Kelsey Gaston

By mr.henning1
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    McKinley, William

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    1900 - 2009

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    Roosevelt, Theodore

  • President William McKinley was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York, at the World's Fair.

  • A landmark in the history of aviation, the Wright brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.  It lasted 58 seconds.

  • A record 1.29 million immigrants enter the United States.

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    Taft, William Howard

  • White Star line steamer Titanic sinks on maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 14. 1503 people drown.

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    Wilson, Woodrow

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    WWI

  • The United States passes the first Conscription Law (draft) since The Civil War on May 18.

  • A devastating outbreak of influenza kills 20 million people worldwide, 548,000 of them in the U.S.

  • Nineteenth Amendment gives U.S. women the right to vote.

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    Harding, Warren Gamaliel

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    Coolidge, Calvin

  • U.S. Immigration rules ban Japanese.

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    Chinese Civil War

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    Hoover, Herbert Clark

  • U.S. Stock Exchange collapses, economic crisis worldwide.

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    Spanish Civil War

  • Depression sweeps worldwide, leading to closing of all German banks

  • Frances Perkins, new U.S. Secretary of Labor, becomes first female cabinet member

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    Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  • World War II begins as France and England declare war on Germany

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    WWII

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

  • The Holocaust begins.

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    Cold War

  • Japan surrenders and WW II ends.

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    Truman, Harry

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    First Indochina War

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    Korean War

  • Last racial and ethnic barriers to immigration to U.S. removed

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    Eisenhower, Dwight David

  • Refusal of Rosa Parks to move to the back of a bus leads to Montgomery bus boycott

  • Alaska and Hawaii admitted as the 49th and 50th states in the United States of America

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    Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

  • Lt. Col. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth

  • 200,000 people marched on Washington to demand civil rights for all, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech

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    Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  • U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon

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    Nixon, Richard Milhous

  • The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing 18-year olds to vote, is ratified.

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    Ford, Gerald Rudolph

  • Unemployment rate in U.S. reaches 9.2%, highest in 34 years.

  • America celebrates its 200th birthday.

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    Carter, James Earl Jr.

  • The first U.S. space shuttle, "Columbia," makes inaugural flight.

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    Reagan, Ronald Wilson

  • The U.S. becomes the world's biggest debtors, with a deficit of $130 billion.

  • DNA evidence is allowed in some criminal trials.

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    Bush, George Herbert Walker

  • The "World Wide Web" started up for home use.

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    Clinton, William Jefferson

  • Republican Party wins control of U.S. Congress

  • NASA's ‘Pathfinder' module lands on Mars.

  • Twin Towers Fall

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    Bush, George Walker

  • Tsunami kills approx. 150,000

  • Hurricane Katrina

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    Obama, Barack Hussein