Events

January

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

Arizona, the forty-eighth state

Oregon, the thirty-third 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

April

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination

Battle of Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing

Lee surrenders army to Grant

Battle of Fort Sumter

Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre

Virginia secedes from the Union

Ride of Paul Revere and William Dawes

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Johnston surrenders troops to Sherman

John Wilkes Boothe Killed

Maryland, the seventh state

Louisiana, the eighteenth state

May

Battle of Chancellorsville

Vermont, the fourteenth state

Arkansas secedes from the Union

Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe

Jefferson Davis is captured

Minnesota, the thirty-second state

British capture Charleston, SC

Brown vs. Board of Education

North Carolina secedes from the Union

Lindbergh arrives in Paris after first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

South Carolina, the eighth state

Wisconsin, the thirtieth state

Rhode Island, the thirteenth state

June

Kentucky, the fifteenth state

Tennessee, the sixteenth state

Invasion of Normandy

Tennessee secedes from the Union

End of Segregation at University of Alabama

Birth of the U.S. Army

National Flag Day

George Washington named Commander in Chief

Arkansas, the twenty-fifth state

The Battle of Bunker Hill

War of 1812 Begins

West Virginia, the thirty-fifth state

Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi

New Hampshire, the ninth state

Battle of Okinawa Ends

Virginia, the tenth state

July

Battle of Gettysburg

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

President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act

James Garfield shot

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

First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

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.

14 year old Emett Till murdered, sparking Civil Rights Movement

Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

British occupy New York City

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