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| 1492.10.14: | Christopher Columbus arrives in the "New World". |
| 1754, ?. ?: | | The French-Indian war begins. |
| 1763. ?. ?: | | The French-Indian war ends. |
| 1773.12.16: | | Boston Tea Party. |
| 1774.09.05: | | First Continental Congress starts. |
| 1775.04.18: | | Paul Revere's Midnight Ride to warn of the approaching British Army. |
| 1775.04.19: | | "The Shot Heard Round The World" starts the Battle of Lexington and Concord. |
| 1775.05.10: | | Second Continental Congress starts |
| 1775.06.17: | | Battle of Bunker Hill |
| 1776.07.04: | Declaration of Independance |
| 1776.12.24: | | General George Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures the Hessians at Trenton,
New Jersey in the first Victory of the War of Independance. |
| 1777.10.07: | | General George Washington wins the battle of Saratoga, New York. |
| 1780.09.23: | | Benedict Arnold's Treason discovered and thwarted. |
| 1781.10.19: | | Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, effectively ending the War. |
| 1782.11.30: | | Provisonal Peace. |
| 1783.09.03: | | The Americans and the British sign the "Peace of Paris" in France. |
| 1787.09.18: | Adoption of the Constitution |
| 1788.06.21: | Ratification of the Constitution |
| 1789. ?. ?: | President George Washington (Fed) |
| 1796. ?. ?: | President John Adams (Fed) |
| 1800. ?. ?: | President Thomas Jefferson (Dem) |
| 1808. ?. ?: | President James Madison (Dem) |
| 1812. ?. ?: | | The War of 1812 begins; The (British) Empire Strikes Back. |
| 1814. ?. ?: | | The War of 1812 ends in a stalemate. |
| 1816. ?. ?: | President James Munroe (Dem) |
| 1824. ?. ?: | President John Quincy Adams (None) |
| 1828. ?. ?: | President Andrew Jackson (Dem) |
| 1836. ?. ?: | President Martin Van Buren (Dem) |
| 1840. ?. ?: | President William Henry Harrison |
| 184?. ?. ?: | President John Tyler (?) |
| 1844. ?. ?: | President James Polk (Dem) |
| 1848. ?. ?: | President Zachary Taylor (Whig) |
| 184?. ?. ?: | President Millard Fillmore (?) |
| 1852. ?. ?: | President Franklin Pierce (Dem) |
| 1856. ?. ?: | President James Buchanan (Dem) |
| 1860. ?. ?: | President Abraham Lincoln (Rep) |
| 1861.04.12: | | The Civil War (AKA, "The War of Northern Agression") begins. |
| 1862.09. ?: | | President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, setting the Slaves Free.
In Theory. |
| 1963.11.19: | | President Lincoln gives the
Gettysburg Address. |
| 1865.04.09: | | The Civil War ends with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee. |
| 1865.04.15: | | President Lincoln is Assassinated at the Ford Theater while watching a play. |
| 1865.04.16: | President Andrew Johnson (Dem) |
| 1868. ?. ?: | President Ulysses S. Grant (Rep) |
| 1876. ?. ?: | President Rutherford Hayes (Rep) |
| 1880. ?. ?: | President James Garfield (Rep) |
| 188?. ?. ?: | President Chester Arthur (Rep) |
| 1884. ?. ?: | President Grover Cleveland (Dem) |
| 1888. ?. ?: | President Benjamin Harrison (Rep) |
| 1892. ?. ?: | President Grover Cleveland (Dem) |
| 1893.01.17: | | Overthrow of Queen Lili`uokalani of Hawai`i by Marines from the USS Boston. |
| 1896. ?. ?: | President William McKinley (Rep) |
| 1898. ?. ?: | | Spanish-American War. |
| 1902. ?. ?: | | Willis Carrier envisions the first Air Conditioner. |
| 1903.12.17: | | Wilbur and Orville Wright pioneer Powered Flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
| 1904. ?. ?: | President Theodore Roosevelt (Rep) |
| 1906. ?. ?: | | Ford introduces the Model T for $850. |
| 1906. ?. ?: | | Lee De Forest invents the Triode Vacuum Tube, permitting "Long Distance" telephones. |
| 1907. ?. ?: | | About 600 tractors are helping to harvest crops |
| 1908. ?. ?: | President William (Howard?) Taft (Rep) |
| 1908. ?. ?: | | Clorinated Water first deployed in Chicago to reduce water-borne disease. |
| 1912. ?. ?: | President Woodrow Wilson (Dem) |
| 1914. ?. ?: | | World War 1 Starts with the assassination of Duke Ferdinand. |
| 1915. ?. ?: | | East and West Coasts connected by Long Distance telephone circuits,
11 million telephones in use. |
| 1916. ?. ?: | | Ford reduces the price of the Model T to $400. |
| 1917.11.02: | | The Balfour Declaration promotes the establishment of a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. |
| 1918.11.11: | | World War 1 Ends with the signing of the Armistace. |
| 1920. ?. ?: | President Warren Harding (Rep) |
| 1924. ?. ?: | | Ford further reduces the price of the Model T to $290. |
| 1924. ?. ?: | President Calvin Coolidge (Rep) |
| 1926.03.26: | | Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard flies the first Liquid-Fueled Rocket. |
| 1927.05.20: | | Charles Lindberg flies "The Spirit of St. Louis" non-stop from New York to Paris. |
| 1928. ?. ?: | President Herbert Hoover (Rep) |
| 1929.10.29: | | "Black Tuesday"; The Stock Market crashes (-10%), The Great Depression "Officially" Begins. |
| 1932. ?. ?: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Dem) |
| 1939.09.01: | | The German Blitzkrieg ("LightningWar") invades Poland. |
| 1939.09.03: | | England and France declare war on Germany. World War 2 has begun. |
| 1941.12.07: | | The Japanese Fleet Attacks Pearl Harbor, and the US enters World War 2. |
| 1945. ?. ?: | | President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. |
| 1945. ?. ?: | President Harry Truman (Dem) |
| 1945.07.16: | | The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test is a success. |
| 1945.08.06: | | The First Atomic Bomb is dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan. |
| 1945.08.09: | | The Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. |
| 1945.08.15: | | Japan Officially Surrenders on the deck of the Battleship Missouri, ending World War 2 in the Pacific. |
| 1948.05.14: | | Declaration of the State of Israel. |
| 1948.05.15: | | Beginning of the Israeli War of Independance. |
| 1948.05.29: | | Cease-Fire called in the Israeli War of Independance. |
| 1950. ?. ?: | | The Korean War begins. |
| 1952. ?. ?: | President Dwight Eisenhower (Rep) |
| 1953. ?. ?: | | The Korean War 'ends' with a 'CeaseFire'. |
| 1954. ?. ?: | | The Supreme Court decides "Brown vs. the Board of Education". |
| 1956. ?. ?: | | Interstate Highway System is launched. |
| 1961.01.20: | President John Fitzgerald ("Jack") Kennedy (Dem) |
| 1961. ?. ?: | | The 'Bay of Pigs' Invasion of Cuba goes horribly wrong. |
| 1961.04.12: | | Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gegarin orbits the Earth. The "Space Race" Begins. |
| 1961.05.05: | | (Freedom 7) Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, jr. spends 15 sub-Orbital minutes in space. |
| 1961.05.25: | | President Kennedy gives the "Landing a Man on the Moon" speech. |
| 1962.02.20: | | (Friendship 7) Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth. |
| 1962.10.15: | | The Cuban Missle Crisis begins with the sighting of SS-4s in Cuba. |
| 1962.10.28: | | Soviet Premier Khrushchev orders the dismantling of missles in Cuba. |
| 1963.08.28: | | Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the "I Have A Dream" speech. |
| 1963.11.22: | | President Kennedy is assassinated. |
| 1963.11.22: | President Lyndon Baines Johnson (Dem) |
| 1963.11.25: | | A Very Public Funeral.... |
| 1964.07.02: | | President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. |
| 1965.03.18: | | Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov is the first Man to Walk in Space. |
| 1965.06.03: | | (Gemini 4) Astronaut Edward H. White II is the first American to Walk in Space. |
| 1965.08.06: | | President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act. |
| 1966.03.16: | | (Gemini 8) Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott perform the First Docking in Space. |
| 1967.01.27: | | (Apollo 1) Astronauts Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a "Plugs-Out" test. |
| 1967.06.05: | | The Six Day War begins. Israel drives back five attacking nations. |
| 1968.01.30: | | (Vietnam) The Tet Offensive catches US Troops off-guard. |
| 1968.04.03: | | Martin Luther King jr. delivers the "Mountaintop / Promised Land" speech. |
| 1968.04.04: | |
Martin Luther King jr. is assassinated. |
| 1968.06.05: | | Robert Francis Kennedy is assassinated while campaigning for President. |
| 1968.08.26: | | (Vietnam) Riots errupt around the Democratic National Convention. |
| 1968.12.25: | | (Apollo 8) Astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders amd James Lowell see the first
"EarthRise", and broadcast a Christmas Greeting to the "Good Earth" by reading from Genesis 1 while orbiting the
Moon.. |
| 1969.01.21: | President Richard Milhouse Nixon (Rep) |
| 1969.07.20: | | Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin set foot on the Moon. |
| 1969.08.15: | | Woodstock, the "Summer of Love", opens in WHite Lake, NY. |
| 1970.05.04: | | (Vietnam) Four student protesters are shot to death at Kent State University, Ohio. |
| 1970.04.13: | | (Apollo 13) Astronaut Jim Lowell says, "Houston, We Have A Problem!" |
| 1972.06.17: | | Five men are arrested while attempting to bug the offices of the Democratic National
Committee at the Watergate Hotel. |
| 1973.10.06: | | The Yom Kippur War begins, and lasts three weeks;
Israel is attacked by Egypt and Syria, plus Iraq and Jordan.
Israel wins, and an Oil Embargo by Arab Nations drives up the price of oil worldwide. |
| 1974.08.09: | | President Nixon becomes the first President to Resign. |
| 1974.08.09: | President Gerald Ford (The Only "Unelected" President) |
| 1975.04.29: | | (Vietnam) The Last helicopter leaves the roof of the American Embassy. |
| 1977.01. ?: | President James ("Jimmy") Carter (Dem) |
| 1979.11.04: | The Iran Hostage Crisis begins. |
| 1980.04.24: | A Military Rescue attempt fails when two aircraft collide at night in the
Iranian desert. |
| 1981.01.20: | President Ronald Reagan (Rep) |
| 1981.01.20: | | The Iran Hostages are released. |
| 1981. ?. ?: | |
Maya Lin
submits a proposal for a Vietnam Memorial. |
| 1982.11.13: | | The Vietnam Memorial is Dedicated. |
| 1983.06.18: | | Dr. Sally Ride becomes the first American Woman in Space. |
| 1986.01.28: | | 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger explodes,
resulting in the deaths of Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka,
Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, and Sharon Christa McAuliffe. |
| 1983. ?. ?: | | The Cuban Invasion of Grenada is repulsed by American troops. |
| 1989.01. ?: | President George Bush (Rep) |
| 1989. ?. ?: | | The US Invades Panama to Arrest Noriega. |
| 1990. ?. ?: | | The Persian Gulf War for the Liberation of Kuwait. |
| 1993.01. ?: | President William Jefferson ("Bill") Clinton (Dem) |
| 2001.01. ?: | President George W. Bush (Rep) |
| 2001.09.11: | | Al Queda Terrorists crash planes into both World Trade Center towers,
and the Pentagon. Another flight, thought to have been destined to hit the White House, was apparently
brought down by the hostages themselves, thus twarting the terrorists' plans. |
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