.
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The Bonus Army arrived in Washington, D.C.
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More than 13 million Aamericans were unemployed.
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Adolf Hitler took power in Germany.
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Japan withdrew from the League of Nations.
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The Twenty-first Amendment ended Prohibition.
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Congress passed the Social Security Act.
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Japan invaded Northern China.
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Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
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African Americans went to the capital and demanded the right to work and fight for their country.
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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Churchill arrived at the White House to work on war plans.
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Nazis develop the "final solution" for exterminating Jews.
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Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers.
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The end of production of automobiles for private use.
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The Battle of Midway turns the tide in favor of the Allies.
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Zoo-suit riots rock Los Angeles.
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140 Liberty ships were being produced each month.
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Nearly 18 million workers were laboring in war industries.
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The Allies launch a massive invasion of Europe.
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President Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term.
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Nazi retreat begins after the Battle of the Bulge.
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Japan surrenders after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Disc jockey Alan Freed is the first to use the term "rock 'n' roll" on air.
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The Korean War begins.
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I love Lucy first premires on CBS.
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Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen of England.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president.
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Joseph Stalin dies.
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Korean War Cease-fire is signed.
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USSR opens the first small nuclear power plant.
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First McDonald's opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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Eisenhower is reelected.
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The Soviets launch Sputnik I.
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NASA- the National Aeronautics and Space Aadministration- is established.
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Alaska becomes the 49th state.
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Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba.
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Hawaii becomes the 50th state.
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The birth control pill as approved by the FDA.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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101 Dalmations released in theaters.
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South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela is imprisoned.
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Maurice Sendak published Where the Wild Things Are,
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JFK was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president hours after Kennedy was assassinated.
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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
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Johnson is elected president.
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Cultural Revolution begins in china.
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Race riot occurs in Detroit.
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Tet offensive begins in Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King. Jr was assassinated.
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Richard M. Nixon is elected president.
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U.S. astronauts walk on the moon.
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Political Party La Raza Unida is formed.
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America celebrates the first Earth Day
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Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State University.
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Grape boycott forces growers to sign contracts with United Farm Workers.
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Anwar el-Sadat becomes president of Egypt.
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China gives the U.S. two pandas.
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Richard M. Nixon is reelected.
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Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines.
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Earthquake kills 10,000 in Nicaragua.
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United States signs cease-fire with North Vietnam and Vietcong.
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Native Americans stage protest at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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Gerald R. Ford becomes president after Richard M. Nixon resigns.
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Communists capture Saigon; South Vietnam surrenders.
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Americans celebrate the nation's bicentennial.
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A nuclear power accident occurs at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
