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16th Street Baptist Church bombing
1963 white supremacist terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1902 eruption of Mount Pelée
1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée that destroyed the town of Saint Pierre
1937 Fox vault fire
Fire at 20th Century-Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
Covert CIA operation in Guatemala
1973 Chilean coup d'état
1973 overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende by Gen. Augusto Pinochet
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
Argentine invasion of the Falklands
1992 Los Angeles riots
Riots following the beating of Rodney King
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 murder in Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 shooting at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Assassination of William McKinley
1901 murder of the 25th President of the United States
Banana Wars
Series of conflicts in Central America and the Caribbean
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba, April 1961
Black Panther Party
Black Power organization
Chicano Movement
Social and political movement combating racism in the United States
Civil rights movement
1954–1968 U.S. social movement against institutional racism
Civil rights movement (1896–1954)
Social movement in the United States
Colombian conflict
Low-intensity asymmetric war in Colombia
Columbine High School massacre
1999 mass shooting in Columbine, Colorado, US
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 confrontation between the US and USSR
Cuban Revolution
1955–58 armed rebellion against the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro
Desegregation busing
Effort to diversify the racial make-up of schools in the United States
Desegregation in the United States
Process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races
Dominican Civil War
1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic
Dust Bowl
Period of severe dust storms in North America
École Polytechnique massacre
1989 mass shooting in Montreal, Canada
Falklands War
Conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982
Football War
Brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969
Free Speech Movement
1964–65 acts of civil disobedience by students of UC Berkeley, California
Great Train Wreck of 1918
July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee train wreck
Guatemalan Civil War
1960–1996 civil war in Guatemala
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
Hindenburg disaster
Airship fire, 6 May 1937
I Have a Dream
1963 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft
1990 art theft in Boston
Jonestown
Peoples Temple cult settlement in Guyana
Killing of JonBenét Ramsey
Unsolved homicide of an American child beauty queen
Killing of Vincent Chin
1982 homicide in Michigan
Lindbergh kidnapping
Abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr
Lynching of Jesse Washington
African American who was lynched in the U.S.
LZ 129 Hindenburg
German airship in service 1936-1937
Manhattan Project
Research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs.
Manson Family
Commune and cult in California led by Charles Manson
March on Washington
1963 demonstration and march of the civil rights movement
Mexican peso crisis
Economic crisis in Mexico
Military dictatorship of Chile
Period of Chilean history under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet
Military Government of Santo Domingo
Occupation of the Dominican Republic by the United States from 1916–1924
Montgomery bus boycott
1950s American protest against racial segregation
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
Criminal trial decided October 3, 1995, in United States
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
June 1964 murders of 3 civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi
Netherlands Antilles
Former Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Nevada Test Site
United States Department of Energy reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada
New Deal
1930s programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oklahoma City bombing
1995 domestic terrorist attack in the US
Operation Condor
US-backed repression campaign in South America
Operation Uphold Democracy
International military intervention in Haiti following the 1991 coup d'etat
Panic of 1907
Three-week financial crisis in the United States
Progressive Era
1890s–1920s US political reform movement
Prohibition in the United States
Constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933
Redlining
Systematic denial of services to residents of specific neighborhoods or communities
Rust Belt
Region in the US affected by industrial decline
Scopes trial
1925 legal case in Tennessee, USA, testing the legality of teaching evolution in schools
South American dreadnought race
Naval arms race between Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in the early 1900s
Spirit of St. Louis
Monoplane flown solo by Charles Lindbergh
Stonewall riots
1969 spontaneous uprising for gay rights in New York City
Tate–LaBianca murders
1969 murders in Los Angeles, US
Tlatelolco massacre
Social crisis in Mexico
Truman Doctrine
Anti-Soviet U.S. Cold War foreign policy
Tulsa race massacre
1921 mass violence in Oklahoma, U.S.
United States invasion of Grenada
1983 United States-led military invasion
United States invasion of Panama
1989 United States military invasion of Panama
United States occupation of Haiti
1915–1934 military occupation
United States occupation of Nicaragua
Part of the Banana Wars
Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903
Naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903
Wall Street crash of 1929
Major stock market crash in the United States
War on drugs
Campaign against illegal drug use and trade
Watergate scandal
Political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s
White flight (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term