Main article: United States
2024
Attempted assassination of US presidential candidate Donald Trump
In July, US presidential candidate Donald Trump was assassinated and injured in the ear.
All attempts on the presidents of the United States:
- Abraham Lincoln, Republican, 1865, assassinated.
- James Garfield, Republican, 1881, assassinated.
- William McKinley, Republican, 1901, assassinated.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Republican, 1912, survives
- John F. Kennedy, Democrat, 1963, assassinated
- Gerald Ford, Republican, 1975, survived
- Ronald Reagan, Republican, 1981, survives
- George W. Bush, 2005 Republican, survives
- Donald Trump, Republican, 2024, survived.
Almost all presidents who were assassinated by Republicans.
Maryland bridge crash
On March 25, 2024, a bridge collapsed in Baltimore, Maryland, after an accident with a container ship.
More than a dozen cars carrying people fell into the water.
Insurance payments for Baltimore's bridge collapse could be among the largest in maritime insurance history, Lloyd's of London Chief Executive Officer John Neal said. It's about multibillion-dollar losses.
2019
2017
US develops operation to eliminate Syrian President Assad
In September 2020, US President Donald Trump said that in 2017 he advocated organizing an operation to eliminate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but eventually abandoned this idea.
'I thought it was better to eliminate it. We were ready. However, Matttis was against it. Mattis is a highly overrated general, "Trump said in an interview.
A plan to eliminate President Assad was being developed in 2017. Trump noted that in the end he did not regret that it was not implemented, given that there were no guarantees of the success of the plan.
Donald Trump becomes 45th US president
Trump Donald is the 45th President of the United States from January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021.
2001: Assassination of U.S. presidential candidate Bush Jr. Averted
February 7, 2001 prevented the assassination of US presidential candidate Bush Jr. The shooting was planned by Robert Pickett, who acted alone to attract attention.
1996: Preventing an assassination attempt on US President Clinton in the Philippines
On September 25, 1996, an assassination attempt was planned on US President Bill Clinton, which was prevented. Explosives were S4 planted under a bridge in Manila, Philippines. The organizer is al-Qaeda.
1994: Budapest Memorandum on Guarantees to Ukraine in Exchange for Renouncing Nuclear Weapons
1992: Bill Clinton - US President
Main article: Clinton Bill (Bill Clinton)
1991
1989: Victory over the USSR in the Cold War
1988
1987
Agreement with the USSR on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles
Pennsylvania state treasurer's suicide at news conference
Robert Budd Dwyer has been charged with accepting a bribe from a California audit company awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the state. He refused a deal with the investigation, which, if pleaded guilty, would have allowed him to receive a 5-year term, and maintained his complete innocence. As a result, the official faced 55 years in prison and a fine of 300,000. dollars
The day before the final decision was made on January 22, 1987, Dwyer called a press conference. In his speech, he called himself a victim of political persecution. Having finished reading the prepared text, the treasurer handed over three envelopes to his assistants. One contained a suicide note for the wife, the second - an organ donor card, the third - a letter for the governor. Then Dwyer took out a revolver, addressed the audience: "Please leave the room if it is unpleasant for you," after which, to the cries of stunned journalists, he pointed the barrel into his mouth and immediately pulled the trigger.
No one expected anything special from Dwyre's press conference. She seemed to deserve only a couple of newspaper columns, and it made no sense to shoot her on expensive colour film. So did Associated Press photographer Paul Vatis. A former employee of the agency said: "The New York photo editor in a telephone conversation with Paul found out that he took black and white pictures. It was the last day our photographers could choose which film to use on assignments. From that moment, it became almost impossible to meet a staff photographer or even a freelancer who shot for the AP on black and white film. " Vatis' photos, however, have been featured on the front pages of numerous publications around the world, as well as the World Press Photo Award.
The suicide was filmed on five TV cameras, and several channels showed him on the news without bills, followed by a huge number of complaints from viewers. Spooky video footage also features in the 1993 Category Z film "Faces of Death."
With Budd Dwyer still serving as state treasurer, his family received compensation and insurance payments totaling about $1.3 million. Suicide was the only way to preserve these privileges and ensure a comfortable future for the family. Dwyer's allegations of wrongful prosecution following the investigation were found to be baseless. All subsequent defense petitions were rejected, but disputes over his guilt still arise. Another wave of them took place in 2010, when one of the key witnesses admitted that he had slandered the official for the sake of commuting his own sentence.
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1982: Explosion of the Soviet gas pipeline and the start of cyber war against Russia
Main article: Cyber war between Russia and the United States
US CIA officers have introduced a bug into Canadian software that managed gas pipelines. Soviet intelligence received this software as an object of industrial espionage and introduced it on the Trans-Siberian pipeline. The result was the largest non-nuclear explosion in human history, which occurred in 1982.
1981: US President Ronald Reagan injured in assassination attempt
On March 30, 1981, US President Ronald Reagan was assassinated. As a result, he was injured, but survived. Scene Washington, D.C. Shot by John Hinckley Jr., who acted alone, motivated by a desire to impress actress Jodie Foster.
1980
A malfunction in the computer reports a nuclear attack by the USSR on the United States. Peace on the cusp of nuclear war
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1976
1975
Two unsuccessful assassination attempts on US President Ford
On September 5, 1975, an attempt was made on Gerald Ford, but he was not injured. Shooting/San Francisco, CA/Assailant Lynette "Squickie" Fromm is a religious fanatic, was a member of the Charles Manson sect and acted on her own.
On September 22, 1975, a second attempt was made on Gerald Ford, but he was not injured again. Shooting/San Francisco, Calif. Assailant Sarah Jane Moore acted on her own. She was a former FBI informant and radical activist.
Meeting of the head of the USSR Brezhnev and US President Ford in Helsinki
1974
Meeting of CPSU Secretary General Brezhnev and US President Ford in Vladivostok
In 1974, US President Gerald Ford came to Vladivostok to visit Leonid Brezhnev.
"As President Ford claimed, Leonid Ilyich liked his wolf vest, which he hinted at. The American understood the hint, gave the vest, and in return received a hat from the head of the Secretary General. Today, this relic is preserved at the Ford Museum in Michigan. "
'I had a lot of respect for that person, it was a very interesting person. He believed in communism! " President Ford recalled of Brezhnev.
Cook Galina Kryzhanovskaya says: "Before arriving in Vladivostok, Ford's retinue believed that we had a taiga here and bears walked the streets. But when they saw the city, the new circus, their opinion changed. The Americans really liked my cheesecakes, it turned out that their cooks did not know such a dish. And they also liked the fried tooth. They ordered it twice. "
President Ford in Japan
President Nixon's resignation
1973: Oil crisis
1972
US presidential candidate Wallace permanently paralyzed in assassination attempt
On May 15, 1972, US presidential candidate George Wallace was assassinated in Laurel, Maryland. He was paralyzed for life. The shooter was Arthur Bremer - an extremist who acted alone to attract attention.
1971: Reagan calls Africans "monkeys"
Ronald Reagan in 1971 called African delegates to the UN "monkeys." He was then Governor of California, and was later elected President of the United States.
Reagan said this in a phone call with then-President Richard Nixon, whose calls were being recorded.
Reagan was outraged that African delegates at the UN opposed Taiwan's independence from China. After the vote, members of the Tanzanian delegation began dancing in the General Assembly.
Reagan asked Nixon if he watched the vote on TV, continuing:... " to see these monkeys from African countries... damn them, they still didn't learn to wear shoes!. " Nixon laughed.
The phone record was discovered in 2019 by history professor Tim Naftali, who ran the Nixon Presidential Library, where all the records of the 37th head of the United States were stored.
Naftali says the recording sheds light on how Reagan "defended" apartheid states in Rhodesia and South Africa in the late 1970s.
1969
Hippies against the Vietnam War
Hippies protest against law banning cars
1968
Feminist action at the Miss America pageant
Assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy by activist who opposed support for Israel
Sniper kills Martin Luther King
Speaking in Memphis on April 3, King said: "We have some tough days ahead of us. But it doesn't matter. Because I visited the top of the mountain... I looked forward and saw the Promised Land. Maybe I won't be there with you, but I want you to know now - all of us, all of the people will see this Earth. "
On April 4, at 6:01 p.m., King was fatally shot by a sniper while standing on a balcony at the Memphis Lorraine Motel.
The killer was identified as James Earl Rey, who received a 99-year prison sentence. It was officially acknowledged that Rey was a lone killer, but many believe King fell victim to the plot. After the sentencing, Rey said he was not involved in the murder. King's family also believed the killer was not him.
The Episcopal Church of the United States recognized King as a martyr who gave his life for the Christian faith, his statue is placed in Westminster Abbey (England) among the martyrs of the 20th century.
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1963
Assassination of President Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson president
About the assassination of US President Kennedy, see Dallas
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Visit of US President Kennedy to Germany
1962
The actress appeared on stage in a translucent figure-hugging dress strewn with rhinestones. There was no laundry under it. Marilyn herself called her outfit, made by designer Jean Louis, "leather and beads." Later, Edlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, also present at the evening, wrote to Mary Lasker, "I didn't see the beads!"
Monroe, who was noticeably drunk, ran up to the microphone with small steps, which is why many compared her to a geisha. The hair looked unnatural - there is an assumption that she was wearing a wig. When Marilyn began to sing, the hall momentarily froze. The manner of performing the innocent song "Happy birthday" was very erotic - it was hard to believe that this was happening in a huge hall filled with people. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen later described it as: "It's like she's making love to the president in front of forty million Americans."
1961
Negotiations between the heads of the USSR and the USA in Vienna
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1954: Castle Bravo is the most powerful Qasl of a US nuclear bomb
Castle Bravo is an American test of a thermonuclear explosive device on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll (Republic of the Marshall Islands, associated with the United States).
The first in a series of seven "Operation Qasl" tests. During this test, a two-stage charge was blown up, in which lithium deuteride was used as a thermonuclear fuel. The energy release from the explosion reached 15 megatons, making Qasl Bravo the most powerful of all US nuclear tests. The explosion led to severe radiation contamination of the environment, which caused concern around the world and led to a serious revision of existing views on nuclear weapons.
1953: Eisenhower - US President
1952
1951: Thermonuclear bomb tests
Operation Greenhouse is the fifth series of American nuclear tests and the second in 1951. The operation tested nuclear charge designs using fusion to increase energy output. In addition, the impact of the explosion on structures, including residential buildings, plant buildings and bunkers, was investigated.
The operation was carried out at the Pacific Test Site. All the devices were detonated on tall metal towers simulating an air explosion.
On April 8, 1951, the first sample of the Mk-6 bomb was tested.
At 06:34 on April 8, 1951 (local time), the first Mk-6 sample was tested at Eniwetok Atoll (Marshall Islands). The bomb was dropped from a 100-meter tower, the explosion raised 250,000 tons of soil to a height of 10 km.
1950: Assassination attempt on US President Harry Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists
On November 1, 1950, an attempt was made on the life of US President Harry Truman/not injured/shooting/Blair House, Washington, DC. The attackers are two Puerto Rican nationalists seeking to draw attention to Puerto Rico's independence movement .
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1946: Nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll
In July 1946, the United States used Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) for two tests, as part of Operation Crossroads, of atomic bombs similar to the Fat Man bomb. On July 1, a bomb was dropped in the lagoon of the atoll on 73 obsolete warships. On July 25, an underwater explosion of a nuclear power plant was carried out there.
1945: Nuclear bombardment of Japan
Main article: World War II
On August 9, 1945, the Fat Man atomic bomb equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT was dropped on the city of Nagasaki by US pilot Charles Sweeney, commander of the B-29 Bockscar bomber. The total death toll in Nagasaki ranged from 60 to 80 thousand people.
1942
1941: US enters war after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The United States of America entered World War II on December 7, 1941, after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
1940
A. Einstein accepts US citizenship
1939
Ku Klux Klan atrocities
Bees without a sting
1938
1937
Crash of the Hindenburg airship. 35 victims
On May 6, 1937, completing the next transatlantic flight, while landing at the main aeronautical base of the US Navy at Lakehurst, the Hindenburg filled with fire-hazardous hydrogen caught fire and crashed.
Which killed 35 of the 97 people on board, as well as one member of the ground team.
And although in terms of the number of victims, Hindenburg is not the largest disaster of the airship, the death of this aircraft received a great resonance.
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1933: Repeal of Prohibition
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The inscription on the poster: "Lips touching alcohol will not affect ours." 1920s]]
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Don't try again. USA, 1922]]
1920
Main article: Beauty technologies
Kansas, 1920.]]
1919
Alfred Greb is considered the pioneer of automotive radio, who had to install a large antenna in the form of a laundry dryer on the bumpers.
1918
1917: US enters World War I
Main article: World War I
The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. Before that, they remained neutral.
1915: First prototype traffic light
1914
1913: Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States
President Woodrow Wilson led the United States from 1913 to 1921. Photo: AP]]
1912: Attempt on Theodore Roosevelt
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran for president of the United States, and at one of the meetings with voters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was assassinated. Shot by psychopath John Fleming Schrank, who acted alone. The bullet hit Roosevelt's chest, piercing through a steel spectacle case and a 50-page speech he kept in his inner pocket. Roosevelt continued to speak for another hour and a half. Through his experience as a hunter, he realized that the wound was not dangerous. After that, it turned out that the bullet went deep into the chest, but it was more risky to remove it than to leave it, and Roosevelt lived with it all his life. He lost this election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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1905
Negotiations on the results of the Russo-Japanese War
1904
1903: Wright brothers make first powered glider flights
1902
1901: Assassination of the 25th U.S. President William McKinley
On September 6, 1901, an assassination attempt was made on US President William McKinley/died 14.09.1901 /shooting/Buffalo, New York/Leon Cholgosh was an anarchist who acted on his own.
1900
1899
1898: Klondike Gold Rush
Up to 100 thousand people tried to reach Klondike during the Gold Rush in 1897-1898, 30-40 thousand succeeded, but only about 4,000 managed to make money on gold.
Everything had to be carried, and there was a shortage in place: for example, salt was bought for golden sand at a weight of 1:1. According to estimates, prospectors spent several times the cost of the extracted gold on travel, supplies and tools, not including the cost of labor.
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1881: Assassination of US President James Garfield
On July 2, 1881, an attempt was made on the life of US President James Garfield. He died 19.09.1881 /shooting/Washington, D.C.
Murderer Charles Giteau acted alone, frustrated that he had not been appointed to public office.
1879
Main article: Masons
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1867: North American United States buys Alaska from Russia
The agreement on the sale by Russia of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands was signed on March 30, 1867 in Washington.
On May 3, 1867, the treaty was signed by Emperor Alexander II. According to the treaty, the entire Alaska Peninsula, the Alexander Archipelago, the Aleutian Islands with Attu Island, the Near Islands, Rats, Foxes, Andreyanovsky, Shumagina, Trinities, Umnak, Unimak, Kodiak, Chirikova, Afognak and other smaller islands passed to the United States; islands in the Bering Sea: St. Lawrence, St. Matvey, Nunivak and the islands of Pribylov - St. George and St. Paul. Together with the territory of the United States of America, all property located in Russian possessions in Alaska and the islands was transferred.
On October 18 of the same year, a ceremony was held to officially transfer Russian America to the North American United States in exchange for a check worth $7.2 million in gold. In the capital of the Russian colony Novoarkhangelsk (Sitka), the Russian garrison gave way to the American, the US flag was raised over Sitka.
1865: End of the Civil War. The Murder of Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate States of America on April 9, 1865. The country was to carry out the Reconstruction of the South and begin the process of integrating blacks into American society.
Five days after the end of the war, on Good Friday Day, April 14, 1865, at the play "Our American Cousin" (at the Ford Theater), Southern supporter actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the head. The next morning, without regaining consciousness, Abraham Lincoln died.
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1863
1862
Abolition of slavery
1861: Inauguration of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1857: James Buchanan - President of the United States
1776-1853: Annexation of territories
Sports in the United States
Main article: Sports in the USA
See also
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