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The Wright brothers became the first ever controlled flight aircraft at Kitty Hawk -
United States entered WW1 (1914)
Declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917
and on Austria-Hungary on December 7. -
an armistice ended WW1 -
Texas adopts the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Texas became the nine states to adopt it in the United States and the first state in the south to ratify it. -
M.A Ferguson became the first ever woman to be elected in Texas. -
Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president of the United States. -
The stock market crash also known as black Tuesday, shared prices on New York Stock Exchange collapsed causing it to precipitate Great Depression. -
The star-spangled banner is adopted to be the National anthem apex. -
John F Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas Texas during a presidential parade. -
President Johnson signs the civil rights act into the law at a White House Ceremony. -
Martin Luther King Jr baptist minister and civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee due to hatred. -
Richard Nixon is inaugurated the 37th president -
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin jr became the first men to land on the moon. -
Jimmy Carter is inaugurated, as the 39th president. He was the president that signed the treaty on September 7 agreeing to turn control of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 3, 1999. -
The famous space shuttle "challenger" exploded right after liftoff killing all 7 crew members in it. -
US leads military operation ("Desert storm") to throw Iraqis out of Kuwait -
George W Bush is elected the 46th governor of Texas and later became president in 2001.