100 Headlines That Changed the World

James Maloney

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781616083717
• eBook ISBN: 9781620876695
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Here are the incredible newspaper headlines that document history’s most important moments—headlines so momentous that anyone reading them knew that the world as they knew it had been changed irrevocably. Headlines That Changed the World looks at stories from the Great Western Crosses the Atlantic in 1838 and Abraham Lincoln Assassinated in 1865, through Wall Street Crashes in 1929 and Hitler Sweeps to Power in 1933, to King Elvis Dead in 1977, Obama Wins Presidency in 2008, and Bin Laden Shot Dead in 2011. 
Headlines That Changed the World is an ideal book to dip into and discover newspaper headlines that shaped our past. Whether it was news of the Kennedy assassination or the fact that man had finally made it to the moon, these headlines and the history behind them will fascinate history buffs and casual readers alike.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Penny Postage Pictures
• Gold Mine Found
• Massacre Of English At Delhi
• Discovery Of A Subterranean Fountain Of Oil
• The War Begun
• Important Assassination Of President Lincoln
• Audible Speech By Telegraph
• The Indian War
• Edison’s Electric Light
• Jesse James, The Bandit, Killed
• The Whitechapel Horrors
• The Woman’s Suffrage Bill Assented To
• Lumière’s Cinematographe
• Oscar Wilde In Jail
• War Declared Boers Commence Hostilities
• Wireless Signals Across The Ocean
• Dayton Boys Emulate Great Santos-Dumont
• The Conquest Of The South Pole
• Titanic Sunk
• Sensational Derby Suffragist’s Mad Act
• Heir To Austria’s Throne Is Slain
• Last Barrier In Canal Is Removed
• Five Days Inside The Cordon
• Abdication Of Czar
• How London Hailed The End Of War
• Whole Country Goes Dry
• Mr. Macdonald’s Crowded Day
• The “Televisor”
• Seek Congressional Medal Of Honor For Lindbergh
• Greatest Crash In Wall Street’s History
• Ghandi Seized By British
• Hitler Made Chancellor Of Germany
• Edward VIII Abdicates
• Owens Completes Triple As 5 Olympic Marks Fall
• Hindenburg Burns In Lakehurst Crash
• Britain’s First Day Of War
• 175 Nazi Planes Down
• Japan, U.S. At War
• VE-Day – It’s All Over
• First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Japan
• State Of Israel Is Born
• Mao Heads Peiping Regime
• Truman Orders U.S. Air, Navy Units To Fight In Aid Of Korea
• The Crowning Glory: Everest Is Climbed
• Why You Are You
• Ruth Ellis To Hang
• First Blows By Navy And R.A.F
• Soviet Fires Earth Satellite Into Space
• 21 Dead 7 Manchester Utd Players Perish In Air Crash
• Birth Control Pill Approved By Commission
• The Innocence Of Lady Chatterley
• Man Enters Space
• East German Troops Seal Border With West Berlin
• We Blockade Cuba Arms
• Profumo Quits
• Kennedy Slain On Dallas Street
• 3,000 Fans Greet British Beatles
• U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam
• 4 Children Die, 160 Missing in S. Wales Horror
• Man With A New Heart
• Martin King Shot To Death
• How Bobby Was Shot!
• Man On The Moon
• Up, Up And Away!
• Three Spacemen Are Home Safe
• The Death Steps
• 13 Killed As Paratroops Break Riot
• Nixon Resigns
• King Elvis Dead
• Test Tube Mother Has Girl
• Mrs Thatcher Takes Over
• Bomb On Boat Kills Lord Mountbatten
• Poland Yields On Independent Trade Unions
• John Lennon Shot Dead
• Pope Shot
• Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals
• GOTCHA
• Murder
• Worldbeater!
• Explosion Stuns Nation
• Nuclear Nightmare Is Here
• Hundreds Die As Jumbo Jet Plunges Into village
• Our Day Of Tears
• Crackdown In Beijing
• Mandela Goes Free Today
• Capital Sarajevo Racked By Serb-Muslim Civil Strife
• Scientists Clone Adult Sheep
• Diana Dead
• Clinton Admits To Lewinsky Relationship
• U.S. Attacked
• Bloodbath On Holiday Island
• The Tyrant Is Now A Prisoner
• We Saw The Sea Coming, We All Ran. But God Saves Little’
• Katrina Storms Ashore
• Microsoft Says Goodbye To Bill Gates
• Obama Makes History
• World Transfixed By The Great Escape
• The Day That Shook Japan
• Got Him!
• Steve Jobs Dead