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Attack of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. maritime base close Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a staggering shock assault by Japanese powers on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, many Japanese military aircraft slid on the base. -
Franklin Roosevelt dies
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four pivotal terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman accountable for a nation as yet battling the Second World War and possessing a weapon of exceptional and unnerving force. -
The Russians test an atomic bomb.
The Soviet Union effectively tests its first nuclear bomb, which the U.S. calls Joe 1. Notwithstanding the U.S., there are currently two nations on the planet with atomic weapons. -
The Korean War begins.
The Korean War was the primary war in which the United Nations assumed a noteworthy job. After World War II, under U.N. supervision, the Russians involved the domain north of the 38th parallel, and the United States possessed the south. Korea was announced no longer inside the U.S. guard border in 1949, and the last American troops were pulled back. Attacking North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950, and in spite of rehashed alerts from the U.N. -
USSR launches Sputnik satellite, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth
On October 4, 1957, the USSR propelled Sputnik, the primary counterfeit satellite to circle Earth. The satellite, a 85-kilogram (187-pound) metal circle the span of a ball, was propelled on a colossal rocket and circled Earth at 29,000 kilometers for each hour (18,000 miles for every hour) for three months. When it at long last dropped out of circle in January 1958, Sputnik had voyage 70 million kilometers (43.5 million miles) around the planet. -
US launches first satellite, Explorer
Explorer 1 was the principal satellite propelled by the United States when it was sent into space on January 31, 1958. Following the dispatch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the U.S. -
President John F Kennedy addresses congress and challenges nation to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade
President John F. Kennedy reported before a unique joint session of Congress the emotional and aggressive objective of sending an American securely to the Moon before the decade's end. Various political elements influenced Kennedy's choice and its planning. By and large, Kennedy felt incredible strain to have the United States "get up to speed to and overwhelm" the Soviet Union in the "space race." -
USSR’s Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon
Luna 9 was the primary delicate landing mission on the moon. The Soviet rocket arrived three years previously the primary people ventured out at first glance. It was a piece of a long-go Soviet Union program to photo and take in more about the moon -
Three US space explorers, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, are murdered when a fire touches off in their Apollo 1 case while playing out a test on the platform.
The Apollo program changed perpetually on Jan. 27, 1967, when a glimmer fire cleared through the Apollo 1 order module amid a dispatch practice test. The three men inside died notwithstanding the best endeavors of the ground team. It would take over year and a half, and broad overhauls, previously NASA sent more men into space. -
Apollo 11 Landing
On July 20, 1969, American space travelers Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) turned into the principal people ever to arrive on the moon. Around six-and-a-half hours after the fact, Armstrong turned into the principal individual to stroll on the moon.
