Top Ten Days That Changed America

The Top Ten
1 9/11/2001

This certainly changed everything. It upped airport security and border protection was strengthened.

America was never the same.

2 12/07/1941

Great list! I might change the order of a couple of them, but it is unfortunate that today's education system means that very few readers will even know what they represent.

"A day that will live in infamy."

3 7/20/1969

Over the long, long course of hundreds of thousands of years of future history, this will prove to be the most important date in the history of mankind.

4 11/22/1963

Stephen King wrote an amazing novel that outlines how history might have changed if it had not happened, sometimes even bad things happen for a reason.

5 7/4/1776

Along with the 2nd-this was truly the beginning of a revolution!

6 4/15/1865

Lincoln's death?

7 8/9/1945
8 8/28/1963
9 5/2/2011
10 1/24/2016
The Contenders
11 9/17/1787
12 11/9/2016

This is the worst date.

13 1/6/2021
14 3/11/2020
15 5/25/2020
16 3/1/1994
17 12/14/2012
18 2/9/1964

A British Invasion of a completely different sort, but one that fundamentally changed the US on a sociological level.

Yup, a British Invasion of a completely different kind, but one that made a fundamental sociological change in the USA.

19 11/27/1620
20 8/14/1945
21 5/8/1945
22 6/6/1944
23 8/1/1981
24 10/3/1965
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