The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000. World Almanac Books, 1999. Year Story 1. 2. 1969 American astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon. Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the first powered airplane.
Women win the vote.
6. 1963 President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. 1945 Horrors of Nazi Holocaust, concentration camps exposed. I begins in Europe. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ends 'separate but equal' school segregation. More about the Newseum.