American Heritage

Decisive Moments in American History 


 

 
1875 Bell's telephone
1887 Tesla's AC current
1895 Morgan rescues the gold standard
1905 Wrights prove reliable flight
1914 Ford hikes worker salaries
1917 U.S. in World War I
1919 19th Amendment passed
1933 FDR'S bank holiday
1942 Battle of Midway
1944 D-Day
1950 Polio vaccine trials
1959 First American deaths in Vietnam
1961 JFK's moon challenge
1963 Birmingham demonstration
2008 Obama elected president of the U.S.