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Model T
First production Model T was built on August 12, 1908 and left the factory September 27, 1908. Ford's first mass-produced automobile. -
Zimmermann Telegram
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico if the US entered World War I against Germany. -
WWI Armistice
Signed at Le Francport that ended the fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany. The armistice is an agreement in which both sides agree to stop fighting, rather than a surrender. -
19th Amendment
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
Charles Lindbergh piloted the Spirit of St. Louis on the first ever nonstop trans-Atlantic flight. He landed in Paris just 34 hours after leaving Roosevelt Field in New York. -
Black Thursday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. The stock market opened 11% lower than the previous day's close and there was panicked selling throughout the day of heavy trading. -
The New Deal
A plan by President Franklin D Roosevelt to help America recover from the Great Depression. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
The Munich Pact
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and French prime minister Edouard Daladier signed the pact with Adolf Hitler to avert the war and give Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Invades Poland
Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. Often considered the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
The United States detonated a nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
The United States detonated a nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. -
Forming of the United Nations
Representatives from 50 countries gathered to create an international organization to maintain peace and avoid the abuses of war. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennans sends an 8,000 word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
The Forming of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 27 European countries, 2 North American countries and 1 Eurasion country. Initially created to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Russian Atomic Bomb
The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning" at a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. -
The Korean War
June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953. This was a conflict between North Korea (aided by China) and South Korea (aided by the UN with the US as principal participant). -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Dec 9, 1952 - May 17, 1954. Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The Vietnam War
Nov 1, 1955 - Apr 30, 1975. The Vietnam War was a long conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam (with it's principal ally, the United States). More than 3 million people were killed in the war with more than half of them Vietnamese civilians. -
Rosa Parks Refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks was a black person that was asked to move to the back of the bus, away from the "white seats" at the request of the bus driver. She refused and was arrested. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962. A 13 day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba which was just 90 miles from US shores. The US agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the US promising not to invade Cuba. -
JFK Assassination
35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A resolution passed by Congress authorizing President Lyndon B. Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the crew that landed the Apollo module and became the first humans to step on another planetary body. -
The Watergate Break-ins
Several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. The burglars were connected to President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign and were caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. -
Nixon Resignation
President Richard Nixon resigned due to overwhelming evidence of his complicity in the Watergate crimes prior to a possible impeachment by Congress. He avoided any prosecution after President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for any crimes he had committed while in office. -
The Invention of the Internet
The first practical schematics of the internet arrived in the 1960s with the idea of an "Intergalactic Network" of computers. The official birthday of the Internet is considered to be Jan 1, 1983 when a new communications protocol was established called "transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP)." Prior to this, the various computer networks didn't have a standard way to communicate with each other. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall (separating Eastern and Western Germany) marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
9/11 Attacks
Terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C. -
The COVID-19 Pandemic
December 2019 - Current. A pandemic that currently stands at over 293 Million cases with 5.45 Million deaths worldwide. Starting in Dec 2019, a cluster of patients in Whuan, Hubei Providence, China began to experience shortness of breath and fever. World Health Organization announced mysterious Coronavirus-Related Pneumonia on Jan 9, 2020 and CDC begins screening for the virus on Jan 20, 2020. First reported Coronavirus case confirmed on Jan 21, 2020.