| 1940 | - | Born Webster, South Dakota |
| 1962 | - | Graduate, University of South Dakota |
| 1965 | - | Anchor, WSB-TV, Atlanta |
| 1966 | - | Joins NBC News, Reporter & Anchor, KNBC, Los Angeles |
| 1973-1976 | - | White House Correspondent, NBC News |
| 1976-1981 | - | Anchor. NBC News "Today" |
| 1983 | - | Anchor, Managing Editor "NBC Nightly News" |
| 1983 | - | First exclusive U.S., one-on-one interview with Mikhail Gorbachev |
| 1989 | - | Sole anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell |
| 1997 | - | Inducted, Broadcasting and Cable's TV Hall of Fame |
| 1998 | - | The Greatest Generation published |
| 2000 | - | First American television interview with Vladimir Putin |