1889 through 1989
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
1889 Holerith invents the punch card
1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
1889 Montana enters the union - 41st
1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th
1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th
1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd
1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee
1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory
1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
1893 Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
1896 Utah enters the union - 45th
1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
1898 Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
1900 Boxer rebellion in China
1900 Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed
1900 Hawaii organized as a territory
1901 First British submarine launched
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
1901 US President William McKinley assassinated
1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded
1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
1903 Nikola Tesla patents logic gates
1903 Airplane
1904 Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
1907 Plastic
1907 Oklahoma enters the union - 46th
1908 Tunguska atmospheric object explosion
1909 Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
1909 North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp.
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1910 Halleys Comet
1911 South pole reached by Roald Amundsen
1912 New Mexico enters the union - 47th
1912 Titanic sinks
1912 Arizona enters the union - 48th
1912 Alaska organized as a territory
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
1914 The Bra
1914-1918 World War I
1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity
1916 Sonar
1916 Irish Easter Rebellion
1917 Russian revolution
1917 US enters WWI
1918-1933 Prohibition
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
1919 League of Nations instantiated
1919 Shortwave Radio
1920 Palestine established
1920-1929 Roaring 20s
1920 Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage)
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
1922 Insulin made available to diabetics
1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
1926 Sound in Movies
1927 Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)
1927 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh
1928 Television
1928 Geiger Counter
1928 Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
1928 Video Recordings
1929 Stock Market Crash
1929-1939 Great Depression
1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US
1930 Pluto Discovered
1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2)
1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US
1933 Armstrong invents FM modulation
1933 Soviet communist party purge
1933 Radio Astronomy
1934 Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days
1935 Dustbowl
1935-1936 Abyssinian war
1936 Spanish Civil War
1936 Helicopter
1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor)
1936 Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)
1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3)
1937 Nylon (by DuPont)
1938 Germany annexes Austria
1939-1945 World War II
1939 Digital Computer
1939 Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)
1940 Color Television
1940 1st black general in US army
1941-1945 Manhattan Project
1942 Nuclear Reactor
1942 Magnetic Recording Tape
1945 Hypertext
1945 United Nations formed
1945 US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US
1946 The Bikini
1946-1989 The Cold War
1947 Transistor
1947 India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India
1947 UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections
1948 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings
1948 NATO formed
1948 Israel inaugurated as state
1948 Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated
1948-1955 Multiple polio epidemics in the USA
1949 Apartheid policy in South Africa
1949 Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb
1949 45 rpm musical recordings
1950-1954 McCarthyism
1950-1953 Korean War
1950 World pop. est. at 2.4 billion
1950 Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize
1951 Electricity from Atomic Power
1952 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated
1952-2022 Reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England
1953-1960 Dwight D Eisenhower president of US
1954 Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional
1954 Womans right to vote (UN Suffrage)
1955 Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine
1955 Warsaw pact formed
1955 Invention of Velcro
1955 Fiber Optics (by Kapany)
1956 Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks
1957 Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite
1958 Stereo LP recordings come into usage
1958 FM Stereo Broadcasts
1958 Integrated Circuit
1958 US space agency (NASA) established
1958 Neural Network invented
1959 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah
1959 Alaska enters the union - 49th
1959 Hawaii enters the union - 50th
1960 1st weather satellite (Tiros I)
1960 Laser
1960 World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton
1960 Pantyhose
1961 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard
1961 First human in space - Yuri Gagarin
1961-1963 John F Kennedy president of US
1961-1989 Berlin Wall
1961-1991 7th Cholera Pandemic
1962-1965 Vatican II
1962 Cuban missile crisis
1963 Compact Cassette Recordings
1963 Pres. Kennedy Assassinated
1963 1st artificial heart
1963-1968 Lyndon B Johnson president of US
1963 Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space
1964-1975 Vietnam War
1964 US civil rights bill
1965 Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles
1965 1st spacewalks (US, USSR)
1966 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR)
1966 8-track tape players
1967-1970 Nigerian civil war
1967 Six day war: Israel-Arabs
1967 Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole
1967 Marshall 1st black supreme court justice
1967 1st human heart transplant
1968 Martin Luther King assassinated
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1969 Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon president of US
1969 Woodstock Music Festival
1969 ARPANET begins (Internet's precursor)
1970 Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State
1971 Pakistani civil war
1971 Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004
1972 North Atlantic trash patch discovered
1972 8008 Microprocessor ships (Intel)
1973 The Internet begins
1973 October war (Israel-Arabic nations)
1973 Invention of the cellphone
1974 Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace
1974-1976 Gerald Ford president of US
1974 8080 Microprocessor ships (Intel)
1974 6800 Microprocessor ships (Motorola)
1974 CP/M operating system released
1975 Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September
1975 Altair 8800a - the 1st home computer
1975 SWTPC 6800 computer
1975 IMSAI 8080 computer
1975 Ebola virus appears - 90% lethal
1975 6502 Microprocessor ships (MOS Technology)
1976 US Bicentennial
1976 Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa
1976 VHS Video Recordings
1976 Television begins satellite delivery
1976 Z80 Microprocessor ships (Zilog)
1976 Apple releases first computer
1976 FLEX operating system released
1977-1980 James Earl Carter Jr president of US
1977 Neutron bomb
1977 Kilobaud Magazine, issue #1 - January
1978 Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die
1978 1st test-tube baby
1978 Laserdisc video recordings
1978 6809 Microprocessor ships (Motorola)
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear event
1979 Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK
1979 OS-9 operating system released
1980 Mount St. Helens Erupts
1981 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia
1981 1st female supreme court justice
1981-1988 Ronald Reagan president of US
1981 IBM PC ships
1981 Anwar Sadat, Pres. of Egypt, assasinated
1982 1st genetically engineered product - insulin
1983 Compact Disks
1983 Bluford 1st black in space
1983 Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system
1983-1985 Famine in Ethiopia, 1.2m dead
1983 Cellphones come into use
1984 Apple Macintosh Ships
1984 HIV determined to be cause of AIDs
1985 Amiga Computer Ships
1985-2050 Era of effective Machine Learning
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Columbia, 23,000+ die
1986 Mir space station deployed
1986 Shuttle Challenger explodes
1986 Chernobyl power plant melts down
1986 Halleys Comet
1987 2000th satellite launched: USSRs Cosmos
1988 Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax
1988 Pacific trash patch discovered
1989 Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion
1989 Breakup of the Soviet Union
1989-1992 George Bush president of US
1989 Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff
1989 Fall of Berlin Wall
1989 US Invades Panama, topples Noriega
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