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Rock and Roll
Is a genre of popular music that originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music,together with Western swing and country music.Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s. -
Brwon vs. Board of Education
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
Disneyland
Disneyland opened for a few thousand specially invited visitors; the following day, Disneyland officially opened to the public. Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California on what used to be a 160-acre orange orchard, cost $17 million to build. The original park included Main Street, Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland. -
Rosa Parks
Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere. -
JFK
When he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. -
Bay of Pigs
A young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his army into Havana and overthrew Generak Fulgencio Batista, the nation's American backed president. For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency attempted to push Castro from power. -
March on Washington
March on Washington attracted 250,000 people to demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for african Americans. it was a crowds with blacks, white, rich and prorr, young and old. The March on Washington was a success. IT had been powerful. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm Little also known as Malcolm X was the person that really talked about civil rights movement and he always said okay if the whites dont want to change then we will just do the same as them. -
First man on the moon
When all this started John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States. He kept telling different people that he wanted to land a humman on the moon. By this time the pesident and NASA both knew they were ready to put people on the moon. Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. -
Kent State
On May 4th members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shooting was dramatic. -
Sear Tower
In the late 1960s, Sears Roebuck and Company, then the world's largest retailer with $8.9 billion in sales. Its looked in down town chicago. For more than twenty years after its completion in 1974, Sears Tower remained the tallest skyscraper, and it is still the largest. -
Watergate
"Watergate" is a general term used to descide a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974. The word specifically refers to thw Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. -
Test Tube Baby
Louise Joy Brown the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain. Though the technology that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and science, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future ill-use. -
3 Miles Island
A nuclear power plant south of Harrisburg, Pa. It has two separate units, known as TMI-1 and TMI-2. The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most significant accident in United States commercial nuclear energy, -
Mt. Saint Helen
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m. -
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas. The film series has spawned a media franchise outside the film series called the Expanded Universe including books, television series, computer and video games, and comic books. -
Lennon Killed
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. -
Crack Cocaine
In the early 1980s, the majority of cocaine being shipped to the United States, landing in Miami, was coming through the Bahamas and Dominican Republic.Soon there was a huge glut of cocaine powder in these islands, which caused the price to drop by as much as 80 percent. Faced with dropping prices for their illegal product, drug dealers made a decision to convert the powder to "crack," a solid smokeable form of cocaine, that could be sold in smaller quantities, to more people. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic. Along the demarcation between the eastern sector of Berlin controlled by the Soviet Union, and the western sectors occupied by the United States, France, and Great Britain. -
Rap Music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling, and beatboxing. -
Gulf War
The Gulf War codenamed Operation Desert Storm was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
A 5,000-pound bomb, hidden inside a Ryder truck, exploded just outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion caused massive damage to the building and killed 168 people, 19 of whom were children. Those responsible for what became known as the Oklahoma City Bombing were home-grown terrorists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. -
Cloning Sheep
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. -
Hale Bopp Comet
Was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, twice as long as the previous record holder, the Great Comet of 1811.
Hale Bopp was discovered on July 23, 1995, at a great distance from the Sun, raising expectations that the comet would brighten considerably by the time it passed close to Earth. -
Afganistan
The hijacking of an Ariana Boeing 727 aircraft, which was seized on an internal flight, and forced to fly via Central Asia to Moscow and then on to the UK, ends peacefully at Stansted airport north of London. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001. -
Coal Miners
Kentucky’s coal industry, suffering under economic conditions that have cost the jobs of some 2,000 miners over the past year, isn’t so feeble after all. Just ask U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, the Democrat from Versailles who was pummeled in last week’s general election by coal-backed Republican Andy Barr in the 6th District. Barr featured coal miners in his TV ads, talked incessantly about the Obama administration’s “war on coal,” and raked in campaign cash from wealthy coal executive. -
Shoe Bombing
As Flight 63 was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Reid — an Islamic fundamentalist from the United Kingdom, and self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda operative — carried shoes that were packed with two types of explosives. He had been refused permission to board the flight the day before. -
Virginia Tech Massacre
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide. -
Haiti Earthquake
A massive earthquake struck the nation of Haiti, causing damage insde and aroung the capital city of Port - au - Prince. -
Gulf Oil Spill
The Guld Oil also referred to as the BP Oil Spill involved the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010 killing 11 workers and creating an enviromental disaster in the Gulf Mexico. Oil flowed for 3 months, soaking marine animals and birds in oil and threatening the viability of the entire Gulf coastline. -
Bin Laden Killed
Was killed in Pakinston, on May 2, 2011. Shortly after 1:00 Navy Seals of the US shot him. While Obama was watching. -
Massacre at Theatre
24-year-old James Holmes allegedly entered the theater and opened fire, shooting a total of 71 people. Twelve people were killed and 59 were injured. -
Girls Held Hostage 10 years
10 girls were found in the house of a guy that had been holding them for 10 years, they had all had miss careiges and also have been beaten.
