1990 - The Gulf War begins as Iraq invades Kuwait.1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after takeoff.1974 - President Richard Nixon resigns over the Watergate Scandal.1969 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed.gives his "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington. The Soviet Union ends up removing its missiles from Cuba. 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs.1961 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion takes place in Cuba.1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat on the bus.drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. 1945 - Germany surrenders and the U.S.joins World War II on the side of the Allies. 1941 - The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
#Us timelime full#
1939 - Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released as the first full length animated movie.1935 - The Social Security Act is signed into law.1934 - Severe drought in the Midwest causes the Dust Bowl.1929 - Wall Street crashes and the Great Depression begins.1927 - The first trans-Atlantic flight is made by Charles Lindbergh.1920 - Women gain the right to vote through the Nineteenth Amendment.1918 - President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points on World War I.1917 - The United States joins World War I on the side of the Allies declaring war on Germany.1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.They make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1903 - The airplane is invented by the Wright Brothers.1891 - Basketball is invented by James Naismith.1881 - The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.1876 - The telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell.1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad is completed.1867 - Alaska is purchased from Russia.1865 - Slavery is outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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