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50 Important Dates in U.S. History - Click Quiz
Select the correct dates for these seminal events in American history.
For multi-day events, only one day is identified - usually the first day.
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| First submitted | January 31, 2025 |
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Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (date of attack)
Viet Nam cease-fire agreement signed in Paris
Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington
Assassination of President William McKinley (date of attack)
World War I armistice
Stock market crash precipitating the Great Depression
Ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote
Rev. Martin Luthern King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
Louisiana Purchase
Trinity Test (First atomic bomb test)
Establishment of the Constitution
Hurricane Katrina
John Glenn becomes first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth
Battle of New Orleans
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
San Francisco Earthquake
Battle of the Alamo
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
Settlement of the Colony of Virginia at Jamestown
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Assassination of President James Garfield (date of attack)
Little Rock Central High School desegregation
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
Battles of Lexington and Concord
U.S. Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Kent State massacre
Founding of St. Augustine
Space Shuttle Challenger explosion
Ratification of the Declaration of Independence
Establishment of the Plymouth Colony
Osama bin Laden killed
Oklahoma City bombing
Charles Lindbergh makes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
Selma to Montgomery civil rights march
Inaugeration of President Barack Obama
Columbine school shooting
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle of Gettysburg
Attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Exxon Valdez oil spill
D-Day
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Wright Brothers make first controlled, sustained airplane flight
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (ending Mexican-American War)
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Panama Canal opens
1565 Sep 08
1607 May 14
1620 Dec 21
1773 Dec 16
1775 Apr 19
1776 Jul 04
1788 Jun 21
1803 Jul 04
1815 Jan 08
1836 Mar 06
1848 Feb 02
1859 Oct 16
1861 Apr 12
1863 Jan 01
1863 Jul 01
1865 Apr 14
1869 May 10
1876 Jun 25
1881 Jul 02
1901 Sep 06
1903 Dec 17
1906 Apr 18
1914 Aug 15
1918 Nov 11
1919 Aug 18
1927 May 20
1929 Oct 29
1941 Dec 07
1944 Jun 06
1945 Jul 16
1945 Aug 06
1954 May 17
1957 Sep 24
1962 Feb 20
1963 Aug 28
1963 Nov 22
1965 Mar 07
1968 Apr 04
1969 Jul 20
1970 May 01
1973 Jan 27
1979 Nov 04
1986 Jan 28
1987 Jun 12
1995 Apr 19
1999 Apr 20
2001 Sep 11
2005 Aug 29
2009 Jan 20
2011 May 02
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Pontiac
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Level 62
Jan 31, 2025
May you change the Harper's Ferry Raid in Virginia to be West Virginia. This is where Harpers Ferry sits today.
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Jan 31, 2025
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