Can you name the year of each of these actual newspaper headlines (20th century only)?

created by sjunkins
  • Enter a Headline Year in the box below
  • Correctly named Headline Years will show up below
  • Click any empty Headline or Year to answer for that location
  • Source: New York Times Article Archive
  • Each year of the 20th century will only be used ONCE.
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HeadlineYear
Lusitania Topedoed!
President Shot at Buffalo Fair
Stalingrad Halts Hard Nazi Attacks; Red Army Takes Strong Points from Germans
Truman Orders U.S. Air, Navy Units to Fight In Aid Of Korea
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped From Home
4000 Ships Carry Troops to Coast of France
Wilson Asks for War Action
Work Begins on Yankee Stadium; No Ceremony to Mark First Step in Construction
Chernenko is Dead in Moscow at 73; Gorbachev Succeeds Him
Fatal Fall of Wright Airship; Lieut. Selfridge Killed and Orville Wright Hurt
Shark Kills 2 Bathers, Maims 1, Near New York
Martin Luther King Wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
Landslide for Ike!
Scopes Guilty, Fined $100
Unknowns of World War II and Korea Are Enshrined
100,000 Hail Hitler; U.S. Athletes Avoid Nazi Salute to Him
Guyana Official Reports 300 Dead At Religious Sect's Jungle Temple
President Roosevelt Greets Free Cuba
President Harding Dies Suddenly
Hawaii Becomes the 50th State; New Flag Shown
Ferraro is Chosen by Mondale as Running Mate, First Woman on Major Ticket
Opening of Service; About 10,000 Words Sent Between Nova Scotia and Ireland
Mandela is Named President, Closing the Era of Apartheid
Nation and Millions in City Joyously Hail Bicentennial
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating
4 U.S. Agents Killed in Texas Shootout with Cult
Death Captures Crown of Rock and Roll
High Court Puts New Curb On Powers of the Police to Interrogate Suspects
Reds’ Night Game Draws 25,000 Fans; First Under Lights in Major Leagues
Dodgers Purchase Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball
Our Subway Opens, 150,000 Try It
U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W.
Nixon Resigns
Kennedy Orders Blockade of Cuba
HeadlineYear
Martial Law Declared in Sarajevo: Heir to Throne Assassinated
Mark Twain is Dead at 74
Assassin Kills Kennedy: Lyndon Johnson Sworn In
Drastic Measures Everywhere to Curb Flu
Democrats Assert Reagan is Using ‘Star Wars’ Scare to Hide Blunders
China Resumes Control of Hong Kong, Concluding 156 Years of British Rule
Men Walk on Moon
Oahu Bombed by Japanese Planes
Clinton Emphatically Denies an Affair With Ex-Intern
Hoover Odds 5 to 1 on Eve of Election
The Shuttle Explodes
2 Students in Colorado School Said to Gun Down as Many as 23
Dewey Defeats Truman
Lenin Dies of Cerebral Hemorrhage; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief
Amid Splendor, Charles Weds Diana
Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months
Scott Dies After Finding Pole
President Starts Recovery Program
3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire
Communists Take Over Saigon
High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply
President Leaves on Trip to China
3rd Planet Found in Modern Times; Others, Uranus and Neptune
North Atlantic Pact Erases Last Marks of Isolationism
Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy and Hold Hostages
Paris Falls: City Quiet as Nazis Enter
Largest U.S. Tanker Spill Spews 270,000 Barrels of Oil off Alaska
Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco in Ruins
Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet
Atom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die
Eisenhower Heads Allied Staff;Land, Air, Sea Chiefs To Serve Under Eisenhower
White Star Liner Strikes Iceberg on Maiden Trip
Malcolm Knew He Was a 'Marked Man'
Capone Convicted of Dodging Taxes; May Get 17 Years
HeadlineYear
U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad in Olympic Hockey by 4-3
Two Germanys Unite After 45 Years with Jubilation and a Vow of Peace
Kennedy and Nixon Clash in TV Debate
German Army Attacks Poland
At Least 31 Are Dead, Scores Are Missing After Bomb Attack in Oklahoma City
Taft Impressed Audience; Breaking of Tradition Added to the Inauguration
Dentist, Close to Death, Receives First Permanent Artificial Heart
Jackson Wins Easily in Michigan in Surprising Setback to Dukakis
Truce Is Signed, Ending the Fighting In Korea
Lindbergh Does It!
Suffrage Amendment is Ratified
Violence Erupts After Assassination of King
Soviet Fires Earth Satellite into Space
Manson and 3 Women Found Guilty; State to Ask Death Penalty
Power Failure Imperils Astronauts
Radio Fake Scares Nation
Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed
Galveston in Ruins: Estimates of Dead in Thousands
Electronic Computer Flashes Answers, May Speed Engineering
Inventors of North Carolina Box Kite Machine Want Government to Purchase It
Clinton, at U.N., Signs Treaty Banning All Nuclear Testing
Government Clears the Way for Quantity Production of Salk Preventive
US is Voted Dry
Italians Guilty in Murder;Jury to Deal With Them as if They Were Americans
Budapest Protest Grew Into War; Battle for Hungary Remains in Doubt
Harry Houdini Dies After Operations: Loses Fight For Life in Detroit Hospital
Wall Street Lays an Egg
Dillinger Slain in Chicago; Shot Dead by Federal Men in Front of Movie Theatre
Maris Hits 61st in Final Game
Hitler Dead
Russia and Japan Accept Roosevelt’s Suggestion
Hindenburg Burns in Lakehurst Crash
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100 Years ... 100 Headlines Quiz

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  • Created Dec 11, 2009 in History
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