Lucien Wickham Schneewind1903 through 1959
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
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
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