The results were released earlier this year. The Topeka Capital-Journal Newseum Inc. The Newseum in Arlington, Va., asked journalists and scholars to select the 20th Century's top 100 stories. The results were released earlier this year. 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 begins in Europe. Alexander Fleming discovers the first antibiotic, penicillin. Structure of DNA discovered.