250 Most Impactful Moments in American History

115: Andrew Carnegie consolidates all of his business under one umbrella with the Carnegie Steel Company



114: President Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans



113: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland ft. Executive Vice President & Provost at UT Austin and Author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, Dr. William Inboden.



112: U.S. Military Academy at West Point opens



111: Operation Desert Storm: United States forces repel Iraq from Kuwaiti territory ft. Former White House Press Secretary (serving under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush) Marlin Fitzwater.
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120: Homegrown terrorists Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols set of a bomb at the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK killing 168 people including 19 children

119: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill setting off the California Gold Rush ft. Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Anthea Hartig.

118: Construction on the Hoover Dam is completed

117: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Women's Suffrage Association in New York. Three years later in 1872, Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of law. She is arrested and fine $100 dollars - which she never pays ft. Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University & author of the prize-winning book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, Dr. Lisa Tretault.

116: The Teapot Dome land scandal cripples the Harding Administration
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125: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is killed by Native American forces led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn ft. Author of Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull, Tom Clavin.

124: President Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into law establishing plan for a national currency backed by securities



123: The United States military and a coalition of allies invades Iraq to disarm the country of weapons of mass destruction they believed Iraq to possess.



122: President Nixon is the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China



121: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor ft. Professor of History and Director of the NYU Institute of French Studies, Edward Berenson.
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130: The 18th Amendment authorizing Prohibition is passed. Prohibition would be repealed in 1933 with the passage of the 21st Amendment

129: Gangland: A shootout between policemen led by Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow end in the deaths of the bank robbers. Gangster and Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger is killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio. A shootout between FBI agents and George "Baby Face" Nelson ends with the death of Nelson and FBI Special Agent Samuel P. Cowley
ft. Author of Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde, John Boessenecker.

128: Tulsa Race Massacre: A mob attacks Black owned businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma killing between 100-300, destroying 1,250 homes and imprisoning 6,000 African Americans

127: The US begins a final drawdown of forces in Afghanistan. In the chaotic withdrawal 13 American service members are killed in a terror attack carried out by ISIS-K $7B in military equipment is captured by the Taliban ft. FOX News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst.

126: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
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135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery

 

134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter

 

133: America's fourth largest bank Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, kicking off a month of possible worldwide economic collapse ft Former US Attorney, Senior Partner at Jenner & Block, & Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas. 

 

132: The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the United States. President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak freeing up $50B in emergency funding as schools and businesses begin closing across the country ft Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center & FOX News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel. 

 

131: President Johnson announces his Great Society during his State of the Union
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