U.S. History Timeline

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U.S. History Timeline

• By Jeri Rogish

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1865-1870

• 1865 - American Civil War ends
• - Lincoln was assassinated
• 1867 - Alaska was purchased
• 1870 - Texas is last confederate state readmitted
  to Union

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1871-1880

• 1873 - 43rd Congress has 7 black members
• 1875 - Federal troops sent to Vicksburg to
  protect blacks
• - Civil Rights Act passed
• - 44th Congress has 8 black members
• 1877 - Rutherford Hayes becomes president
• 1880 - Univ. of Southern CA was found

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1881-1890

• 1881 - Clara Barton organizes American Red Cross
• - Some vehicles are required to display
  liscense
• 1883 - Civil Rights act of 1875 declared
  unconstitutional
• 1889 - Washington admitted as a state
• - Prudence Crandall died
• 1890 - Wilber and Orville Wright print the
  Dayton Tattler in Dayton, Ohio

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1891-1900

• 1891 - Carnegie Hall opens in NY
• 1892 - James Naismith publishes basketball rules
• 1893 - The New York stock exchange collapses
• 1895 - 1st professional football game played in
  Latrobe, PA
• 1897 - Tomb of Ulysses S. Grant dedicated in New
  York 12 years after his death
• 1900 - Theodore Roosevelt is vice president

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1901-1910

• 1901 - McKinley assassinated and Roosevelt
  becomes president
• 1903 - Wright Brothers first flight
• 1906 - San Francisco earthquake
• 1908 - Ford introduces model T
• - Taft elected president
• 1910 - Boy Scouts established in U.S.

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1911-1920

• 1912 - More than 1,000 Africans lynched since
  1901
• 1914 - World War I begins in Europe
• 1917 - U.S. enters World War I
• 1918 - World War I ends
• 1919 - Prohibition Act becomes law
• 1920 - 19th ammendment goes into effect

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1921-1930

• 1921 - Albert Einstein lectures in New York
• 1924 - Congress passed new immigration law
• 1926 - Army Air Corps are established
• 1928 - St. Francis dam gives away in southern CA
• 1929 - Car radio invented
• 1930 - American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh
  discovers Pluto

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1931-1940

• 1931 - State of Nevada legalizes gambling
• - Star-Spangled Banner is approved by
  Hoover and Congress as national anthem
• 1932 - Highest continuous pave road in U.S. is
  opened
• 1933 - Pres. Roosevelt inaugurated for 1st time
• 1935 - Babe Ruth retires from baseball
• 1940 - The Great Smokey Mountains National Park
  is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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1941-1950

• 1943 - Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause 40
  deaths and 700 injuries
• 1945 - President Roosevelt succumbs to a brain
  hemorrhage
• 1946 - Basketball Assoc. of America is founded
• 1947 - Jackie Robinson breaks Major League
  Baseballs barrier against colored players
• 1949 - U.S. withdraws troops from Korea
• 1950 - Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when 11
  bandits steal 2.8 mill from armed car

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1951-1960

• 1951 - U.S. signs a mutual security pact
• 1953 - 1st colored T.V. goes on sale
• - Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated 34th
  president
• 1958 - Explorer I, the 1st American satellite is
  launched
• 1959 - Alaska becomes 49th state and Hawaii 50th
• 1960 - Olympics were held in Rome

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1961-1970

• 1961 - John F. Kennedy moves into White House
• 1962 - John Glenn is 1st man to orbit Earth 3
  times
• 1963 - Martin Luther King gives his I Have A
  Dream speech
• 1966 - Walt Disney dies of cancer on 12/15
• 1967 - First heart transplant was performed
• 1970 - Beatles break up

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1971-1980

• 1971 - London Bridge brought to U.S.
• - VCRs introduced
• 1972 - MASH T.V. show premieres
• - Pocket calculators introduced
• 1980 - John Lennon was assassinated
• - Ted Turner establishes CNN

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1981-1990

• 1981 - Personal Computers introduced by IBM
• 1982 - Michael Jackson releases Thriller
• 1983 - Sally Ride becomes 1st American woman in
  space
• 1984 - PG-13 movie rating created
• 1985 - Wreck of the Titanic found
• 1990 - Hubble telescope launched into space

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1991-2000

• 1992 - Official end of Cold War
• 1993 - World Trade Center bombed
• 1994 - I was born
• 1997 - Tiger Woods wins Masters
• 1998 - Titanic becomes most successful movie
• 2000 - Bush formally accepts presidency

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2001-2009

• 2001 - Terrorist attack in NY
• 2007 - Male kills 2 students in VA Tech dorm
• 2009 - Obama is president