U.S. History

1. Historical U.S.A. Events By Decade

2. 1900-1909 1900 Hurricane ravages Galveston, TX killing 8,000 people

3. 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first heavier than air plane in history at Kitty Hawk, NC

4. 1903 Henry Ford organizes Ford Motor Company

5. 1906 San Francisco earthquake and 3 day fire killing 500 people

6. 1910-1919 1914 World War 1 begins

7. 1917 First U.S. troops in France as U.S. declares war on Germany

8. 1920-1929 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming; first woman governor elected in U.S

9. 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs in one season and record holds for 34 years

10. 1929 First phase of Great Depression

11. 1930-1939 1931 Al Capone is arrested for tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison

12. 1931 Star Spangled Banner officially becomes National Anthem

13. 1939 World War 2 begins

14. 1940-1949 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

15. 1945 U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

16. 1947 U.S. air force pilot Chuck Yeager is first man to break sound barrier

17. 1950-1959 1950 Korean War begins

18. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education bans racial segregation in public schools

19. 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to sit on the back of the bus and Martin Luther King Jr. leads black boycott of Alabama bus system

20. 1960-1969 1961 Alan B. Shephard Jr. first American to be launched into space

21. 1962 John Glenn Jr. first American to orbit the earth

22. 1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Texas by accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby shoots and kills Oswald shortly after he is arrested

23. 1964 The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show

24. 1965 Malcolm X shot to death at Harlem rally in New York City

25. 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed in Memphis. James Earl Ray is the accused murderer.

26. 1969 Neil Armstrong first man to walk on the moon

27. 1969 Woodstock music festival takes place

28. 1970-1979 1970 Kent State University massacre occurs where members of National Guard fire on unarmed students killing 4 and injuring many others

29. 1972 Nixon is involved in Watergate scandal

30. 1980-1989 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor named first woman to U.S. Supreme Court

31. 1983 Sally K. Ride is first woman in space on board the shuttle Challenger

32. 1986 Space shuttle Challenger explodes after takeoff killing all 7 passengers

33. 1989 Tanker ship Exxon Valdez ruptures and dumps 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound

34. 1990-1999 1990 Hubble Space telescope launched

35. 1992 Rodney King is beaten by Los Angeles police and the crime is video taped by civilian. Riots begin all throughout LA

36. 1994 O.J. Simpson arrested in killing of his wife and her boyfriend. Simpson later found innocent.

37. 1995 Oklahoma City bombing occurs and Timothy McVeigh arrested

38. 1997 Hale Bopp Comet closest to earth it will be to Earth until the year 4397

39. 1998 President Clinton is impeached on two charges, perjury and obstruction of justice

40. 1999 High School shooting takes place in Columbine, Colorado killing 15 people

41. 2000-2009 2001 Terrorists fly airplanes into the twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon, and one that was in route for the White House crashes in Pennsylvania

42. 2003 War in Iraq begins by the bombing of Baghdad

43. 2005 Hurricane Katrina hits the southern United States hitting New Orleans the hardest killing over a thousand people.

44. 2009 Barack Obama is selected as President of the United States making him the first ever African American in the oval office

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