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  • 1917 — The birth of JFK
  • 1917 — "February Revolution" in Russia
  • 1932 — Charles Lindbergh’s son is kidnapped
  • 1935 — Mussolini invades Ethiopia
  • 1937 — Amelia Earhart vanishes
  • 1937 — Hindenburg explodes
  • 1939 — Germans invade Poland
  • 1939 — The birth of TV
  • 1944 — Anne Frank's diary
  • 1944 — D-Day
  • 1945 — FDR inaugurated for fourth term
  • 1945 — V-E Day
  • 1945 — Hiroshima
  • 1948 — Truman defeats Dewey in close call
  • 1950 — Korean War
  • 1952 — First broadcast of NBC's "Today" show
  • 1952 — Nixon delivers "Checkers" speech
  • 1953 — Hillary recalls Everest climb
  • 1953 — U.S. explodes first atomic bomb on TV
  • 1953 — Soviet Premier Josef Stalin dies
  • 1953 — Kruschev succeeds Stalin
  • 1955 — Disneyland opens
  • 1955 — Albert Einstein dies
  • 1956 — Montgomery bus boycott
  • 1957 — Violence in Little Rock over school integration
  • 1957 — Soviet satellite Sputnik is launched
  • 1958 — Elvis Presley is drafted into the Army
  • 1959 — Hawaii becomes America's 50th state
  • 1960 — The Sit-in movement begins to end desegregation in the South
  • 1960 — JFK announces for president
  • 1961 — JFK holds first live news conference on radio and television
  • 1961 — Soviets send first man to space
  • 1961 — Bay of Pigs invasion
  • 1961 — Yankees' Maris eclipses Babe Ruth homerun record
  • 1961 — First American in space
  • 1962 — John Glenn orbits the Earth
  • 1962 — Marilyn Monroe dies
  • 1962 — Jackie Kennedy gives tour of the White House
  • 1963 — George Wallace elected governor of Alabama
  • 1963 — Thresher submarine sinks
  • 1963 — Prayer in school
  • 1963 — JFK speech in Berlin
  • 1963 — Martin Luther King's Dream speech
  • 1964 — The Beatles begin their first American tour
  • 1965 — Bloody Sunday
  • 1967 — Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
  • 1968 — Communist forces launch attacks against South Vietnam
  • 1968 — Lyndon Johnson declines second term
  • 1968 — MLK speaks to Memphis crowd
  • 1968 — RFK assassinated
  • 1968 — Riots in Chicago during Dem. Natl Convention
  • 1969 — Apollo 11
  • 1969 — Judy Garland dies
  • 1969 — Chappaquiddick
  • 1970 — Apollo 13 lands in the Pacific
  • 1970 — The first Earth Day
  • 1970 — Kent State shootings
  • 1971 — Attica prison uprising
  • 1971 — Walt Disney World opens
  • 1972 — Watergate
  • 1972 — Nixon visits China
  • 1972 — Nixon announces space shuttle progam
  • 1973 — Native Americans occupy Wounded Knee
  • 1973 — Artist Pablo Picasso dies
  • 1973 — Tennis match billed as battle of sexes
  • 1973 — Vice President Agnew steps down in face of bribery scandal
  • 1974 — Nixon resigns
  • 1974 — Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley, CA
  • 1974 — President Ford pardons Nixon
  • 1975 — Fall of Saigon
  • 1976 — Chou En Lai dies of cancer
  • 1977 — Elvis Presley dies of drug overdose
  • 1977 — Johnstown, PA floods
  • 1978 — John Paul I is named Pope
  • 1979 — John Wayne dies
  • 1979 — America's worst nuclear accident
  • 1979 — Americans taken hostage in Iran
  • 1980 — Mount St. Helens erupts
  • 1980 — Alfred Hitchcock dies
  • 1981 — U.S. hostages released from Iran
  • 1981 — President Ronald Reagan was shot
  • 1981 — Pope John Paul II is shot
  • 1981 — Egypt's Sadat assasinated
  • 1981 — O'Connor choosen to Supreme Court
  • 1981 — The nation's first test-tube baby
  • 1982 — Comic John Belushi dies
  • 1982 — Grace Kelly dies tragically
  • 1983 — First U.S. female in space
  • 1984 — Ferraro runs for Vice President
  • 1986 — Chernobyl
  • 1986 — The space shuttle "Challenger" explodes 73 seconds after lift-off
  • 1986 — Statue of Liberty re-opens
  • 1987 — Pop icon Andy Warhol
  • 1989 — Exxon Valdez oil spill
  • 1989 — Bundy executed in electric chair
  • 1989 — Tiananmen square
  • 1990 — Unification of Germany
  • 1990 — Nelson Mandela is freed from prison
  • 1991 — Soviet coup to unseat Gorbachev
  • 1991 — Yeltsin elected president
  • 1991 — Rodney King assaulted by LAPD
  • 1991 — Gulf War begins
  • 1992 — Carson quits the 'Tonight Show'
  • 1993 — Palestine's Arafat signs peace agreement with Israel
  • 1993 — Branch Davidian standoff
  • 1994 — Jackie O. dies
  • 1994 — Simpson/ Goldman murders
  • 1994 — Earthquake strikes Northridge, Calif.
  • 1995 — Rabin assasinated
  • 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing
  • 1995 — Terrorist release nerve gas in Japan
  • 1997 — Princess Diana's sudden death
  • 1997 — Mother Teresa dies at 87
  • 1997 — Scientists succeeded in cloning a lamb
  • 1998 — Romanovs buried