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U.S.
troops leave Vietnam
Standard
Oil trust busted
Gandhi
starts nonviolent reform
Berlin
Wall goes up
World's
nations form U.N.
Quake,
fire devastate S.F.
Watergate
engulfs Nixon
Shepard
first American in space
GI
Bill of Rights strengthened
Secret
project to make A-bomb
North
Vietnam takes Saigon
U.S.
escalates Vietnam War
First
jet plane takes off
Gagarin
first man in space
Congress
passes voting act
Beatles
tour USA
'Silent
Spring' warns of DDT
U.S.
rejects League of Nations
Robert
F. Kennedy slain
Marshall
Plan unveiled
President
Clinton impeached
Radio
signal spans Atlantic
First
Computer chip patented
King
delivers 'Dream' speech
Apartheid
ends in South Africa
U.S.
tests atomic bomb
Alabama
bus boycott begins
Plastic
revolutionizes products
Israel
achieves statehood
Robinson
integrates baseball
U.S.-licensed
TV begins
ENIAC
accelerates digital computing
Flu
epidemic kills 20 million
U.S.
radio broadcasts begin
World
War I ends
Roe
vs. Wade legalizes abortion
U.S.
celebrates V-E Day
World
crisis over Cuba missiles
FDR's
New Deal begins
Scientists
invent transistor
World
Wide Web invented
Apple
II first mass-market PC
Lindbergh
flies Atlantic alone
Mao
starts communist China
Official
U.S. debut of TV
Berlin
Wall falls
Congress
OK's Civil Rights Act
Deadly
AIDS disease discovered
Allies
invade France on D-Day
Martin
Luther King Jr. slain
Hitler
named chancellor
New
polio vaccine works
Birth
control pill OK'd by FDA
Einstein
conceives relativity
Soviets
launch first satellite
Ford
creates assembly line
Communists
take over Russia
Germany
invades Poland
President
Nixon resigns
Soviet
Union dissolves
DNA's
structure discovered
Antibiotic
penicillin discovered
U.S.
stock market crashes
Court
ends 'separate but equal'
World
War I begins
Nazi
Holocaust exposed
JFK
assassinated
U.S.
women win the vote
Wrights
fly first airplane
Japan
bombs Pearl Harbor
Men
first walk on the moon
Soviet
modernization to kill millions
NATO
established
U.S.
drops atomic bomb
U.S.
warns of smoking hazards
Scopes:
creation vs. evolution
Chernobyl
nuke reactor explodes
Gates,
Allen start Microsoft
Airlift
saves Berlin
First
'test-tube baby' born
Churchill
leads Great Britain
Hitler
launches 'Kristallnacht'
Pathfinder
sends Mars photos
Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution OK'd
Glenn
first American in orbit
Babe
Ruth hits 60 homers
U.S.
enters World War I
China's
'Great Leap' to kill 20 million
Freud
interprets dreams
Riots
at Democratic convention
U.S.
defends South Korea
Shuttle
Challenger explodes
Friedan
sparks women's rights
Panama
Canal opens
Interstate
highways approved
Scientists
clone sheep
Quantum
theory proposed
Gorbachev
begins 'glasnost'
'Unsinkable'
Titanic sinks
FDR
defeats President Hoover
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