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1901
Philipine American War
War between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902, an insurrection that may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. It began after the United States assumed sovereignty of the Philippines following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War. Although an end to the insurrection was declared in 1902, sporadic fighting continued for several years thereafter.
Theodore Roosevelt
president of United States
Hay-Pauncete Treaty
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, (1900–01), either of two agreements between Britain and the United States, the second of which freed the United States from a previous commitment to accept international control of the Panama Canal.
1902
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Breakup of Northern Securities (1902–04)
In 1902 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the Progressive goal of curbing the enormous economic and political power of the giant corporate trusts by resurrecting the nearly defunct Sherman Antitrust Act to bring a lawsuit that led to the breakup of a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company (ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1904). Roosevelt pursued this policy of “trust-busting” by initiating suits against 43 other major corporations during the next seven years.
Spooner Act
Spooner Act (1902), which authorized Pres. Theodore Roosevelt to purchase rights to build the Panama Canal.
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1903-1904
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company is an American automotive corporation that was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford and 11 associate investors. Emerging at the close of the American Industrial Revolution and fueled by the dynamic ethos of Gilded Age capitalism
(Nov. 18, 1903), agreement between the United States and Panama granting exclusive canal rights to the United States ....
Day Law
The Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, which prohibited African American and white students from receiving an education at the same school or in schools that were located less than 25 miles (40 km) apart
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1905-1906
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1906
Niagara Movement
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that occurred on April 18, 1906, at 5:12 AM off the northern California coast. The San Andreas Fault slipped along a segment about 270 miles (430 km) long
Organization of Black intellectuals that was led by W.E.B. Du Bois and called for full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
1906
1905
April 17, 1905
Atlanta race riot of 1906, major outbreak of violence in Atlanta, Georgia, that killed at least 12 and possibly as many as 25 African Americans in late September 1906.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labour a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade
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1907-1908
1907
1908
Gentlemen’s Agreement
United States-Japanese agreement
Root-Takahira Agreement
United States-Japan accord between the United States and Japan that averted a drift toward possible war by mutually acknowledging certain international policies and spheres of influence in the Pacific
U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt agreed to urge the city of San Francisco to rescind an order by which children of Japanese parents were segregated from white students in the schools.
1908
1907
Springfield Race Riot, (August 1908), in U.S. history, brutal two-day assault by several thousand white citizens on the Black community of Springfield, Illinois.
Monongah mining disaster of 1907, deadly mining explosion on Dec. 6, 1907, in Monongah, W.Va., that killed more than 350 miners.
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1909
1910
Big Blowup of 1910, devastating forest fire that torched 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) in western Montana and northern Idaho during Aug. 20–23, 1910. Of the fire’s 85 victims, 78 were firefighters.
.The 1909 Florida Keys hurricane makes landfall in the U.SNew York shirtwaist strike of 1909 begins. November 2 – The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. November 6 – The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated in Baltimore.
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1909
Mann Act, U.S. federal statute (18 U.S.C. §2421 et seq.), passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. William Howard Taft in 1910, that originally criminalized the transportation of women or girls “in interstate or foreign commerce”
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1909 in response to a call from Republican Pres. William Howard Taft for lower tariffs.
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1911-1912
1911
1912
John Marshall Harlan (born June 1, 1833, Boyle County, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 14, 1911, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal.
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.Bull Moose Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later. Opposing the entrenched conservatism of the regular Republican Party
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1911
William Howard Taft on October 29, 1912, standardized for the first time the proportions and relative sizes of the elements of the flag
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in a New York City sweatshop, touching off a national movement in the United States for safer working conditions.
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1913-1914
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1914
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System. 1 Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that occurred on April 18, 1906, at 5:12 AM off the northern California coast. The San Andreas Fault slipped along a segment about 270 miles (430 km) long
1914
1913
United States Occupation of Veracruz, (April–November 1914), the occupation of Veracruz, the chief port on the east coast of Mexico, by military forces of the United States during the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution. Victory for the United States in a one-sided battle resulted in U.S. troops occupying the city for six months.
Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act, U.S. legislation enacted in October 1913 that lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent and reintroduced a federal income tax.
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1916
By 1916 the most promising signs for peace seemed to exist only in the intentions of two statesmen in power—the German chancellor Bethmann and the U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Wilson, having proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in August 1914, strove for the next two years to maintain it.
Eastland disaster, capsizing of the passenger liner SS Eastland on the Chicago River in Chicago on July 24, 1915. The event, which claimed at least 844 lives, ranks as one of the worst maritime disasters in American history
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1915
Battle of Columbus, also known as the Burning of Columbus or the Columbus Raid, (8–9 March 1916). In need of supplies during the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa led his men in a raid across the border into the United States, at Columbus, New Mexico.
Lusitania, British ocean liner, the sinking of which by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, contributed indirectly to the entry of the United States into World War I
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1917-1918
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1918
Smith-Hughes Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
\Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Allied victory and the first U.S.-led offensive in World War I, fought from September 12 to September16, 1918. The Allied attack against the Saint-Mihiel salient provided the Americans with an opportunity to use the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front
1917
After the rupture of diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3, 1917, events pushed the United States inexorably along the road to war. Using his authority as commander in chief, Wilson on March 9 ordered the arming of American merchant ships so that they could defend themselves against U-boat attacks
1918
Influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, among the most devastating pandemics in human history.
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1919-1920
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1920
1920
By the dawn of the 1920s, the second Industrial Revolution had transformed the United States into a global economic power and drawn millions of Americans to cities
With a concurrent rise in immigration, the 1920 U.S. census was the first in which the majority of the population lived in urban areas. Although World War I had strained the country’s finances, the fact that the United States had entered the war late and that the fighting took place overseas helped it secure a more dominant economic position relative to its European allies.
Schenck v. United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
1919
Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the “Red Summer” (meaning “bloody”) following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by large-scale African American migration to the North
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1922
The Fordney–McCumber Tariff (September 1922) was the highest in U.S. history and angered the Europeans, whose efforts to acquire dollars through exports were hampered even as the United States demanded payment of war debts.
Washington Conference, (1921–22), international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area. Held in Washington, D.C., the conference resulted in the drafting and signing of several major and minor treaty agreements.
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1921
The Grain Futures Act was "for the prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grain by regulating transactions on grain future exchanges, and for other purposes.
.The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days
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1923-1924
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1924
In the United States, the Rogers Act of 1924 unified the overseas service itself, but the civil servants of the State Department in Washington, D.C., continued to be regarded as part of the federal civil service.
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, (1923), U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court invalidated a board established by Congress to set minimum wages for women workers in the District of Columbia.
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1923
.Rosewood massacre of 1923, an incident of racial violence that lasted several days in January 1923 in the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida
Ultimately led to a new immigration law in 1924 that severely restricted the annual immigration of individuals from countries previously claimed to have contributed excessively to the dilution of American “good stock.”
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1925-1926
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1925
January, 26th
The Judiciary Act of 1925 provided the justices with the sole discretion to determine their caseload. In order to issue a writ of certiorari, which grants a court hearing to a case, at least four justices must agree (the “Rule of Four”).
John Logie Baird publicly presents his television prototype based on Nipkow's album.
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1925
May 1
Tri-State Tornado of 1925The deadliest in U.S. history, that traveled from southeastern Missouri through southern Illinois and into southwestern Indiana on March 18, 1925. The storm completely destroyed a number of towns and caused 695 deaths.
The liberal rebellion, called the Constitutionalist War, breaks out on the Atlantic Coast and the United States Marine Corps lands in Bluefields
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1927-1928
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1927
August 23rd
On February 20, 1928 in the United States, the Senate agrees to unblock German properties seized during ¿the First World War.
Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.
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1927
January, 6
The United States Marines invade Nicaragua at the request of the government of Adolfo Díaz Recinos within the framework of the constitutionalist civil war.
On November 5, 1928, Republican Herbert Clark Hoover was elected president.
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1929-1930
1930
1929
On September 3, 1930 in the United States, French pilots Diudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte land near New York after a 37-hour flight across the Atlantic.
On October 24, 1929 in the United States, Black Thursday (the crash of the New York Stock Exchange) marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
1930
1929
On November 11, 1930 in the United States, Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd are granted patent US1781541 for their invention: the Einstein refrigerato
On October 23, 1929 in New York, after a steady decline from a peak in September, the stock market begins to show signs of panic (Great Depression).
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1931-1932
1932
1931
On January 12, 1932 in the United States Hattie Caraway becomes the first white woman to be elected senator.
On October 24, 1931 in the United States, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined $50,000, but not for the multiple murders he committed but for not paying taxes.
1932
1931
On July 29, 1932 in Washington (United States) - in the context of the Great Depression - the government suppresses the last "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
On March 3, 1931, the United States government adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
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1933-1934
1934
1933
On March 4, 1933 in the United States, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as president. In his inaugural address he says, "The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself."
On July 5, 1934 in the United States, the "Bloody Thursday" takes place in the framework of the San Francisco strikes.
1933
On February 15, 1933 in Miami, United States, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
1934
On August 10, 1934 in Chicago (United States), about 350 people die as a result of a heat wave.
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1935-1936
1936
1935
On November 3, 1936 in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected 32nd President.
On November 6, 1935 in New York (USA), engineer Edwin Armstrong presents his work Method for reducing interference in radio signals by means of a frequency modulation system (see frequency modulation).
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1935
On December 30, 1936 in the United States, the United Auto Workers union begins its first strike.
May 14, 1935 in the United States, Carl Magee invents the parking meter.
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1937-1938
1938
1937
February 18, 1938 in the United States the second Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted.
February 11, 1937 In the United States, a strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
1937
January 6, 1937 in the United States, Congress establishes an embargo on arms destined for both sides of the Spanish Civil War.
1938
October 30, 1938 in the United States, Orson Welles causes panic in several U.S. cities by reading The War of the Worlds (by H. G. Wells) over the radio.
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1939-1940
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1939
On January 5, 1940 in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission demonstrates FM broadcasting for the first time.
On November 6, 1939 in the United States, the Hedda Hopper Show debuts, featuring Hollywood gossip maven Hedda Hopper. The show lasted until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in Hollywood show business.
1939
On February 11, 1939 in the United States, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft flies from California to New York in record time: 7:02 hours.
1940
On November 5, 1940 in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president for the third time.
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1941-1942
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1941
On January 1, 1942, the Declaration of the United Nations is signed in New York.
December 8, 1941 U.S. Congress declares war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
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1941
On February 1, 1942, Voice of America, the official overseas radio and television service produced by the U.S. federal government, begins broadcasting in the United States during World War II (1939-1945). Its programs were devoted to areas controlled by Axis forces.
On February 6, 1941, in the United States, the House of Representatives rejects a Republican request to set a ceiling on aid to Great Britain.
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1943-1944
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1943
February 15, 1944 The United States regains control of the Solomon Islands (in the Pacific) after heavy fighting with the Japanese.
December 20, 1943 U.S. soldiers land on the Gilbert Islands.
1944
On November 19, 1944 in the United States - as part of World War II (1939-1945) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth war loan, which succeeded in selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1943
On March 6, 1943 in the United States, Norman Rockwell publishes "Freedom from want" in The Saturday Evening Post with an essay by Carlos Bulosan.
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1945-1946
1946
1945
On May 17, 1946 in the United States, Herbert Hoover invites the population of that country to help the 800 million people threatened by hunger in the world due - among several other factors - to the actions of American multinational companies.
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and later, on August 9, dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
1945
On April 9, 1945, the Atomic Energy Commission is created in the United States.
1946
On November 16, 1946 in the United States, a carrier pigeon is decorated for its courier services during World War II (1939-1945).
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1947-1948
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1947
On January 12, 1948 in the United States, the Supreme Court declares equal education for blacks and whites. However, racial segregation in the U.S. is officially abolished in 1967.
On April 9, 1947 in New York (United States), the Security Council of the United Nations publishes Resolution 22. Streetcar burning in flames in front of the National Capitol during the popular uprisings
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1947
On January 6, 1947 in the United States, George C. Marshall is appointed Secretary of State.
May 20, 1978 The United States launches its Pioneer Venus probe to Venus.
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1949-1950
1950
1949
On January 31, 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders the production of the hydrogen bomb in the United States.
April 4, 1949 In Washington, twelve countries sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.
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1950
Jan. 20, 1949 United States: Harry S. Truman develops a four-point program for economically backward countries.
On June 27, 1950, the U.S. government decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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1951-1952
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1951
Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the presidential election on November 4, 1952, defeating Adlai Stevenson.
A peace treaty is signed that officially ends World War II between Japan and the Allies.
1952
1951
The United States and its allies engage in a military conflict with North Korea and China.
Senator Joseph McCarthy intensifies his anti-communist campaign, leading to the blacklisting and persecution of suspected communists.
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1953-1954
1954
1953
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
On July 27, 1953, the Panmunjom armistice was signed, ending active hostilities in the Korean War and establishing the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
1953
1954
A coup in Iran occurred in August 1953. Funded by the United States and the United Kingdom, it removed Mohammad Mosaddegh from power and restored Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as Iran’s leader.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. March 13 to May 7, 1954, and this set the stage for the subsequent Vietnam War.
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1955-1956
1956
1955
U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.
On August 28, 1955, African-American teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman, a crime that shocked the nation and catalyzed the civil rights movement.
1956
1955
December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr.
On November 6, 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected president of the United States in a resounding victory over Adlai Stevenson
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1957-1958
1958
1957
On January 31, the US enters the space race by launching Explorer 1, the first US satellite to reach orbit. It carried experimental equipment that led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
In 1957 Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1958
1957
The Civil Rights Act was signed on September 9, 1957, this law establishes the Civil Rights Commission and strengthens the protection of the right to vote
On July 29, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created to lead the United States space effort and compete with the Soviet Union in the space race.
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1959-1960
1960
1959
On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th president of the United States, narrowly defeating Richard Nixon.
2 August 1959: The US launches Explorer 6, the world's first weather satellite and obtains the first pictures of Earth from space.
1960
1959
On January 3, 1959, Alaska becomes the 49th state of the Union, followed by Hawaii on August 21 as the 50th state.
United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
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1961-1962
1962
1961
In October 1962, a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union breaks out when Soviet nuclear missiles are discovered in Cuba,
On April 17, 1961, a force of Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's government, but the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion became a serious setback for the Kennedy administration.
1962
1961
On 31 January Ham, a US chimpanzee, becomes the first hominid (or great ape) in space and the first to successfully survive the landing.
Since this year, USA´s "military advisors" will be helping the Vietnamese army fight the Vietcong.
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1963-1964
1964
1963
: On November 3, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president of the United States in a landslide victory over Barry Goldwater.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
1964
1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, critical legislation prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
On August 28, 1963, around 250,000 people participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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1965-1966
1966
1965
On October 15, 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, with the goal of challenging police brutality and promoting black power.
14 July 1965: The US satellite, Mariner 4, performs the first successful voyage to the planet Mars, returning the first close-up images of the Martian surface.
1966
1965
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
On November 2, the Cuban Adjustment Act, a U.S. federal law that was enacted with the intent of allowing Cuban natives or citizens in the United States
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1967-1968
1968
1967
On November 5, Richard Nixon won the elections.
On May 15, Black Panther Ten-Point Program was published.
1968
1967
On July 23, a series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighborhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department
21 December 1968: US spacecraft Apollo 8 becomes the first human-crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon, orbit it, and successfully return to Earth.
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1969-1970
1970
1969
On December 2, 1970, President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consolidate and strengthen federal efforts to protect the environment.
From August 15 to 18, 1969, the Woodstock Festival is held on a farm in Bethel, New York, bringing together more than 400,000 people in an event that becomes a symbol of the counterculture of the 60s and the hippie movement. .
1970
1969
On July 20, 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 mission lands on the Moon, and astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to walk on the lunar surface.
On May 4, 1970, during a demonstration against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio, the National Guard shoots students
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1971-1972
1972
1971
Republican Pres. Richard Nixon was elected to a second term,
On July 1, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18,
1972
1971
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a series of secret Department of Defense documents that revealed classified information about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
On June 23, 1972, Congress passes Title IX of the Education Amendments, a federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
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1973-1974
1974
1973
On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first United States president to resign from office.
On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Agreement is signed, officially ending direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War and marking the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops.
1974
1973
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion nationwide and establishing that a woman's right to decide about her pregnancy is protected by the Constitution,
The privacy act of 1974 restricts the dissemination of personal information about an individual by federal agencies and requires that when such information is collected
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1975-1976
1975
Fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War.
1976
1975
Gerald Ford assumes the presidency after Richard Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal.
Jimmy Carter is elected president.
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1977-1978
1978
1977
President Jimmy Carter signed the bill establishing the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran, an ally of the United States. This event eventually led to the hostage crisis in November 1979.
1978
1977
President Jimmy Carter facilitated a historic agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David, Maryland.
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
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1979-1980
1980
1979
Ronald Reagan, a Republican and former governor of California, was elected president of the United States, defeating incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
The United States experienced a severe energy crisis due to oil shortages and high fuel prices.
1979
1980
An accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, causing a radiation leak and raising concerns about the safety of nuclear power in the United States.
Former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York residence by an obsessed fan.
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1981-1982
1982
1981
The United States experienced an economic recession that led to high unemployment rates and a decline in economic activity.
Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1981
1982
President Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
The Reagan administration supported the extension of Title IX to ensure gender equity in the funding of college athletic programs.
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1983-1984
1984
1983
Ronald Reagan was reelected president of the United States in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter Mondale.
The United States led a military invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in response to a communist coup d'état in the country.
1983
1983
President Reagan established the President's Commission on HIV/AIDS in response to the growing public health crisis.
A group of women organized a protest campaign called "Women for Peace," which included a march of 14,000 women in protest against the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.
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1985-1986
1986
1985
President Reagan enacted major tax reform that reduced tax rates for individuals and corporations, simplified the tax code, and eliminated some tax deductions.
William Rehnquist was nominated by President Reagan as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, after serving as an associate since 1972.
1985
1986
The Iran-Contra scandal broke, revealing that the Reagan administration had secretly sold arms to Iran and used the proceeds to fund counterrevolutionary rebels in Nicaragua.
President Reagan nominated Antonin Scalia for a seat on the Supreme Court.
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1987-1988
1987
1988
Democratic Senator Gary Hart withdrew from the presidential race after an extramarital affair was revealed.
Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States, defeating Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis.
1987
1988
Congress passed the Anti-Abuse Drug Control Act, which established "zero tolerance" policies to combat drug trafficking and increased penalties for drug-related offenses.
President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss nuclear arms control.
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1989-1990
1990
1989
President George H.W. Bush signed the Nuclear Arms Control and Adjustment Act (START), a treaty with the Soviet Union that limited the number of long-range strategic nuclear weapons.
The U.S. federal government experienced its first partial shutdown due to disagreements between President Bush and Congress over the budget.
1989
1990
The East German government announced the opening of its borders with West Germany, which led to the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall.
President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibited disability discrimination and required accessibility in public places and in the workplace.
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1991-1992
1992
1991
Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), which limited the number of deployed nuclear warheads and strategic missile launchers.
1991
1992
A U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which had invaded the country in August 1990.
The Dayton Peace Agreement was reached, ending the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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1993-1994
1994
1993
Republicans won a historic victory, taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republican leader Newt Gingrich introduced the "Contract with America," a series of conservative legislative proposals, which helped drive political change in Washington.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which gradually eliminated trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, came into effect.
1993
1994
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Clinton as the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act, which provided federal resources to combat domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
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1995-1996
1995
A bombing by right-wing extremists destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600 others.
1996
President Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act, which introduced significant changes to the U.S. welfare system.
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1997-1998
1998
1997
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the scandal of his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky.
President Clinton became the focus of an impeachment investigation into allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice related to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
1997
1998
The United States recorded its first federal budget surplus since 1969.
The first International Space Station (ISS) module was launched, marking the beginning of construction of the permanent orbital station.
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1999-2000
1999
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Seattle to protest World Trade Organization ministerial meeting
2000
1999
NATO launched a bombing campaign against Serbia in response to the repression by Serbian forces against the Kosovo Albanian population in Kosovo.
The presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore ended in a controversy over the results in the state of Florida.
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Theodore Roosevelt
president of United States
(born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York) was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest in conflicts between big business and labour and steered the nation toward an active role in world politics, particularly in Europe and Asia. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906
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1901
Philipine American War
War between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902, an insurrection that may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. It began after the United States assumed sovereignty of the Philippines following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War. Although an end to the insurrection was declared in 1902, sporadic fighting continued for several years thereafter.
Theodore Roosevelt president of United States
Hay-Pauncete Treaty
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, (1900–01), either of two agreements between Britain and the United States, the second of which freed the United States from a previous commitment to accept international control of the Panama Canal.
1902
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1902
Breakup of Northern Securities (1902–04)
In 1902 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the Progressive goal of curbing the enormous economic and political power of the giant corporate trusts by resurrecting the nearly defunct Sherman Antitrust Act to bring a lawsuit that led to the breakup of a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company (ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1904). Roosevelt pursued this policy of “trust-busting” by initiating suits against 43 other major corporations during the next seven years.
Spooner Act
Spooner Act (1902), which authorized Pres. Theodore Roosevelt to purchase rights to build the Panama Canal.
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1903-1904
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company is an American automotive corporation that was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford and 11 associate investors. Emerging at the close of the American Industrial Revolution and fueled by the dynamic ethos of Gilded Age capitalism
(Nov. 18, 1903), agreement between the United States and Panama granting exclusive canal rights to the United States ....
Day Law
The Kentucky legislature passed the Day Law, which prohibited African American and white students from receiving an education at the same school or in schools that were located less than 25 miles (40 km) apart
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1905-1906
1905
1906
Niagara Movement
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that occurred on April 18, 1906, at 5:12 AM off the northern California coast. The San Andreas Fault slipped along a segment about 270 miles (430 km) long
Organization of Black intellectuals that was led by W.E.B. Du Bois and called for full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
1906
1905
April 17, 1905
Atlanta race riot of 1906, major outbreak of violence in Atlanta, Georgia, that killed at least 12 and possibly as many as 25 African Americans in late September 1906.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labour a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade
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1907-1908
1907
1908
Gentlemen’s Agreement United States-Japanese agreement
Root-Takahira Agreement United States-Japan accord between the United States and Japan that averted a drift toward possible war by mutually acknowledging certain international policies and spheres of influence in the Pacific
U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt agreed to urge the city of San Francisco to rescind an order by which children of Japanese parents were segregated from white students in the schools.
1908
1907
Springfield Race Riot, (August 1908), in U.S. history, brutal two-day assault by several thousand white citizens on the Black community of Springfield, Illinois.
Monongah mining disaster of 1907, deadly mining explosion on Dec. 6, 1907, in Monongah, W.Va., that killed more than 350 miners.
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1909-1910
1909
1910
Big Blowup of 1910, devastating forest fire that torched 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) in western Montana and northern Idaho during Aug. 20–23, 1910. Of the fire’s 85 victims, 78 were firefighters.
.The 1909 Florida Keys hurricane makes landfall in the U.SNew York shirtwaist strike of 1909 begins. November 2 – The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. November 6 – The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated in Baltimore.
1910
1909
Mann Act, U.S. federal statute (18 U.S.C. §2421 et seq.), passed by Congress and signed into law by Pres. William Howard Taft in 1910, that originally criminalized the transportation of women or girls “in interstate or foreign commerce”
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1909 in response to a call from Republican Pres. William Howard Taft for lower tariffs.
Timeline USA
1911-1912
1911
1912
John Marshall Harlan (born June 1, 1833, Boyle County, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 14, 1911, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal.
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.Bull Moose Party, U.S. dissident political faction that nominated former president Theodore Roosevelt as its candidate in the presidential election of 1912; the formal name and general objectives of the party were revived 12 years later. Opposing the entrenched conservatism of the regular Republican Party
1912
1911
William Howard Taft on October 29, 1912, standardized for the first time the proportions and relative sizes of the elements of the flag
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in a New York City sweatshop, touching off a national movement in the United States for safer working conditions.
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1913-1914
1913
1914
The 1913 Federal Reserve Act is legislation in the United States that created the Federal Reserve System. 1 Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy.
San Francisco earthquake of 1906.major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 that occurred on April 18, 1906, at 5:12 AM off the northern California coast. The San Andreas Fault slipped along a segment about 270 miles (430 km) long
1914
1913
United States Occupation of Veracruz, (April–November 1914), the occupation of Veracruz, the chief port on the east coast of Mexico, by military forces of the United States during the civil wars of the Mexican Revolution. Victory for the United States in a one-sided battle resulted in U.S. troops occupying the city for six months.
Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act, U.S. legislation enacted in October 1913 that lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent and reintroduced a federal income tax.
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1915-1916
1915
1916
By 1916 the most promising signs for peace seemed to exist only in the intentions of two statesmen in power—the German chancellor Bethmann and the U.S. president Woodrow Wilson. Wilson, having proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in August 1914, strove for the next two years to maintain it.
Eastland disaster, capsizing of the passenger liner SS Eastland on the Chicago River in Chicago on July 24, 1915. The event, which claimed at least 844 lives, ranks as one of the worst maritime disasters in American history
1916
1915
Battle of Columbus, also known as the Burning of Columbus or the Columbus Raid, (8–9 March 1916). In need of supplies during the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa led his men in a raid across the border into the United States, at Columbus, New Mexico.
Lusitania, British ocean liner, the sinking of which by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, contributed indirectly to the entry of the United States into World War I
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1917-1918
1917
1918
Smith-Hughes Act, U.S. legislation, adopted in 1917, that provided federal aid to the states for the purpose of promoting precollegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.
\Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Allied victory and the first U.S.-led offensive in World War I, fought from September 12 to September16, 1918. The Allied attack against the Saint-Mihiel salient provided the Americans with an opportunity to use the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front
1917
After the rupture of diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3, 1917, events pushed the United States inexorably along the road to war. Using his authority as commander in chief, Wilson on March 9 ordered the arming of American merchant ships so that they could defend themselves against U-boat attacks
1918
Influenza pandemic of 1918–19, the most severe influenza outbreak of the 20th century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, among the most devastating pandemics in human history.
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1919-1920
1919
1920
1920
By the dawn of the 1920s, the second Industrial Revolution had transformed the United States into a global economic power and drawn millions of Americans to cities
With a concurrent rise in immigration, the 1920 U.S. census was the first in which the majority of the population lived in urban areas. Although World War I had strained the country’s finances, the fact that the United States had entered the war late and that the fighting took place overseas helped it secure a more dominant economic position relative to its European allies.
Schenck v. United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
1919
Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the “Red Summer” (meaning “bloody”) following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by large-scale African American migration to the North
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1921-1922
1921
1922
The Fordney–McCumber Tariff (September 1922) was the highest in U.S. history and angered the Europeans, whose efforts to acquire dollars through exports were hampered even as the United States demanded payment of war debts.
Washington Conference, (1921–22), international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area. Held in Washington, D.C., the conference resulted in the drafting and signing of several major and minor treaty agreements.
1922
1921
The Grain Futures Act was "for the prevention and removal of obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grain by regulating transactions on grain future exchanges, and for other purposes.
.The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days
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1923-1924
1923
1924
In the United States, the Rogers Act of 1924 unified the overseas service itself, but the civil servants of the State Department in Washington, D.C., continued to be regarded as part of the federal civil service.
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, (1923), U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court invalidated a board established by Congress to set minimum wages for women workers in the District of Columbia.
1924
1923
.Rosewood massacre of 1923, an incident of racial violence that lasted several days in January 1923 in the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida
Ultimately led to a new immigration law in 1924 that severely restricted the annual immigration of individuals from countries previously claimed to have contributed excessively to the dilution of American “good stock.”
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1925-1926
1926
1925
January, 26th
The Judiciary Act of 1925 provided the justices with the sole discretion to determine their caseload. In order to issue a writ of certiorari, which grants a court hearing to a case, at least four justices must agree (the “Rule of Four”).
John Logie Baird publicly presents his television prototype based on Nipkow's album.
1926
1925
May 1
Tri-State Tornado of 1925The deadliest in U.S. history, that traveled from southeastern Missouri through southern Illinois and into southwestern Indiana on March 18, 1925. The storm completely destroyed a number of towns and caused 695 deaths.
The liberal rebellion, called the Constitutionalist War, breaks out on the Atlantic Coast and the United States Marine Corps lands in Bluefields
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1927-1928
1928
1927
August 23rd
On February 20, 1928 in the United States, the Senate agrees to unblock German properties seized during ¿the First World War.
Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed by electric chair.
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1927
January, 6
The United States Marines invade Nicaragua at the request of the government of Adolfo Díaz Recinos within the framework of the constitutionalist civil war.
On November 5, 1928, Republican Herbert Clark Hoover was elected president.
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1929-1930
1930
1929
On September 3, 1930 in the United States, French pilots Diudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte land near New York after a 37-hour flight across the Atlantic.
On October 24, 1929 in the United States, Black Thursday (the crash of the New York Stock Exchange) marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
1930
1929
On November 11, 1930 in the United States, Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd are granted patent US1781541 for their invention: the Einstein refrigerato
On October 23, 1929 in New York, after a steady decline from a peak in September, the stock market begins to show signs of panic (Great Depression).
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1931-1932
1932
1931
On January 12, 1932 in the United States Hattie Caraway becomes the first white woman to be elected senator.
On October 24, 1931 in the United States, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined $50,000, but not for the multiple murders he committed but for not paying taxes.
1932
1931
On July 29, 1932 in Washington (United States) - in the context of the Great Depression - the government suppresses the last "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
On March 3, 1931, the United States government adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
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1933-1934
1934
1933
On March 4, 1933 in the United States, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as president. In his inaugural address he says, "The only thing to be afraid of is fear itself."
On July 5, 1934 in the United States, the "Bloody Thursday" takes place in the framework of the San Francisco strikes.
1933
On February 15, 1933 in Miami, United States, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead fatally wounds Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
1934
On August 10, 1934 in Chicago (United States), about 350 people die as a result of a heat wave.
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1935-1936
1936
1935
On November 3, 1936 in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected 32nd President.
On November 6, 1935 in New York (USA), engineer Edwin Armstrong presents his work Method for reducing interference in radio signals by means of a frequency modulation system (see frequency modulation).
1936
1935
On December 30, 1936 in the United States, the United Auto Workers union begins its first strike.
May 14, 1935 in the United States, Carl Magee invents the parking meter.
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1937-1938
1938
1937
February 18, 1938 in the United States the second Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted.
February 11, 1937 In the United States, a strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
1937
January 6, 1937 in the United States, Congress establishes an embargo on arms destined for both sides of the Spanish Civil War.
1938
October 30, 1938 in the United States, Orson Welles causes panic in several U.S. cities by reading The War of the Worlds (by H. G. Wells) over the radio.
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1939-1940
1940
1939
On January 5, 1940 in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission demonstrates FM broadcasting for the first time.
On November 6, 1939 in the United States, the Hedda Hopper Show debuts, featuring Hollywood gossip maven Hedda Hopper. The show lasted until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in Hollywood show business.
1939
On February 11, 1939 in the United States, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft flies from California to New York in record time: 7:02 hours.
1940
On November 5, 1940 in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president for the third time.
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1941-1942
1942
1941
On January 1, 1942, the Declaration of the United Nations is signed in New York.
December 8, 1941 U.S. Congress declares war on the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
1942
1941
On February 1, 1942, Voice of America, the official overseas radio and television service produced by the U.S. federal government, begins broadcasting in the United States during World War II (1939-1945). Its programs were devoted to areas controlled by Axis forces.
On February 6, 1941, in the United States, the House of Representatives rejects a Republican request to set a ceiling on aid to Great Britain.
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1943-1944
1944
1943
February 15, 1944 The United States regains control of the Solomon Islands (in the Pacific) after heavy fighting with the Japanese.
December 20, 1943 U.S. soldiers land on the Gilbert Islands.
1944
On November 19, 1944 in the United States - as part of World War II (1939-1945) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth war loan, which succeeded in selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1943
On March 6, 1943 in the United States, Norman Rockwell publishes "Freedom from want" in The Saturday Evening Post with an essay by Carlos Bulosan.
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1945-1946
1946
1945
On May 17, 1946 in the United States, Herbert Hoover invites the population of that country to help the 800 million people threatened by hunger in the world due - among several other factors - to the actions of American multinational companies.
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and later, on August 9, dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
1945
On April 9, 1945, the Atomic Energy Commission is created in the United States.
1946
On November 16, 1946 in the United States, a carrier pigeon is decorated for its courier services during World War II (1939-1945).
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1947-1948
1948
1947
On January 12, 1948 in the United States, the Supreme Court declares equal education for blacks and whites. However, racial segregation in the U.S. is officially abolished in 1967.
On April 9, 1947 in New York (United States), the Security Council of the United Nations publishes Resolution 22. Streetcar burning in flames in front of the National Capitol during the popular uprisings
1948
1947
On January 6, 1947 in the United States, George C. Marshall is appointed Secretary of State.
May 20, 1978 The United States launches its Pioneer Venus probe to Venus.
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1949-1950
1950
1949
On January 31, 1950, U.S. President Harry S. Truman orders the production of the hydrogen bomb in the United States.
April 4, 1949 In Washington, twelve countries sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.
1949
1950
Jan. 20, 1949 United States: Harry S. Truman develops a four-point program for economically backward countries.
On June 27, 1950, the U.S. government decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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1951-1952
1952
1951
Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the presidential election on November 4, 1952, defeating Adlai Stevenson.
A peace treaty is signed that officially ends World War II between Japan and the Allies.
1952
1951
The United States and its allies engage in a military conflict with North Korea and China.
Senator Joseph McCarthy intensifies his anti-communist campaign, leading to the blacklisting and persecution of suspected communists.
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1953-1954
1954
1953
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
On July 27, 1953, the Panmunjom armistice was signed, ending active hostilities in the Korean War and establishing the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
1953
1954
A coup in Iran occurred in August 1953. Funded by the United States and the United Kingdom, it removed Mohammad Mosaddegh from power and restored Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as Iran’s leader.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu. March 13 to May 7, 1954, and this set the stage for the subsequent Vietnam War.
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1955-1956
1956
1955
U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional.
On August 28, 1955, African-American teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman, a crime that shocked the nation and catalyzed the civil rights movement.
1956
1955
December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr.
On November 6, 1956, Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected president of the United States in a resounding victory over Adlai Stevenson
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1957-1958
1958
1957
On January 31, the US enters the space race by launching Explorer 1, the first US satellite to reach orbit. It carried experimental equipment that led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
In 1957 Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1958
1957
The Civil Rights Act was signed on September 9, 1957, this law establishes the Civil Rights Commission and strengthens the protection of the right to vote
On July 29, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created to lead the United States space effort and compete with the Soviet Union in the space race.
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1959-1960
1960
1959
On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th president of the United States, narrowly defeating Richard Nixon.
2 August 1959: The US launches Explorer 6, the world's first weather satellite and obtains the first pictures of Earth from space.
1960
1959
On January 3, 1959, Alaska becomes the 49th state of the Union, followed by Hawaii on August 21 as the 50th state.
United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
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1961-1962
1962
1961
In October 1962, a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union breaks out when Soviet nuclear missiles are discovered in Cuba,
On April 17, 1961, a force of Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's government, but the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion became a serious setback for the Kennedy administration.
1962
1961
On 31 January Ham, a US chimpanzee, becomes the first hominid (or great ape) in space and the first to successfully survive the landing.
Since this year, USA´s "military advisors" will be helping the Vietnamese army fight the Vietcong.
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1963-1964
1964
1963
: On November 3, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president of the United States in a landslide victory over Barry Goldwater.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
1964
1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, critical legislation prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
On August 28, 1963, around 250,000 people participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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1965-1966
1966
1965
On October 15, 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, with the goal of challenging police brutality and promoting black power.
14 July 1965: The US satellite, Mariner 4, performs the first successful voyage to the planet Mars, returning the first close-up images of the Martian surface.
1966
1965
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
On November 2, the Cuban Adjustment Act, a U.S. federal law that was enacted with the intent of allowing Cuban natives or citizens in the United States
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1967-1968
1968
1967
On November 5, Richard Nixon won the elections.
On May 15, Black Panther Ten-Point Program was published.
1968
1967
On July 23, a series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighborhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department
21 December 1968: US spacecraft Apollo 8 becomes the first human-crewed spacecraft to reach the Moon, orbit it, and successfully return to Earth.
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1969-1970
1970
1969
On December 2, 1970, President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consolidate and strengthen federal efforts to protect the environment.
From August 15 to 18, 1969, the Woodstock Festival is held on a farm in Bethel, New York, bringing together more than 400,000 people in an event that becomes a symbol of the counterculture of the 60s and the hippie movement. .
1970
1969
On July 20, 1969, NASA's Apollo 11 mission lands on the Moon, and astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to walk on the lunar surface.
On May 4, 1970, during a demonstration against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio, the National Guard shoots students
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1971-1972
1972
1971
Republican Pres. Richard Nixon was elected to a second term,
On July 1, 1971, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18,
1972
1971
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a series of secret Department of Defense documents that revealed classified information about the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
On June 23, 1972, Congress passes Title IX of the Education Amendments, a federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.
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1973-1974
1974
1973
On August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first United States president to resign from office.
On January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Agreement is signed, officially ending direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War and marking the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops.
1974
1973
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion nationwide and establishing that a woman's right to decide about her pregnancy is protected by the Constitution,
The privacy act of 1974 restricts the dissemination of personal information about an individual by federal agencies and requires that when such information is collected
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1975-1976
1975
Fall of Saigon and end of the Vietnam War.
1976
1975
Gerald Ford assumes the presidency after Richard Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal.
Jimmy Carter is elected president.
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1977-1978
1978
1977
President Jimmy Carter signed the bill establishing the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran, an ally of the United States. This event eventually led to the hostage crisis in November 1979.
1978
1977
President Jimmy Carter facilitated a historic agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David, Maryland.
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
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1979-1980
1980
1979
Ronald Reagan, a Republican and former governor of California, was elected president of the United States, defeating incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
The United States experienced a severe energy crisis due to oil shortages and high fuel prices.
1979
1980
An accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, causing a radiation leak and raising concerns about the safety of nuclear power in the United States.
Former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York residence by an obsessed fan.
Timeline USA
1981-1982
1982
1981
The United States experienced an economic recession that led to high unemployment rates and a decline in economic activity.
Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1981
1982
President Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
The Reagan administration supported the extension of Title IX to ensure gender equity in the funding of college athletic programs.
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1983-1984
1984
1983
Ronald Reagan was reelected president of the United States in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter Mondale.
The United States led a military invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in response to a communist coup d'état in the country.
1983
1983
President Reagan established the President's Commission on HIV/AIDS in response to the growing public health crisis.
A group of women organized a protest campaign called "Women for Peace," which included a march of 14,000 women in protest against the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.
Timeline USA
1985-1986
1986
1985
President Reagan enacted major tax reform that reduced tax rates for individuals and corporations, simplified the tax code, and eliminated some tax deductions.
William Rehnquist was nominated by President Reagan as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, after serving as an associate since 1972.
1985
1986
The Iran-Contra scandal broke, revealing that the Reagan administration had secretly sold arms to Iran and used the proceeds to fund counterrevolutionary rebels in Nicaragua.
President Reagan nominated Antonin Scalia for a seat on the Supreme Court.
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1987-1988
1987
1988
Democratic Senator Gary Hart withdrew from the presidential race after an extramarital affair was revealed.
Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush was elected as the 41st president of the United States, defeating Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis.
1987
1988
Congress passed the Anti-Abuse Drug Control Act, which established "zero tolerance" policies to combat drug trafficking and increased penalties for drug-related offenses.
President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss nuclear arms control.
Timeline USA
1989-1990
1990
1989
President George H.W. Bush signed the Nuclear Arms Control and Adjustment Act (START), a treaty with the Soviet Union that limited the number of long-range strategic nuclear weapons.
The U.S. federal government experienced its first partial shutdown due to disagreements between President Bush and Congress over the budget.
1989
1990
The East German government announced the opening of its borders with West Germany, which led to the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall.
President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibited disability discrimination and required accessibility in public places and in the workplace.
Timeline USA
1991-1992
1992
1991
Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), which limited the number of deployed nuclear warheads and strategic missile launchers.
1991
1992
A U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which had invaded the country in August 1990.
The Dayton Peace Agreement was reached, ending the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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1993-1994
1994
1993
Republicans won a historic victory, taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. Republican leader Newt Gingrich introduced the "Contract with America," a series of conservative legislative proposals, which helped drive political change in Washington.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which gradually eliminated trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, came into effect.
1993
1994
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Clinton as the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act, which provided federal resources to combat domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
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1995-1996
1995
A bombing by right-wing extremists destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600 others.
1996
President Clinton signed the Welfare Reform Act, which introduced significant changes to the U.S. welfare system.
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1997-1998
1998
1997
The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the scandal of his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky.
President Clinton became the focus of an impeachment investigation into allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice related to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
1997
1998
The United States recorded its first federal budget surplus since 1969.
The first International Space Station (ISS) module was launched, marking the beginning of construction of the permanent orbital station.
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1999-2000
1999
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Seattle to protest World Trade Organization ministerial meeting
2000
1999
NATO launched a bombing campaign against Serbia in response to the repression by Serbian forces against the Kosovo Albanian population in Kosovo.
The presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore ended in a controversy over the results in the state of Florida.
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Theodore Roosevelt president of United States
(born October 27, 1858, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 6, 1919, Oyster Bay, New York) was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal government in support of the public interest in conflicts between big business and labour and steered the nation toward an active role in world politics, particularly in Europe and Asia. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906