| THE SECOND MILLENIA |
| AD 1000 -- AD 2000 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY!!.
Industrialization and Technology and More!.
1901
| J. P. Morgan combines Federal Steel and Carnegie Steel to form U.S. Steel, biggest corporation merger of its time. |
1903
| Work begins on Panama Canal. |
| Tour de France begins when 60 cyclists compete in 2,500 kilometer (1550 mile) 19-day race. |
| Wright brothers make first successful airplane flight in history. |
1904
| Helen Keller, deaf and blind graduates from Radcliffe College. |
"Click Here for a Letter about Einstein: 1905"
1907
| Mother's Day is celebrated in America. |
1909
| First kibbutz, a collective agricultural or industrial settlement, founded in Palestine. |
1910
| The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated. |
| "Weekends" become popular in America. |
1912
| First municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco. |
1912
| Titanic oceanliner sinks, more than 1.500 die. |
1913
| The zipper is patented. |
| With funds from a lover, Gabrielle "Coco" Channel opens a milliner's shop. |
| Congress is empowered to levy Federal Income taxes by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. |
1914
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning World War I. |
| Henry Ford revolutionizes the manufacture of automobiles by inaugurating the assembly line. |
1917
| Charlie Chaplin signs movie industry;s first million-dollar contract to direct and star in eight films. |
| Russian Revolution begins with street rioting in St. Petersburg. |
1920
| Women recieve the right to vote. |
1921
| Young Mao Tse-tung forms Chinese Communist Party. |
1922
| Insulin is first administered to a diabetic patient. |
1923
| Harry Houdini thrills New York audiences by struggling free from a straitjacket while hanging head-down 40 feet above the ground. |
1924
| First Winter Olympic Games opens in Chamonix, France. |
1925
| Charleston becomes a fashionable dance. |
| John Scopes, a biology teacher in Tennessee, goes on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. |
1927
| Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop trans-Atlantic solo flight. |
1928
| Walt Disney introduces Mickey Mouse in the first animated talking cartoon. |
1929
| Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians play "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time. |
| Stock Market crash starts Oct. 29, a harbinger of Great Depression. |
"Click Here for a Story of the First Airline Stewardesses: 1930"
1932
| Some 30 million people -- 25 percent or more of all workers in major industrial countries -- are unemployed due to Great Depression. |
| Amelia Earnhart becomes first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. |
| The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped. |
1933
| Adolf Hitler granted dictatorial powers in Germany. |
| First concentration camps erected by the Nazis in Germany. |
| Boycott of Jews begins. |
1936
| First U.S. fitness club opens in California, pioneering exercises such as jumping jacks. |
1936
| African American Jesse Owens sets world record in the 100-meter run in the Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany. |
1937
| The Hindenburg dirigible explodes over New Jersey. |
| General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers union. |
1938
| Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia. |
| Orson Welles causes nationaly panic by broadcasting dramatization of "The War of the Worlds" about an alien invasion (on Hallowe'en). |
1941
| Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters World War II. |
1944
| Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII (D-day). |
1945
| President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, after being elected to four consecutive terms. |
| U.S. Marines raise the flag at Iwo Jima. |
| U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WWII ends. |
1946
| Former civil engineer Louis Reard designs the bikini. |
1947
| U.S. presents Marshall Plan for postwar recovery of Europe. |
1947
| Jackie Robinson breaks the colot barrier, joins Brooklyn Dodgers to become first black in baseball's major leagues. |
1948
| Jewish state comes into existence. |
1949
| George Orwell writes "1984," asserting technology is instrument of tyranny. |
"Click Here to read about the Post-War Tract Houses: 1949"
1950
| The Korean War begins. |
| The Diner's Club. the first charge card that could be used at multiple establishments is introduced. |
1953
| Fidel Castro begins a revolution against Cuban government. |
1954
| RCA begins production of first color television sets. |
1955
| Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. |
1956
| Supreme Court says segregation of races on buses is unconstitutional. |
| Prince Rainier of Monaco weds actress Grace Kelly. |
1956
| Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel," first of 45 records that sell more than a million apiece. |
1957
| Space age and space race begins with Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik. |
"Click To Read About Jack Kilby -- Inventor of the MicroChip: 1958"
1959
| Alaska becomes 49th state. |
| Ruth Handler invents the Barbie doll, named after her daughter. |
1960
| John F. Kennedy elected as America's youngest president. |
1961
| The Bay of Pigs fiasco. |
| The Berlin Wall is constructed. |
1962
| John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth. |
| Wal-Mart discount chain started by Sam Walton. |
| U.S. military council started in South Vietnam. |
1963
| U.S. Congress passes Equal Pay Act, banning gender-based wage discrimination. |
| President Kennedy is assassinated. |
1964
| U.S. Civil Rights Act prohibits bias based on race, religion or national origin. |
1964
| 73 Million Americans watch the Beatles perform on Ed Sullivan. |
1965
| Rev. Martin Luther King begins his civil rights march from Selma, Alabama to Washington D.C. |
1967
| Six Day war between Israel and Arab nations. |
| British model Twiggy takes America by storm. |
1968
| Martin Luther King assassinated; Sen. Robert Kennedy assassinated. |
| Riots and police brutality mark Democratic Convention in Chicago. |
| Richard Nixon elected as president. |
| Widespread protests continue against increased military participation in Vietnam. |
"Click Here for the Universal Life Church -- You, Too, Can Dodge the Draft! 1969"
1970
| National Guard kills student protestors at Kent State. |
1972
| The Watergate break-in occurs. |
1973
| The U.S. Supreme Court makes abortion legal in the Roe vs. Wade decision. |
| U.S. and North Vietnam sign a cease-fire agreement. |
1974
| Muhammid Ali knocks out George Foreman in Zaire, regains heavyweight title. |
| President Nixon resigns under weight of Watergate Scandal. |
1979
| Sony Walkman introduced. |
| 63 Americans taken hostage in the American Embassy, in Iran. |
| Mass graves of the victims of the Khmer Rouge discovered. |
1980
| Poland's Solidarity movement demands new labor laws and freedom of speech. |
| Ronald Reagan elected President. |
1981
| MTV is launched. |
| Iran releases hostages. |
| Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are married in England. |
| Sandra Day O'Connor is elected as the first female judge in the U.S. Supreme Court. |
1983
| The Internet is created as a network connecting computers for university academics. |
1984
| AT&T divests "Baby Bells" in response to U.S. antitrust suit. |
| U.K. and China agree Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997. |
1985
| Earthquake in Mexico City kills more than 7,000 people. |
| TWA airline hijacked by Arab terrorists. |
1986
| U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after take-off, killing seven crew members. |
| Nuclear reactors blow up in Chernobyl. |
1989
| Author Salman Rushdie given death sentence for blasphemy (about Iran). |
| Pro-democracy students in CHina occupy Tiananmen Square. |
| The U.S. government allocates money to try to keep the savings and loan industry from collapsing. |
1991
| U.S. and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm. |
1997
| Scottish researchers clone an adult sheep, producing a lamb named Dolly. |
1998
| Tobacco industry agrees to pay 46 states $203 billion to settle lawsuits seeking compensations for public health related costs connected to smoking. |
1999
| 11 countries in Western Europe adopt common currency called the Euro. |
| President Bill Clinton becomes the second president in the U.S. to be impeached by the House of Representatives. |
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