| 'Chicago 7' found not guilty |
2008-11-01 |
12024 |
| 'Iran-Contra' arms revelations |
2008-10-01 |
11003 |
| "Tet Offensive" in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
5614 |
| “Live Aid” concert |
2008-11-01 |
4787 |
| 200th Anniversary of USA |
2008-11-01 |
2117 |
| 25th Amendment ratified |
2008-11-01 |
2123 |
| 26th Amendment ratified |
2008-11-01 |
2334 |
| Alan Shepard launched into space |
2008-10-01 |
1899 |
| Alaska admitted to the Union |
2007-10-01 |
1840 |
| Albert Einstein alerts Roosevelt about A-Bomb |
2008-11-01 |
1827 |
| Aldrich Ames found guilty of spying |
2008-11-01 |
2208 |
| Alger Hiss indicted for treason |
2008-11-01 |
2064 |
| Alien and Sedition Acts |
2009-02-01 |
1895 |
| Amelia Earhart goes missing |
2008-11-01 |
1955 |
| American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed |
2009-02-01 |
1660 |
| American Girl Guides created |
2008-11-01 |
2207 |
| American Indians made U.S. Citizens |
2008-11-01 |
3035 |
| American Whig Party |
2009-01-20 |
4795 |
| Amnesty Act |
2009-02-01 |
1903 |
| Apollo 11 Moon landing |
2008-10-01 |
2874 |
| Apple Computer Company established |
2008-10-01 |
2268 |
| Army Air Corps |
2008-11-01 |
1572 |
| Arpanet computer network launched |
2008-10-01 |
1479 |
| Articles of Confederation |
2009-02-01 |
1251 |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation established |
2008-10-01 |
1867 |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King |
2008-10-01 |
5287 |
| Assassination of South Vietnamese leader |
2008-11-01 |
3323 |
| AT&T settles with Justice Dept. |
2008-11-01 |
1614 |
| Atlanta Olympics bombed |
2008-10-01 |
1628 |
| Bank of North America |
2009-02-01 |
1623 |
| Banks closed by Roosevelt |
2008-11-01 |
1659 |
| Battle for Nova Scotia |
2009-02-01 |
4892 |
| Battle of Gravelines ends Spanish Armada's hopes of success |
2008-11-01 |
2989 |
| Battle of Long Island |
2009-02-01 |
2857 |
| Battle of Ticonderoga |
2009-02-01 |
2970 |
| Battle of Wounded Knee |
2008-02-08 |
3749 |
| Beatles' First US Tour |
2008-10-01 |
1947 |
| Benedict Arnold found to be a traitor |
2009-02-01 |
2617 |
| Berlin Blockade and Airlift |
2008-11-01 |
1825 |
| Bidlack Treaty (New Granada Treaty) |
2008-11-01 |
3863 |
| Bill Clinton re-elected US President |
2008-10-01 |
1728 |
| Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing kills four |
2008-10-01 |
3571 |
| Black immigration to Africa |
2009-02-01 |
1569 |
| Bomb on Wall Street |
2008-11-01 |
1549 |
| Bonus march |
2008-11-01 |
1633 |
| Boss Tweed found guilty |
2009-02-01 |
3318 |
| Boston Police strike |
2008-11-01 |
1472 |
| Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech |
2009-02-01 |
1897 |
| Burr shoots Hamilton |
2009-02-01 |
1851 |
| Cable News Network launched |
2008-10-01 |
1458 |
| California admitted to the Union |
2009-01-20 |
2179 |
| Captain Bering reaches Alaska |
2009-02-01 |
2469 |
| Carter pardons draft dodgers |
2008-11-01 |
1474 |
| Charles Manson found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1613 |
| Charleston falls to British |
2009-02-01 |
1378 |
| Civil Rights Bill |
2008-11-01 |
2761 |
| Civil Rights march in Selma, Alabama, attacked by police |
2008-10-01 |
3109 |
| Civil Rights march in Washington, DC; Martin Luther King's ‘I Have A Dream’ speech |
2008-10-01 |
3257 |
| Civil war breaks out in Nicaragua |
2008-10-01 |
1642 |
| Clayton Antitrust Act |
2008-11-01 |
1464 |
| Clinton impeachment fails |
2008-11-01 |
819 |
| Colin Powell named Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff |
2008-11-01 |
1064 |
| Columbine High School shootings |
2008-10-01 |
1031 |
| Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) founded |
2008-11-01 |
1602 |
| Condemnation of Senator McCarthy by US Senate |
2008-10-01 |
1237 |
| Congo PM Patrice Lumumba assassinated in CIA plot |
2008-10-01 |
1345 |
| Congress approves war against North Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2615 |
| Congress meets in Philadelphia |
2009-02-01 |
886 |
| Congress overrides Nixon’s veto on Vietnam War |
2008-11-01 |
2912 |
| Constitutional Convention called |
2009-02-01 |
1997 |
| Cornwallis defeated at Princeton |
2009-02-01 |
2622 |
| Coxey march on Washington |
2009-02-01 |
705 |
| Creation of AFL-CIO |
2008-11-01 |
1469 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis |
2008-10-01 |
2566 |
| Dayton Accords: Bosnian, Serb and Croat leaders agree peace |
2008-11-01 |
1112 |
| Death of John F. Kennedy Jr. |
2008-11-01 |
1036 |
| Death of Roosevelt; Truman becomes President |
2008-10-01 |
2226 |
| Detroit and New York City Riots |
2008-11-01 |
1623 |
| Discovery of the human genome |
2008-11-01 |
1455 |
| Dow Jones all-time high |
2008-11-01 |
1155 |
| Dow Jones reaches high |
2008-11-01 |
1017 |
| Dow Jones record high |
2008-11-01 |
1029 |
| Dred Scott Decision |
2009-02-01 |
1943 |
| Drexel Burnham Lambert pay record fine |
2008-11-01 |
933 |
| Earthquake before World Series |
2008-11-01 |
1454 |
| Eisenhower announces aid to France |
2008-11-01 |
940 |
| Elvis Presley dies |
2008-10-01 |
2137 |
| End of Military Draft |
2008-11-01 |
918 |
| Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) fails to achieve ratification |
2008-11-01 |
1596 |
| Era of transcontinental TV begins |
2008-11-01 |
1113 |
| Erie Canal Opens |
2009-02-01 |
1408 |
| Execution of Gary Gilmore |
2008-11-01 |
1658 |
| Execution of Nathan Hale |
2009-02-01 |
2589 |
| Exxon Valdez oil spill |
2008-11-01 |
1605 |
| F.W. Woolworth opens first store |
2009-02-01 |
1030 |
| Failed US attempt to liberate US hostages in Tehran |
2008-10-01 |
2275 |
| Federal Air Traffic Controllers' Strike |
2008-11-01 |
1439 |
| Federal Reserve System established |
2008-11-01 |
1400 |
| Final Allied counter-offensive |
2008-11-01 |
1080 |
| Financial Black Friday |
2009-02-01 |
1105 |
| Financial Panic Begins |
2009-02-01 |
839 |
| First Artificial Heart Transplant |
2008-11-01 |
1134 |
| First atomic submarine |
2008-11-01 |
1432 |
| First black mayors in U.S. |
2008-11-01 |
2438 |
| First black Supreme Court Justice |
2008-11-01 |
2593 |
| First black U.S. Senator since reconstruction |
2008-11-01 |
1511 |
| First black woman elected to Congress |
2008-11-01 |
2740 |
| First Boeing 747 scheduled flight from New York to London |
2008-10-01 |
1790 |
| First Domestic U.S. jet-liner service |
2008-11-01 |
1211 |
| First female member of the House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
3006 |
| First female military generals |
2008-11-01 |
2612 |
| First Hydrogen Bomb test |
2008-11-01 |
1389 |
| First LPs produced |
2008-10-01 |
1442 |
| First McDonald's opened |
2008-10-01 |
1342 |
| First Mississippi River Train Crossing |
2009-02-01 |
1283 |
| First nuclear chain reaction |
2008-11-01 |
1300 |
| First nuclear reactor for electricity production opened |
2008-10-01 |
1155 |
| First oil well in U.S. |
2009-02-01 |
1382 |
| First personal computers marketed |
2008-10-01 |
1610 |
| First sound-on-film motion picture |
2008-11-01 |
2006 |
| First sticky stamp |
2009-02-01 |
627 |
| First subscription cable television service (Home Box Office) established |
2008-10-01 |
1266 |
| First telephone exchange opened |
2009-02-01 |
1492 |
| First theatre opens |
2009-02-01 |
783 |
| First transatlantic flight |
2008-10-11 |
1350 |
| First transatlantic telephone cable |
2008-11-01 |
1486 |
| First transcontinental telephone link |
2008-10-01 |
1811 |
| First U.S. newspaper |
2009-02-01 |
1928 |
| First U.S. Postal Card issued |
2011-12-20 |
1519 |
| First US transcontinental flight |
2008-10-01 |
2815 |
| First Use of Anesthetic |
2010-01-01 |
1113 |
| First woman governor of a U.S. State |
2008-11-01 |
1850 |
| First woman in U.S. Cabinet |
2008-11-01 |
1619 |
| First Woman Supreme Court Justice |
2008-11-01 |
1528 |
| First woman to fly across Atlantic |
2008-11-01 |
1661 |
| First Women's College |
2009-02-01 |
2683 |
| Flight of the Kitty Hawk |
2008-10-01 |
8756 |
| Ford Motor Co. raises labor wages |
2008-11-01 |
1290 |
| Ford Motor Company launches the Model T |
2008-10-01 |
3043 |
| Ford Motor Company sets up moving assembly-line mass production |
2008-10-01 |
3359 |
| Forest Reserve Act |
2009-02-01 |
1233 |
| Four anti-war protestors killed by National Guard at Kent State |
2008-10-01 |
2138 |
| France and Spain supply U.S. with arms |
2009-02-01 |
2401 |
| Full-scale bombing of North Vietnam |
2008-11-01 |
2573 |
| Fulton's steamboat trip |
2009-02-01 |
1826 |
| General Agreements on Tariffs and Trades signed |
2008-10-01 |
2036 |
| General Pershing enters Mexico |
2008-11-01 |
1326 |
| General Wayne |
2009-02-01 |
2476 |
| George Wallace shot |
2008-11-01 |
1730 |
| Gold discovered in Georgia |
2009-02-01 |
825 |
| Gold Standard dropped |
2008-11-01 |
1514 |
| Great Blizzard |
2009-02-01 |
1153 |
| Great Fire in Chicago |
2009-02-01 |
1429 |
| Gulf War commences |
2008-10-01 |
1427 |
| Harrison wins battle at Tippecanoe |
2009-02-01 |
3037 |
| Hawaii becomes 50th US State |
2008-10-01 |
1276 |
| Highway Act |
2008-11-01 |
2724 |
| Homestead strike |
2009-02-01 |
1373 |
| Hubble Space Telescope launched |
2008-10-01 |
1557 |
| Huey Long assassinated |
2008-11-01 |
1618 |
| Immigration and Naturalization Act |
2008-11-01 |
1559 |
| Immigration quota |
2008-11-01 |
1540 |
| Inaugural Earth Day |
2008-11-01 |
1503 |
| Inaugural Kentucky Derby |
2009-02-01 |
2041 |
| Influenza epidemic |
2008-11-01 |
1399 |
| Integration at University of Mississippi |
2008-11-01 |
2932 |
| Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty signed |
2008-10-01 |
1238 |
| Iran releases US hostages |
2008-10-01 |
2106 |
| Iranian airliner shot down |
2008-11-01 |
1908 |
| Iraq destroy U.S. Navy vessel |
2008-11-01 |
1028 |
| Ivan Boesky pleads guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1134 |
| Jackie Robinson joins Dodgers |
2008-11-01 |
1593 |
| Japanese Internment; War Relocation Authority |
2008-11-01 |
2247 |
| Jefferson's Slavery Ban Proposal |
2009-02-01 |
2890 |
| Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign Salt II treaty to reduce nuclear weapons |
2008-10-01 |
1327 |
| Joe Louis wins Boxing Championship |
2008-11-01 |
1555 |
| John Brown anti-slavery militancy |
2009-02-01 |
1798 |
| John Glenn orbits the earth |
2008-10-01 |
1560 |
| John Lennon murdered |
2008-10-01 |
2084 |
| John Paul Jones sea battle |
2009-02-01 |
2519 |
| Justice Clarence Thomas named to Supreme Court |
2008-11-01 |
1179 |
| Kennedy announces plans to land men on the moon |
2008-10-01 |
1500 |
| Kennedy proclaims 'New Frontier' in American life |
2008-10-01 |
1048 |
| Kenya becomes a republic |
2008-11-01 |
915 |
| Khrushchev visits U.S. |
2008-11-01 |
799 |
| Kissinger begins peace talks with North Vietnamese |
2008-10-01 |
2405 |
| Klaus Fuchs convicted of passing atomic secrets to Russia |
2008-10-01 |
2018 |
| Klu Klux Klan founded |
2009-02-01 |
2251 |
| Knights of Labor established |
2009-02-01 |
1034 |
| Korean Armistice signed |
2008-11-01 |
1145 |
| Land Grants Act |
2009-02-01 |
1556 |
| Legionnaires disease kills 29 |
2008-11-01 |
1458 |
| Liberation of Paris |
2001-10-20 |
1027 |
| Lieutenant William Calley found guilty of My Lai massacre |
2008-10-01 |
1548 |
| Limitation of Armaments Conference |
2008-11-01 |
886 |
| Lindbergh baby kidnapped |
2008-11-01 |
1109 |
| Lindbergh flies New York-Paris |
2008-11-01 |
1505 |
| Little Rock School-bussing crisis |
2008-10-01 |
2697 |
| Lusitania sunk |
2008-10-01 |
2163 |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson elected to second term as US President |
2008-10-01 |
1513 |
| MacArthur assumes control of Japan |
2008-11-01 |
946 |
| Major power failure in U.S. and Canada |
2008-11-01 |
1979 |
| Malcolm X assassinated |
2008-10-01 |
2710 |
| Marbury v. Madison |
2009-02-01 |
919 |
| Mark McGwire breaks baseball homerun record |
2008-11-01 |
1886 |
| Marshall Plan, The |
2008-10-01 |
2678 |
| Marshall Supreme Court Justice |
2009-02-01 |
738 |
| Martin Luther King day |
2008-11-01 |
991 |
| Martin Luther King spearheads national campaign to end race discrimination |
2008-10-01 |
3174 |
| McCarthy launches hunt for US Communists |
2008-10-01 |
1761 |
| Medgar Evers assassinated |
2008-11-01 |
2876 |
| Molly Maguires hanging |
2009-02-01 |
1314 |
| Monica Lewinsky agrees to testify to grand jury |
2008-11-01 |
748 |
| Mount St. Helens erupts |
2008-10-01 |
1251 |
| My Lai Massacre |
2002-10-08 |
3624 |
| NAACP founded |
2008-11-01 |
3165 |
| NAFTA goes into effect |
2008-11-01 |
1873 |
| NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) founded |
2008-10-01 |
1584 |
| National Minimum Wage Act |
2008-11-01 |
652 |
| National Organization for Women founded |
2008-11-01 |
2923 |
| Negotiations with Panama over Canal |
2008-11-01 |
920 |
| New England Shoe Worker Strike |
2009-02-01 |
1695 |
| New York World’s Fair |
2008-11-01 |
631 |
| Nixon becomes first US President to step down from office |
2008-10-01 |
1404 |
| Nixon visits the Soviet Union |
2008-11-01 |
1306 |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization founded |
2008-10-01 |
1622 |
| North Carolina University - first state university |
2009-02-01 |
1113 |
| Nuclear leak at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania |
2008-10-01 |
1685 |
| O.J. Simpson found not guilty |
2008-11-01 |
1375 |
| OAS created |
2008-11-01 |
1191 |
| Oklahoma bombing |
2008-10-01 |
1323 |
| OPEC Oil Embargo |
2008-11-01 |
1206 |
| Outbreak of 'Watts' race riots in Los Angeles |
2008-10-01 |
2917 |
| PanAm Boeing destroyed by terrorist bomb above Lockerbie, Scotland |
2008-10-01 |
1372 |
| Panama Canal Agreement |
2008-11-01 |
1008 |
| Panama Canal opens |
2002-10-08 |
4297 |
| Panama Canal Treaty |
2008-10-01 |
1663 |
| Pathfinder satellite explores Mars |
2008-10-01 |
1164 |
| Patrick Henry delivers famous speech about American autonomy |
2009-02-01 |
2675 |
| Patty Hearst arrested in San Francisco |
2008-11-01 |
778 |
| Paul Revere warns of invasion |
2009-02-01 |
2609 |
| Peace Agreement in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2565 |
| Peace contract between Great Powers |
2008-11-01 |
1719 |
| Peace Corps created |
2008-11-01 |
691 |
| Peace preliminaries between British and Americans |
2009-02-01 |
2380 |
| Pendleton Act passed |
2009-02-01 |
1249 |
| Philippines declared an independent republic |
2010-02-01 |
1916 |
| Polaroid |
2008-10-01 |
1482 |
| Polio Vaccine invented |
2008-11-01 |
2744 |
| Pony Express |
2009-02-01 |
1208 |
| Possible US war with France |
2009-02-01 |
2371 |
| Potsdam Conference |
2008-11-01 |
1174 |
| Presidency of Abraham Lincoln |
2009-01-20 |
3806 |
| Presidency of Andrew Johnson |
2009-01-20 |
3058 |
| Presidency of Calvin Coolidge |
2008-10-01 |
3254 |
| Presidency of Chester Alan Arthur |
|
2127 |
| Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower |
2008-10-01 |
2533 |
| Presidency of Franklin Pierce |
2009-01-20 |
2913 |
| Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt |
2008-10-01 |
2832 |
| Presidency of George Bush |
2008-10-01 |
2579 |
| Presidency of George W. Bush |
2008-10-01 |
729 |
| Presidency of Gerald Ford |
2008-10-01 |
2660 |
| Presidency of Harry S. Truman |
2008-10-01 |
3800 |
| Presidency of Herbert Hoover |
2008-10-01 |
2999 |
| Presidency of James Buchanan |
2009-01-20 |
2694 |
| Presidency of James Garfield |
2009-01-20 |
2661 |
| Presidency of James Knox Polk |
2009-01-20 |
3390 |
| Presidency of John F. Kennedy |
2002-10-20 |
2676 |
| Presidency of John Tyler |
2009-01-20 |
3669 |
| Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson |
2011-12-20 |
1882 |
| Presidency of Martin Van Buren |
2015-09-04 |
4196 |
| Presidency of Millard Fillmore |
2009-01-20 |
2848 |
| Presidency of Richard Nixon |
2008-10-01 |
2324 |
| Presidency of Ronald Reagan |
2008-10-01 |
1911 |
| Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes |
2009-01-20 |
2634 |
| Presidency of Stephen Grover Cleveland |
2009-01-20 |
2542 |
| Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt |
|
2345 |
| Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant |
2009-01-20 |
2509 |
| Presidency of Warren G. Harding |
2008-10-01 |
2512 |
| Presidency of William 'Bill' Clinton |
2008-10-01 |
2242 |
| Presidency of William Henry Harrison |
2009-01-20 |
1893 |
| Presidency of William Howard Taft |
2008-10-01 |
2769 |
| Presidency of William McKinley |
2008-10-01 |
2905 |
| Presidency of Woodrow Wilson |
2008-10-01 |
2272 |
| Presidency of Zachary Taylor |
2009-01-20 |
3418 |
| President Bush bails out Savings and Loan industry |
2008-11-01 |
895 |
| President Clinton announces budget surplus |
2008-11-01 |
1029 |
| President Clinton denies Monica Lewinski affair |
2008-10-01 |
901 |
| President Clinton establishes sexuality policy |
2008-11-01 |
1279 |
| President Clinton impeached |
2008-11-01 |
1254 |
| President Clinton invokes emergency powers |
2008-11-01 |
967 |
| President Clinton settles with Paula Corbin Jones |
2008-11-01 |
997 |
| President Eisenhower re-elected |
2008-10-01 |
1190 |
| President Johnson meets Soviet Premier Kosygin |
2008-11-01 |
918 |
| President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act |
2008-10-01 |
2987 |
| President Kennedy declares U.S. advisors in Vietnam will defend themselves |
2008-11-01 |
2378 |
| President Nixon re-elected with large majority |
2008-10-01 |
968 |
| President Nixon visits China |
2008-10-01 |
1873 |
| President Reagan produces trillion-dollar budget |
2008-11-01 |
670 |
| President Reagan shot |
2008-10-01 |
1583 |
| President Wilson declares U.S. neutrality |
2008-11-01 |
979 |
| Production of H-Bomb |
2008-11-01 |
1223 |
| Prohibition begins |
2002-10-08 |
2757 |
| Prohibition ends |
2008-10-01 |
1030 |
| Proposition 13 in California |
2008-11-01 |
757 |
| Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act |
2008-11-01 |
2327 |
| Race riots across the United States and North America |
2008-10-01 |
2913 |
| Race riots in Los Angeles |
2008-10-01 |
1634 |
| Race riots in Newark and Detroit |
2008-11-01 |
2897 |
| Reagan commences strategic arms reduction talks with USSR |
2010-02-01 |
735 |
| Reagan launches 'Star Wars' |
2008-10-01 |
1012 |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation created |
2008-11-01 |
1370 |
| Red scare |
2008-11-01 |
725 |
| Republican Party takes majority in House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
648 |
| Robert Kennedy shot and killed |
2008-11-01 |
1398 |
| Rocket technology |
2008-11-01 |
1438 |
| Roe v. Wade |
2008-11-01 |
1269 |
| Ronald Reagan re-elected |
2008-10-01 |
876 |
| Roosevelt announces state of emergency |
2008-11-01 |
773 |
| Roosevelt attempts ‘pack’ Supreme Court |
2008-11-01 |
1161 |
| Roosevelt gives “Four Freedoms” speech |
2008-11-01 |
764 |
| Roosevelt signs Income Tax Bill |
2008-11-01 |
1029 |
| Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama |
2008-10-01 |
3286 |
| Rosenbergs guilty of passing atomic secrets to Russia |
2008-10-01 |
3882 |
| Rural Electrification Administration |
2008-11-01 |
1015 |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty |
2009-02-01 |
1637 |
| Sally Ride is first woman in space |
2008-10-01 |
1302 |
| Sand Creek Massacre |
2009-02-01 |
2475 |
| Scopes Trial |
2008-11-01 |
1373 |
| Sears Roebuck Tower, new tallest building in the world, completed |
2008-10-01 |
1206 |
| Second group of Watergate conspirators found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
762 |
| Segregation allowed by Supreme Court |
2009-02-01 |
2140 |
| Senator McCarthy leads Army hearings |
2008-11-01 |
684 |
| Shays Rebellion |
2009-02-01 |
2776 |
| Sherman Antitrust Act |
2009-02-01 |
1425 |
| Shooting in the House of Representatives |
2008-11-01 |
1356 |
| Sioux Chief Sitting Bull gives himself up to the US army |
2009-01-20 |
2686 |
| Slave revolt in New York |
2009-02-01 |
2891 |
| Sound barrier broken |
2008-10-01 |
1796 |
| South Carolina challenges federal government |
2009-02-01 |
1301 |
| South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification |
2009-02-01 |
1020 |
| Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance |
2008-11-01 |
2648 |
| Space shuttle Challenger explodes |
2008-11-01 |
752 |
| St. Lawrence Seaway |
2008-11-01 |
2419 |
| St. Valentine’s Day Massacre |
2008-11-01 |
1161 |
| Standard Oil dissolved |
2008-11-01 |
1545 |
| Start of Freedom rides anti-racism campaign |
2008-10-01 |
3453 |
| Stock Market crash and rebound |
2008-11-01 |
931 |
| Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed |
2008-10-01 |
1036 |
| Supreme Court Order on integration |
2008-11-01 |
1282 |
| Supreme Court rules on congressional district population |
2008-11-01 |
1248 |
| Supreme Court rules on Pentagon Papers |
2008-11-01 |
1441 |
| Supreme Court rules on religion in public schools |
2008-11-01 |
1159 |
| Supreme Court ruling on rights of defendants |
2008-11-01 |
1165 |
| Taft-Hartley Labor Act |
2008-11-01 |
757 |
| Talking Pictures |
2008-11-01 |
1509 |
| Teapot Dome Scandal |
2008-11-01 |
799 |
| Telstar launches global live TV transmission |
2008-10-01 |
1212 |
| Tennessee Valley Authority created |
2008-11-01 |
892 |
| Texas admitted to the Union |
2009-01-20 |
3996 |
| Texas announces secession |
2009-02-01 |
1780 |
| The Liberator Newspaper founded |
2009-02-01 |
2660 |
| The Beginning of the White House |
2009-02-01 |
1087 |
| The Great Awakening |
2009-02-01 |
1529 |
| The Pullman Strike |
2009-02-01 |
1569 |
| The U.S. helped suppress Boxers in Beijing |
2009-02-01 |
1961 |
| Thomas Edison's kinetoscope |
2009-02-01 |
1948 |
| Three US astronauts return from 85 days in SkyLab |
2008-10-01 |
1244 |
| Tobacco companies settle with States |
2008-11-01 |
722 |
| Transistor invented |
2008-10-01 |
1492 |
| Trial and Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
2008-10-01 |
1908 |
| Truman nationalizes steel mills |
2008-11-01 |
1354 |
| Truman removes McArthur from command |
2008-11-01 |
671 |
| U.S. Agriculture Marketing Act |
2008-11-01 |
752 |
| U.S. Air Commerce Act |
2008-11-01 |
702 |
| U.S. Bailout of Chrysler Corp. |
2008-11-01 |
922 |
| U.S. bombs Hanoi and begins troop build-up |
2008-11-01 |
1832 |
| U.S. buys Virgin Islands |
2008-11-01 |
1067 |
| U.S. ceases bombing of Cambodia |
2008-11-01 |
1241 |
| U.S. Census |
2009-02-01 |
978 |
| U.S. Coal strike |
2008-11-01 |
1188 |
| U.S. confronts Nicaragua |
2008-11-01 |
1034 |
| U.S. Congress votes to support South Vietnamese refugees |
2008-11-01 |
2153 |
| U.S. creates military government in Dominican Republic |
2008-11-01 |
678 |
| U.S. declares neutrality |
2008-11-01 |
644 |
| U.S. Declares Open Door Policy |
2009-02-01 |
1282 |
| U.S. Government shutdown |
2008-11-01 |
701 |
| U.S. Great White Fleet |
2008-11-01 |
1632 |
| U.S. Involvement in Laos announced |
2008-11-01 |
699 |
| U.S. Marines land in China |
2008-11-01 |
1528 |
| U.S. military attacked in Beirut |
2008-11-01 |
1518 |
| U.S. mines North Vietnam ports |
2008-11-01 |
2305 |
| U.S. Naturalization Act |
2009-02-01 |
1184 |
| U.S. passes Conscription Law and joins war |
2008-11-01 |
607 |
| U.S. sells Britain military equipment |
2008-11-01 |
616 |
| U.S. Senate finally rejects Versailles Treaty |
2008-11-01 |
648 |
| U.S. sends troops to Dominican Republic |
2008-11-01 |
661 |
| U.S. severs ties with Cuba |
2008-11-01 |
776 |
| U.S. ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodians |
2008-11-01 |
1439 |
| U.S. war with Tripoli |
2009-02-01 |
1115 |
| U.S.- Mexico hostility |
2008-11-01 |
994 |
| U.S.-Algeria dispute |
2009-02-01 |
900 |
| U.S.-France Treaty |
2009-02-01 |
2314 |
| Unabomber sentenced |
2008-11-01 |
1112 |
| United States intervenes in Korea |
2008-11-01 |
691 |
| University of Alabama desegregated |
2008-11-01 |
3424 |
| University of California v Bakke |
2008-11-01 |
1207 |
| US and Britain form Secret Alliance; Issue Atlantic Charter |
2008-10-01 |
1325 |
| US and EEC place economic sanctions on South Africa |
2008-10-01 |
1297 |
| US bombs Libya |
2008-10-01 |
1194 |
| US dissolves official defence ties with Taiwan |
2008-10-01 |
853 |
| US Enters First World War |
2008-10-01 |
2590 |
| US Federal troops deployed to Arkansas to reinforce antisegregation laws |
2008-10-01 |
2859 |
| US forces land and take Okinawa |
2008-10-01 |
995 |
| US heightens intensity of Cambodia bombing |
2008-10-01 |
1628 |
| US intervenes in Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2604 |
| US invades Grenada |
2008-10-01 |
1425 |
| US invades Haiti and restores democracy |
2008-10-01 |
1635 |
| US invades Panama; General Noriega overthrown |
2008-10-01 |
1636 |
| US leaves Somalia |
2008-10-01 |
943 |
| US Marines land on Guam |
2001-10-20 |
1182 |
| US passes Lend-Lease Act |
2008-10-01 |
1492 |
| US Peace treaty with Germany, Austria and Hungary |
2008-11-01 |
1195 |
| US shuttle docks with Mir |
2008-10-01 |
931 |
| US Supreme Court confirms States' right to enforce the death penalty |
2008-10-01 |
1276 |
| US trains South Vietnamese army |
2008-11-01 |
1025 |
| US troops land at Iwo Jima |
2008-10-01 |
1184 |
| US troops pulled from Vietnam |
2008-10-01 |
2158 |
| US U2 spy plane shot down over USSR |
2008-10-01 |
3571 |
| US-Taiwanese Bilateral Pact |
2008-10-01 |
1003 |
| USA and allies invade Iraq |
2008-10-01 |
1344 |
| USA takes Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain |
2009-02-01 |
2279 |
| USS Liberty destroyed |
2008-11-01 |
1220 |
| USS Maine Destroyed |
2009-02-01 |
2520 |
| USS Pueblo attacked by North Koreans |
2008-11-01 |
1286 |
| Vice President Agnew Resigns |
2008-11-01 |
830 |
| Vietnam Peace talks conclude |
2008-11-01 |
2406 |
| Vietnam vets reach settlement |
2008-11-01 |
782 |
| Viking II lands on Mars |
2008-11-01 |
1206 |
| Voyager 1 space probe reaches Saturn |
2008-10-01 |
1242 |
| Waco Crisis |
2008-11-01 |
1241 |
| Walt Disney World opens in Florida |
2008-10-01 |
1448 |
| Walter Mondale wins Democratic nomination |
2008-11-01 |
825 |
| War in Vietnam ends - Saigon surrenders to the Vietcong |
2008-10-01 |
2691 |
| War of the Worlds radio broadcast |
2008-11-01 |
854 |
| Warren Commission finding |
2008-11-01 |
826 |
| Washington crosses the Delaware |
2010-01-01 |
2442 |
| Watergate Affair: President Nixon ordered to surrender tape recordings |
2008-10-01 |
788 |
| Watergate conspirators found guilty |
2008-11-01 |
854 |
| Watergate: ‘The Saturday Night Massacre’ |
2008-11-01 |
1253 |
| Welfare Reform Bill passed |
2008-11-01 |
1299 |
| Woodstock concert |
2008-11-01 |
1419 |
| Works Progress Administration created |
2008-11-01 |
1079 |
| World Trade Center bombers convicted |
2008-11-01 |
1185 |
| World Trade Center destroyed |
2008-05-26 |
787 |
| World Trade Center terrorist bomb attack |
2008-10-01 |
1287 |
| World Trade Center, tallest building in world, completed |
2008-10-01 |
1256 |
| Yalta Conference |
2008-09-12 |
865 |
| Yellowstone National Park founded |
2009-02-01 |
1360 |
| Zenger acquitted of libel |
2009-02-01 |
3441 |
