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Heir to the Austrian throne was assasinated by Gavrilo Princip.
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After Germany invaded Belgium, Britian declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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German and Allied soldiers spent a period of time in deep, rat infested trenches.
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British suffered 60,000 casualties the first day alone, and this bloody trench warface continued for over three years.
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National Negro Baseball League organized.
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women were given the right to vote.
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First Radio broadcast.
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The first Miss America contest was held.
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Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy who was dying of diabetes, was given the first human experimental dose of insulin.
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Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
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Archaeologist Howard Carter finds tomb of Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt
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Former President Woodrow Wilson dies
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Scottish inventor John Baird invents the first form of a television.
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First talking movie, The Jazz Singer released.
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Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season.
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First Mickey Mouse talking film, Steamboat Willie.
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Herbert Hoover was elected president.
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Start of the stock market crash.
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Prices kept dropping, and on Black Tuesday, more than 16 million shares were sold.
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The air campaign waged by the German Air Force called the Luftwaffe against Great Britain.
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The name given to the intensive bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany
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Germany attacked the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia.
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the US entered the war.
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Allies take Tobruk in North Africa
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There were 25,000 prisoners when Singapore fell to Japan.
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Marks a US victory in the Battle of Midway when American planes defeated a Japanese
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had already begun but the concentration camp at Auschwitz started the systematic murder of Jews.
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Germany surrenders at Stalingrad, a major defeat for the Germans
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The allies win victory in North Africa, and the invasion of Italy begins
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marks the date when the Allies invaded France and Paris is subsequently liberated
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US and British forces returned to France launching launched Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders
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World War 2 ended
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First modern credit card introduced.
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Color TV was introduced
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Car seat belts were created
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The polio vaccine was created
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First Televised presidential debates.
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President Eisenhower was succeeded by Kennedy in 1960.
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Invasion of Cuba backfired on Kennedy
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The first U.S. manned sub-orbital space flight is completed with Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr.
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The soviets begin building the Berlin Wall.
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In response to the Soviet Union building offensive missiles in Cuba, Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island.
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The US, Soviets, and Great Britian agree to ban nuclear testing above ground.
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Martin Luther King Jr. made his speech "I have a dream".
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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This period marked the end of the baby boom.
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Lyndon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election.
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The government medical program for citizens over the age of 65 begins.
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated the 37th president of the US.
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US atronaut Neil Armstong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
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Five members of the "Chicago 7" are convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago.
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China became the fifth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
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Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread into Cambodia.
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A ban on the television advertisement of cigarettes goes into affect in the United States.
