Module 10

1. During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

2. John F. Kennedy. Assassination took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_22,_1963

3. September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda members hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11

4. Titanic sank. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic

5. The Mayflower has a famous place in American history as a symbol of early European colonization of the future US. Mayflower went off course as the winter approached, and remained in Cape Cod Bay. On March 21/31, 1621, all surviving passengers, who had inhabited the ship during the winter, moved ashore at Plymouth, and on April 5/15, the Mayflower, a privately commissioned vessel, returned to England.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

6. The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

7. Barack Obama became the forty-fourth, and current, president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

8. ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense, was the world’s first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts, of the Lincoln Laboratory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

9.On 1 september, 1939 started World War 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

10. Pearl Harbor – At 7:02 a.m., two Army operators at Oahu’s northern shore radar station detect the Japanese air attack approaching and contact a junior officer who disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes which are expected in from the U.S. west coast.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm