| EVENT | YEAR |
| Lusitania sunk | |
| Falklands invaded | |
| Dynamite patented | |
| Mandela freed | |
| Krakatoa eruption | |
| Munich Olympic massacre | |
| Penicillin discovered | |
| Polio vaccine produced | |
| Franco-Prussian War | |
| Pearl Harbor attacked | |
| Cuban missile crisis | |
| Lizzie Borden acquitted | |
| Hoover Dam completed | |
| September 11th attacks | |
| McKinley assassination | |
| | EVENT | YEAR |
| Oklahoma City bombing | |
| Stanley meets Livingstone | |
| Berlin Airlift | |
| Czar Nicholas II killed | |
| Peary reaches North Pole | |
| Challenger disaster | |
| USS Maine explodes | |
| SARS epidemic | |
| American Civil War | |
| Amelia Earhart disappears | |
| Jonestown massacre | |
| Sputnik launched | |
| Statue of Liberty unveiled | |
| Lindbergh crosses Atlantic | |
| Apollo 11 lands on moon | |
| | EVENT | YEAR |
| Hurricane Katrina disaster | |
| First Modern Olympics | |
| Dead Sea Scrolls found | |
| Soviet Union collapses | |
| Phonograph patented | |
| Teapot Dome scandal | |
| Spanish flu outbreak | |
| Woodstock music festival | |
| Russo-Japanese War | |
| War and Peace published | |
| Hindenburg disaster | |
| Nixon resigns | |
| 'Jack the Ripper' murders | |
| Korean War | |
| Exxon Valdez oil spill | |
| | EVENT | YEAR |
| Gandhi assassination | |
| Wright brothers flight | |
| Chernobyl disaster | |
| DNA discovered | |
| Saddam Hussein execution | |
| Gunfight at O.K. Corral | |
| Saigon falls | |
| Great Chicago Fire | |
| Machu Picchu discovered | |
| King Tut's tomb discovered | |
| MLK Jr. assassination | |
| Suez Canal Opens | |
| O.J. Simpson murder trial | |
| Klondike Gold Rush begins | |
| Pluto discovered | |
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