Events

August

Declaration of Independence signed

Birth of the U.S. Coast Guard

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

Battle of Mobile Bay

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

Richard Nixon resigns as President

Missouri, the twenty-fourth state

Japan announces its surrender to the Allied Forces

Hawaii, the fiftieth state

British troops enter Washington, D.C.

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream Speech"

14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement

September

Japanese sign Instrument of Surrender

Battle of Atlanta

William McKinley shot

Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon

California, the thirty-first state

Battle of Baltimore

Battle of Harpers Ferry

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

British occupy New York City

Battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg

U.S. Constitution ratified

Battle of Chickamauga

October

Birth of the U.S. Navy

Man flies faster than the speed of sound

John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Victory at Yorktown

Nevada, the thirty-sixth state

November

North Dakota, the thirty-ninth state

South Dakota, the fortieth state

Montana, the forty-first state

Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps

Washington, the forty-second state

Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state

Gettysburg Address

North Carolina, the twelfth state

John F. Kennedy assassinated

Battle of Chattanooga

British troops leave New York

British sign Articles of Peace

December

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger

Illinois, the twenty-first state

Thirteenth Amendment ratified

Delaware, the first state

Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japanese

Mississippi, the twentieth state

Indiana, the nineteenth state

Pennsylvania, the second state

Battle of Fredricksburg

Alabama, the twenty-second state

British leave Charleston, SC

Battle of Nashville

Bill of Rights Ratified

Boston Tea Party

Wright Brothers fly first airplane

New Jersey, the third state

South Carolina secedes from the Union

Washington resigns as Commander in Chief

The Treaty of Ghent signed

Washington Crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton

Iowa, the twenty-ninth state

British occupy Savannah, GA

Texas, the twenty-eighth state

January

Emancipation Proclamation

Georgia, the fourth state

Alaska, the forty-ninth state

Washington wins the Battle of Princeton

Utah, the forty-fifth state

New Mexico, the forty-seventh state

Battle of New Orleans

Connecticut, the fifth state

Mississippi secedes from the Union

Florida secedes from the Union

Alabama secedes from the Union

Treaty of Paris Ratified

Georgia secedes from the Union

The 24th Amendment is ratified, abolishes poll tax

Louisiana secedes from the Union

Michigan, the twenty-sixth state

Three astronauts killed from flash fire while onboard command module

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch

Kansas, the thirty-fourth state

First U.S. Satellite Launched

February

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry

Texas secedes from the Union

Massachusetts, the sixth state

Oregon, the thirty-third state

Arizona, the forty-eighth state

Jefferson Davis becomes President of the Confederate States

John Glenn orbits the Earth

March

Nebraska, the thirty-seventh state

Ohio, the seventeenth state

Florida, the twenty-seventh state

Inauguration Day (until 1933)

Maine, the twenty-third state

Evacuation Day

Patrick Henry gives his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech

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