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World War I began with the assassinations of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife -
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson was the first woman governor of Texas, she served from 1924-1926, and 1932-1934. -
World War II began when Germany invaded neighboring Poland. -
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ―I Have a Dream speech, during the civil rights march on Washington, DC. -
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
The first men to land on the Moon, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. -
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall; the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in Europe. -
The U.S. leads an international coalition in a military operation (code named ―Desert Storm‖) to expel Iraq out
of Kuwait. -
Then Texas Governor George W. Bush was elected 43rd President in a contested election.