Centenarian Olive C. Lagakis is interred at this gray granite headstone that marks her final resting place, with her husband Louis, in Bohemia Union Cemetery, Bohemia.
1901 - Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter was born.
1905 - The Wright Brother's third aeroplane, Wright Flyer III, stays in the air for 39 minutes with Wilbur piloting.
1910 - Joyce Hall founded Hallmark Cards.
1912 - RMS Titanic sticks an iceberg and sinks with the loss of between 1,517 and 1,636 souls.
1914 - World War I (1914-1918)
1919 - The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution begins Prohibition.
1920 - Babe Ruth's trade to the New York Yankees.
- The Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.
1930 - The Great Depression in the United States.
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States
national anthem.
- Empire State Building completed.
- Construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan begins.
1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president.
1933 - 21st Amendment ends prohibition.
1939 - World War II (1939-1945)
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor.
1945 - End of World War II
1950 - Korean War begins when North Korea forces invade South Korea.
The war lasted until an armistice agreement was signed in 1953.
1955 - Start of Vietnam War.
1963 - "I have a Dream" Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech
during the civil rights march in Washington, DC.
1963 - Assassination of President Kennedy.
1969 - Moon Landing, Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon.
1974 - Nixon Resignation.
1975 - End of the Vietnam War.
1983 - The fall of the Berlin Wall.
- The first woman in space, Sally Ride on the Challenger.
1992 - After 30 years Johnny Carson retires as host of NBC's The
Tonight Show.
1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, dropping 20 inches of snow, has gust winds of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet.
2000 - The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets in game 5 to win their 26th World Series title.
2001 - 9/11
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere
2006 - Former President Gerald Ford dies at the age of 93.
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