In honor of our nation’s 250th birthday, we are looking back at some of the events that have shaped our history.
1800s
1852 – Frederick Douglas speaks out against the Fourth of the July
1854 – The First Modern Library Opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1863 – Combahee River Raid led by Harriet Tubman is the most successful slave rebellion
1869 – The Transcontinental Railroad is completed
1878 – Henrietta Wood wins reparations for slavery
1896 – First American Public Beach opens in Revere, Massachusetts. There were about 45,000 people who celebrated the opening.
1900 – 1960
1920 – 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote
1929 – The Stock Market crashes in October, ushering in the Great Depression
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats begin on the radio
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge opens in San Francisco
1938 – Benny Goodman brings intergrated Jazz to Carnegie Hall
1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor makes the United States join the allied troops for WWII
1943 – Vesta Stoudt invents duct tape
1955 – Mamie Till addresses the nation
1955-1956 – The Montegomery Bus Boycott
1956 – Althea Gibson is the first black tennis player to win a grand slam
1960-1999
1961 – President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address to the nation
1963 – Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on the Lincoln Memorial
1964 – Fannie Lou Hamer testifies at the DNC
1970 – Kent State Massacre
1971 – Soul Train premieres on television
1974 – President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency
1980 – Winter Olympics wins the Gold in men’s hockey, beating the Soviet Union
1980 – Who Shot JR episode on Dallas drew acclaim
1981 – MTV airs first music video
1983 – MASH series finale airs on television
1987 – Epi-pen was approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration
1988 – US Government apologizes to Japanese-Americans for the camps during WWII
1990 – The Hubble Telescope launches into space
1999 – Columbine
2000s to the Present
2002 – The Boston Globe releases the Spotlight Edition showing the Abuse Scandal of the Catholic Church
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans
2007 – Steve Jobs and Apple reveal the iphone
2008 – President Barack Obama becomes the first Black President of the United States
2021 – Kamala Harris becomes the first woman to become the Vice President
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