| Event | Year |
| Treaty of Paris ends U.S. Rev. War | |
| Columbus sets out for final voyage west | |
| Battle of Crécy | |
| No Child Left Behind signed by Bush | |
| Korean War begins | |
| Alien and Sedition Acts passed | |
| Death of Charlemagne | |
| Socalist Republic of Vietnam formed | |
| Apollo 13 mission | |
| Death of Albert Einstein | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte dies | |
| Galveston, TX hit by hurricane, Sept. 8 | |
| Death of Marcus Aurelius | |
| Spanish Civil War begins | |
| Catcher in the Rye first published | |
| Francis Gary Powers' U-2 shot down | |
| Battle of Midway | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti executed | |
| Diet and Edict of Worms | |
| Balfour Declaration approved | |
| First Boer War begins | |
| William Harrison dies in office | |
| United Arab Republic formed by Egypt, Syria | |
| Walt Disney dies | |
| Nasser becomes President of Egypt | |
| First African-American U.S. president inaugurated | |
| Los Angeles riots after Rodney King verdict | |
| Bangladesh declares independence | |
| Tennessee first Confederate state readmitted to US | |
| First U.S. election with women's suffrage | |
| Huxley's Brave New World published | |
| First United States Census authorized | |
| Concordat of Worms | |
| Battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Concord | |
| T. Roosevelt helps end Russo-Japanese War | |
| Eisenhower becomes Supreme Allied Commander in Europe | |
| Kansas Nebraska Act becomes law | |
| Dow Jones falls 508 points in one day | |
| Reagan wins electoral college by 512 votes | |
| Hosni Mubarak ousted as Egyptian president | |