Events

June

Birth of the U.S. Army

National Flag Day

Arkansas, the twenty-fifth state

George Washington named Commander in Chief

The Battle of Bunker Hill

War of 1812 Begins

West Virginia, the thirty-fifth state

Battle of Okinawa Ends

Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi

New Hampshire, the ninth state

Virginia, the tenth state

July

Battle of Gettysburg

James Garfield shot

Amelia Earhart and plane missing over central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island

President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act

Idaho, the forty-third state

Declaration of Independence adopted

British burn Fairfield, Connecticut

Wyoming, the forty-fourth state

British burn Norwalk, Connecticut

British evacuate Savannah, GA

Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

New York, the eleventh state

August

Colorado, the thirty-eighth state

Declaration of Independence signed

Birth of the U.S. Coast Guard

Battle of Mobile Bay

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

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

14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement

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

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

British occupy New York City

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

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

Pearl Harbor Attacked by Japanese

Delaware, the first state

Mississippi, the twentieth state

Indiana, the nineteenth state

Pennsylvania, the second state

Battle of Fredricksburg

British leave Charleston, SC

Alabama, the twenty-second state

Bill of Rights Ratified

Battle of Nashville

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

Washington wins the Battle of Princeton

Alaska, the forty-ninth state

Utah, the forty-fifth state

New Mexico, the forty-seventh state

Battle of New Orleans

Connecticut, the fifth state

Mississippi secedes from the Union

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