Video - Historical Timeline Milestones: 1124-2005

1124: The city of Tyre fell to the Venetian Crusade after a nineteen-week siege. 1456: Joan of Arc was acquitted of heresy in a retrial verdict, 25 years after her execution. 1534: Jacques Cartier made his first contact with the indigenous peoples of what is now Canada. 1777: During the American Revolutionary War, American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga were defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton. 1898: U.S. President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. 1930: Construction began on the Hoover Dam in Nevada. 1954: Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." 1985: Boris Becker became the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. 2003: NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was launched from Cape Canaveral. 2005: Terrorists attacked the London transit system during rush hour, known as the 7/7 bombings.