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1000:
Atanarjuat's incredible run [The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) (2001)]
1492:
Columbus "discovers" America [1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)]
1520:
The Mother Goddess meets the Virgin of Guadalupe [La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest) (1998)]
1528:
Cabeza de Vaca begins his journey across America [Cabeza de Vaca (1991)]
1552:
Hans Staden meets the cannibals [How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês) (1971)]
1560:
The Search for El Dorado [Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972)]
1607:
Pocahontas rescues John Smith [The New World (2005)]
1620:
Mayflower voyage [Plymouth Adventure (1952)]
1634:
Jesuit Paul LeJeune visits the Hurons [Black Robe (1991)]
1692:
Salem Witch Trials begin [The Crucible (1996)]
1694:
Sor Juana capitulates [Yo, La Peor De Todas (I, The Worst of All) (1990)]
1757:
The French and Indian War [The Last of the Mohicans (1920)]
1769:
Daniel Boone heads for Kentucky [
With Daniel Boone Through the Wilderness (1926)
] [
Daniel Boone (1960)]
1787:
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson together in Paris [
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
] [
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)]
1790:
Slave revolt in Cuba [La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) (1976)]
1809:
Abraham Lincoln is born [Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)]
1860:
Molly Maguires active [The Molly Maguires (1970)]
1863:
Black Union soldiers fight for freedom [Glory (1989)]
1867:
The Reconstruction Era [Birth of a Nation (1915)]
1876:
Battle of Little Big Horn/Custer's Last Stand [They Died with Their Boots On (1941)]
1881:
Showdown at the O.K. Corral [Wyatt Earp (1994)]
1892:
Wyoming's Johnson County War [Heaven's Gate (1980)]
1918:
When pacifists fight [Sergeant York (1941)]
1919:
Black Sox scandal [Field of Dreams (1989)]
1923:
Racial strife wipes out a Florida town [Rosewood (1997)]
1932:
Lindbergh baby kidnapped [The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)]
1933:
Bank robbing as a way of beating depression [Bonnie and Clyde (1967)]
1935:
The Dust Bowl and the Okies [Grapes of Wrath (1940)]
1941:
Japanese sneak attacks opens World War II [Pearl Harbor (2001)]
1942:
Japanese-American internment [Come See the Paradise (1990)]
1944:
The Tuskegee Airmen go into battle [Red Tails (2012)]
1954:
Edward R. Murrow attacks Senator Joseph McCarthy [Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)]
1963:
A young president is assassinated [JFK (1991)]
1964:
Freedom Summer [Mississippi Burning (1988)]
1964:
Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali [Ali (2001)]
1965:
Malcolm X is assassinated [Malcolm X (1992)]
1965:
Battle of Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam [We Were Soldiers (2002)]
1968:
Future anti-war advocate Ron Kovic is wounded in Vietnam [Born on the Fourth of July (1989)]
1969:
Woodstock music festival [Woodstock (1970)]
1969:
Manson family murders [Helter Skelter (1976)]
1970:
Janis Joplin dies [The Rose (1979)]
1970:
Houston, we have a problem. [Apollo 13 (1995)]
1973:
Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile [Missing (1982)]
1973:
Roe v. Wade overthrows most laws against abortion [Cider House Rules, The (1999)]
1974:
Radioactivity victim Karen Silkwood dies [Silkwood (1983)]
1974:
President Nixon resigns [Nixon (1995)]
1975:
Fall of Phnom Penh/Cambodian War [The Killing Fields (1984)]
1975:
Murder on the Pine Ridge reservation [Incident at Oglala (1992)]
1977:
Son of Sam Murders [Summer of Sam (1999)]
1979:
The Iran hostage crisis [Argo (2012)]
1980:
Assassination of El Salvador's Archbishop Romero [Romero (1989)]
1983:
AIDS identified as a disease [And the Band Played On (1993)]
1988:
The Supreme Court favors Hustler magazine's Larry Flynt [The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)]
1989:
The secret war in Afghanistan [Charlie Wilson's War (2007)]
1993:
The unsuccessful Battle of Mogadishu [Black Hawk Down (2001)]
1994:
Jeffrey Wigand blows the whistle on "Big Tobacco" [The Insider (1999)]
1994:
Genocide in Rwanda begins [Hotel Rwanda (2004)]
2001:
Thwarted terrorist attack [United 93 (2006)]
2002:
Daniel Pearl is beheaded by terrorists [Mighty Heart, A (2007)]
2003:
Invading Iraq [W. (2008)]
