First parachute jump is made over Paris

Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City

The First Continental Congress creates the Continental Association, which calls for a complete ban on all trade between America and Great Britain of all goods, wares or merchandise.

Americans defeat the British at Yorktown

U.S. formally takes possession of Alaska

Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion

Walt Disney Company is founded

Antarctic Treaty signed

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

White House cornerstone laid

British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, is launched

US Naval Academy opens

Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

Great Chicago Fire begins

Moving assembly line debuts at Ford factory

First Mennonites arrive in America

Harry Truman delivers first‑ever presidential speech on TV

The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite

East and West Germany reunite after 45 years