JFK Assassination
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States.Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest.Less than an hour earlier, police had arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a recently hired employee at the Texas School Book Depository. He was being held for the assassination of President Kennedy and the fatal shooting, shortly afterward, of Patrolman J. D. Tippit on a Dallas street.
Bay Of Pigs
The first part of the plan was to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for his military to resist the invaders. On April 15, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields.However, it turned out that Castro and his advisers knew about the raid and had moved his planes out of harm’s way. Frustrated, Kennedy began to suspect that the plan the CIA had promised would be “both clandestine and successful” might in fact be “too large to be clandestine and too small to be successful.”
Jonestown Massacre
The Jonestown Massacre, which had a death toll of 918 people, was the most deadly single non-natural disaster in U.S. history until September 11, 2001. The Jonestown Massacre also remains the only time in history in which a U.S. congressman was killed in the line of duty.He told everybody to commit suicide because he said if they did then they would go to heaven.
Nixon Resigns
Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
Mount St. Helens Eruption
Mount St. Helen is located in the South West Washington State . In May of 1980 a earthquake struck below the north face . It was triggering the largest land slide in history. A total of 57 people lost their lives in this disaster .
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill occured in Prince Willam , Alaska on a Easter Sunday. On March 24,1989 an oil tanker bound for Long Beach CA, struck Prince Willams Bligh Reef. It spilled 11 to 38 millions of US gallons. The ship was carrying approximately 55 million US gallons of oil .
World Trade Center Bombing
In 1993 the World Trade Center was attacked by terriorists . A truck was bombed below the North Tower . The Urea Nitrate Hydrogen gas was send to the North tower crashing into the south tower bringing both towers down killing ton of people . The people held responsible were , Ramsi,Mahmud , Nida, Abdul, Rahman, and Ahmed .
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was another terrorist bombing in 1995 , on the Alfred P. Murrah Fedural Building . The bombing destroyed 1-3 third of the building and killed 168 people and injured 680 .