1954: Lost Inca City Machu Picchu Found
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
1973: Roe V. Wade Rules On Abortion Rights
1988: Iran-Iraq War Ends After 8 Yearsushdie Publishes 'The Satanic Verses'
1991: Dow Jones Tops 3000 For The First Time
1969: First Woodstock Music Festival
1984: New Mexico & Arizona Become States
1964: Cassius Clay Defeats Sonny Liston
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1979: Egypt And Israel Sign Peace Treaty
1776: Declaration Of Independence Is Signed
1987: Woodrow Wilson Wins Presidency
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev Leads USSR
1991: Warsaw Pact Is Officially Dissolved
1971: Congress Sets Federal 8-Hr Workday
1812: James Madison Is Elected President
1976: U.S. Celebrates Bicentennial
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1801: Thomas Jefferson Becomes President Of US
1784: Benjamin Franklin Invents Bifocals
1845: F.F. Woolworth Company Is Incorporated
1837: The Morse Code Of Dots And Dashes Created
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1967: World's First Heart Transplant Is Performed
1961: The Titanic Sinks
1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt) Begin
1991: Dow Jones Tops 3000 For The First Time
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1851: Herman Melville's Moby Dick Is Completed
1814: Treaty Of Ghent Ends The War Of 1812
1849: California Gold Rush Starts
1857: Jim Thorpe Wins Olympic Medals
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1967: Six-Day Arab-Israeli War
1823: President Monroe Presents Monroe Doctrine
1832: Mexican President Madero Killed
1963: John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated In Dallas
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1979: Egypt And Israel Sign Peace Treaty
1860: Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President
1971: 16th Amendment Permits Income Tax
1974: Richard Nixon Resigns As U.S. President
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1963: "I Have A Dream" Speech Given In Washington
1826: Thomas Jefferson And John Adams Both Die
1959: Coco Chanel Opens French Boutique
1990: Operation Desert Shield Begins
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1973: Camel Cigarettes Introduced
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. Marches In Selma
1821: Sailors In New Orleans Invent Poker
1990: Nelson Mandela Is Released From Prison
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2001: U.S. Spy Plane Collides With Chinese Plane
1801: U.S. Declares War On Germany
1789: Washington Sworn In As First U.S. President
1492: Christoph Columbus Lands In The West
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1983: Reagan Sends American Troops To Grenada
1968: Tet Offensive Started In Veitnam
1775: American War Of Independence Begins
1781: Russia Signs Brest-Litovsk Treaty
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1972: Czar Nicholas II Executed In Russia
1998: Explicit Starr Report Is Released On Clinton
1970: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Created
1845: Republic Of Texas Becomes The 28th State
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1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin Resigns
1979: Iranian Shah Flees Iran
1810: Napoleon Marries Archduchess Of Austria
1978: Influenza Epidemic Kills 20 Million
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