On June 26, 1894, the American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called a general strike in sympathy with striking Pullman workers.
In 1917 the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force reached France in World War I.
In 1945 the United Nations charter was signed in San Francisco by 50 nations.
In 1948 the Berlin airlift began in earnest as U.S., British and French planes started ferrying food and supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin after Moscow had cut off land and water routes.
In 1963 President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he declared: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
In 1994 hundreds of thousands of gays and lesbians gathered in New York to mark the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riot, an event believed to have launched the gay rights movement.
In 2003 the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in 13 states.
In 2008 the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirmed, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership existed.
