William Clinton becomes President
George H.W. Bush becomes President
Ronald Reagan becomes President
Jimmy Carter becomes President
Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States; Gerald Ford assumes office
First moon landing
Richard Nixon becomes President
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson becomes President
John F. Kennedy becomes President
Dwight Eisenhower becomes President
Elizabeth II becomes Queen
World War II ends
Harry S. Truman becomes President
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
Herbert Hoover becomes President
Calvin Coolidge becomes President
Warren G. Harding becomes President
World War I ends
America enters World War I
World War I begins
Woodrow Wilson becomes President
William Howard Taft becomes President
Wright Brothers' first flight
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
Queen Victoria dies
William McKinley becomes President
Grover Cleveland becomes President
Benjamin Harrison becomes President
Grover Cleveland becomes President
Chester A. Arthur becomes President
James A. Garfield becomes President
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President
Ulysses S. Grant becomes President
Confedation of Canada
American Civil War ends
Andrew Johnson becomes President
American Civil War begins
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
James Buchanan becomes President
Franklin Pierce becomes President
Millard Fillmore becomes President
Zachary Taylor becomes President
James K. Polk becomes President