Event | President in Office During Event |
Packers win the first Super Bowl | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' | |
Morris Michtom invents the teddy bear | |
America suffers record unemployment during Panic of 1837 | |
Florida gains statehood | |
Darwin publishes his 'Origin of Species' | |
Edison invents practical electric light | |
Spanish-American War begins | |
Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles for the first time | |
Frances Scott Key writes lyrics to 'Star-Spangled Banner' | |
'Star-Spangled Banner' is adopted as U.S. national anthem | |
The Whiskey Rebellion takes place | |
Florence Nightingale nurses wounded in Crimean War | |
Dow Jones closes above 4000 for first time | |
King delivers his 'I Have a Dream' speech | |
Weather Channel airs for first time | |
Eiffel Tower built | |
Lindbergh makes first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight | |
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon | |
'Star Wars' opens | |
United Nations is established | |
Napoleon conquers Italy | |
Battle of Antietam takes place | |
U.S. enters World War I | |
Louisiana Purchase occurs | |
Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa | |
Harriet Tubman joins the Underground Railroad | |
U.S. Department of Interior established | |
Statue of Liberty is dedicated | |
Victoria becomes queen of Great Britain | |
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