World History of North America
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BC North America BC
BC 300 Early Woodland Period
BC 600 to 1000 AD - Dorset Culture Some petroglyphs in Ontario date from this period
BC 2000 to 800 AD Arctic small tools tradition
BC 2500-1000 --- Late Archaic Period
BC 3000 . Middle Archaic Period.
BC 5000 B.C. Early Archaic Period
BC 6000 --- Neolithic farming begins in the Near and Far East as well as in North America.
BC 7000 -- Paleo Indian Period (prehistoric Ontario )
BC 8000 Oldest evidence of Amerindian people living in the St.Lawrence River valley. These were hunters and did not live in settlements. Maritime Prehistoric period. Prairie prehistory overview with chronology. Niagara region inhabited by Clovis people.
BC 11,000-9000 Paleo Indian Period Nfld , Nova Scotia area Quebec, Ontario (also here ) Manitoba , Saskatchewan , Alberta, British.Columbia . Formation of Niagara Falls
BC 15,000-11,000 -- Earliest North American occupation dates commonly accepted by archeologists. Artifacts in the Bluefish Caves in the Yukon from this time period
AD North America AD
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AD 0 A.D Palaeo Eskimo art dates from this period Native peoples construct burial mounds near what is now Peterborough , Ont.
AD 500 Beginning of farming in Great Lakes region, possibly ancestors of Iroquois nations such as the Mohawk people.
AD 1100 Vikings set up small village at Anse aux Meadows , Nfld.
AD 1300 -1500 Archeological evidence of St. Lawrence Iroquoians living in villages in what is now Southwestern Quebec and Ontario.
AD 1492 October 12 Columbus arrived with expedition in the present-day Bahamas, (Old Style calendar; Oct.21, New Style),
AD 1492 October 17 Columbus sighted the isle of San Salvador
AD 1493 November 19 Columbus discovered Puerto Rico
AD 1497 John Cabot claims Newfoundland (or Cape Breton) for Henry VII of England
AD 1513 April 2 Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida
AD 1513 April 8 Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
AD 1513 March 27 Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida
AD 1534 Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland & charts the Gulf of St. Lawrence, landing in Gaspé
AD 1535 Cartier sails to what is now Quebec & Montreal. St. Lawrence Iroquioians living on what is now the island of Montreal discover Cartier sailing up the river.These people had disappeared by the time Champlain visits 70 years later.
AD 1541 First French settlement in NA is founded by Cartier & Sieur de Roberval
AD 1541 May 8 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River
AD 1577 Martin Frobisher (English) makes the first of 3 attempts to find a northwest passage
AD 1600 King Henry IV of France grants fur trading rights in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to a group of French merchants. Late 1500's saw the decimation of the Iroquoian (not to be confused with Iroquois ) people—likely the result of disease and wars; survivors possibly join Mohawk nation.
AD 1605 Samuel de Champlain & Sieur de Monts found Port Royal (Annapolis, NS)
AD 1607 May 13 The English Colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was settled
AD 1607 May 2 Captain John Smith landed at Jamestown
AD 1608 Champlain founds Quebec
AD 1609 Champlain supports the Algonquin against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain
AD 1609 September 19 Henry Hudson first sailed into the river, now known as the Hudson
AD 1614 April 5 American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia
AD 1620 December 21 Mayflower Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts
AD 1620 November 21 The Mayflower Compact was signed
AD 1625 Jesuits arrive in Quebec to begin missionary work among the Native peoples
AD 1627 The Company of One Hundred Associates is founded with the objective of establishing a French empire in North America
AD 1629 David Kirke captures Quebec for Britain
AD 1632 ) Captain James finishes his winter ordeal on Charlton Island in the bay that now bears his name; he managed to survive and return to England by sinking his ship before winter. It is doubtful that he reached Moosonee , although Moose Factory is still the area with the oldest white settlement in Ontario (fur traders).The Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye gives Quebec back to France
AD 1634-40 Europeans introduce diseases to Native peoples to which they have no resistance; half of the (dickshovel.com/iro.)Huron die .(also, (wyandot.org/burial2.)here for a detailed account; the Huron nation is now often called (sfo.com/~denglish/wynaks/">Wyandot ) Read about the colourful and exciting life of (geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/7318/COUST2.)Guillaume de Cousture who arrives about 1640 or 1641.
AD 1637 Kirke becomes first governor of Newfoundland
AD 1639-49 Henry Hudson explores the bay that now bears his name
AD 1642 Montreal is founded by Sieur de Maisonneuve
AD 1647 May 27 First execution of a witch in Massachusetts
AD 1649 Father Jean de Brébeuf is killed by Iroquois at St-Ignace. The Iroquois break up the Huron Nation
AD 1660 (war) Adam Dollard des Ormeaux makes a last stand against the Iroquois at Long Sault; the Iroquois decide not to proceed with an attack on Montreal
AD 1663 (treaty) Quebec becomes a royal province
AD 1665 (war) France sends the Carignan-Sali`res regiment to Quebec against the Iroquois. Jean-Talon becomes Intendent of Quebec
AD 1667 Population records from the first census count 3,215 non-Native persons in Canada
AD 1670 Formation of the HBC , with rights to all territory draining into Hudson’s Bay
AD 1672 Count Frontenac becomes Governor of Quebec
AD 1673-1682 The Mississippi River is explored by Marquette & Joliette, then Duluth, followed by La Salle The history of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins 1680 with the building of a canal between Lac St-Louis and Montreal
AD 1689 Iroquois kill French settlers at Lachine. Madeleine de Verchères defends her family's fort at the age of 14 (1692)
AD 1690 Sir William Phips captures Port Royal , but is repelled at Quebec by Frontenac
AD 1697 (treaty) >All captured English & French territories are restored to original claimants by the Treaty of Ryswick
AD 1701-2 (war) The War of Spanish Succession sparks some conflict in NA. Kondiaronk, also called The Rat, a Huron Nation man of peace, dies in Montreal, 1701
AD 1731 June 21 First Lady Martha Washington was born
AD 1732 December 19 Benjamin Franklin first published his "Poor Richard's Almanac"
AD 1732 February 22 President George Washington was born
AD 1735 January 1 Paul Revere was born in Boston.
AD 1735 October 30 President John Adams was born at Braintree (Quincy) Massachusetts
AD 1743 April 13 President Thomas Jefferson was born
AD 1751 March 16 President James Madison was born
AD 1752 January 1 Flag maker Betsy Ross was born in Philadelphia
AD 1752 June 15 Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity
AD 1755 November 2 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Maria Theresa and Francis I
AD 1757 January 11 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury was born
AD 1758 April 28 President James Monroe was born
AD 1765 March 22 The Stamp Act was approved by Parliament
AD 1767 July 11 President John Quincy Adams was born
AD 1767 March 15 President Andrew Jackson was born
AD 1768 May 20 First Lady Dolley Madison born
AD 1770 March 5 The Boston Massacre took place
AD 1773 December 16 The Boston Tea Party occurred,
AD 1773 February 9 President William Henry Harrison was born
AD 1774 December 14 News carried by Paul Revere that the British were comming..
AD 1774 September 5 The First Continental Congress was established
AD 1775 April 18 Midnight ride of Paul Revere & William Dawes in Boston, Mass
AD 1775 April 19 The American Revolutionary War began ( battles of Lexington & Concord)
AD 1775 July 26 Benjamin Franklin became Post-Master General (Postal Service established
AD 1775 June 17 The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill (near Boston)
AD 1775 March 23 Patrick Henry's Give me Liberty speech occurred
AD 1776 December 25 George Washington crossed the Delaware River
AD 1776 January 10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published
AD 1776 July 4 The Declaration of Independence was approved
AD 1776 March 18 The Stamp Act was repealed
AD 1777 August 16 American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vermont
AD 1777 December 19 George Washington and the Continental Army arrived at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
AD 1778 June 28 Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth
AD 1779 May 10 Benedict Arnold was tried for treason
AD 1782 December 5 President Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York
AD 1782 February 4 George Washington was appointed President of the Constitutional Convention
AD 1783 April 11 Congress proclaimed the end of the Revolutionary War
AD 1783 September 3 The Treaty of Paris signed US & Great Britain ending the Revolutionary War
AD 1784 May 12 Last technical day of American Revolutionary War
AD 1784 November 24 President Zachary Taylor was born at "Montebello," in Orange County, Virginia
AD 1786 August 17 Davy Crockett was born
AD 1787 September 17 The United States Constitution was signed
AD 1789 January 7 The first presidential election was held
AD 1790 April 17 Benjamin Franklin died
AD 1790 March 29 President John Tyler was born
AD 1791 April 23 President James Buchanan born
AD 1791 April 27 Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph was born in Charlestown, Mass.
AD 1791 December 15 The Bill of Rights went into effect,
AD 1791 September 24 The Bill of Rights passed in US House of Representatives,
AD 1793 March 14 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin
AD 1793 October16 Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded
AD 1796 September 17 President George Washington delivered his Farewell Address to Congress
AD 1797 September 20 The U.S. Frigate Constitution "Old Iron Sides" launched.
AD 1799 December 14 President George Washington died at his home, Mount Vernon,
AD 1802 May 22 First Lady Martha Washington died
AD 1803 April 30 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France
AD 1803 December 20 Louisiana Purchase was formally completed
AD 1804 November 23 President Franklin Pierce was born in Hillsboro, New Hampshire
AD 1807 August 11 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont: 1st run from Albany to New York City in 32 hours, at 5 MPH.
AD 1807 February 27 Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine
AD 1808 December 29 President Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina
AD 1808 June 3 Jefferson Davis was born in Kentucky
AD 1809 February 12 President Abraham Lincoln was born
AD 1812 June 18 The War of 1812 began
AD 1814 December 24 The Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the War of 1812,
AD 1814 September 14 Francis Scott Key wrote his poem "Defense of Ft. McHenry," re-named Star SpangledBanner
AD 1818 December 13 First Lady Mary Lincoln was born Mary Ann Todd in Lexington, Kentucky,
AD 1818 May 10 Paul Revere died in Boston
AD 1820 February 15 Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts
AD 1822 April 27 President Ulysses S. Grant was born
AD 1822 October 4 President Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio
AD 1826 July 4 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died
AD 1830 October 5 President Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont,
AD 1831 August 21 The Lincoln-Douglas debates began
AD 1831 July 4 James Monroe died
AD 1831 November 19 President James A. Garfield was born in Orange Township, Ohio,
AD 1833 August 20 President Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio
AD 1836 February 23 The Battle at the Alamo began
AD 1836 June 28 President James Madison died
AD 1836 March 6 The Battle of the Alamo ended after 13-day siege
AD 1837 March 18 President Grover Cleveland was born
AD 1837 May 27 Wild Bill Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois
AD 1841 April 4 President William Henry Harrison died
AD 1841 March 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born
AD 1843 January 29 President William McKinley born
AD 1845 June 8 President Andrew Jackson died
AD 1846 February 26 William F."Buffalo Bill" Cody was born in Iowa
AD 1847 July 18 Elias Howe invented the sewing machine
AD 1848 February 23 President John Quincy Adams died
AD 1848 January 24 Gold was discovered in California
AD 1849 July 12 First Lady Dolly Madison died
AD 1849 June 15 President James K. Polk died
AD 1850 July 9 President Zachary Taylor died
AD 1856 April 5 Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, Virginia
AD 1856 December 28 President Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia
AD 1857 September 15 President William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
AD 1858 October 27 President Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City
AD 1859 John Brown seized the Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia)
AD 1859 November 24 Darwin published his "On the Origin of Species"
AD 1861 August 6 First Lady Edith Roosevelt (wife: Theodore Roosevelt) born Edith Kermit Carow in Norwich, Connecticut
AD 1861 February 18 Jefferson Davis was made the provisional President of the Confederacy
AD 1861 February 4 The Confederate States of America formed
AD 1861 July 21 The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), Virginia, occurred
AD 1862 January 18 President John Tyler died.
AD 1862 July 12 Congress authorized the Medal of Honor
AD 1862 July 24 President Martin Van Buren died
AD 1862 September 22 President Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued,
AD 1863 December 13 Confederates won the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg,
AD 1863 January 1 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
AD 1863 July 3 The Battle of Gettysburg ended, with a Union victory
AD 1863 March 12 General Ulysses S. Grant was named general in chief of Federal Army
AD 1863 May 28 The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the Civil War
AD 1863 November 19 President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address.
AD 1865 April 14 President Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theatre D.C., (watching a performance of Our American Cousin)
AD 1865 April 15 President Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m., in Washington, D.C.
AD 1869 December 10 The first Women's Suffrage law in the U.S. was granted in Wyoming Territory,
AD 1872 July 4 Calvin Coolidge was born
AD 1874 March 8 President Millard Fillmore died
AD 1875 July 31 President Andrew Johnson died
AD 1876 August 2 "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed- poker game- a saloon in Deadwood, SD
AD 1876 March 10 Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone call
AD 1876 March 7 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone
AD 1879 April 16 St. Bernadette, who described seeing visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, died in Nevers, France
AD 1879 October 21 Thomas Edison invented the working electric light
AD 1880 January 27 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp
AD 1880 June 27 Helen Keller, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama
AD 1881 July 14 William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid" was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett
AD 1881 July 15 William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid" died at age 21
AD 1881 July 2 President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau (Washington Railroad Station)
AD 1881 July 20 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull(Little Big Horn), surrendered
AD 1881 September 19 President James A. Garfield died as a result of his injuries received when shot by an assassin in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C., on July 2,1881
AD 1882 April 3 Jesse James, killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang
AD 1882 January 30 President Franklin D. Roosevelt born
AD 1882 July 16 First Lady Mary Lincoln died
AD 1882 March 4 Jesse James died at age 34
AD 1883 May 24 The Brooklyn Bridge opened to traffic
AD 1884 August 5 The Statue of Liberty cornerstone was laid
AD 1884 May 8 President Harry S. Truman was born
AD 1884 October 11 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York
AD 1889 April 20 Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria
AD 1889 December 6 Jefferson Davis died at age 71 in New Orleans, Louisiana
AD 1890 December 15 Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux Indians, was killed in skirmish along the Grand River in South Dakota,
AD 1892 March 26 Poet Walt Whitman died in Camden, N.J.
AD 1892 October 5 The Dalton gang was killed while robbing two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas,
AD 1898 April 19 Spanish-American War began
AD 1899 July 21 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois
AD 1901 March 13 President Benjamin Harrison died in Indianapolis
AD 1903 December 17 Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful manned powered flight occurred near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
AD 1906 March 13 American Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York
AD 1908 August 27 President Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Stonewall, Texas
AD 1910 April 21 Samuel Clemens, (Mark Twain), died in Connecticut
AD 1910 February 7 The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated
AD 1911 February 6 President Ronald Reagan was born
AD 1912 April 15 The Titanic struck and iceberg and sank
AD 1912 December 22 First Lady- "Lady Bird" Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor in Karnack , Texas
AD 1912 March 12 The Girl Scouts of America were founded
AD 1912 March 17 The Camp Fire Girls created
AD 1912 October 14 Theodore Roosevelt, shot from six feet, Despite the wound, Roosevelt insisted on delivering his speech before going to the hospital
AD 1913 January 9 President Richard M. Nixon was born
AD 1913 July 14 President Gerald R. Ford was born
AD 1917 April 6 United States declared war on Germany
AD 1917 March 2 Puerto Ricans granted United States Citizenship
AD 1917 May 29 President John F. Kennedy was born
AD 1918 April 8 First Lady Betty Ford born
AD 1919 January 6 President Theodore Roosevelt died
AD 1920 January 10 The League of Nations established
AD 1921 July 6 First Lady Nancy Reagan was born
AD 1922 December 30 Vladimir I. Lenin established the U.S.S.R.
AD 1922 November 4 The entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered
AD 1923 August 2 President Warren G. Harding died in San Francisco, California
AD 1924 February 3 President Woodrow Wilson died
AD 1924 June 12 President George Bush was born
AD 1924 June 2 United States citizenship granted to all American Indians
AD 1924 October 2 President James Carter was born in Plains, Georgia,
AD 1925 June 8 First Lady Barbara Bush was born
AD 1927 May 20 Charles Lindbergh began his historic solo flight
AD 1928 June 17 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Wales
AD 1929 February 14 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurred
AD 1929 January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born
AD 1929 July 28 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was born
AD 1930 March 8 President William Howard Taft died
AD 1930 September 17 Construction began on the Hoover Dam ( Boulder Dam) Las Vegas, Nevada
AD 1931 March 3 Star Spangled Banner adopted as National Anthem of the United States
AD 1931 October 17 Al Capone convicted of income-tax evasion
AD 1932 August 24 Amelia Earhart, was the first woman to fly across the United States
AD 1933 January 5 President Calvin Coolidge died
AD 1934 July 22 Bank robber John Dillinger was shot and killed by F.B.I. Chicago
AD 1934 May 23 Gangsters Bonnie & Clyde were killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana
AD 1935 January 8 Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi,
AD 1937 July 2 Amelia Earhart and her airplane were lost in Pacific Ocean
AD 1937 May 6 The Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, N.J.
AD 1941 December 12 United States & Britain declared war on Japan,
AD 1941 December 12 United States, Germany & Italy declared war,
AD 1941 December 7 Japanese warplanes attacked United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
AD 1941 December 8 United States entered World War II
AD 1941 December 9 China declared war on Germany, Italy, Japan,
AD 1942 June 4 Battle of Midway began during WWII
AD 1942 March 11 General Douglas MacArthur vowed "I shall return"
AD 1943 August 2 PT-109- commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy- sank off the Solomon Islands
AD 1943 December 24 General Dwight D. Eisenhower named Supreme Commander Allied forces of Europe,
AD 1944 December 16 WWII Battle of the Bulge, (Germans broke Allied lines in the Ardennes.)
AD 1944 December 27 The World War II Battle of the Bulge ended.
AD 1944 June 16 The United States bombing of Japan began during WWII
AD 1944 June 6 D-Day (invasion of Europe occurred)
AD 1945 April 12 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died
AD 1945 August 9 The United States dropped an Atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
AD 1945 December 21 General George S. Patton died in Heidelberg car accident
AD 1945 February 9 Iwo Jima invaded by United States troops during WWII
AD 1945 July 16 The first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico
AD 1945 May 7 Germany surrendered to the United States
AD 1945 September 1 Japan signed the surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri ( September 2 in Tokyo due to time change)
AD 1945 September 2 V-J Day celebrated
AD 1946 August 19 President William J. Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas
AD 1947 April 11 Jackie Robinson, entered Major League Baseball
AD 1947 April 7 Henry Ford, died at age 83
AD 1947 October 26 First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was born Hillary Rodham in Chicago, Illinois
AD 1947 September 20 Former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia died.
AD 1951 March 29 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage
AD 1956 September 9 Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show"
AD 1957 November 3 The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft, Sputnik Two
AD 1961 May 5 Astronaut Alan Shepard went on the first manned space flight
AD 1962 August 5 Marilyn Monroe dead in her home
AD 1962 February 20 Astronaut John Glenn, became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard the Friendship VII Mercury capsule
AD 1962 November 7 First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt died in New York City
AD 1963 November 24 President Kennedy's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was murdered by Jack Ruby in the garage of the Dallas Police Department , as the nation watched the murder of television
AD 1964 April 5 General Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., at age 84
AD 1964 August 7 The United States entered the Vietnam War,
AD 1964 October 20 President Herbert Hoover died in New York City
AD 1965 December 4 United States Gemini 7 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a 14-day, 206-orbit mission and rendezvous in space with Gemini 6
AD 1965 February 21 Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was assassinated
AD 1965 June 3 Astronaut Edward White became the first American to walk in space
AD 1968 April 4 Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
AD 1968 June 5 Senator Robert F. Kennedy (shot mortally in Los Angeles
AD 1968 June 6 Senator Robert F. Kennedy died
AD 1968 May 25 The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis
AD 1969 August 17 The Woodstock Music Fair ended
AD 1969 July 20 The first man (Astronaut Neil Armstrong) to set foot on the moon
AD 1969 March 20 John Lennon (of The Beatles) married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
AD 1969 March 28 President Dwight D. Eisenhower died
AD 1970 April 11 Apollo 13 mission began
AD 1972 August 12 United States ground forces in Vietnam were withdrawn
AD 1972 December 7 United States Apollo 17 launched
AD 1973 January 22 President Lyndon B. Johnson died
AD 1973 January 22 United States Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision
AD 1973 January 22 Vietnam peace agreement signed.
AD 1973 January 27 The Vietnam War ended
AD 1973 October 10 Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned,
AD 1974 April 4 Henry "Hank" Aaron tied Babe Ruth 's Home Run record of 714
AD 1974 August 26 Charles Lindbergh died at his home in Hawaii at the age of 72
AD 1976 April 5 Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 72
AD 1976 July 20 America's Viking I robot spacecraft made the first-ever landing on Mars
AD 1976 September 3 Viking II landed on Mars
AD 1977 August 16 Elvis Presley died at his home, "Graceland," in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 42
AD 1979 June 11 Actor John Wayne died at age 72
AD 1981 March 30 President Reagan was shot in chest & wounded in Washington, D.C.
AD 1981 October 6 Anwar Sadat was assassinated,
AD 1983 June 18 Astronaut Sally K. Ride, became America's first woman in space
AD 1984 October 11 Kathy Sullivan was the first woman to walk in space this day,
AD 1986 January 20 Martin Luther King Day first observed
AD 1986 January 28 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
AD 1990 April 24 Space shuttle Discovery: Cape Canaveral
AD 1990 August 2 The Persian Gulf War began
AD 1990 August 7 United States troops sent to the Persian Gulf
AD 1993 June 22 First Lady Patricia Nixon died
AD 1994 April 22 President Richard M. Nixon died
AD 1994 May 19 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died
AD 1994 May 23 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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