This list of the most influential news stories of the 20th century was determined by a survey of 67 journalists and historians conducted by the Newseum, a journalism museum based in Arlington, Virginia. Because this list is limited to the 20th century, the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attack is not included. Notice how many of them happened during our lifetime!

Rank	Year	Headline
1	1945	U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japan surrenders to end World War II
2	1969	American astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon
3	1941	Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: U.S. enters World War II
4	1903	Wilbur and Orville Wright fly the first powered airplane
5	1920	Women win the vote
6	1963	President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
7	1945	Horrors of Nazi Holocaust, concentration camps exposed
8	1914	World War I begins in Europe
9	1954	Brown v. Board of Education ends separate but equal school segregation
10	1929	U.S. stock market crashes: depression sets in
11	1928	Alexander Fleming discovers the first antibiotic, penicillin
12	1953	Structure of DNA discovered
13	1991	U.S.S.R dissolves, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns: Boris Yeltsin takes over
14	1974	President Richard M. Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal
15	1939	Germany invades Poland: World War II begins in Europe
16	1917	Russian revolution ends: Communists take over
17	1913	Henry Ford organizes the first major U.S. assembly line to produce Model T cars
18	1957	Soviets launch Sputnik, first space satellite: space race begins
19	1905	Albert Einstein presents special theory of relativity: general relativity theory follows soon after
20	1960	FDA approves birth control pill
21	1953	Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine proven effective in University of Pittsburgh tests
22	1933	Adolf Hitler named Chancellor of Germany: Nazi Party begins to seize power
23	1968	Civil rights leader Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
24	1944	D-Day invasion marks the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe
25	1981	Deadly AIDS disease identified
26	1964	Congress passes landmark Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation
27	1989	Berlin Wall falls as East Germany lifts travel restrictions
28	1939	Television debuts in America at New York World's Fair
29	1949	Mao Tse-tung establishes Peoples Republic of China: Nationalists flee to Formosa (Taiwan)
30	1927	Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic in first solo flight
31	1977	First mass market personal computers launched
32	1989	World Wide Web revolutionizes the Internet
33	1948	Scientists at Bell Labs invent the transistor
34	1933	FDR launches "New Deal": sweeping federal economic, public works legislation to combat depression
35	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis threatens World War III
36	1912	'Unsinkable' Titanic, largest man-made structure, sinks
37	1945	Germany surrenders: V.E. Day celebrated
38	1973	Roe v. Wade decision legalizes abortion
39	1918	World War I ends with Germany's defeat
40	1909	First regular radio broadcasts begin in America
41	1918	Worldwide flu epidemic kills 20 million
42	1946	'ENIAC' becomes world's first computer
43	1941	Regular TV broadcasting begins in the United States
44	1947	Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier
45	1948	Israel achieves statehood
46	1909	Plastic invented: revolutionizes products, packaging
47	1955	Montgomery, AL., bus boycott begins after Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person
48	1945	Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico
49	1993	Apartheid ends in South Africa
50	1963	Civil rights march converges on Washington, D.C.: Martin Luther King gives I Have A Dream speech