| Event | Year | Date |
| First woman elected to Congress | |
| San Francisco Earthquake kills 3,000 | |
| New Coke released | |
| 18th Amendment ratified, authorizing Prohibition | |
| Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh | |
| MLK completes march to Selma | |
| 'Heartbreak Hotel' released | |
| Challenger Disaster | |
| Japanese-American Internment begins | |
| Oliver North indicted in Iran-Contra affair | |
| NASA established | |
| 'Toy Story' released into theaters | |
| Huey Long assassinated | |
| Amelia Earhart disappears into the Pacific | |
| D-Day | |
| 'Hair' opens on Broadway | |
| First crossword puzzle published | |
| US enters the United Nations | |
| First published story of Paul Bunyan | |
| Premiere of 'Birth of a Nation' | |
| 'Godfather' released into theaters | |
| Los Angeles hosts Olympics for first time | |
| Apollo Theater opens in Harlem | |
| WTC North Tower becomes World's tallest building | |
| Martin and Lewis' first performance as a team | |
| Premiere of 'Citizen Kane' | |
| Lincoln Memorial dedicated | |
| Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier | |
| Three Mile Island accident | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder | |
| Brown v. Board of Education ruling | |
| Clinton publicly denies Lewinsky sex scandal | |
| Charles Lindbergh flies solo over the Atlantic | |
| 'Grapes of Wrath' published | |