Top 100 News Stories ~  U.S. History, 20th Century Sierra Club Engagement Calendar

"Newspapers should have no friends." ~ Joseph Pulitzer

Journalists and historians were asked by the Arlington Newseum in 2004 to select the Top 100 News Stories in U.S. History in the 20th Century. The Top 100 are:

1. U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki: Japan surrenders, WW II ends. (8/6-9/45)

moonwalk 2. Neil Armstrong's moon walk. 7/10/69

3. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: U.S. enters WW II 12/7/41

4. Wright Brothers fly first airplane 12/17/03

5. Women win vote 1920

6. JFK Assassinated in Dallas 11/22/63

7. Horrors of Nazi Holocaust exposed 1945

8. WW I begins in Europe Aug 1914

9. School Segregation Ends 1954

10. Stock market crash/Great Depression 10/24-29/29

11. Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. 1928

12. DNA discovered 1953

13. U.S.S.R dissolves 1991

14. Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal 8/9/74

15. Germany invades Poland: WW II begins in Europe 1939

16. Russian revolution ends: Communists take over. Oct. 1917

17. Ford organizes assembly line to produce Model T cars. 1913

18. Soviets launch Sputnik: Space race begins. 10/4/57

19. Einstein's special theory of relativity 1905

20. FDA approves birth control pill 1960

21. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine successful 1953

22. Adolf Hitler/Nazi Party seize power. Jan 1933

Martin Luther King Jr 23. Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis 4/4/68

24. D-Day Invasion marks beginning of end of WW II in Europe. 6/6/44

25. Deadly AIDS disease identified. 1981

TOP 100 Events: 1-25 | 26-50 | 51-75 | 76-100