-
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865 five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, Lincoln and his wife went to Ford's Theatre in Washington, During the third act a man crept up behind Lincoln and shot the president in the back of the head. Lincoln died on April 15th It was the first time a US president had been assassinated. After the shooting, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth a 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer leaped down from the presidential box and escaped. -
Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb
In 1879 50 year old Thomas Edison invents the first working lightbulb, the lightbulb using lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vaccum inside the globe, he was to produce a reliable long lasting source of light. -
James garfield elected as president
The United States presidential election of 1880 was the 24th quadrennial presidential elction, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880. It was largely seen as a referendum on the end of Reconstruction in Southern states carried out by Republicans. -
Massacre at Wounded Knee
On December 28th 1890 the Seventh Cavalry, Custers old regiment rounded up about 350 starving and freezing
Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, the soldiers demanded that the Native Americans give up all their weapons. A shot was fired from which side it was not clear. The soldiers opened fire with deadly cannon. Within minutes, the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered as many as 300 mostly unarmed Native Americans, including several children. -
Spanish Amurikan War
The Spanish American war was a war between Spain and the United States. It was the result of American intervention in the Cuban war of Independence. American attacks on Spains pacific possessions led to Involvment in the Phillipine Revolution. -
Theodore Roosevelt become President
On September 14th 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th President of the United States. -
Assassination of Arcduke Franze Ferdinand
On June 28th 1914 Archduke Franze Ferdinand and his wife were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. The assassination led straight to the First World War. -
Gandhi becomes leader of the independence movement in India
As part of his nonviolent non-cooperation campaign for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic independence for India. He particularly advocated the manufacture of khaddar, or homespun cloth, in order to replace imported textiles from Britain. Gandhi's eloquence and embrace of an ascetic lifestyle based on prayer, fasting and meditation earned him the reverence of his followers -
Scopes Monkey Trial
Wasa famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941
