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Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.
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First sent from the German Foreign Office in January 1917, published in the US on March 1, 1917.
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End of WWI
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Women get the right to vote.
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Flew from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France nonstop.
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Foreshadowing the Great Depression.
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One-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed, so President Franklin Roosevelt installed the 3 R's: Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
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In the hope of creating a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to Hitler becoming the Chancellor of Germany.
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Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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British and French prime ministers sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
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The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top-secret research and development program begun during World War II in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project.
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More than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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August 6 and 9,The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations.
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George Kennan wrote the Long Telegram outlining his opinions and views of the Soviets.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea
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Brown v. Board of Education was a 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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Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans, who were Americans, on the Moon.
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Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement
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Nixon lost much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office
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The Vietnam War or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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The online world took form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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The Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.
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Four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage and $3 trillion in total costs. This attack happened 16 days before I was born. My parents have always said I was their happy baby because I brought them happiness in this terrible time.
