1919 treaty of versailles
1944 d-day invasion normandy
1973,1974 arab oil embargo
1929 stock market crash depression
1962 cuban missile crisis
1865 assassination abraham lincoln
1620 pilgrims plymouth rock
1776 declaration of independence
1215 magna carta king john
1870 franco prussian war
1848,1849 california gold rush
1976 american bicentennial
1893 columbian exposition
1945 atomic bomb hiroshima
1868 meiji restoration japan
1900 boxer rebellion china
1989 fall of berlin wall
1967 lonely hearts club band release
1969 altamont speedway festival
1688,1689 english glorious revolution
1789 storming bastille paris
1957 launch sputnik satellite
1975 fall of saigon vietnam
1898 spanish american war cuba
1917 russian revolution czar
1940 german blitzkrieg france
1588 defeat spanish armada
1906 upton sinclair jungle
1951 firing general macarthur
1815 battle of waterloo napoleon
1858 first transatlantic telegraph
1937 explosion hindenberg
1984 olympic games los angeles
1918 armistice day world war one
1687 newton principia mathematica
1905 einstein theory special relativity
1931 godel incompleteness theorem
1943 tank battle kursk
1980 chapman john lennon shot
1975 first year saturday night live
1964 election johnson goldwater
1916 pancho villa invasion mexico
1869 opening of suez canal
1944 battle of leyte gulf
1968 vietnam tet offensive
1933 hitler rise to power germany
1888 jack the ripper murder london
1907 boy scouts founded powell
1923 beer hall putsch munich
1968 prague spring czechoslovakia
1954 salk vaccine polio
1969 apollo man on moon landing
1986 chernobyl nuclear accident
1986 space shuttle challenger explode
1888,1889 construction eiffel tower
1901 end of victorian era
1937 rape of nanking japan china
1492 columbus discovery america
1066 william conquerer battle hastings
1170 archbishop canterbury becket murder
1517 martin luther 95 theses
1859 darwin origin of species published
1794 thomas paine age of reason
1598 edict of nantes protestant
1945 foundation united nations charter
1973 roe wade decision abortion
1925 scopes trial darrow bryan
1941 japanese bomb pearl harbor
1848 marx communist manifesto
1453 fall of constantinople byzantine
1607 colony founded virginia jamestown
1783 treaty of paris revolutionary war
1879 edison light bulb invention
1964 gulf of tonkin declaration
1968 martin luther king shot ray
1955,1956 rosa parks montgomery boycott
1890 sherman antitrust act
1770 boston massacre crispus attucks
1636 harvard college founded
1582 gregorian calendar switch
1867 purchase of alaska russia
1876 invention telephone bell
1793 eli whitney cotton gin
1846,1847,1848,1849,1850 irish potato famine
1610 spanish settlement santa fe
1431 joan of arc burned at stake
1455 printing gutenberg bible
1909 north pole expedition perry
1927 jazz singer motion picture sound
1914 opening of panama canal
1949 communist control china mao
1903 wright brothers kitty hawk
1939,1940 grapes of wrath steinbeck
1947 india independence gandhi
1967 arab israel six day war
1979 three mile island nuclear
1983 marine barracks beirut
1995 oklahoma city bombing
1914 archduke ferdinand world war one
1941 german invasion soviet union