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The Wright Brothers - First Flight
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with . -
U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I
World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history -
holocaust
The holocaust started because the Germans had something against being jewish. -
A workman on the construction crew of the Empire State Building.
The decade begin in depression, which dug so deep into the soul and conscience of the nation that only a World War could really make a dent in its depth. Franklin Roosevelt dominated the decade and more with a presidency that saw us through that war and brought us many of the Great Society programs we have today. -
United States and other Allied nations land on the beach at Normandy,
The world was at war as the decade began, all within the confines of a great depression that was affecting the lives of all Americans, but when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States could no longer be on the sidelines. Through the courage and dedication of the soldiers who fought in the European or South Pacfic theaters, they spent much of this decade in a battle for a way of life that the country and western powers had spent two centuries building. By the end of the decade, that war woul -
President Richard Nixon
Watergate. The end of Vietnam. Normal relations with China. Earth Day. It was a nation in flux, one turning in small measures to a computer age, even if that computer was originally the size of a house. -
National Guard
September 4, 1957 - National Guard called to duty by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attending previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He withdrew the troops on September 21 and the students were allowed entrance to class two days later. A threat of violence caused President Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to Little Rock on September 24 to enforce the edict. -
Astronaut John Glenn
There were seasons of change in culture. There were Civil Rights to be won and legislation that would assist. And there was a war, the Vietnam war, that caused divide. It was a decade of turmoil that saw one President shot, another with the fatigue of war, and a third, who would not last until the end of his terms. -
School shooting
On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. -
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