Name the Decade
Christopher Columbus makes the first voyage to the New World
1490s
In a courtroom: D.A.
District Attorney
Texas statehood, North Dakota statehood, Michigan statehood
Michigan statehood
This phonograph inventor's son Charles served as governor of New Jersey from 1941 to 1944
Thomas Eddison
Felonious fire starter
(8)
arsonist
Paul Revere takes a midnight ride & warns that "The British are coming"
1770s
In a letter: P.S.
Post Script
Hadrian's Wall, the Wailing Wall, the Berlin Wall
the Wailing Wall
He said his 1744 stove prevented one from being "scorch'd before, while he's froze behind"
Benjamin Franklin
"I'm Sorry" (7)
apology
The 19th Amendment is ratified; women can now vote!
1920s
To an auto mechanic: BMW
Bavarian Motor Works
"The Tempest", "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth"
"Romeo and Juliet"
In 1857 this telegraph inventor served as the electrician on Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable attempt
Samuel Morse
Extra dry, like a desert (4)
arid
Good Heavens! Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930s
In the physics lab: LASER
Light Amplification by Simulated Emissions of Radiation
Taft-Hartley Act, Voting Rights Act, Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
In the 1850s he patented the foot treadle for his sewing machine
Issac Singer
"Delicious" fruit
(5)
apple
The Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor
1890s
In medicine: HIV
Human Immunodeficiency virus
Byzantium falls to the Turks, Saladin captures Jerusalem, Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
Saladin captures Jerusalem
In 1854 Horace Smith & this partner patented the repeating rifle & revolver
Daniel B. Wesson
Adjective for the Church of England
(8)
anglican