The Hindenburg explodes Pearl Harbor under attack D-Day: The Normandy invasion President Roosevelt dies V-E Day: war in Europe ends Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima Japan surrenders: WWII ends Truman defeats Dewey General MacArthur fired Sputnik launched by Soviets John Glenn orbits Earth Marilyn Monroe dies 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 Kent State massacre Munich Olympics tragedy

Nixon resigns

Saigon falls

Elvis dies

Iran hostage crisis

John Lennon assassinated

President Reagan shot

The Challenger explodes

Berlin Wall crumbles

Operation Desert Storm begins

Rodney King verdict incites riots

Waco standoff ends in disaster

O.J. Simpson saga

Oklahoma City bombing

Flight 800 explodes over Atlantic

Atlanta Olympics bombing

Princess Diana dies.