Year
|
Event
|
State
|
1995
|
Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
|
Oklahoma
|
1964
|
Good Friday Earthquake
|
Alaska
|
1778
|
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
|
New Jersey
|
1861
|
Battle of Fort Sumter
|
South Carolina
|
1787
|
First ratification of the Constitution
|
Delaware
|
1903
|
First flight at Kitty Hawk
|
North Carolina
|
1944
|
IMF created at Bretton Woods Conference
|
New Hampshire
|
1847
|
Mormon pioneers arrive with Brigham Young
|
Utah
|
1890
|
Wounded Knee Massacre
|
South Dakota
|
1963
|
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
|
Alabama
|
1942
|
Fermi leads first nuclear chain reaction
|
Illinois
|
1996
|
Centennial Summer Olympic Games
|
Georgia
|
2009
|
First legalization of same-sex marriage through legislation
|
Vermont
|
1859
|
Silver rush after discovery at Comstock Lode
|
Nevada
|
1872
|
Yellowstone becomes world's first national park
|
Wyoming
|
1607
|
English establish Jamestown colony
|
Virginia
|
1876
|
Battle of Little Bighorn
|
Montana
|
1980
|
Eruption of Mount St. Helens
|
Washington
|
1814
|
Battle of Fort McHenry
|
Maryland
|
1957
|
Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School
|
Arkansas
|
1863
|
Battle of Gettysburg
|
Pennsylvania
|
1856
|
Settlers rush in to sway the vote on slavery
|
Kansas
|
1820
|
This state is admitted through Missouri Compromise
|
Maine
|
2003
|
100 die in The Station nightclub fire
|
Rhode Island
|
2016
|
Native Americans protest the Dakota Access Pipeline
|
North Dakota
|
2004
|
Red Sox win their first World Series in 86 years
|
Missouri
|
1809
|
Birth of Abraham Lincoln
|
Kentucky
|
1970
|
Antiwar protesters bomb Sterling Hall
|
Wisconsin
|
1610
|
Spanish conquistadors establish the oldest state capital
|
New Mexico
|
2001
|
Collapse of the Twin Towers
|
New York
|
1765
|
French-speaking refugees from Nova Scotia come here
|
Louisiana
|
1968
|
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
|
Tennessee
|
2012
|
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
|
Connecticut
|
1819
|
Spain signs Adams–Onís Treaty, giving the U.S. this state
|
Florida
|
1898
|
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Trans-Mississippi Exposition
|
Nebraska
|
1941
|
Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
Hawaii
|
1891
|
Phoenix Indian School opens to culturally exterminate Natives
|
Arizona
|
1845
|
Miami and Erie canal opens, connecting Cincinnati to Toledo
|
Ohio
|
1910
|
Ford Motor Company open Highland Park Plant
|
Michigan
|
1843
|
Wagon trails bring thousands to Willamette Valley
|
Oregon
|
1837
|
Dred Scott is brought to Fort Snelling
|
Minnesota
|
1838
|
Siege of Vicksburg
|
Mississippi
|
1863
|
This state separates from Virginia to stay in the Union
|
West Virginia
|
1963
|
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
|
Texas
|
1932
|
The Great Depression destroys the income of potato farmers
|
Idaho
|
1850
|
Recently seeing a gold rush, this is allowed to be a free state
|
California
|
1999
|
Columbine High School massacre
|
Colorado
|
1811
|
William Henry Harrison wins Battle of Tippecanoe
|
Indiana
|
1813
|
Final Siege of Fort Madison
|
Iowa
|
1775
|
Battles of Lexington and Concord
|
Massachusetts
|