Keeley Library Microfiche: Great Events |
| 1. Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimean War, 1854 | 2. Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 |
| 3. Monitor-Merrimac Battle, 1862 | 4. Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 |
| 5. Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864 | 6. Lee Surrenders at Appomattox,
End of the Civil War, 1865 |
| 7. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 1865 | 8. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 1868 |
| 9. Stanley Meets Livingstone, 1871 | 10. Custer's Last Stand, 1876 |
| 11. The Fall of Khartoum, Murder of General "Chinese" Gordon, 1885 | 12. Oklahoma Land Rush, 1885 |
| 13. Great Johnstown, Flood, Clara Barton and the American Red Cross, 1889 | 14. Coxey's Army, 1894 |
| 15. Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders and the Battle of San Juan Hill, 1898 | 16. The Dreyfus Affair, 1899 |
| 17. The Boer War, 1899 | 18. First International Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899 |
| 19. San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 | 20. Discovery of the North Pole, 1909 |
| 21. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, 1914 | 22. Battle of Ypres, 1915 |
| 23. General Pershing's Pursuit of Pancho Villa, 1916 | 24. The Russian Revolution, 1917 |
| 25. Discovery of King Tut's Tomb, 1922 | 26. Leopold-Loeb Kidnapping and Murder Trial, 1924 |
| 27. The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, 1925 | 28. The Jazz Singer Opens, First Talking Movie, 1927 |
| 29. FDR's "First 100 Days," 1933 | 30. Jesse Owens and the Olympics, 1936 |
| 31. New York World's Fair, 1939 | 32. Battle of Britain, 1940 |
| 33. D-Day, 1944 | 34. Battle of the Bulge, 1944 |
| 35. Marines Land on Iwo Jima, 1945 | 36. United Nations Formed, 1945 |
| 37. The Hollywood Blacklist, 1947 | 38. Flight of Nationalist Chinese Government to Formosa, 1949 |
| 39. First Transcontinental TV Broadcast, 1951 | 40. Climbing of Mt. Everest by Hillary, 1953 |
| 41. The Execution of the Rosenbergs, 1953 | 42. The Korean War, 1950-1953 |
| 43. The Hungarian Uprising, 1956 | 44. U-2 Shot Down Over Russia, 1960 |
| 45. Assassination of President Kennedy, 1963 | 46. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1964 |
| 47. The Civil Rights Movement, 1965-1968 | 48. Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, 1967 |
| 49. Nixon's Visit to China, 1972 | 50. Raid on Entebbe, 1976 |
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Jane Constant, Reference Librarian
Keeley Library, B.M.C.Durfee High School
of Fall River
September, 1978 to June, 2001