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U.S. President William McKinley Assassinated
<a href='http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mckinley.htm' >The Assassination ofPresident William McKinley, 1901The 25th president of the United States William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in New York and got shot at point-blank range.After the shooting, it first appeared that President McKinley was getting better; however, he soon took a turn for the worse and died on September 14 from gangrene.
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Historical Importance of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was the first large, natural disaster whose damage was recorded by photography. It was lasted for approximately 40 to 60 seconds. It was also left more than half San Francisco's population homeless, destroyed 28,000 buildings, and killed app1906 San Francisco Earthquake Picture from http://jamieumbc.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/sf-1906.jpg -
The Tunguska Event
The Tunguska EventA Huge and Mysterious Explosion in Siberia in 1908
On June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook central Siberia. Over a hundred years later, the Tunguska Event remains a mystery.
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Sinking of the Titanic
Sinking of the Titanic The "unsinkable" ship Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, losing at least 1,517 lives .It was one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history. On April 10, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic set sail on a five-day journey across the North Atlantic Ocean, from Southampton, England, to New York City, New York.But, tragically on April 15, the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg.
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World War I
WORLD WAR IWorld War I was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war.The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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Noble Experiment--Prohibition
Noble Experiment--ProhibitionProhibition was the period in United States history in which the manufacture,ale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors was outlawed. It led to the first and only time an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was repealed.
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The Great Wall Street Crash of 1929;(The Great Depression or Black Tuesday)
The Great Wall Street Crash of 1929In the 1920s,many people felt that they could make a fortune from the stock market.Most people were invested their entire life savings in the stock market.The stock market crash of 1929 was a key factor in beginning the Great Depression.The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to the early 1940s, was a severe economic downturn caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South. -
Nanking Massacre
Nanking MassacreOn December 13, 1937, Japanese troops took over the city of Nanjing in China. They proceeded to rape and murder as many as 300,000 people over the next six weeks. This incident is known as the Rape of Nanking.
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The Night of Broken Glass
The Night of Broken GlassNazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels announced a government-sanctioned reprisal against the Jews.Jewish shop windows were broken. Jews were beaten, raped, arrested, and murdered. During this night 191 synagogues were set on fire.The damage to shop windows was estimated at $4 million U.S. dollars. 91 Jews were murdered while 30,000 Jews were arrested.
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World War 2
world war 2World War 2World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.The war itself altered the political alignment and social structure of the world.
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Leon Trotsky Assassinated
Leon Trotsky AssassinatedLeon Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, had been one of the possible successors to V. I. Lenin. Trotsky was attacked on August 20, 1940 by an ice pick in Mexico; he died a day later.
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The Holocaust
THE HOLOCAUSTThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl HarborDecember 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships* had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed.
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Final Solution
The Final SolutionFinal Solution is the plan that during World War II by Nazi Germany to systematically exterminate the Jewish population in Nazi-occupied Europe through genocide. It was killing of two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.
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Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of VietnamAfter Japan’s surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France.The proclamation paraphrased the U.S. Declaration of Independence in declaring, “All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!” and was cheered by an enormous crowd gathered in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. -
Indian and Pakistan Independence
India and Pakistan win independenceThe Indian Independence Act 1947 was as an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received the royal assent on 18 July 1947. Pakistan came into being on August 14, and India on August 15, as two new countries -
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. -
1954 - Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.On May 17, 1954, the law was changed.In the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision by ruling that segregation was "inherently unequal." and the racial
segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
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Vietnam War
Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. https://voxpopulisphere.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/vietnam-war.jpg -
Suez Crisis
Suez Crisisn October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957. -
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The Great Leap Forward in China
The Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1961. The campaign was led by Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression in China. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile CrisisThe Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
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Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square Massacre"The Four Modernizations were goals first set forth by Zhou Enlai in 1963, and enacted by Deng Xiaoping, starting in 1978, to strengthen the fields of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology in China.The Four Modernizations were adopted as a means of rejuvenating China's economy in 1978 following the death of Mao Zedong, and were among the defining features of Deng Xiaoping's tenure as head of the party." (wiki) -
Six-Day War Middle East [1967]
Six-Day War Middle East The Six-Day War was fought between June 5th and June 10th. The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel.The war was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinatedcivil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Picture http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-movie-in-the-works.jpg -
First Man on the Moon
First Man on the MoonFor thousands of years, human had looked to the heavens and dreamed of walking on the moon. In 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong became the very first to accomplish that dream, followed only minutes later by Buzz Aldrin. http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/c50b223/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F9b%2Fd6%2F69752894485988e9fde98816df9f%2F140716-editorial.jpg -
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Dirty War
Dirty WarThe Dirty War, from 1976-1983, was a seven-year campaign by the Argentine government against suspected dissidents and subversives. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 citizens were killed; many of them were “disappeared”. -
nuclear accident at three mile island 1979
nuclear accident at three mile island 1979At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat. -
Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner
Korean Air Lines Flight 007was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage. On September 1, 1983, the airliner serving the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor near Moneron Island, west of Sakhalin Island, in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed.http://voiceseducation.org/sites/default/files/images/stanislav_yevgrafovich_petrov_3.jpg -
1984 - Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India
1984 - Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, IndiaDuring the night of December 2-3, 1984, a storage tank containing methyl isocyanate (MIC) at the Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked gas into the densely populated city of Bhopal, India. It was one of the worst industrial accidents in history.https://debosmita.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/bhopalverdict.jpg -
FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION
FALL OF THE SOVIET UNIONIn December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. -
Yitzhak Rabin Assassination
Yitzhak Rabin AssassinationYitzhak Rabin was the prime minister of Israel.On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed by Jewish radical Yigal Amir at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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