MYCHRONOLOGY

Public Events

# DATE EVENT YRS
1 12/16/1773 Boston Tea Party was a political protest against taxation without representation 1773
2 07/04/1776 United States declared its independence from England 1776
3 04/12/1861 Civil War started 1861
4 04/09/1865 Civil War ended with 1.5 million casualties 1865
5 04/14/1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre at age 56 1865
6 07/28/1914 World War I started 1914
7 11/11/1918 World War I ended with 40 million casualties 1918
8 03/04/1933 Franklin Roosevelt became the 32nd President 1933
9 05/06/1937 Hindenburg Air Ship caught fire in New Jersey killed 35 1937
10 09/01/1939 Germany invaded Poland 1939
11 09/01/1939 World War II started 1939
12 12/07/1941 Japan attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii killed 2,403 1941
13 04/12/1945 Harry Truman became the 33rd President 1945
14 08/06/1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan killed over 200,000 1945
15 08/09/1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan killed over 100,000 1945
16 09/02/1945 World War II ended causing 85 million to perish 1945
17 01/20/1953 Dwight Eisenhower became the 34th President 1953
18 10/04/1957 Soviet Union launched the first satellite Sputnik 1957
19 01/20/1961 John Kennedy became the 35th President 1961
20 08/04/1962 Marilyn Monroe died in Brentwood at age 36 1962
21 11/22/1963 John Kennedy was shot in Dallas at age 46 1963
22 11/23/1963 Lyndon Johnson became the 36th President 1963
23 03/16/1968 Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy for President 1968
24 03/31/1968 Lyndon Johnson announced he will not run for reelection 1968
25 04/04/1968 Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis at age 39 1968
26 06/06/1968 Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles at age 42 1968
27 01/20/1969 Richard Nixon became the 37th President 1969
28 07/20/1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon 1969
29 08/08/1974 Richard Nixon resigned as President because of the Watergate Scandal 1974
30 08/09/1974 Gerald Ford became the 38th President 1974
31 01/20/1977 Jimmy Carter became the 39th President 1977
32 08/16/1977 Elvis Presley died in Memphis at age 42 1977
33 12/08/1980 John Lennon was shot on the streets of New York at age 40 1980
34 01/20/1981 Ronald Reagan became the 40th President 1981
35 04/12/1981 First Space Shuttle Columbia was launched and returns two days later after having orbited the Earth 37 times 1981
36 01/28/1986 Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all 7 on board 1986
37 09/29/1988 Space Shuttle Discovery returns to service after a 32-month hiatus 1988
38 01/20/1989 George H. W. Bush became the 41st President 1989
39 01/20/1993 Bill Clinton became the 42nd President 1993
40 07/17/1997 Gianni Versace was shot on the streets of Miami at age 50 1997
41 08/31/1997 Princess Diana died in car crash in Paris at age 36 1997
42 01/20/2001 George W. Bush became the 43rd President 2001
43 09/11/2001 World Trade Towers collapsed after planes crashed into them 2001
44 02/01/2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas, killing all 7 on board 2003
45 01/20/2009 Barack Obama became the 44th President 2009
46 03/08/2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over South China Sea with 239 people 2014
47 01/20/2017 Donald Trump became the 45th President 2017
48 01/21/2020 Joe Biden became the 46th President 2020
49 03/11/2020 Covid Pandemic officially started 2020
50 09/08/2022 Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96 after 70 years on the throne 2022
51 05/11/2023 Covid Pandemic officially ended 2023
52 06/13/2023 Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts of mishandling classified documents 2023
53 10/23/2023 Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip killing 1,200 people and taking 200 hostages 2023