Decade

US President

Some Events from History

1900

14 Sep 1901

Theodore Roosevelt

1903 - Wright Bros. first airplane

1908 - Ford launches the ‘Model T’ - mass production starts in 1913

4 Mar 1909

William Howard Taft

1910

4 Aug 1914 - Britain declares war on Germany

6 Apr 1917 - US declares war against Germany

11 Nov 1918 - End of World War I

4 Mar 1913

Woodrow Wilson

1920

4 Mar 1921

Warren Harding

1920 - 19th Amendment gives women right to vote

1927 - Lindbergh crosses Atlantic non-stop

24 Oct 1929 - Wall Street crash

2 Aug 1923

Calvin Coolidge

4 Mar 1929

Herbert Hoover

1930

1935 - Social Security Act provides retirement insurance

3 Sep 1939 - Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland

4 Mar 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940

7 Dec 1941 - Japanese attack on Pearl harbour. US declares war

Jan 1942 - US troops arrive in Europe

6 Aug 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 15 Aug - end of WW II

12 Apr 1945

Harry S. Truman

1950

1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy starts crusade against alleged communists in government and public life

1954 - Racial segregation in schools becomes unconstitutional

20 Jan 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1960

20 Jan 1961

John F. Kennedy

1962 - Cuban missile crisis

1963 - President John F. Kennedy assasinated

1968 - Martin Luther King assasinated

22 Nov 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

20 Jan 1969

Richard Nixon

1970

1973 - Vietnam ceasefire agreement signed

1974 - President Nixon announces his resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal

9 Aug 1974

Gerald Ford

20 Jan 1977

Jimmy Carter

1980

20 Jan 1981

Ronald Reagan

Jan 1981 - Iran frees the 52 US embassy hostages

1983 - US invades Grenada

Jan 1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take off

20 Jan 1989

George H.W. Bush

1990

1991 - US forces play dominant role in war against Iraq

1995 - Oklahoma bomb kills more than 160 people

20 Jan 1993

Bill Clinton