The 1936 Berlin Olympics were used by Hitler and the Nazi’s propaganda machine to show Germany as a kinder, gentler people after German aggressions of World War One.

The Cuban Missile Crisis stands to this day as the closest time the United States ever came to nuclear war.

On August 9th, 1974, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, Richard Nixon became the only sitting president to resign from office.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, or Galloping Gertie as it was nicknamed, collapsed in 1940 marking one of the biggest engineering failures of suspension bridge construction.

The New York City Blackout of 1977, which triggered 24 hours of looting and rioting in 31 of the most impoverished neighborhoods within the five Burroughs that make up the NYC area.

From 1919 until 1933, alcohol was prohibited in the United States. After the stock market crash of 1929 and FDR’s successful platform to legalize alcohol, the 18th Amendment was signed on March 22nd, 1933.

Fall of Saigon in 1975 when Communist-backed North Vietnamese forces overthrew the city, forcing Americans and South Vietnamese sympathizers to flee for their lives.