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valentine's day
Valentine’s day ……Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint, and where did these traditions come from? Find out about the history of this centuries-old holiday, from ancient Roman rituals to the customs of Victorian England. -
massacre
Massacre……The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is "Marlowe. Massacre can also be used as a verb, as to kill people or, less commonly, animals in numbers. -
tea pot dome
Tea Pot Dome….. Wyoming Democratic Senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history -
women suffrage
Is the right of women to vote and to run for office. Was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provided: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
KKK
KKK…..The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country. -
CCC
The Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy represents the alumni of America and strives to bring awareness to the heritage of the CCC, CCC alumni, their programs and accomplishments. For many years, alumni across America have elevated their heritage though consistently reminding citizens, historians, and natural resource agencies of its great impact on the American culture. -
Hindenburg disaster
Took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. -
Dust bowl
Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion. -
new deal
Was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1938. The programs were a liberal response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform -
TVA
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression -
china becomes communist
Originally, the CCP members were also members of the Kuomintang When the Kuomintang got a new leader they kicked out all communists so Mao relocated to the north west of China. When Japan invaded, the leader of the Nationalist Party needed. So he asked Mao and his army to help him. -
pearl harbor
on December 7, 1941 tons of Japanese air planes attacked an American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The fight lasted about two hours but it destroyed 20 naval bases, eight huge battleships, about 200 airplanes, 2,000 soldiers and sailors were killed, and 1,000 were injured. The day after the happened Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress if they could declare war and congress approved. A couple days later Japan join with Germany and Italy and declared war against United States. -
D-day
-D-day was a military term used for the start of an operation, and it refers to two separate events which are related to each other. June 6, 1944 was the day when allies arrived in Europe to help liberate the continent from Nazi occupation. Over 156,000 soldiers arrived in France either by air or sea. We took over Normandy and ended the liberation of Paris at the end of august. -
atomic bombs
in 1945 the first atomic bomb was detonated at 5:30 a.m. when it hit the ground a produced a intense flash of light then a fireball expanding 600 meters in two seconds. It rose to 7.5 miles high which formed a mushroom shape. In august of 1945 we dropped two bombs one over Hiroshima and one over Nagasaki. The Hiroshima bomb was called “little boy” and the Nagasaki bomb was called “fat man”. -
jackie robinson
- Jackie Robinson was an amazing player leading the Brooklyn dodgers to six pennants and one World Series championship. He was also the first African American player. In 1947 he was named national league rookie of the year and also lead the national league in stolen bases in 1947 and 1949. He had a career batting average of .311 with the dodgers and .333 in all-star games. He was selected as the national league MVP in 1949 and won the batting title with a .342 in the same year.
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cold war
Dating the end of the Cold War requires dating its beginning, which requires defining what it was about. By one reckoning, the Cold War began in the 1945-1948 timeframe, and ended in 1989, having been a dispute over the division of Europe. By another account, the Cold War began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, having been a conflict between Bolshevism and Democracy. -
NASA
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many nonaerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration of space has taught us to view Earth, ourselves, and the universe in a new way. While the tremen -
color tv
A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a color television system. In 1925, Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic colour television system. Both of these systems were not successful, however, they were the first for color television. A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC on December 17, 1953 based on a system designed by RCA. -
korea war
On 25 June 1950, the young Cold War suddenly turned hot, bloody and expensive. Within a few days, North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about a United Nations' "police action" against the aggressors. That immediately produced heavy military and naval involvement by the United States. While there were no illusions that the task would be easy, nobody expected that this violent conflict would continue for more than three years. -
4 minute mile
For years, the 4-minute mile was considered not merely unreachable but, according to physiologists of the time, dangerous to the health of any athlete who attempted to reach it. For Roger Bannister, it was vindication. -
first super bowl
One day Lamar Hunt, architect of the AFL and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, came across his daughter's Super Ball and was given the inspiration for the name of the championship game between the upstart American Football League and the old-guard National Football League -
first man on moon
first man in space
April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin(left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute ordital ordital flight in his vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like the huntsvill times trumpeted Gagrain’s accompilment. -
berlin wall
a barrier that was built by the German Democratic Republic. The wall cut off West Berlin from East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier had many guard towers placed in the concrete wall. It was later know as “The Death Strip.” The Eastern Bloc claimed it was put up to protect its population and the “will of the people”. The wall was also put up to prevent the big emigration that marked in Germany and Eastern Bloc during the post-world war II period. The wall had many names for it. West Berl -
MLK
Martin Luther King:
Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. He died on April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King was an American clergyman, activist, and I leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism. In 1955 he helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, he served as its first president. His efforts led to the march on Washington in 1963, where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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woodstock
In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18). Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among the line-up. Woodstock is known as one of the greatest happenings of all time and –perhaps- the most pivotal moment in music hist -
kent state shooting
also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
test tube babies
are babies that are created in a test tube by taking one sperm cell and one egg cell and combining them. So the baby starts to develop in the test tube and is then implanted into the mothers uterus. -
sears tower
There was much discussion on whether the Petronas towers are actually taller than the Sears tower as the height of the antennas on the Petronas towers are included in the total height, while the height of the antennas are not included in the height calculation of the Sears tower as they are not considered an actual part of the building. With the construction of the 508m high Taipei 101 tower in 2004 this discussion became irrelevant. -
Arthur Robert Ashe
was a former World No. 1 professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States. Ashe, an African American, was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man to ever win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open. He is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes -
gas shortage
The region will have lost almost half of its refining capacity in six months by July, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on Energy Department statistics. Requests to send gasoline on Colonial Pipeline Co.’s link from the Gulf Coast to the eastern U.S. have exceeded capacity since August, company data show. -
crack cocaine
Is a highly addictive and powerful stimulant that is derived from powdered cocaine using a simple conversion process. Crack emerged as a drug of abuse in the mid-1980s. It is abused because it produces an immediate high and because it is easy and inexpensive to produce--rendering it readily available and affordable. -
AIDS
Is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus . The illness interferes with the immune system, making people with AIDS much more likely to get infections, including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not affect people with working immune systems. This susceptibility gets worse as the disease continues. -
tiananmen square
Is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China. Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world (440,000 m² - 880m by 500m or 109 acres - 960 by 550 yd). -
lennon shot
on December 8, 1980 Lennon was shot four times in the back in the entrance of a hallway by a guy named mark Chapman. Two bullets entered into the left side of his back and the other two struck his left shoulder. Mark was found guilty and is doing 20 to life. He has been denied parole five times and has been in prison for 27 years -
challenger
was a seven member crew on the space shuttle called the challenger. The crew was ready to go but NASA was still deciding if was safe to take off. The night before it was so cold it left icicles underneath the shuttle, and it was 32 degrees before takeoff. On board was a social studies teacher and it was going to be the first citizen in space. It was about 73 seconds after takeoff when it happened the space shuttle exploded and there were no survivors. -
LA roit
The first rocks started to fly as the four LAPD officers who beat Rodney King and the jury who acquitted them were leaving the courtroom in suburban Simi Valley. Subsequent to the acquittal, on the afternoon of April 29th 1992, thousands of people began pouring into the streets of Los Angeles. In a few hours rioting spread across the LA metropolitan area. Conditions rapidly approached the level of civil war. The police withdrew from the main areas of fighting, ceding the streets to the insurgent -
desert storm
The war in the Persian Gulf was a war of religious fervor, and cruel leadership. Desert Storm was the same type of war that had occurred in this area for many years except for one fact. In Operation Desert Storm, sophisticated technology was used to end the war in a quick and timely manner. In 1979 Saddam Hussien took control of Iraq, and immediately set the tone for his rule by killing 21 of his cabinet members. He wanted to make his country whole once again so in 1990 he invaded Kuwait and i -
hubble
Hubble was an American astronomer who is known for Hubble's law. He is incorrectly credited with the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way and galactic red shift- discoveries made by the astronomer Vesto Slipher in 1912. He popularized Vesto Slipher's discovery that the loss in frequency—the redshift—observed in the spectra of light from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth. -
USS
The names of commissioned ships of the United States Navy all start with USS, meaning 'United States Ship'. Non-commissioned, civilian-manned vessels of the U.S. Navy have names that begin with USNS, standing for 'United States Naval Ship'. A letter-based hull classification symbol is used to designate a vessel's type. The names of ships are selected by the Secretary of the Navy. The names are that of states, cities, towns, important persons, important locations, famous battles, fish, and id -
gulf war
(2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Y2K
If a program function is calculating difference between two dates, it would calculate a negative number. For example difference between 1 Jan 2000 and 31 Dec 1999 could be calculated as -100 years rather than 1 day. This was a major bug for the whole finance industry. The bug not only existed in computer software but it also existed in the firmware being used in the computer hardware. In general this bug threatened all the major industries including utilities, banking, manufacturing, telecom, ai -
fort hood shooting
12 killed and 30 hurt. One guy from the army had turn to Muslim and started to shoot everyone at fort hood. They did not kill him but they did get him wounded. It is bad that they lost their lives at a base in the u.s. -
DC shooting
2 guys and one vehicle in d.c. got called the d.c. snipers. They put a hole in the back of a vehicle and drove around shooting. They were caught and got sent to prison. -
9/11
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks. -
iraq
Since the bloodshed peaked in 2006, order was gradually restored, though violence remained high by any but wartime standards. The fairest elections in the country’s history in March 2010 led to the creation of a government of national unity, although after eight months of political stalemate that played out mostly along sectarian lines.
