Events

first stamp booklet issued

Events · 1900

William McKinley

Events · 1901

Spindletop gusher in Beaumont

Events · 1901

Queen Victoria dies ending an era

Events · 1901

Trial of Leon Czolgosz for the assassination of US president William McKinley

Events · 1901

Mt. Pelée, Lesser Antilles (~32,000 d)

Events · 1902

Henry M. Leland forms the Cadillac Automobile Company

Events · 1902

the Dodge brothers make first Ford automobile engines

Events · 1903

Paul Bunyan & Babe in an uncredited editorial in the Duluth News Tribune

Events · 1904

Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War

Events · 1905

San Francisco

Events · 1906

Oklahoma

Events · 1907

Tunguska event/explosion

Events · 1908

Messina, Italy struk by 7.1 MW earthquake, 80,000 d.

Events · 1908

Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) is founded

Events · 1908

FBI

Events · 1908

1st regular radio broadcast in US

Events · 1909

Henry M. Leland sells Cadillac to General Motors for $4.5 million

Events · 1909

theft of the Mona Lisa by Italian Vincenzo Peruggia

Events · 1911

Norwegian Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole

Events · 1911

President Theodore Roosevelt

Events · 1912

Republic established

Events · 1912

Arizona

Events · 1912

New Mexico

Events · 1912

Piltdown Man discovered/presented

Events · 1912

Brit Robert F. Scott & team die during South Pole expedition

Events · 1912

Tsar Tank built

Events · 1914

Christmas Eve Truce between British & German soldiers

Events · 1914

St. Petersburg renamed Petrograd

Events · 1914

Talgai Skull theory

Events · 1914

recovery of the stolen Mona Lisa

Events · 1914

First Battle of Ypres (200,000 casualties)

Events · 1914

Manifesto of the Ninety-Three written

Events · 1914

World War I

Events · 1914

government-owned and -operated vehicles instituted

Events · 1914

Greyhound company precursor begans first route

Events · 1914

RMS Lusitania (1,198 d)

Events · 1915

Second Battle of Ypres (67,000 casualties)

Events · 1915

by presidential proclamation, Flag Day was officially established

Events · 1916

Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles Evans Hughes in US presidential election

Events · 1916

Russian Revolution, Communism begins

Events · 1917

Third Battle of Ypres (or Battle of Passchendaele) (>500,000 casualties)

Events · 1917

British transatlantic ocean liner SS Laurentic sank

Events · 1917

Pecos Bill published by Edward "Tex" O'Reilly

Events · 1917

execution of the Romanov family

Events · 1918

scheduled airmail service begins

Events · 1918

yellow light added to traffic light

Events · 1918

crossing the Atlantic Ocean

Events · 1919

American Legion established in Paris, France

Events · 1919

Paris Peace Conference

Events · 1919

U.S. women win right to vote

Events · 1920

League of Nations

Events · 1920

Treaty of Versailles

Events · 1920

U.S. 18th Amendment, established prohibition

Events · 1920

Canadian Mounties

Events · 1920

Lenin and his aides formed the Soviet Union

Events · 1922

Mussolini seizes power in the march on Rome

Events · 1922

Walther Rathenau, the German foreign minister is assassinated

Events · 1922

Great Kanto Earthquake that crumbles Tokyo (est. 142,800 d.)

Events · 1923

Vladimir Lenin dies

Events · 1924

Petrograd renamed Leningrad

Events · 1924

Lenin dies, Stalin rises to power

Events · 1924

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Events · 1924

44 tons of gold bullion recovered from SS Laurentic

Events · 1924

Grand Ole Opry was founded by George D. Hay as the WSM Barn Dance

Events · 1925

successful liquid rocket flight

Events · 1926

Goddard‘s first liquid-fueled rocket flight

Events · 1926

solo crossing the Atlantic Ocean

Events · 1927

1st flight of the Spirit of St. Louis

Events · 1927

solo crossing the Pacific Ocean

Events · 1928

St. Francis Dam, USA (~450 d)

Events · 1928

Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan

Events · 1928

Trotsky is exiled

Events · 1928

Mussolini abolishes elections

Events · 1928

U.S. stock market crashes

Events · 1929

Chicago's St. Valentine's Day massacre

Events · 1929

The Great Depression (worldwide)

Events · 1929

The Al Capone Trial

Events · 1931

Famine in Ukraine

Events · 1931

Adolph Rickenbacker & George Beauchamp found company to sell electric guitars

Events · 1931

The Holodomor or Great Famine (>3-5 million d)

Events · 1932

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B transatlantic fllight

Events · 1932

first federal gasoline tax

Events · 1932

1st Drive-In Theater in Camden, NJ

Events · 1933

President Franklin Roosevelt

Events · 1933

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Events · 1933

U.S. 21st Amendment, repealed prohibition

Events · 1933

Albert Einstein emigrated from Germany to U.S.

Events · 1933

Reichstag (Germany) Fire Decree

Events · 1933

Reichstag fire

Events · 1933

Night of the Long Knives (assassination of Ernst Rohm and others)

Events · 1934

Alcatraz Island is converted into a federal prison

Events · 1934

Jeannette Piccard pilots a hot-air balloon that reaches the stratosphere

Events · 1934

Triumph of the Will written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl

Events · 1935

Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. kidnapping trial

Events · 1935

Joseph Stalin's Great Purge or Great Terror

Events · 1936

Japan operates Unit 731 (300,000 d)

Events · 1936

Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

Events · 1936

The Negro Motorist Green Book first published

Events · 1936

Hindenburg zeppelin disaster; 37 d

Events · 1937

The Nanjing Massacre or "the Rape of Nanjing" (~200,000 d.)

Events · 1937

Rape of Nanking (200,000 d)

Events · 1937

USSR purges begin under Stalin

Events · 1937

the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan

Events · 1937

Olympia written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl

Events · 1938

Studebaker opens Proving Ground at Bendix Woods County Park

Events · 1938

TV debuts at New York World's Fair

Events · 1939

Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"

Events · 1939

Grand Ole Opry debuts nationally on NBC Radio

Events · 1939

multiple physicists realize that chain reactions could produce the possibility of developing nuclear weapons

Events · 1939

Battle of Britain

Events · 1940

Trotsky is murdered in Mexico

Events · 1940

Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald found McDonald's in San Bernardino, CA

Events · 1940

Japan attacks US at Pearl Harbor

Events · 1941

The Holocaust genocide of European Jews

Events · 1941

Arcadia Conference

Events · 1941

U.S. begins the ‘Manhattan Project’

Events · 1942

Bataan Death March (~10,000 d)

Events · 1942

Capitol Records

Events · 1942

Bataan Death March (5,500...18,650 d)

Events · 1942

Tehran Conference

Events · 1943

Battle of the Bulge

Events · 1944

German V-2 missile attacks begin

Events · 1944

USS Mount Hood explodes killing 372

Events · 1944

MV Wilhelm Gustloff (~9,400 d)

Events · 1945

United Nations

Events · 1945

Potsdam Agreement

Events · 1945

Manila (Philippines) massacre (upto 500,000 d)

Events · 1945

Nuremberg trials

Events · 1945

Yalta Conference

Events · 1945

Potsdam Conference

Events · 1945

Grand Rapids, MI becomes first US city to add fluoride to water supply

Events · 1945

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the 1st programmable, electronic, digital computer

Events · 1945

International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)

Events · 1946

the bikini is invented

Events · 1946

Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier

Events · 1947

Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier

Events · 1947

Larry Doby breaks MLB AL color barrier

Events · 1947

The Cold War

Events · 1947

a malfunction in a computer is first termed "bug"

Events · 1947

Pepsi targets Black community with marketing team assembled by Edward F. Boyd

Events · 1947

Bell Labs’ scientists invent the transistor

Events · 1948

Nation of Israel achieves statehood

Events · 1948

World Health Organization (WHO)

Events · 1948

Larry Doby hits HR in World Series

Events · 1948

Columbia Records introduces its Long Play (LP) 33⅓ rpm microgroove record

Events · 1948

The Alger Hiss Trials

Events · 1949

National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress

Events · 1949

RCA Victor introduced the 7" 45 rpm micro-grooved vinylite record

Events · 1949

President Harry Truman

Events · 1950

The Korean War

Events · 1950

Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate

Events · 1950

Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns

Events · 1952

Sun Records

Events · 1952

American Bandstand (AB) first airs regularly

Events · 1952

American Bandstand first airs on Philadelphia TV station WFIL-TV Channel 6

Events · 1952

Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, UT renames his restaurant "Kentucky Fried Chicken"

Events · 1952

'Great Smog of London', (~12,000 die)

Events · 1952

Structure of DNA discovered

Events · 1953

Jonas Salk polio vaccine proven effective

Events · 1953

Piltdown Man deemed hoax

Events · 1953

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies

Events · 1953

First constitution

Events · 1954

Castle Bravo nuclear test U.S.

Events · 1954

Ann Hodges hit by 8.5 lb meteorite in Sylacauga, AL

Events · 1954

Rosa Parks/Montgomery bus boycott

Events · 1955

14 year old Emmett Till brutally murdered in Mississippi; murderers acquitted

Events · 1955

The Vietnam War

Events · 1955

the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first and only World Series before their move to LA

Events · 1955

British reference book Guinness World Records first published

Events · 1955

Coca-Cola runs ads with Black men & women in everyday, respectable situations

Events · 1955

SS Andrea Doria (46 d, 1660 rescued)

Events · 1956

Hundred Flowers Campaign

Events · 1956

Nikita Khrushchev's "We Will Bury You"

Events · 1956

American Bandstand first hosted by Dick Clark

Events · 1956

Alan Freed hosts "The Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"

Events · 1956

Princess Grace Kelly appears in her last film High Society and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco

Events · 1956

halothane

Events · 1956

Soviets launch Sputnik 1

Events · 1957

Sony TR-63 transistor radio becomes best saler

Events · 1957

U.S. launches Explorer I

Events · 1958

Great Leap Forward

Events · 1958

Vega de Tera, Spain (144 d)

Events · 1959

"3 Years of Great Famine" (15-55 million d.)

Events · 1959

Motown Records

Events · 1959

Alaska

Events · 1959

FDA approves birth-control pill

Events · 1960

Tsar Bomba detonated

Events · 1961

Mercury (Mercury-Redstone 3)

Events · 1961

JFK's "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You"

Events · 1961

Tsar Bomba nuclear test Soviet Union

Events · 1961

Soviet K-19 nuclear incident, 22 d. <2 years

Events · 1961

Dr. Charlie Sifford becomes the first African American to play on the PGA Tour

Events · 1961

the Chicago River dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day

Events · 1961

1st Multi-Plex Theater in Kansas City, Mo

Events · 1962

Mona Lisa first insured for $100 M

Events · 1962

John F. Kennedy

Events · 1963

Vajont Dam, Italy (~2,000 d)

Events · 1963

Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream"

Events · 1963

President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas

Events · 1963

"March on Washington" for jobs and freedom

Events · 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King addresses 250,000 in front of the Lincoln Memorial

Events · 1963

ZIP code introduced/instituted

Events · 1963

American Bandstand relocates show to LA (from Philadelphia)

Events · 1963

Batavia discovered, $10-20M

Events · 1963

Rat Fink, created by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, makes first appearance

Events · 1963

The Beatles arrive at the JFK International Airport, New York City

Events · 1964

students James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are murdered

Events · 1964

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue first published

Events · 1964

Britian's Top of the Pops (TOTP) first broadcast by BBC

Events · 1964

Gemini (Gemini 3)

Events · 1965

Jonathan Myrick Daniels shot/killed by Tom Coleman

Events · 1965

Chick-fil-A licenses their sandwich to be sold at the Houston Astrodome

Events · 1965

Cultural Revolution

Events · 1966

The Cultural Revolution (China)

Events · 1966

The Negro Motorist Green Book ceases publication

Events · 1966

first human heart transplant

Events · 1967

U.S Apollo I disaster

Events · 1967

Soyuz (Soyuz-1)

Events · 1967

Chick-fil-A opens first dedicated location in Atlanta mall

Events · 1967

Apple Records

Events · 1968

Apollo (Apollo 7)

Events · 1968

USS Pueblo seized by North Korea

Events · 1968

The Chicago 7 Trial

Events · 1969

Sesame Street debuts

Events · 1969

NASA puts man on the Moon

Events · 1969

Woodstock music festival attracts 400,000

Events · 1969

Dave Thomas opens his first Wendy's in Downtown Columbus, OH

Events · 1969

Pope Paul VI

Events · 1970

The Charles Manson Trial

Events · 1970

foul ball hit by Manny Mota off of Gaylord Perry kills 14-year-old fan Alan Fish in a SF Giant-LA Dodger game

Events · 1970