May 19th 1962Actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday for President John F. Kennedy. It happens during a Democratic Party fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden where Kennedy is guest of honor. 1925To resort to an

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May 20th, 1927. Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New Yorks Long Island aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. Some 33 hours later, Lindbergh lands in Paris, becoming the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932. Aviator Ameli

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May 21st1927, He made it, Charles A. Lindbergh, lucky Lindy they call him. Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh completes the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.He lands near Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. Some 33 hours after taking off

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May 22nd, 1939, in Europe Nazi Germany and fascist Italy signs the Pact of Steel forming the military alliance just month before the start of WWII. 1972, Richard Nixon begins the first visit by an American President to whats then the Soviet Union. He

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May 26th 1940During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops begin their evacuation from Dunkirk, France. They escape Nazi Germany's advancing forces, making their way across the English Channel to Britain. 1868In Washington, President An

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May 29th 1953, Clemens Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asias Himalayas. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the worlds highest peak without his partner. Teamwor

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May 30th, 2002In New York, the end of the agonizing clean up at Ground Zero, eight and a half months after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Retired firefighter Tom Steffens says he can hardly believe what he sees where the Twin Towers of the Wor

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June 2nd, 1997In Denver, a federal jury convicts Timothy McVeigh of murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma City bombing. Masha Kite is the mother of one of the 168 people killed in the blast at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The emotions have been

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April 18th, 1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an Am

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June 4th, 1989In Beijing, Chinese Army troops storm Tiananmen Square to clash a pro-democracy movement. Hundreds, possibly thousands are killed in the crackdown, damaging communist China's reputation in the West. 1942A turning point during World War

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June 5th, 1968So, my thanks to all of you, and now its on to Chicago, and lets win there. In Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot, after claiming victory in California's Democratic Presidential Primary. Reporter Andrew West is there

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February 4th, 1945In the final month of World War II in Europe, the top Allied leaders meet at Yalta in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin discuss plans for

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January 21st, 1793. In Paris, the French Revolution turns bloody as King Louis XVI condemned for treason is executed on the guillotine. 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union, the worlds first Communist state, di

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January 22nd, 1973. In one of its most controversial rulings, the US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in a landmark case of Roe versus Wade. Also that same year. For in your time, we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society, and

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January 24th 1848. Northern California James Marshall finds a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill, a discovery that sparks the Gold Rush the following year. 1965. In London, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who led his nation through the dar

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January 27th, 1945. In the final months of WWII, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germanys concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, thats where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews, perished, as part of the Nazis final solut

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Our war against terror is only beginning. January 29th 2002. Just months after the September 11th attacks. President Geroge W. H. Bush warns terroists still threaten the United States. Bush also singles out three nations during his first State of the

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January 31st, 1958America enters the Space Age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit Explorer One. It happens just months after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit. 2001 Libyan Intelligence officer

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Feb 7th, 1964 I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. The Beatles arrives in New York for their first tour of the US among the stops of the Fab Four and appears on TVs Ed Sullivan Show. 1995Ramzi Yousef,mastermind of t

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February 3rd 1959If the Bible Tells You So Do you believe in rock 'n roll Can music save your mortal soul And can you teach me how to dance real slow Well, I know that you're in love with him 'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym Three stars of early r

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