MR WAY-BACK TAKES YOU TO.....
October 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus sights land in the Americas.
May 29, 1493 - Constantinople falls. End of Byzantine empire.
January 30, 1649 - King Charles I of England is executed, the first monarch ever to be charged with high treason and executed.
July 4, 1776 - Declaration of independence officially adopted. First modern democracy.
July 14, 1789 - Storming of the Bastille. Turning point in the French Revolution.
June 18, 1815 - Napoleon defeated at Battle of Waterloo.
June 28, 1914 - Archduke Ferdinand assassinated.
October 25, 1917 - Start of Bolshevik rebellion.
June 26, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed
March 23, 1933 - Hitler becomes dictator of Germany.
June 6,1944 D-Day
August 6, 1945 - US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
October 22, 1960 - Cuban missile crisis.
November 9, 1989 - Berlin wall falls.
