403 S. Central Av. The Newseum, the interactive museum of news, located in Arlington, VA, asked journalists and scolars to sleect the 20th Century's top 100 stories. The results were released Feb. 24. 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.
President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. Horrors of Nazi Holocaust, concentration camps exposed. I beings in Europe. Alexander Fleming discovers the first antibiotic, pencillin. Structure of DNA discovered.