To help stop the spread of Communism, the Truman Doctrine is proclaimed.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gets to Mars.

In a 39 hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.

President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.

A group of 600 civil rights marchers are violently broken up in Selma, Alabama in what has been called Bloody Sunday

After a two week siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including Davy Crockett, defending the Alamo are killed and…

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect.

During the First Balkan War, the Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, which results in victory two days later.

TIME magazine begins publishing