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1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature. 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.
A new government under the Constitution is formed on March 4, 1789. George Washington becomes the 1st president of the United States on April 30, 1789. The State of North Carolina becomes the 12th state to ratify the Constitution, November 21, 1789.
April 2017 – The United States drops missiles and bombs on Syria. 2017 – A white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia leads to three deaths and to the discussion about racism in modern American society. The term alt-right receives renewed popular consciousness.
April 22 – The United States, United Kingdom and Japan sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. April 28 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C.
January 5 – President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program. January 11 – Los Angeles, California, receives its first recorded snowfall. January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City by Dutch businessman Ben Pon.
January 20, 1993 — Clinton becomes the 42nd president; Gore becomes the 45th vice president. 1993 — A truck bomb explodes in the parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring over a thousand.
Timelines of United States history by period ( time span) — of pre−nationhood and national U.S. history.
