At 77, Bradlee was alive for most events from which he chose. The event his reporters uncovered, helping lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, was No. 7 for Bradlee, No. 14 on the list of 100. The Newseum in Arlington, Va., asked journalists and scholars to select the top 100 stories of the 20th century. 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.