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John F Kennedy Assassination
John F Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. This date is important because he was killed while doing a parade through town -
The first Winter Olympics
The first Winter Olympic Games are held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, including the United States, which won four medals. Norway, with four gold and eighteen medals total had the most in both categories. The Winter Olympic Games have been held since this year, except during World War II. This event was the beginning of the winter Olympic s and world wide event. -
Native Americans become U.S. Citizens
All Indians are designated citizens by legislation passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Calvin Coolidge. The Indian Citizenship Act granted this right to all Native Americans that had been born within the territory of the United States. -
First Female Governor
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. Miriam Ferguson is installed two weeks later as the second during a ceremony in Texas. This was a huge step for women all over the world to see a women in charge and as a higher power with men as her equals -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. This event was one of the hardest times all over the world, people had little to nothing to eat and people had to live in group homes is not on the streets. -
The Dust Bowl
In South Dakota, a strong dust storm strips topsoil from depression era farms. It was one in a series of such storms to plague the Midwest during 1933 and 1934. This storm hurt agricultural farmers all over an and everyone that depended on the farms for food. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a period in history at the time of World War Two, when millions of Jews were murdered because of who they were. The killings were organised by Germany's Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler. Jews were the main target of the Nazis, and the greatest number of victims were Jewish. Nearly seven out of every 10 Jews in Europe were murdered because of their identity. -
Pearl Harbor
he Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. This event was historical and important because it opened the United States eyes to the lack of readiness and military strategy that the US had -
The Radium Sisters
Beatrice Workman died of radium poisoning. The 54-year-old Park Ridge, Illinois Radium Dial Company, which hired women to paint watch and clock dials with radium-laced, glow-in-the-dark paint. These sister discovered that the paint that the women at the radium company were using had radiation. The people that owned this company covered all the women that were dying of radiation poisoning by saying that they had syphilis -
Nine Eleven
The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. This was a major event because it was the first terrorist attack on the United States.
