1898 Treaty of Peace signed between U.S. and Spain.
1898 Birth of M.C. Escher.
1900 Italy’s king is assasinated.
1903 First flight at Kitty Hawk.
1905 Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is introduced.
1906 Upton Sinclair publishes “The Jungle” about the meat
packing industry.
1907 Picasso introduces cubism.
1909 First man reaches North Pole.
1910 Alfred Whitehead publishes Principia Mathematicia
which tries to develop math based on logic.
1912 The Titanic sinks.
1917 World War I begins.
1923 Jazz singer Bessie Smith records first jazz album.
1925 Flapper dresses are in style.
1925 The Great Gatsby is published.
1929 Stock Market Crashes, start of Depression.
1936 Margaret Mitchell writes Gone with the Wind.
1939 World War II begin.
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1948 Ghandi assasinated.
1950 Einstein announced unified-field theory.
1952 Seat belts are introduced.
1955 McDonalds is founded.
1958 NASA is founded.
1960 Lasers are invented.
1962 Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell’s Soup Can.
1964 The Beatles are popular in United States.
1969 Neal Armstrong is the first human to walk on the moon.
1970 Floppy disks for computers are introduced.
1970 Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin die of drug overdoses.
1972 Pocket Calculators are introduced.
1972 M.C. Escher dies. |
