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Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor. His assassination was part of a plot to help the Confederacy. -
World War I
World War I started in 1914, but the United States wasn't in the war until 1917. This war involved Russia, France, and the United Kingdom, Germany and Austria-Hungary. This war began due to the policies of several European empires. -
John F. Kennedy's assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy, and was arrested shorty after the murder. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
Landing on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. -
Space shuttle, Challenger
Christa McAuliffe, a teacher, was on the Challenger, spacecraft. Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after takeoff, an accident that occurred due to several factors. -
Oklahoma Bombing
This was a domestic terrorist attack that killed more than 150 people. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were responsible for the attack. -
9-11
Terrorists took control of four airplanes. They crashed two planes into the Twin Towers in New York and one plane into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and only the people on the plane died. -
Hurricane Katrina
this hurricane was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in United States history, killing more than 1,800 people. Billions of dollars were lost. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was the first African American person elected president of the United States. -
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was the head of al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that hijacked four planes and killed close to three thousands of people, U.S. forces invaded his compound in Pakistan. Bin Laden was killed in the raid.
