135: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery
 
134: Four Black students in Greensboro, NC begin a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter
 
133: America's fourth largest bank Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, kicking off a month of possible worldwide economic collapse ft Former US Attorney, Senior Partner at Jenner & Block, & Court-Appointed Bankruptcy Examiner in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Anton Valukas. 
 
132: The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the United States. President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 outbreak freeing up $50B in emergency funding as schools and businesses begin closing across the country ft Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center & FOX News Senior Medical Analyst, Dr. Marc Siegel. 
 
131: President Johnson announces his Great Society during his State of the UnionLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

135-131: Socially Distant

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140: Jesse James and his gang commit the first train robbery in the American West in Adair, Iowa. In 1876 Lawman Wyatt Earp begins work as a peace officer in Dodge City, KS. The same year outlaw Wild Bill Hickok is shot dead during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota. In 1881 Tombstone, AZ is sight of the gunfight at the OK Corral. And in 1882 the legendary Jesse James is killed by fellow outlaw Robert Ford in his home in St. Joseph, MO. ft. Author of Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West, Tom Clavin.  
 
139: The first major wagon trail heads west on the Oregon Trail with over a thousand pioneers from Missouri  138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi 
 
138: African American teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Money, Mississippi
 
137: President Reagan announces SDI a missile defense program intended to intercept enemy missiles ft. Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Paul Lettow.  
 
136: The Spanish Flu Pandemic hits the USLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

140-136: The Wild West

145: Vietnam War: The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war ends 
 
144: President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to escort Black students into a newly integrated Little Rock Central High School. Three years later in 1960 Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all white elementary school. ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author of Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis, John A. Kirk 
 
143: The Brooklyn Bridge is open to traffic in New York City 142: The Senate rejects joining the League of Nations and refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
 
141: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election ft. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas and author of LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, Randall B. Woods Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

145-141: Peace With Honor

150: Whiskey Rebellion - President Washington mobilizes a federal army to put down an insurrection in western Pennsylvania ft. Historian, Lecturer at Robert Morris University, Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, and author of The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, Brady J. Crytzer  
 
149: Truck bombs kill 241 American servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon - Terrorist organization Islamic Jihad would claim responsibility 
 
148: The first transcontinental railroad is completed in Promontory, Utah with a golden spike 
 
147: In Selma, Alabama Civil Rights protestors make two attempts to the Edmund Pettis bridge on a march to Montgomery but are met with violent resistance by police forces injuring scores and killing one. A third attempt is successful. 
 
146: Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is approved for mass distribution by the FDA ft. Son of polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk & Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Dr. Peter SalkLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

150-146: The Golden Spike

155: US Airways Flight 1549 loses both of its engines after striking a flock of birds. Pilot Chesley Sullenberger successfully lands the plane in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers. ft. Resilience Partners Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, Best-selling author, & Last Passenger off US Airways Flight 1549, Dave Sanderson. 
 
154: U.S. Supreme Court finds Standard Oil to be a monopoly and orders it to be dissolved. ft Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Daniel Yergin.
 
153: Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech
 
152: Oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Astronauts abort the mission but return to Earth safely
 
151: The legend says the game of baseball is "invented" in Cooperstown, New York by Abner DoubledayLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

155-151: Miracle On The Hudson

160: Black Monday - DJIA falls 508 points - 22.6%, its largest single day percentage drop in history
 
159: The Land Act of 1820 lowers prices in the Missouri and Northwest territories with the goal of encouraging western movement ft. Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Professor Emeritus of History, & Author of The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics, Dr. Daniel Feller. 
 
158: Members of a cult following Charles Manson murder actress Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles, CA. The next day they would kill businessman Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. ft. Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Licensed Private Investigator, and True Crime Author, Dr. Joni Johnston. 
 
157: A bomb explodes in the World Trade Center killing seven. The attack was planned by a small terror cell including Sheik Abdel Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Yousef would later be captured in Pakistan and found guilty in a NY court.
 
156: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, putting American currency on the gold standardLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

160-156: The Gold Standard

165: The first televised presidential debate takes place between Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon ft. Author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, Alan Schroeder 
 
164: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered in Los Angeles. The prime suspect former running back O.J. Simpson evades capture by leading police on a low-speed chase before his eventual arrest ft. attorney and host of the Crime & Justice podcast,  Donna Rotunno. 
 
163: American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo
 
162: Sacco and Vanzetti a pair of Italian-American anarchists and convicted murderers are killed via electric chair
 
161: Clara Barton establishes the American Red CrossLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

165-161: Trial of the Century

170: Al Qaeda suicide bombers crash a small craft into the USS Cole killing 17 sailors ft. Former USS Cole Commander Kirk Lippold
 
169: The last draft lottery for the US military is held
 
168: Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization - a process to strengthen rubber
 
167: In a crime that outraged the nation, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder 14 year old Bobby Franks  ft Professor of History & Political Science at John Jay College & author of For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago, Simon Baatz
 
166: The Supreme Court rules that Africans aboard the ship Amistad were taken into slavery illegallyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

170-166: The Perfect Crime

175: Bleeding Kansas escalates as anti and pro slavery forces take up arms in the Wakarusa War 
 
174: Amelia Earhart disappears after taking off from New Guinea 
 
173: The FBI raids a compound in Waco, Texas led by cult leader David Koresh. A fire breaks out during the raid killing 76 Branch Davidian members including at least 20 children ft Retired FBI Special Agent and former HRT Operator, Charlie Rasner 
 
172: The US fails in its Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba resulting in the expansion of power of the Castro regime ft. Author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, Jim Rasenberger 
 
171: Spanish-American War: Theodore Roosevelt leads his Rough Riders in a cavalry charge up San Juan HillLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

175-171: The Rough Riders

180: President Eisenhower in his farewell address warns against the power of a "military industrial complex" ft. Founding Director of the Eisenhower Institute and Author of How Ike Led, Susan Eisenhower
 
179: The Donner Party becomes snowbound
 
178: Riots break out in Los Angeles following the not guilty verdict in the Rodney King case. 63 people were killed 12k people arrested and $1B worth of damage.  ft. Former Attorney General and Founding Partner at Torridon Law PLLC, Bill Barr
 
177: President Truman implements the Truman Doctrine, pledging US support to democracies against authoritarianism.
 
176: Sandra Day O'Connor is confirmed as the first female justice of the Supreme CourtLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

180-176: Ike’s Farewell Warning

185: Samuel Colt receives a patent for his revolver
 
184: The Missouri Compromise becomes law: admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
 
183: 2000 Presidential Election ends in controversy with numerous lawsuits in the state of Florida and ending with a 5-4 Supreme Court decision. George Bush defeats Al Gore for the Presidency ft. FOX News Contributor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove
 
182: President Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act empowering forces to combat the group
 
181: Thomas Edison announces the invention of the phonograph which he later demonstrates ft. Research Professor;  Director and General Editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, Paul IsraelLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

185-181: Bush v. Gore

190: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone ft. former Senior Vice President of Apple Computer, & author of best-selling books The Steve Jobs Way, & Leading Apple with Steve Jobs, Jay Elliot  
 
189: Simultaneous bombings at US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kill 224 and injure 4,500. The bombings are attributed to the al Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden
 
188: Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents and begins advertising a beverage that will be known as Coca-Cola
 
187: The Freedom Riders begin bus rides into the South to test the 1960 Boynton decision, a bus is later firebombed and another has all riders arrested for disturbing the peace ft. Author and Photographer of Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, Eric Etheridge 
 
186: A fire breaks out in the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a launch pad test killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger ChaffeeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

190-186: The iPhone Empire

195: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger
 
194: George Eastman founds the Eastman Kodak Company
 
193:The Empire State Building is completed displacing the Chrysler Building as the world's tallest ft. Architectural Historian & Author, Anthony W. Robins 
 
192: Radical abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on the Harper's Ferry Armory. The raid is ended by troops led by General Robert E. Lee. ft. Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, David S. Reynolds 
 
191: The U.S. enters the United NationsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

195-191: Empire State of Mind

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200: Entrepreneur Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, ft. biographer and author of Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it all Away, Lisa Napoli 
 
199: An American U2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union. Pilot Gary Powers successfully ejects and is captured. 
 
198: Hurricane Katrina slams into the Gulf Coast states, killing more than 1,500 and causing $108B in damage ft. distinguished scholar, Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, John M. Barry 
 
197: Edison's kinetoscope premiered at his New Jersey lab.
 
196: Two high school students open fire on their teachers and classmates at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO in a pre-planned attack, murdering 13.
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200-196: I’m Lovin’ It 

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205: Somali rebels shoot down two US Black Hawk helicopters. The ensuing firefight sees 18 US soldiers dead
 
204:Twenty children aged 6 and 7 and six teachers are killed in a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT ft. Molly Line, Fox News Correspondent and onsite reporter during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 
 
203: NASA announces its Mercury Seven, the first US astronauts
 
202: A shooter opens fire on a music festival from a hotel room in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV killing 59 and injuring 869. It is the deadliest mass shooting in American history
 201: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota ft. Interior Secretary &  former two-term Governor of North Dakota, Doug BurgumLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

205-201: The Four Faces

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210: 46 year old George Floyd is killed by police during an arrest in Minneapolis, MN - the bystander video sparks nationwide outrage resulting in the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement resulting in social justice protests, but also riots, looting and deaths
 
209: January 6th: Supporters of President Trump storm Capitol Hill while Congress was attempting to certify the 2020 Presidential Election. Congress would evacuate and reconvene later that night to certify the results. President Trump would concede the election the next day but would be impeached by the House of Representatives and later acquitted by the Senate.
 
208: The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions establish an eight hour workday
 
207: Microsoft Co. releases its first version of Windows ft. FOX Business Host Stuart Varney 
 
206: Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland it is later determined to be a terror attack linked to Libya ft. Dick Marquise, Retired FBI Special Agent and Lead Investigator of Pan Am Flight 103Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

210-206: Terror Over Lockerbie

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235: The Coors Brewing Company begins producing beer in Golden, CO. Three years later Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, MO markets their pale lager for the first time.
 
234: President Trump becomes the first sitting US president to set foot on North Korean soil during a meeting at the DMZ
 
233: Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman
 
232: African American track star Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Summer Olympics ft. Dr. Kevin Jones, Dean of the School of Education at Cedarville University and co-author of Jesse Owens: A Life In American History
 
231: Financier Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud. It is revealed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history ft. FOX Business Anchor David AsmanLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

215-211: A House of Cards

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220: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia ft. Eric O'Neill, lawyer, cybersecurity expert, former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operative
 
219: US National Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice". Americans would go on to win Gold in the event ft. Mike Eurzione, former Captain of the USA Olympic Hockey Team, Director of Special Outreach for Boston University Athletics
 
218: Nat Turner sentenced to death for his role in inciting a slave uprising
 
217: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the majority of the city killing over 3,000 and causing over $350M in damages
 
216: Enron the largest bankruptcy in US history takes place after the energy company files for Chapter 11Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

220-216: A Miracle On Ice

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225: Oil tanker Exxon Valdez spills roughly 240k barrels of oil after running aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound ft. Climate journalist and author, Charles Wohlforth
 
224: A bomb explodes at Northwestern University injuring a security guard. This would be the first Unabomber attack by Ted Kaczynski
 
223: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago turns violent as police clash with anti-war protesters
 
222: Congressman Preston Brooks beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in a Senate hallway after Senator Sumner makes an anti-slavery speech ft. FOX News Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram
 
221: Internet bookstore Amazon is founded by Jeff BezosLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

225-221: The Whole World Is Watching

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230: Against protests in the South, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to the White House ft. Brian Kilmeade, Co-host of Fox & Friends, Host of The Brian Kilmeade Show, Author of Teddy and Booker T.
 
229: Western Union is founded
 
228: Activist Malcolm X is assassinated in New York by members of the Nation of Islam
 
227: Two deadly explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Ed Davis, former Police Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and CEO of the Edward Davis Company
 
226: The Woodstock music festival takes place over three days in upstate New YorkLearn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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