1492: Columbus "discovers" America [1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)]
1528:
Cabeza de Vaca begins his journey across America [Cabeza de Vaca
(1991)]
1607: Pocahontas rescues John Smith [Pocahontas (1995)]
1620: Mayflower voyage [Plymouth Adventure (1952)]
1634: Jesuit Paul LeJeune visits the Hurons [Black Robe (1991)]
1692: Salem Witch Trials begin [The Crucible (1996)]
1694: Sor Juana capitulates [Yo, La Peor De Todas (I, The Worst of All) (1990)]
1757: French and Indian War: Siege of Fort William Henry [The
Last of the
Mohicans (1920)]
1769:
Daniel Boone heads for Kentucky [With Daniel Boone Through the
Wilderness (1926)] [Daniel
Boone (1960)]
1784:
Thomas Jefferson begins a five-year stint as Commissioner
and U.S.
Minister to the court of Louis XVI [Jefferson in Paris
(1995)]
1790: Slave revolt in Cuba [La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) (1976)]
1860: Molly Maguires active [The Molly Maguires (1970)]
1863:
Black
Union soldiers of the 54th Regiment attack Confederates at
Charleston [Glory (1989)]
1876: Battle of Little Big Horn/Custer's Last Stand [They Died
with Their
Boots On (1941)]
1881: Showdown at the O.K. Corral [Wyatt Earp (1994)]
1902:
Crisis in the African American Gullah Community
[Daughters of the
Dust (1991)]
1919: Black Sox scandal [Field of Dreams (1989)]
1932: Lindbergh baby kidnapped [The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)]
1964: Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali [Ali (2001)]
1965: Malcolm X is assassinated [Malcolm X (1992)]
1969: Woodstock music festival [Woodstock (1970)]
1969: Manson family murders [Helter Skelter (1976)]
1970: Janis Joplin dies [The Rose (1979)]
1973: Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile [Missing (1982)]
Roe v. Wade
legalizes abortion [The Cider House Rules (1999)]
*under construction
1974: Karen Silkwood dies in a suspicious car crash [Silkwood (1983)]
President Nixon resigns [Nixon (1995)]
1975: Fall of Phnom Penh/Cambodian War [The Killing Fields (1984)]
1977: Son of Sam Murders [Summer of Sam (1999)]
1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador assassinated [Romero (1989)]
1983: AIDS identified as a disease [And the Band Played On (1993)]
1988:
The
U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Larry Flynt of Hustler
Magazine [The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)]
1994:
Jeffrey
Wigand blows the whistle on "Big Tobacco" [The Insider
(1999)]
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