| May 8, 1884 |
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri. |
| 1894 |
Truman contracted diphtheria and was laid up for six months. |
| May 30, 1901 |
Graduates from Independence High School |
| 1901 |
Takes a job as a timekeeper with the railroad construction outfit of L.J. Smith
for thirty-five dollars a month plus board |
| June 14, 1905 |
Joins National Guard battery in Kansas City |
| October 1905 |
Quits his job to help his father work the family farm |
| 1909 |
Truman joins the Masons in the Belton Lodge |
| 1914 |
Upon his fathers death Truman becomes road overseer |
| August 5, 1917 |
Truman's National Guard unit is called into service for World War I as the
129th Field Artillery of the 60th Brigade attached to the 35th Division |
| April 13, 1918 |
Truman and his unit arrive in Brest, France on board the George Washington |
| April 23, 1918 |
Truman is promoted to Captain |
| August 29, 1918 |
Truman sees his first action of the war when his unit fires 500 rounds of
poison gas at the Germans |
| November 11, 1918 |
Truman sees his last action of the war on the last day of the war as he ordered
his units last shell fired at 10:45 A.M. |
| June 28, 1919 |
Truman marries Bess Wallace on the same day that the Treaty of Versailles is
signed to end World War I |
| November 1919 |
Truman and Eddie Jacobson open thier store, Truman & Jacobson in Kansas City |
| 1922 |
Truman & Jacobson go bankrupt |
| January 1, 1923 |
Truman is sworn in as Eastern Judge of Jackson County, Missouri |
January 1, 1927 -
January 1, 1935 |
Truman serves as Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri |
| November 1934 |
Truman is elected as a U.S. Senator from Missouri |
| 1941 |
Truman is appointed head of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate
the National Defense Program. a.k.a. The Truman Committee |
| 1944 |
Truman elected Vice-President of the United States |
| April 12, 1945 |
Truman is sworn in as President of the United States on the death of FDR |
| February 1953 |
Truman is offered $600,000 by Life magazine for rights to his memoirs |
| April 21, 1956 |
Margaret Truman gets married |
| June 20, 1956 |
Truman receives honorary degree from Oxford |
| July 6, 1957 |
Formal dedication of the Truman Library |
| December 26, 1972 |
Truman dies at 7:50 A.M. in Kansas City's Research Hospital |
