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The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The presumable start of the first World War -
Prohibition, Ratification of the 18th Amendment
The constitution prohibited the manufacturing, sale, transport, or consumption of alcohol -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles marks the end of the first World War with world leaders such as France, England, US, and Italy were involved in the composition of said Treaty. -
The Start of World War II
Germany began the invasion of Poland and thus continued expanding. -
The End of World War II
Germany surrendered after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. -
The Start of the Cold War
The Start of the Cold War began shortly thereafter after the defeat of the Axis powers and the ideologies and political rivalries start to take over. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Former President JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald and was pronounced deceased approximately 30 minutes after the shooting. -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The date where MLK was assassinated from his motel in Memphis where as a result, outbreaks of violence and destruction was rampant. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was destroyed when a variety of factors and an accidental drop in reactor power, the plant experienced a meltdown which is know to be the seventh deadliest. -
The end of the Cold War
The end of the Cold War came with the fall of the Berlin wall which outed Communist regimes in eastern Europe which then resulted in free elections