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Invention/First Production of Model T
October 1, 1908 is the date that the first Model T was rolled out of production. It was "invented" some time during this year. -
Zimmerman Telegram Intercepted
In January of 1917, the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted by allied forces, revealing Germany's intentions to sway Mexico to its side in an alliance against the USA. This event is considered largely responsible for the United States' entry into WW1. A specific day in January is not given. -
WW1 Armistice
On November 11th, 1918, the fighting of WW1 came to an end with the signing of this armistice between the allies and central powers. -
19th Amendment Passed
The passing of the 19th Amendment guaranteed all American women the right to vote. The date listed is its passing, but it wasn't ratified until August 18th, 1920. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip -
Black Thursday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of Federal programs promoted and passed under FDR, mostly in response to the Great Depression. Dates are not exact, but the vast majority of these programs were implemented during the 1930's. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
On this day, Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany, which would soon become Nazi Germany. -
The Munich Agreement is signed
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. -
Hitler Invades Poland
On this day, Hitler had his Wehrmacht and SS forces invade Poland, which would soon result in an occupation of the country after they were swiftly defeated. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on pearl Harbor was a suprise military strike by the Imerial Japanese against the United States. The attack was meant to cripple US naval capability in the pacific, and was intially very successful, but failed in its long term goal. -
D-Day
On the 6th of June, on the shores of Western Europe, 1944, the United States and Britain totally dunked on Hitler's "Atlantic Wall" and successfully established a beachhead in order to push farther into France and eventually liberate it while continually pushing the Nazi's back. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On this date we dropped the Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki.
On this date, we dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. -
Formation of the UN
This marks the formation of the United Nations, an orginization designed to be a meeting ground for most nations of the world in order to talk about global issues and attempt to avoid violent conflict. -
The Long Telegram
In February 1946, the State Department cabled the US Moscow Embassy and asked for an analysis of the Soviet position. They received back an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. This has become known as 'the Long Telegram. This Telegram would shape general US forieng policy and attitude towards the Soviets for decades to come. -
Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Soviets Test Their First Atomic Bomb
Its not known exactly when the Soviets "acquired" their first Atomic weapon, but the first confirmed test of one of their weapons took place on this date. -
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The Korean War
A war between the Chinese supported North and American supported South Korea, that quickly escalated with the increasing amount of support each side recieved. -
Brown V. Board of Education Decision
On this day, the decision in this historic supreme court case ruled that racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional. -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army were supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
On this day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front seat on a segreated bus. Her actions were a huge spark of inspiration for the civil rights movement. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
JFK’s Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. This included involving armed forces. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. -
The Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. -
Nixon’s Resignation
On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon sat at his desk in the Oval Office and announced that he was resigning the office of the president. The next day, he submitted his letter of resignation to Henry Kissinger and left for Yorba Linda, California. -
Invention of the Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
The 9/11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States.