1 Aug MLK I have a dream speech
2 2) Nov Assassination of JFK
3 Feb. 1, 1968 South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam.
4 April 4, 1968 MLK assassination
5 June 5, 1968 Bobby Kennedy Assassination
6 Summer Urban Riots- Detroit and Chicago shown
7 August 1969-Woodstock
8 May 4, Kent State
9 June 8, 1972Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other Vietnamese children running down a road near Trang Bang after napalm attack.
10 Aug. 8, Nixon resigns after Watergate
11 April 29, Last U.S. airlift out- Fall of Saigon
12 Nov. 18, Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple Guyana Suicide
13 March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island
14 March 30, Reagan assassination attempt
15 January 28, 1986 Challenger explosion
16 April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown & effects
17 June 4, Tiananmen Square
18 November fall of the Berlin Wall
19 March 3, LAPD beating of Rodney King
Waco Texas
–Rwandan Genocide- death toll estimates 800,000-1,000,000
22 April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
23 August 31, Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris
24 April 20, Columbine High School Shooting
25 9/11/01
26 February Columbia shuttle disintegrates
27 March 19, 2003 US invades Iraq
28 Feb. 26, /2010War in Darfur, Sudan est. death toll: 300,000+
Abu Gharib prison
30 December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
31 Aug. 29, 2005 Katrina
32 Jan. 20, 2009 Obama's inauguration
33 H1N1
34 June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson's death
35 Haitian Earthquake Jan. 13, 2010
36 4/20/10-7/15/10: BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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38 January 25 – February 13, 2011 Egyptian revolution
39 April 28,2011: Royal Wedding-William and Catherine
40 Somali Famine - Ongoing- Summer 2011 alone death toll: 29,000 children under 5 in 90 days; 640,00 children malnourished.