Korean War Begins
22nd Amendment Limits the number of Terms a President may Serve
Richard Nixon's 'Checker's Speech on TV'
Rosenbergs are Executed
Brown vs. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Interstate Highway System is Formed
Little Rock Nine
Explorer I is Launched
Alaska and Hawaii become States
U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
President John Kennedy Assassinated
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Malcolm X Assassinated
Miranda vs. Arizona
Thurgood Marshall becomes the First Black Supreme Court Judge
Senator Robert Kennedy Assassinated
Neil Armstrong becomes the First Man on the Moon
Kent State Massacre
26th Amendment Lowes Voting Age to 18
Watergate Scandal Begins
Vice President Spiro Agnew Resigns
President Richard Nixon Resisngs
President Gerald Ford Escapes Assassination Attempts
Bicentennial
President Jimmy Carter Pardons Vietnam Draft Evaders
Camp David Accords
Three Mile Island Disaster
Ronald Reagan is Elected President
Sandra Day O'Conner Becomes the First Female Supreme Court Judge
US Places an Embargo on Libyan Oil Imports
Sally Ride is the US First Woman in Space
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Boycotted by the Eastern Bloc
Iran-Contra Affair Begins
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Reagan visits Berlin, 'Tear Down this Wall'
George H.W. Bush Elected President
US Troops Invade Panama
Persian Gulf War Begins
Soviet Union Breaks up Officially Ending the Cold War
President Bush Pardons Official Involved in Iran-Contra Affair
Bombing of World Trade Center
O.J. Simpson Arrested
Oklahoma City Bombing
Suspected Unabomber Arrested
Heaven's Gate Cult Members Commit Mass Suicide
Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky Sex Scandal
President Bill Clinton Acquitted