Muscle power set Babe Ruth's home-run record, then broke it. 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. U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education ends ''separate but equal'' school segregation. Alexander Fleming discovers the first antibiotic, penicillin.