The top news event of the 20th century was written in the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the terrifying power of America's new atomic bomb brought World War II to an end in 1945. Third place went to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. Participants were each asked to select the 25 most important news events, and their lists were combined to produce a final ranking of 100. 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.