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Ukraine Crisis
A prolonged crisis in Ukraine when president Viktor Yanukovych suspended preparations for the implementation of an association agreement with the European Union. This decision resulted in mass protests by its proponents, known as the "Euromaidan". -
The Korean War
The Korean War was fought between the United Nations and North Korea. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Ku Klux Klan
Christmas Eve Bombing of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This happened in Seminole County, Florida and killed Harry T and Harriette Moore. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education
A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This happened in Topeka, Kansas. -
Emmett Till's Murder
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. The war was between communist North Vietnam and noncommunist South Vietnam. -
Joseph McCarthy- McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was also known as the October Crisis. Cuban Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. -
Civil Rights Movement
Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period. One of the main leaders was Martin Luther King Jr. -
HIV/AIDS
On this date the first person was diagnosed with HIV AIDS. His name was Gaetan Dugas. -
Iraq-Kuwait War
A war between the forces of the United Nations, led by the United States, and those of Iraq that followed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait.The United Nations forces, called the Coalition, expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait. -
Euro accepted into World Market
The euro came into existence although it had been a goal of the European Union and its predecessors since the 1960s. In 1999 the currency was born. -
9/11
the day on which Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City. The fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. -
Beijing Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. A major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China. -
BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
On the evening of 20 April 2010, a gas release and subsequent explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig working on the Macondo exploration well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people died as a result of the accident and others were injured. -
Norway
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League -run summer camp. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives. -
North Korea Launched Long Range Rocket
North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, violating UN resolutions and angering the international community which was already determined to punish Pyongyang for a nuclear test last month. The rocket took off at around 9:00am Pyongyang time (00:30 GMT), according to the South Korean defence ministry. -
Nelson Mandela dies at 95
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. A famous quote of his was "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -
Paris Terrorist Attack, Hundreds Dead
Terror attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people and wounded hundreds. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
