1. 1 Aug. 28 1963 MLK I have a dream speech

2. 2 2) Nov. 22 1963- Assassination of JFK

3. 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. 4 April 4, 1968 MLK assassination

5. 5 June 5, 1968 Bobby Kennedy Assassination

6. 6 Summer 1968- Urban Riots- Detroit and Chicago shown

7. 7 August 1969-Woodstock

8. 8 May 4, 1970- Kent State

9. 9 June 8, 1972Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other Vietnamese children running down a road near Trang Bang after napalm attack.

10. 10 Aug. 8, 1974- Nixon resigns after Watergate

11. 11 April 29, 1975- Last U.S. airlift out- Fall of Saigon

12. 12 Nov. 18, 1978- Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple Guyana Suicide

13. 13 March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island

14. 14 March 30, 1981- Reagan assassination attempt

15. 15 January 28, 1986 Challenger explosion

16. 16 April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown & effects

17. 17 June 4, 1989- Tiananmen Square

18. 18 November 1989- fall of the Berlin Wall

19. 19 March 3, 1991- LAPD beating of Rodney King

20. 20 1993 Waco Texas

21. 21 1994 –Rwandan Genocide- death toll estimates 800,000-1,000,000

22. 22 April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

23. 23 August 31, 1997- Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris

24. 24 April 20, 1999- Columbine High School Shooting

25. 25 9/11/01

26. 26 February 1 2003- Columbia shuttle disintegrates

27. 27 March 19, 2003 US invades Iraq

28. 28 Feb. 26, 2003- 2009/2010War in Darfur, Sudan est. death toll: 300,000+

29. 29 2004- Abu Gharib prison

30. 30 December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

31. 31 Aug. 29, 2005 Katrina

32. 32 Jan. 20, 2009 Obama's inauguration

33. 33 H1N1

34. 34 June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson's death

35. 35 Haitian Earthquake Jan. 13, 2010

36. 36 4/20/10-7/15/10: BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

37. 37

38. 38 January 25 – February 13, 2011 Egyptian revolution

39. 39 April 28,2011: Royal Wedding-William and Catherine

40. 40 Somali Famine - Ongoing- Summer 2011 alone death toll: 29,000 children under 5 in 90 days; 640,00 children malnourished.