#e <t>massacre<d>1770 Mar 5<n>Boston Massacre<c>Boston<info>British soldiers fire on a mob in Boston.
#e <t>law<d>1774 Mar 31<n>Boston Port Act<c>London<info>The Boston Port Act closed the harbor to commerce pending compensation by the city for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. It was one of the "Intolerable Acts," which was an American label for the laws sponsored by Lord North's ministry and enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. Also called the Coercive Acts, they were a major factor contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
#e <t>law<d>1774 May 20<n>Massachusetts Government Act<c>London<info>The Massachusetts Government Act made the upper house of the legislature appointive by the crown, increased the governor's patronage powers, provided that juries be summoned by sheriffs rather than elected, and banned all town meetings not authorised by law or gubernatorial approval. It was one of the "Intolerable Acts," which was an American label for the laws sponsored by Lord North's ministry and enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. Also called the Coercive Acts, they were a major factor contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
#e <t>law<d>1774 Jun 22<n>Québec Act<c>London<info>The Québec Act granted civil government and religious liberty to the Roman Catholic inhabitants of the former French colony and extended the Canadian boundary to the Ohio River. It was one of the "Intolerable Acts," which was an American label for the laws sponsored by Lord North's ministry and enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. Also called the Coercive Acts, they were a major factor contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
#e <t>speech<d>1775 Mar 23<n>"Give me liberty..."<c>U.S.<info>Patrick Henry, according to tradition, declared "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
#e <t>war<n>American War of Independence<d>1775<e>1783<c>U.S.<info>The 13 English colonies rebel against British rule, forming the United States of America.
#e <t>plague<d>1793 Aug<e>1793 Nov<n>Yellow Fever<c>Philadelphia<info>The Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793<ref>Sci Am 98 Aug
// 1801-1850
#e <t><d>1802 Jul 4<n>West Point Military Academy opens<c>West Point
#e <d>1848<n>California gold rush<c>California
// 1851-1900
#p <nat>American<o>general<n>Douglas Mac Arthur<sur>Mac Arthur<b>1880<d>1964
#p <nat>American<n>Eleanor Roosevelt<sur>E. Roosevelt<fem><b>1884 Oct 11<d>1962 Nov 7
#p <nat>American<o>admiral<n>Chester Nimitz<b>1885 Feb 24<d>1966 Feb 20<c>Texas<info>Chester Nimitz directed the U.S. victories at the battles of Midway, the Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf. He was promoted in 1944 to fleet (five-star) admiral and was a signer of the Japanese surrender document.<ref>Grolier
#p <nat>American<o>airman<n>James Harold Doolittle<b>1896 Dec 14<d>1993 Sep 27<c>California<info>Doolittle led the first @bombing raid@Doolittle raid@ over Tokyo in World War II.
#e <t>war<n>U.S. Civil War<d>1861<e>1865<c>U.S.
#e <t>speech<d>1863 Nov 19<n>Gettysburg Address<c>Gettysburg<p>Abraham Lincoln
#e <t>treaty<d>1867 Mar 30<n>U.S. buys Alaska<c>Alaska<info>U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
#e <t>law<d>1870 Mar 30<n>15th Amendment<c>U.S.<info>Amendment 15 to the U.S. Constitution proclaimed that a person cannot be denied the ballot because of race or colour.
#e <t>fire<d>1871 Oct 8<n>Chicago Fire<c>Chicago<info>The great Chicago fire began on this day.
#e <t>battle<d>1876 Jun 25<n>battle of Little Bighorn<c>Montana<info>General Custer and 200 of his men were killed in a battle with the Sioux.
#e <t>sculpture<n>Statue of Liberty unveiled<d>1886 Oct 26<c>New York City<info>The poet who wrote the inscription at its base, Emma Lazarus, died the next year on November 19.
#p <nat>American<o>leader<n>Martin Luther King Jr.<sur>King Jr.<b>1929 Jan 15<d>1968
#e <t>trial<d>1925 Jul<n>Scopes trial<c>Tennessee<info>In March 1925 the state of Tennessee forbade the teaching of @Charles Darwin@@'s theory of evolution. John T. Scopes, a schoolteacher, was tried in July of that year for violating the law. His trial became a public confrontation between a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible and more liberal views. The prosecution was conducted by William Jennings Bryan, a former presidential candidate, and the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow conducted the defense. Both men volunteered their services. At one point Darrow cross-examined Bryan, who proved deficient in both Biblical and biological knowledge. Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was overturned by the state supreme court, which nevertheless upheld the statute. The U.S. Supreme Court declared a similar statute unconstitutional in 1968.
#e <t>financial<d>1929 Oct 29<n>Black Tuesday<c>New York<info>stock market crash
#e <t>fire<n>Hindenburg burns<d>1937 May 6<c>New Jersey
// 1950s
#e <t>commerce<d>1955<n>McDonald's opens<c>Illinois<info>The first McDonald's restaurant was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
// 1960s
#e <t>speech<d>1963<n>"I have a dream..."<p>King Jr.<c>D.C.
#e <t>assassination<d>1963 Nov 22<n>Kennedy assassinated<c>Dallas<p>J. F. K.
#e <t>assassination<d>1963 Nov 24<n>Lee Harvey Oswald shot<c>Texas<info>Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of @John F. Kennedy@@, is shot dead on national T.V. by Jack Ruby.
#e <t>assassination<d>1968<n>King Jr. assassinated<c>Memphis, TN
#e <d>1969 Jul 18<n>Chappaquiddick<c>Martha's Vinyard<info>Mary Jo Kopechne is killed when the car carrying her and Edward Kennedy drives of a bridge on Martha's Vinyard.
// 1970s
#e <t><d>1979 Mar 28<n>Three Mile Island<c>Harrisburg<info>The core of a commercial nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island melts down.
// 1980s
#e <t>bombing<d>1983 Oct 23<n>Car bomb destroys U.S. Marine barracks<c>Beruit
#e <t>battle<d>1983 Oct 25<n>U.S. forces invade Grenada<c>Grenada
// 1990s
#e <t>bombing<d>1998 Aug 7<n>U.S. embassy in Kenya bombed<c>Nairobi
#e <t>bombing<d>1998 Aug 7<n>U.S. embassy in Tanzania bombed<c>Dar es Salaam
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Aug 20<n>U.S. bombs terrorist base<c>Afghanistan
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Aug 20<n>U.S. bombs suspected weapons plant<c>Sudan
#e <t>bombardment<d>1998 Dec 16<e>1998 Dec 19<n>Iraq bombarded<c>Iraq<info>U.S. bombards Iraq with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The U.K. joins in on nightly bombing on the 17th. The bombardment ends the night before the month of Ramadan begins.
#e <t>trial<d>1998 Dec 19<n>Clinton impeached<c>D.C.<p>Clinton
#e <t>trial<d>1999 Jan 14<e>1999 Feb 12<n>Clinton's impeachment trial<c>D.C.<p>Clinton<info>There were two charges in the articles of impeachment against president @Clinton@@ following the Lewinski affair. A two-thirds vote was required to convict him of the charges, but neither received even a simple majority.
#e <t>crash<d>1999 Jul<n>John Kennedy Jr. dies in crash<c>Martha's Vinyard<info>John Kenndy Jr., his wife, and her sister died in the crash of a light plane Kennedy was flying off Martha's Vinyard.
// Southeast Asia
#e <t>sea battle<d>1964 Aug 2<n>U.S. destroyers attacked<info>by North Vietnamese patrol boats<c>Gulf of Tonkin
#e <t>battle<d>1968 Jan 30<n>Tet offensive<info>launched by North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
#e <t>surrender<d>1975 Apr 24<n>South Vietnam surrenders<info>to North Vietnam<c>South Vietnam
#e <t>battle<d>1979 Feb 17<n>Chinese invade Vietnam<info>between 200,000 and 300,000 troops<c>Vietnam
