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- Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 (1)
- Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (1)
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (1)
- Monroe Doctrine, 1823 (1)
- Crimean War, 1853-1856 (1)
- Supreme Court Judge Stabs Member of Vigilance Committee, June 21, 1856 (1)
- U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 (8)
- Comanche Campaign, 1867-1875 (2)
- Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 (1)
- Johnstown Flood, PA, May 31, 1889 (1)
- Wright Brothers' First Flight, Kitty Hawk, NC, 1903 (2)
- World War I, 1914-1918 (19)
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 (2)
- Prohibition, U.S., 1919-1933 (45)
- Soviet Union, 1922-1991 (57)
- Sacco and Vanzetti, Execution, Boston, MA, August 23, 1927 (1)
- Dust Bowl, 1928-1935 (1)
- Great Depression, 1929-1941 (249)
- Scottsboro Case, AL, 1931 (3)
- Mukden Incident, September 18, 1931–February 18, 1932 (17)
- Charles Lindbergh, Jr., Kidnapped and Killed, East Amwell, NJ, March 1-May 12, 1932 (26)
- Adolf Hitler, Assumes Dictatorship of Germany, March 23, 1933 (16)
- Edward VIII, Abdication Crisis, UK, 1936 (1)
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (34)
- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 (111)
- Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 (10)
- Amelia Earhart, Disappearance, July 2, 1937 (3)
- Munich Conference, 1938 (4)
- Holocaust, 1939-1945 (10)
- Winter War, 1939-1940 (4)
- World War II, 1939-1945 (1166)
- United Nations Founded, 1945 (13)
- Cold War, 1945-1989 (332)
- First Indochina War, 1946-1954 (22)
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948- (20)
- Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 (1)
- Israeli Independence Declared, May 14, 1948 (7)
- Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 (155)
- Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (20)
- U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954- (16)
- Argentina, Coup d'Etat, September 16, 1955 (3)
- Suez Crisis, 1956 (24)
- Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 (11)
- Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (119)
- Space Race, 1957-1975 (94)
- Ghana Becomes Independent, March 6, 1957 (2)
- Patrice Lumumba, Assassination, Congo, January 17, 1961 (1)
- John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 (6)
- Women's Liberation Movement, 1964-1980 (2)
- Violence at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 29, 1968 (1)
