Pearl Harbor under attack
D-Day: The Normandy invasion
V-E Day: war in Europe ends
Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima
Japan surrenders: WWII ends
Sputnik launched by Soviets
Cuban missile crisis: nuclear war threatened
President Kennedy assassinated
Lee Harvey Osward assassinated
President Johnson declines re-election bid
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Apollo 11: Man walks on Moon
Apollo 13: astronauts escape disaster
Operation Desert Storm begins
Rodney King verdict incites riots
Waco standoff ends in disaster
Flight 800 explodes over Atlantic