Historical dates
Real events, real days since. Pick one, or count your own date.
- 1776
- The Declaration of Independence
- 1787
- The US Constitution was signed
- 1912
- The Titanic sank
- 1941
- Pearl Harbor was attacked
- 1944
- D-Day
- 1947
- India gained independence
- 1954
- Brown v. Board of Education was decided
- 1955
- Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
- 1957
- Sputnik launched the Space Age
- 1963
- Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech
- JFK was assassinated
- 1969
- The Stonewall uprising began
- Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
- 1974
- Nixon resigned
- 1986
- The Challenger disaster
- The Chernobyl disaster
- 1989
- The Berlin Wall fell
- 2001
- September 11th
- 2007
- The iPhone went on sale