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Living History Timeline
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President Taylor
President Taylor dies and is succeeded by his vice president, Millard Fillmore. -
Gadson Purchase
Gadsden Purchase treaty is signed; U.S. acquires border territory from Mexico for $10 million -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act becomes law, allowing settlers to claim land (160 acres) after they have lived on it for five years -
Lincoln Is Assassination
Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC, and is succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson. -
Wiped Out
Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment is wiped out by Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull at the Little Big Horn River, Mont. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated as the 19th president The first telephone line is built from Boston to Somerville, Mass.; the following year, President Hayes has the first telephone installed in the White House. -
NAWSA
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. Sherman Antitrust Act is signed into law, prohibiting commercial monopolies -
Immigration Station
Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S. -
Pleesy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson: Landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South -
William McKinley
William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th president -
Mother Nature
Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead (Sept. 8). According to the census, the nation's population numbers nearly 76 million. -
Helen Keller Becomes First Blind and Death Lady To Graduate College
In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. -
Inauguration
Theodore Roosevelt's second inauguration -
The S.S Titanic Sinks
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before -
World War 1 Begins
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate -
Flight School
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis -
Female History
Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husband -
Minimum Wage
Fair Labor Standards Act is passed, setting the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour -
WWII
U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflic -
Atomic Bombing
US Drops Atomic Bomb Hiroshima which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
UN Created
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. -
Spanish American War
The Philippines, which had been ceded to the U.S. by Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, becomes an independent republic -
Sports
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era -
PSA is Signed
Presidential Succession Act is signed into law by President Truman . Central Intelligence Agency is established. -
Joseph McCarthy
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietna -
Explorer 1
Explorer I, first American satellite, is launched. Completes milestone. -
I Have A Dream
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tex. -
Malcolm X Death
On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discriminatory voting practices -
Martin Luther King Is Assassinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at theLorraine Motelin Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old. -
President Nixon Resignes After Watergate and Cover Up
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement -
Soyuz Apollo
The meeting of the American "Apollo" and the Soviet "Soyuz" on July 19, 1975, marked the first cooperative space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
HIV/AIDS
scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. The virus was at first named HTLV-III/LAV (human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus) by an international scientific committee. This name was later changed to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan's second inauguration
