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Invention of the T-Model
The first Model T Ford produced is finished at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit on October 1, 1908. Ford would manufacture around 15 million Model T automobiles between 1908 and 1927. Up until the Volkswagen Beetle passed it in 1972, it had the longest run of any car model in history. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
On November 11, 1918, the Armistice, a cease-fire, brought an end to hostilities between the Allies and Germany. The Western Front fighting was halted while the parameters of a lasting peace were being considered, but the Armistice itself did not end the First World War. -
The 19th Amendment
The United States Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment forbids the federal government and its states from denying citizens the right to vote on the grounds of sex, effectively recognizing the right of women to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, on May 21, 1927. -
Black Thursday
On October 24, 1929, the stock market catastrophe that some had anticipated finally occurred as anxious investors started selling overvalued shares in large quantities. On "Black Thursday," a record 12.9 million shares were exchanged. -
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The New Deal
President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a number of projects and programs known as the "New Deal" in an effort to bring prosperity back to Americans during the Great Depression. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Following several backroom negotiations, which included industrialists, Hindenburg's son, the former chancellor Franz von Papen, and Hitler, Hindenburg acquiesced and on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor. -
The Munich Pact
The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. -
Hitler Invades Poland
The start of World War II was signaled by the Nazi Germany and Soviet Union invasion of Poland, an assault on the Republic of Poland. -
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Hitler Invades Poland
The start of World War II was signaled by the Nazi Germany and Soviet Union invasion of Poland, an assault on the Republic of Poland. -
D-Day
During World War II's Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy included landing operations and related airborne operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. It was the greatest seaborne invasion in history, known under the codename Operation Neptune and frequently referred to as D-Day. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two blasts remain the sole nuclear weapon use in armed conflict to date, killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people, the majority of whom were civilians. -
Formation of the United Nations
On 24 October 1945, the United Nations came into being after its Charter had been accepted by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a majority of other signatories, four months after the San Francisco Conference came to a conclusion. -
The Long Telegram
The Soviet Union did not believe that long-term peaceful cohabitation with the capitalist world was possible, and Kennan underscored in the "Long Telegram" that the wisest course of action was to "contain" communist expansion around the world. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise military attack against the United States at the naval facility at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. -
Formation of NATO
In the years following the Second World War, the North Atlantic Alliance was created. Its goals were to safeguard European peace, foster cooperation among its members, and protect their freedom while fending against the Soviet Union's danger at the time. -
Russians Obtain Atomic Bomb
For the purpose of developing nuclear weapons both during and after World War II, Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union authorized a secret research and development program known as the Soviet atomic bomb project. -
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The Korean War
From 1950 until 1953, North Korea and South Korea engaged in combat. Following border conflicts and rebellions in South Korea, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, sparking the start of the Korean War. -
Brown v Board of Education Case
In a historic case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, even where the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Seat on Bus
Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. Overall spreading the message of "Civil Rights". -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union started installing missiles covertly in Cuba in 1962 with the intention of attacking American cities. Before a deal to remove the missiles was reached, the subsequent conflict, sometimes known as the Cuban missile crisis, took the two superpowers to the verge of war. -
JFK’s Assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, otherwise known as JFK, was the 35th president, and was unfortunately assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The United States Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, also known as the Southeast Asia Resolution, or Pub.L. 88-408, 78 Stat. 384, on August 10, 1964, in reaction to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
The first space mission from the United States to land people on the moon was Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Commander Neil Armstrong successfully landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle. -
Watergate Break-Ins
Watergate scandal, a series of connected political scandals involving the United States presidency of Richard M. Nixon that came to light after the arrest of five burglars on June 17, 1972, at the offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. -
Nixon’s Resignation
On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon delivered a speech to the American people from the Oval Office to announce his resignation as a result of the Watergate affair. -
The invention of the Internet
The Internet is said to have its official birthday on January 1, 1983. Before this, there was no common method for connecting the many computer networks. Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP) is a brand-new communication protocol. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, the Communist Party of East Berlin's spokesman proclaimed a change in his city's relations with the West as the Cold War started to soften throughout Eastern Europe. He said that from that day's midnight onward, GDR nationals may freely enter and exit the nation. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, or 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks on the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, carried out by al-Qaeda. -
Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes referred to as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global disease outbreak brought on by the coronavirus 2 that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2). In December 2019, an epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan led to the discovery of the new virus.