| 'Chicago 7' found not guilty |
2008-11-01 |
12596 |
| 'Iran-Contra' arms revelations |
2008-10-01 |
11635 |
| "Tet Offensive" in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
5987 |
| “Live Aid” concert |
2008-11-01 |
5132 |
| 200th Anniversary of USA |
2008-11-01 |
2456 |
| 25th Amendment ratified |
2008-11-01 |
2440 |
| 26th Amendment ratified |
2008-11-01 |
2662 |
| Alan Shepard launched into space |
2008-10-01 |
2200 |
| Alaska admitted to the Union |
2007-10-01 |
2160 |
| Albert Einstein alerts Roosevelt about A-Bomb |
2008-11-01 |
2160 |
| Aldrich Ames found guilty of spying |
2008-11-01 |
2588 |
| Alger Hiss indicted for treason |
2008-11-01 |
2409 |
| Alien and Sedition Acts |
2009-02-01 |
2201 |
| Amelia Earhart goes missing |
2008-11-01 |
2256 |
| American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed |
2009-02-01 |
2539 |
| American Girl Guides created |
2008-11-01 |
2522 |
| American Indians made U.S. Citizens |
2008-11-01 |
3377 |
| American Whig Party |
2009-01-20 |
5268 |
| Amnesty Act |
2009-02-01 |
2248 |
| Apollo 11 Moon landing |
2008-10-01 |
3170 |
| Apple Computer Company established |
2008-10-01 |
2623 |
| Army Air Corps |
2008-11-01 |
1899 |
| Arpanet computer network launched |
2008-10-01 |
1744 |
| Articles of Confederation |
2009-02-01 |
1570 |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation established |
2008-10-01 |
2206 |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King |
2008-10-01 |
5692 |
| Assassination of South Vietnamese leader |
2008-11-01 |
3727 |
| AT&T settles with Justice Dept. |
2008-11-01 |
1930 |
| Atlanta Olympics bombed |
2008-10-01 |
1965 |
| Bank of North America |
2009-02-01 |
1954 |
| Banks closed by Roosevelt |
2008-11-01 |
1980 |
| Battle for Nova Scotia |
2009-02-01 |
5367 |
| Battle of Gravelines ends Spanish Armada's hopes of success |
2008-11-01 |
3355 |
| Battle of Long Island |
2009-02-01 |
3178 |
| Battle of Ticonderoga |
2009-02-01 |
3296 |
| Battle of Wounded Knee |
2008-02-08 |
4097 |
| Beatles' First US Tour |
2008-10-01 |
2208 |
| Benedict Arnold found to be a traitor |
2009-02-01 |
2933 |
| Berlin Blockade and Airlift |
2008-11-01 |
2230 |
| Bidlack Treaty (New Granada Treaty) |
2008-11-01 |
4539 |
| Bill Clinton re-elected US President |
2008-10-01 |
2011 |
| Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing kills four |
2008-10-01 |
3895 |
| Black immigration to Africa |
2009-02-01 |
1881 |
| Bomb on Wall Street |
2008-11-01 |
1841 |
| Bonus march |
2008-11-01 |
1976 |
| Boss Tweed found guilty |
2009-02-01 |
3688 |
| Boston Police strike |
2008-11-01 |
1809 |
| Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech |
2009-02-01 |
2234 |
| Burr shoots Hamilton |
2009-02-01 |
2185 |
| Cable News Network launched |
2008-10-01 |
1760 |
| California admitted to the Union |
2009-01-20 |
2480 |
| Captain Bering reaches Alaska |
2009-02-01 |
2749 |
| Carter pardons draft dodgers |
2008-11-01 |
1724 |
| Charles Manson found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1871 |
| Charleston falls to British |
2009-02-01 |
1610 |
| Civil Rights Bill |
2008-11-01 |
3050 |
| Civil Rights march in Selma, Alabama, attacked by police |
2008-10-01 |
3382 |
| Civil Rights march in Washington, DC; Martin Luther King's ‘I Have A Dream’ speech |
2008-10-01 |
3584 |
| Civil war breaks out in Nicaragua |
2008-10-01 |
1909 |
| Clayton Antitrust Act |
2008-11-01 |
1695 |
| Clinton impeachment fails |
2008-11-01 |
1094 |
| Colin Powell named Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff |
2008-11-01 |
1324 |
| Columbine High School shootings |
2008-10-01 |
1171 |
| Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) founded |
2008-11-01 |
1895 |
| Condemnation of Senator McCarthy by US Senate |
2008-10-01 |
1448 |
| Congo PM Patrice Lumumba assassinated in CIA plot |
2008-10-01 |
1587 |
| Congress approves war against North Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2857 |
| Congress meets in Philadelphia |
2009-02-01 |
1133 |
| Congress overrides Nixon’s veto on Vietnam War |
2008-11-01 |
3240 |
| Constitutional Convention called |
2009-02-01 |
2265 |
| Cornwallis defeated at Princeton |
2009-02-01 |
2874 |
| Coxey march on Washington |
2009-02-01 |
950 |
| Creation of AFL-CIO |
2008-11-01 |
1706 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis |
2008-10-01 |
2850 |
| Dayton Accords: Bosnian, Serb and Croat leaders agree peace |
2008-11-01 |
1327 |
| Death of John F. Kennedy Jr. |
2008-11-01 |
1271 |
| Death of Roosevelt; Truman becomes President |
2008-10-01 |
2468 |
| Detroit and New York City Riots |
2008-11-01 |
1872 |
| Discovery of the human genome |
2008-11-01 |
1683 |
| Dow Jones all-time high |
2008-11-01 |
1423 |
| Dow Jones reaches high |
2008-11-01 |
1224 |
| Dow Jones record high |
2008-11-01 |
1272 |
| Dred Scott Decision |
2009-02-01 |
2249 |
| Drexel Burnham Lambert pay record fine |
2008-11-01 |
1175 |
| Earthquake before World Series |
2008-11-01 |
1689 |
| Eisenhower announces aid to France |
2008-11-01 |
1172 |
| Elvis Presley dies |
2008-10-01 |
2305 |
| End of Military Draft |
2008-11-01 |
1126 |
| Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) fails to achieve ratification |
2008-11-01 |
1865 |
| Era of transcontinental TV begins |
2008-11-01 |
1354 |
| Erie Canal Opens |
2009-02-01 |
1633 |
| Execution of Gary Gilmore |
2008-11-01 |
1952 |
| Execution of Nathan Hale |
2009-02-01 |
2834 |
| Exxon Valdez oil spill |
2008-11-01 |
1837 |
| F.W. Woolworth opens first store |
2009-02-01 |
1284 |
| Failed US attempt to liberate US hostages in Tehran |
2008-10-01 |
2578 |
| Federal Air Traffic Controllers' Strike |
2008-11-01 |
1699 |
| Federal Reserve System established |
2008-11-01 |
1618 |
| Final Allied counter-offensive |
2008-11-01 |
1315 |
| Financial Black Friday |
2009-02-01 |
1325 |
| Financial Panic Begins |
2009-02-01 |
1066 |
| First Artificial Heart Transplant |
2008-11-01 |
1376 |
| First atomic submarine |
2008-11-01 |
1671 |
| First black mayors in U.S. |
2008-11-01 |
2665 |
| First black Supreme Court Justice |
2008-11-01 |
2826 |
| First black U.S. Senator since reconstruction |
2008-11-01 |
1757 |
| First black woman elected to Congress |
2008-11-01 |
2969 |
| First Boeing 747 scheduled flight from New York to London |
2008-10-01 |
2077 |
| First Domestic U.S. jet-liner service |
2008-11-01 |
1418 |
| First female member of the House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
3298 |
| First female military generals |
2008-11-01 |
2851 |
| First Hydrogen Bomb test |
2008-11-01 |
1674 |
| First LPs produced |
2008-10-01 |
1697 |
| First McDonald's opened |
2008-10-01 |
1470 |
| First Mississippi River Train Crossing |
2009-02-01 |
1505 |
| First nuclear chain reaction |
2008-11-01 |
1560 |
| First nuclear reactor for electricity production opened |
2008-10-01 |
1373 |
| First oil well in U.S. |
2009-02-01 |
1606 |
| First personal computers marketed |
2008-10-01 |
1819 |
| First sound-on-film motion picture |
2008-11-01 |
2269 |
| First sticky stamp |
2009-02-01 |
868 |
| First subscription cable television service (Home Box Office) established |
2008-10-01 |
1540 |
| First telephone exchange opened |
2009-02-01 |
1744 |
| First theatre opens |
2009-02-01 |
1031 |
| First transatlantic flight |
2008-10-11 |
1595 |
| First transatlantic telephone cable |
2008-11-01 |
1739 |
| First transcontinental telephone link |
2008-10-01 |
2064 |
| First U.S. newspaper |
2009-02-01 |
2190 |
| First U.S. Postal Card issued |
2011-12-20 |
1796 |
| First US transcontinental flight |
2008-10-01 |
3075 |
| First Use of Anesthetic |
2010-01-01 |
1336 |
| First woman governor of a U.S. State |
2008-11-01 |
2072 |
| First woman in U.S. Cabinet |
2008-11-01 |
1855 |
| First Woman Supreme Court Justice |
2008-11-01 |
1777 |
| First woman to fly across Atlantic |
2008-11-01 |
1872 |
| First Women's College |
2009-02-01 |
2957 |
| Flight of the Kitty Hawk |
2008-10-01 |
9022 |
| Ford Motor Co. raises labor wages |
2008-11-01 |
1530 |
| Ford Motor Company launches the Model T |
2008-10-01 |
3354 |
| Ford Motor Company sets up moving assembly-line mass production |
2008-10-01 |
3572 |
| Forest Reserve Act |
2009-02-01 |
1492 |
| Four anti-war protestors killed by National Guard at Kent State |
2008-10-01 |
2376 |
| France and Spain supply U.S. with arms |
2009-02-01 |
2644 |
| Full-scale bombing of North Vietnam |
2008-11-01 |
2848 |
| Fulton's steamboat trip |
2009-02-01 |
2072 |
| General Agreements on Tariffs and Trades signed |
2008-10-01 |
2236 |
| General Wayne |
2009-02-01 |
2730 |
| George Wallace shot |
2008-11-01 |
2066 |
| Gold discovered in Georgia |
2009-02-01 |
1051 |
| Gold Standard dropped |
2008-11-01 |
1771 |
| Great Blizzard |
2009-02-01 |
1389 |
| Great Fire in Chicago |
2009-02-01 |
1690 |
| Gulf War commences |
2008-10-01 |
1583 |
| Harrison wins battle at Tippecanoe |
2009-02-01 |
3319 |
| Hawaii becomes 50th US State |
2008-10-01 |
1454 |
| Highway Act |
2008-11-01 |
3019 |
| Homestead strike |
2009-02-01 |
1617 |
| Hubble Space Telescope launched |
2008-10-01 |
1785 |
| Huey Long assassinated |
2008-11-01 |
1912 |
| Immigration and Naturalization Act |
2008-11-01 |
1813 |
| Immigration quota |
2008-11-01 |
1780 |
| Inaugural Earth Day |
2008-11-01 |
1749 |
| Inaugural Kentucky Derby |
2009-02-01 |
2314 |
| Influenza epidemic |
2008-11-01 |
1622 |
| Integration at University of Mississippi |
2008-11-01 |
3171 |
| Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed |
2008-10-01 |
1474 |
| Iran releases US hostages |
2008-10-01 |
2375 |
| Iranian airliner shot down |
2008-11-01 |
2181 |
| Iraq destroy U.S. Navy vessel |
2008-11-01 |
1258 |
| Ivan Boesky pleads guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1396 |
| Jackie Robinson joins Dodgers |
2008-11-01 |
1874 |
| Japanese Internment; War Relocation Authority |
2008-11-01 |
2549 |
| Jefferson's Slavery Ban Proposal |
2009-02-01 |
3210 |
| Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign Salt II treaty to reduce nuclear weapons |
2008-10-01 |
1541 |
| Joe Louis wins Boxing Championship |
2008-11-01 |
1838 |
| John Brown anti-slavery militancy |
2009-02-01 |
2020 |
| John Glenn orbits the earth |
2008-10-01 |
1752 |
| John Lennon murdered |
2008-10-01 |
2356 |
| John Paul Jones sea battle |
2009-02-01 |
2760 |
| Justice Clarence Thomas named to Supreme Court |
2008-11-01 |
1425 |
| Kennedy announces plans to land men on the moon |
2008-10-01 |
1726 |
| Kennedy proclaims 'New Frontier' in American life |
2008-10-01 |
1255 |
| Kenya becomes a republic |
2008-11-01 |
1173 |
| Khrushchev visits U.S. |
2008-11-01 |
1017 |
| Kissinger begins peace talks with North Vietnamese |
2008-10-01 |
2637 |
| Klaus Fuchs convicted of passing atomic secrets to Russia |
2008-10-01 |
2249 |
| Klu Klux Klan founded |
2009-02-01 |
2601 |
| Knights of Labor established |
2009-02-01 |
1260 |
| Korean Armistice signed |
2008-11-01 |
1453 |
| Land Grants Act |
2009-02-01 |
1819 |
| Legionnaires disease kills 29 |
2008-11-01 |
1779 |
| Liberation of Paris |
2001-10-20 |
1207 |
| Lieutenant William Calley found guilty of My Lai massacre |
2008-10-01 |
1808 |
| Limitation of Armaments Conference |
2008-11-01 |
1134 |
| Lindbergh baby kidnapped |
2008-11-01 |
1319 |
| Lindbergh flies New York-Paris |
2008-11-01 |
1726 |
| Little Rock School-bussing crisis |
2008-10-01 |
2985 |
| Lusitania sunk |
2008-10-01 |
2394 |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson elected to second term as US President |
2008-10-01 |
1725 |
| MacArthur assumes control of Japan |
2008-11-01 |
1172 |
| Major power failure in U.S. and Canada |
2008-11-01 |
2248 |
| Malcolm X assassinated |
2008-10-01 |
2919 |
| Marbury v. Madison |
2009-02-01 |
1137 |
| Mark McGwire breaks baseball homerun record |
2008-11-01 |
2214 |
| Marshall Plan, The |
2008-10-01 |
2929 |
| Marshall Supreme Court Justice |
2009-02-01 |
969 |
| Martin Luther King day |
2008-11-01 |
1222 |
| Martin Luther King spearheads national campaign to end race discrimination |
2008-10-01 |
3498 |
| McCarthy launches hunt for US Communists |
2008-10-01 |
1970 |
| Medgar Evers assassinated |
2008-11-01 |
3157 |
| Molly Maguires hanging |
2009-02-01 |
1523 |
| Monica Lewinsky agrees to testify to grand jury |
2008-11-01 |
979 |
| Mount St. Helens erupts |
2008-10-01 |
1493 |
| My Lai Massacre |
2002-10-08 |
4143 |
| NAACP founded |
2008-11-01 |
3409 |
| NAFTA goes into effect |
2008-11-01 |
2129 |
| NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) founded |
2008-10-01 |
1777 |
| National Minimum Wage Act |
2008-11-01 |
884 |
| National Organization for Women founded |
2008-11-01 |
3214 |
| Negotiations with Panama over Canal |
2008-11-01 |
1142 |
| New England Shoe Worker Strike |
2009-02-01 |
1938 |
| New York World’s Fair |
2008-11-01 |
841 |
| Nixon becomes first US President to step down from office |
2008-10-01 |
1674 |
| Nixon visits the Soviet Union |
2008-11-01 |
1760 |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization founded |
2008-10-01 |
1906 |
| North Carolina University - first state university |
2009-02-01 |
1360 |
| Nuclear leak at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania |
2008-10-01 |
1917 |
| O.J. Simpson found not guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1651 |
| OAS created |
2008-11-01 |
1504 |
| Oklahoma bombing |
2008-10-01 |
1557 |
| OPEC Oil Embargo |
2008-11-01 |
1493 |
| Outbreak of 'Watts' race riots in Los Angeles |
2008-10-01 |
3171 |
| PanAm Boeing destroyed by terrorist bomb above Lockerbie, Scotland |
2008-10-01 |
1599 |
| Panama Canal Agreement |
2008-11-01 |
1276 |
| Panama Canal opens |
2002-10-08 |
4609 |
| Panama Canal Treaty |
2008-10-01 |
1913 |
| Pathfinder satellite explores Mars |
2008-10-01 |
1408 |
| Patrick Henry delivers famous speech about American autonomy |
2009-02-01 |
2960 |
| Patty Hearst arrested in San Francisco |
2008-11-01 |
1026 |
| Paul Revere warns of invasion |
2009-02-01 |
2863 |
| Peace Agreement in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
3344 |
| Peace contract between Great Powers |
2008-11-01 |
1967 |
| Peace Corps created |
2008-11-01 |
916 |
| Peace preliminaries between British and Americans |
2009-02-01 |
2627 |
| Pendleton Act passed |
2009-02-01 |
1502 |
| Philippines declared an independent republic |
2010-02-01 |
2206 |
| Polaroid |
2008-10-01 |
1710 |
| Polio Vaccine invented |
2008-11-01 |
3028 |
| Pony Express |
2009-02-01 |
1454 |
| Possible US war with France |
2009-02-01 |
2686 |
| Potsdam Conference |
2008-11-01 |
1368 |
| Presidency of Abraham Lincoln |
2009-01-20 |
4082 |
| Presidency of Andrew Johnson |
2009-01-20 |
3374 |
| Presidency of Calvin Coolidge |
2008-10-01 |
3558 |
| Presidency of Chester Alan Arthur |
|
2395 |
| Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower |
2008-10-01 |
2802 |
| Presidency of Franklin Pierce |
2009-01-20 |
3256 |
| Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt |
2008-10-01 |
3083 |
| Presidency of George Bush |
2008-10-01 |
2853 |
| Presidency of George W. Bush |
2008-10-01 |
959 |
| Presidency of Gerald Ford |
2008-10-01 |
2905 |
| Presidency of Harry S. Truman |
2008-10-01 |
4080 |
| Presidency of Herbert Hoover |
2008-10-01 |
3296 |
| Presidency of James Buchanan |
2009-01-20 |
2987 |
| Presidency of James Garfield |
2009-01-20 |
2961 |
| Presidency of James Knox Polk |
2009-01-20 |
3733 |
| Presidency of John F. Kennedy |
2002-10-20 |
2991 |
| Presidency of John Tyler |
2009-01-20 |
4051 |
| Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson |
2011-12-20 |
2132 |
| Presidency of Martin Van Buren |
2015-09-04 |
4463 |
| Presidency of Millard Fillmore |
2009-01-20 |
3229 |
| Presidency of Richard Nixon |
2008-10-01 |
2561 |
| Presidency of Ronald Reagan |
2008-10-01 |
2131 |
| Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes |
2009-01-20 |
2867 |
| Presidency of Stephen Grover Cleveland |
2009-01-20 |
2766 |
| Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt |
|
2588 |
| Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant |
2009-01-20 |
2718 |
| Presidency of Warren G. Harding |
2008-10-01 |
2728 |
| Presidency of William 'Bill' Clinton |
2008-10-01 |
2439 |
| Presidency of William Henry Harrison |
2009-01-20 |
2205 |
| Presidency of William Howard Taft |
2008-10-01 |
3025 |
| Presidency of William McKinley |
2008-10-01 |
3173 |
| Presidency of Woodrow Wilson |
2008-10-01 |
2514 |
| Presidency of Zachary Taylor |
2009-01-20 |
3697 |
| President Bush bails out Savings and Loan industry |
2008-11-01 |
1106 |
| President Clinton announces budget surplus |
2008-11-01 |
1263 |
| President Clinton denies Monica Lewinski affair |
2008-10-01 |
1143 |
| President Clinton establishes sexuality policy |
2008-11-01 |
1523 |
| President Clinton impeached |
2008-11-01 |
1526 |
| President Clinton invokes emergency powers |
2008-11-01 |
1202 |
| President Clinton settles with Paula Corbin Jones |
2008-11-01 |
1251 |
| President Eisenhower re-elected |
2008-10-01 |
1394 |
| President Johnson meets Soviet Premier Kosygin |
2008-11-01 |
1164 |
| President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act |
2008-10-01 |
3244 |
| President Kennedy declares U.S. advisors in Vietnam will defend themselves |
2008-11-01 |
2670 |
| President Nixon re-elected with large majority |
2008-10-01 |
1186 |
| President Nixon visits China |
2008-10-01 |
2132 |
| President Reagan produces trillion-dollar budget |
2008-11-01 |
930 |
| President Reagan shot |
2008-10-01 |
1858 |
| President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality |
2008-11-01 |
1190 |
| Production of H-Bomb |
2008-11-01 |
1435 |
| Prohibition begins |
2002-10-08 |
3116 |
| Prohibition ends |
2008-10-01 |
1229 |
| Proposition 13 in California |
2008-11-01 |
979 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act |
2008-11-01 |
2737 |
| Race riots across the United States and North America |
2008-10-01 |
3182 |
| Race riots in Los Angeles |
2008-10-01 |
1913 |
| Race riots in Newark and Detroit |
2008-11-01 |
3168 |
| Reagan commences strategic arms reduction talks with USSR |
2010-02-01 |
940 |
| Reagan launches 'Star Wars' |
2008-10-01 |
1193 |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation created |
2008-11-01 |
1583 |
| Red scare |
2008-11-01 |
943 |
| Republican Party takes majority in House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
868 |
| Robert Kennedy shot and killed |
2008-11-01 |
1675 |
| Rocket technology |
2008-11-01 |
1675 |
| Roe v. Wade |
2008-11-01 |
1523 |
| Ronald Reagan re-elected |
2008-10-01 |
1100 |
| Roosevelt announces state of emergency |
2008-11-01 |
1008 |
| Roosevelt attempts ‘pack’ Supreme Court |
2008-11-01 |
1416 |
| Roosevelt gives “Four Freedoms” speech |
2008-11-01 |
965 |
| Roosevelt signs Income Tax Bill |
2008-11-01 |
1257 |
| Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama |
2008-10-01 |
3489 |
| Rosenbergs guilty of passing atomic secrets to Russia |
2008-10-01 |
4301 |
| Rural Electrification Administration |
2008-11-01 |
1243 |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty |
2009-02-01 |
1919 |
| Sally Ride is first woman in space |
2008-10-01 |
1514 |
| Sand Creek Massacre |
2009-02-01 |
2717 |
| Scopes Trial |
2008-11-01 |
1638 |
| Sears Roebuck Tower, new tallest building in the world, completed |
2008-10-01 |
1454 |
| Second group of Watergate conspirators found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1006 |
| Segregation allowed by Supreme Court |
2009-02-01 |
2435 |
| Senator McCarthy leads Army hearings |
2008-11-01 |
915 |
| Shays Rebellion |
2009-02-01 |
3071 |
| Sherman Antitrust Act |
2009-02-01 |
1692 |
| Shooting in the House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
1613 |
| Sioux Chief Sitting Bull gives himself up to the US army |
2009-01-20 |
2964 |
| Slave revolt in New York |
2009-02-01 |
3132 |
| Sound barrier broken |
2008-10-01 |
2053 |
| South Carolina challenges federal government |
2009-02-01 |
1550 |
| South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification |
2009-02-01 |
1382 |
| Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance |
2008-11-01 |
2871 |
| Space shuttle Challenger explodes |
2008-11-01 |
957 |
| St. Lawrence Seaway |
2008-11-01 |
2794 |
| St. Valentine’s Day Massacre |
2008-11-01 |
1411 |
| Standard Oil dissolved |
2008-11-01 |
1810 |
| Start of Freedom rides anti-racism campaign |
2008-10-01 |
3706 |
| Stock Market crash and rebound |
2008-11-01 |
1187 |
| Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed |
2008-10-01 |
1201 |
| Supreme Court Order on integration |
2008-11-01 |
1521 |
| Supreme Court rules on congressional district population |
2008-11-01 |
1495 |
| Supreme Court rules on Pentagon Papers |
2008-11-01 |
1682 |
| Supreme Court rules on religion in public schools |
2008-11-01 |
1380 |
| Supreme Court ruling on rights of defendants |
2008-11-01 |
1390 |
| Taft-Hartley Labor Act |
2008-11-01 |
1009 |
| Talking Pictures |
2008-11-01 |
1761 |
| Teapot Dome Scandal |
2008-11-01 |
1046 |
| Telstar launches global live TV transmission |
2008-10-01 |
1457 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority created |
2008-11-01 |
1101 |
| Texas admitted to the Union |
2009-01-20 |
4305 |
| Texas announces secession |
2009-02-01 |
2050 |
| The Liberator Newspaper founded |
2009-02-01 |
2993 |
| The Beginning of the White House |
2009-02-01 |
1303 |
| The Great Awakening |
2009-02-01 |
1802 |
| The Pancho Villa Expedition / Mexican Expedition |
2008-11-01 |
1552 |
| The Pullman Strike |
2009-02-01 |
1827 |
| The U.S. helped suppress Boxers in Beijing |
2009-02-01 |
2218 |
| Thomas Edison's kinetoscope |
2009-02-01 |
2206 |
| Three US astronauts return from 85 days in SkyLab |
2008-10-01 |
1497 |
| Tobacco companies settle with States |
2008-11-01 |
956 |
| Transistor invented |
2008-10-01 |
1675 |
| Trial and Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
2008-10-01 |
2210 |
| Truman nationalizes steel mills |
2008-11-01 |
1608 |
| Truman removes McArthur from command |
2008-11-01 |
891 |
| U.S. Agriculture Marketing Act |
2008-11-01 |
973 |
| U.S. Air Commerce Act |
2008-11-01 |
914 |
| U.S. Bailout of Chrysler Corp. |
2008-11-01 |
1167 |
| U.S. bombs Hanoi and begins troop build-up |
2008-11-01 |
2146 |
| U.S. buys Virgin Islands |
2008-11-01 |
1306 |
| U.S. ceases bombing of Cambodia |
2008-11-01 |
1497 |
| U.S. Census |
2009-02-01 |
1198 |
| U.S. Coal strike |
2008-11-01 |
1404 |
| U.S. confronts Nicaragua |
2008-11-01 |
1297 |
| U.S. Congress votes to support South Vietnamese refugees |
2008-11-01 |
2408 |
| U.S. creates military government in Dominican Republic |
2008-11-01 |
890 |
| U.S. declares neutrality |
2008-11-01 |
854 |
| U.S. Declares Open Door Policy |
2009-02-01 |
1490 |
| U.S. Government shutdown |
2008-11-01 |
920 |
| U.S. Great White Fleet |
2008-11-01 |
1892 |
| U.S. Involvement in Laos announced |
2008-11-01 |
927 |
| U.S. Marines land in China |
2008-11-01 |
1746 |
| U.S. military attacked in Beirut |
2008-11-01 |
1771 |
| U.S. mines North Vietnam ports |
2008-11-01 |
2596 |
| U.S. Naturalization Act |
2009-02-01 |
1426 |
| U.S. passes Conscription Law and joins war |
2008-11-01 |
812 |
| U.S. sells Britain military equipment |
2008-11-01 |
823 |
| U.S. Senate finally rejects Versailles Treaty |
2008-11-01 |
855 |
| U.S. sends troops to Dominican Republic |
2008-11-01 |
881 |
| U.S. severs ties with Cuba |
2008-11-01 |
996 |
| U.S. ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodians |
2008-11-01 |
1699 |
| U.S. war with Tripoli |
2009-02-01 |
1383 |
| U.S.- Mexico hostility |
2008-11-01 |
1211 |
| U.S.-Algeria dispute |
2009-02-01 |
1109 |
| U.S.-France Treaty |
2009-02-01 |
2618 |
| Unabomber sentenced |
2008-11-01 |
1364 |
| United States intervenes in Korea |
2008-11-01 |
901 |
| University of Alabama desegregated |
2008-11-01 |
3665 |
| University of California v Bakke |
2008-11-01 |
1430 |
| US and Britain form Secret Alliance; Issue Atlantic Charter |
2008-10-01 |
1545 |
| US and EEC place economic sanctions on South Africa |
2008-10-01 |
1541 |
| US bombs Libya |
2008-10-01 |
1426 |
| US dissolves official defence ties with Taiwan |
2008-10-01 |
1085 |
| US Enters First World War |
2008-10-01 |
2815 |
| US Federal troops deployed to Arkansas to reinforce antisegregation laws |
2008-10-01 |
3108 |
| US forces land and take Okinawa |
2008-10-01 |
1199 |
| US heightens intensity of Cambodia bombing |
2008-10-01 |
1913 |
| US intervenes in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2868 |
| US invades Grenada |
2008-10-01 |
1686 |
| US invades Haiti and restores democracy |
2008-10-01 |
1880 |
| US invades Panama; General Noriega overthrown |
2008-10-01 |
1927 |
| US leaves Somalia |
2008-10-01 |
1159 |
| US Marines land on Guam |
2001-10-20 |
1352 |
| US passes Lend-Lease Act |
2008-10-01 |
1746 |
| US Peace treaty with Germany, Austria and Hungary |
2008-11-01 |
1494 |
| US shuttle docks with Mir |
2008-10-01 |
1158 |
| US Supreme Court confirms States' right to enforce the death penalty |
2008-10-01 |
1469 |
| US trains South Vietnamese army |
2008-11-01 |
1248 |
| US troops land at Iwo Jima |
2008-10-01 |
1383 |
| US troops pulled from Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2457 |
| US U2 spy plane shot down over USSR |
2008-10-01 |
3835 |
| US-Taiwanese Bilateral Pact |
2008-10-01 |
1208 |
| USA and allies invade Iraq |
2008-10-01 |
1557 |
| USA takes Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain |
2009-02-01 |
2713 |
| USS Liberty destroyed |
2008-11-01 |
1483 |
| USS Maine Destroyed |
2009-02-01 |
2862 |
| USS Pueblo attacked by North Koreans |
2008-11-01 |
1533 |
| Vice President Agnew Resigns |
2008-11-01 |
1067 |
| Vietnam Peace talks conclude |
2008-11-01 |
2677 |
| Vietnam vets reach settlement |
2008-11-01 |
996 |
| Viking II lands on Mars |
2008-11-01 |
1421 |
| Voyager 1 space probe reaches Saturn |
2008-10-01 |
1491 |
| Waco Crisis |
2008-11-01 |
1502 |
| Walt Disney World opens in Florida |
2008-10-01 |
1641 |
| Walter Mondale wins Democratic nomination |
2008-11-01 |
1032 |
| War in Vietnam ends - Saigon surrenders to the Vietcong |
2008-10-01 |
2943 |
| War of the Worlds radio broadcast |
2008-11-01 |
1082 |
| Warren Commission finding |
2008-11-01 |
1044 |
| Washington crosses the Delaware |
2010-01-01 |
2710 |
| Watergate Affair: President Nixon ordered to surrender tape recordings |
2008-10-01 |
1013 |
| Watergate conspirators found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1089 |
| Watergate: ‘The Saturday Night Massacre’ |
2008-11-01 |
1490 |
| Welfare Reform Bill passed |
2008-11-01 |
1562 |
| Woodstock concert |
2008-11-01 |
1664 |
| Works Progress Administration created |
2008-11-01 |
1279 |
| World Trade Center bombers convicted |
2008-11-01 |
1449 |
| World Trade Center destroyed |
2008-05-26 |
1015 |
| World Trade Center terrorist bomb attack |
2008-10-01 |
1527 |
| World Trade Center, tallest building in world, completed |
2008-10-01 |
1444 |
| Yalta Conference |
2008-09-12 |
1136 |
| Yellowstone National Park founded |
2009-02-01 |
1629 |
| Zenger acquitted of libel |
2009-02-01 |
3831 |
