- 1969; Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
- 1951; “The Catcher in the Rye” J. D. Salinger
- 1929; The Great Depression
- 1903; The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
- 1884; “Huckleberry Finn” Mark Twain
- 1851; “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” Herman Melville