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Lincoln Assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. At 10 p.m., Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber into the back of Lincoln's head. Not waking up from coma, Lincoln died the next day. -
Oreo Cookie First Introduced
National Biscuit Company had a new idea to have two chocolate cookies with a creme filling in between. The first Oreo cookie looked very similar to the Oreo cookie of today, with only a little difference in the design on the chocolate cookie outsides. -
Brown Vs. BOE
Brown and the NAACP first went to the Supreme Court in October 1951 and their case was combined with other cases that also challenged school segregation. They still could not come to a decision in December 1952. Came to a final decision on May 7, 1994 and required the desegregation of schools. -
McCarthy Affairs
The McCarthy hearings lasted from April to June 1954. Memeber of the Senate Committee on Government Operations was trying to learn whether Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had used improper influence to win preferential treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine. Schine was a former member of the senator's staff who had been drafted. McCarthy countercharged that the army was trying to derail his embarrassing investigations of army security practices through blackmail and intimidation. -
JFK Assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline and two other passengers. President Kennedy wanted to be friendly to the citizens and requested an open car and to have the secret service keep their distance. Still many theories are not clear of who shot him. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to allow African Americans the right to vote. -
Apollo 11
Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 at 8:32 a.m. The mission plan of Apollo 11 was to land two men on the surface of the moon and to return safely back to earth. From the mission evaluation, all mission tasks were completed successfully. -
Watergate Affair
As a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement and the situation eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President. -
Clinton Impeachment
Having need of a two-thirds majority vote, 50 senators voted guilty on the obstruction charge and 45 on the perjury charge. Clinton was released by the Senate on February 12, 1999. and the Senate was 17 votes short from removing President Clinton from office. -
September 11 Attacks
9/11 Attacks
On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the group al-Qaeda hijacked four planes. The hijackers flew two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Within two hours, both North and South towers collapsed. Two other planes crashed into the Pentagon and a field in Penn. in attempt to crash in to the White House.
