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titanic sinking- best
Although the titanic sinking was a horrible tragedy. it brought to people's dull lives that they had not been on the boat. "Missing the boat" was a term thrown around a lot after the tragedy. -
spanish flu- worst
The Spanish Flu of 1918 may not have been the worst pandemic in history, though combined with the First World War and the social and political upheaval of the years following it, it definitely was the beginning of one of the worst times to be alive in human history.
While the exact numbers would probably never be fully quantified, the plague caused an estimated 50-100 million deaths around the world -
WW1- worst
America had won the First World War but effectively lost the peace. An isolationist Senate refused to ratify the League of Nations treaty while President Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke. Meanwhile, as the government ended wartime spending and regulations, inflation skyrocketed and unemployment shot up to 20 percent. An influenza epidemic, one of the worst in history, killed a half-million Americans. -
stock market crash- worst
As far as market crashes go, the Wall Street crash of 1929 followed a similar pattern to all the other financial crashes that have happened before or since. Fueled by excessive speculation on market assets that just didn’t reflect the reality on the ground – especially in the US – as well as an influx of cheap credit from financial institutions that allowed the bubble to grow ever larger until it collapsed, it was a textbook example of how global markets have a way of correcting themselves. -
WW2 (holocaust)- worst
Amid a world at war, 1943 stood out as an awful year. The Holocaust grew more deadly by the week, and Nazis had systematically deported and killed more than 1.3 million Jews by spring 1943. News of these atrocities circulated internationally, but the Allies lacked the political will and military capacity to rescue European Jews. -
first organ trasplant- best
In 1954, the kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully. Liver, heart, and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s, while lung and intestinal organ transplant procedures were begun in the 1980s. This was an instrumental milestone in medicine that is still showing positive benefits more than 50 years later -
voting rights act- best
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, This section of the bill prohibited the violation of voting rights by any practices that discriminated based on race, regardless of if the practices had been adopted with the intent to discriminate or not. This amendment of Section 2 had a significant impact on minority representation in Congress. -
MLK &RK assasinations- worst
We had to grapple with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, urban insurrections in many American cities, the occupation of Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring, the demise of the Paris student revolt, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the many deaths and injuries that each of these phrases represents. Oh, and Richard Nixon was elected. All this against the background of news every day about the horrors in Vietnam. -
Moon landing-best
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. -
economy/tech advancements- best
America was prospering in the ’90s. The United States economy grew by an average of 4 percent per year between 1992 and 1999. (Since 2001, it’s never grown by as much as 4 percent, and since 2005 not even by 3 percent for a whole year.) An average of 1.7 million jobs a year were added to the American workforce, versus around 850,000 a year during this century so far. The unemployment rate dropped from nearly 8 percent in 1992 to 4 percent, that is, effectively zero, at the end of the decades