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1901

  • J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel after buying Carnegie Steel for $500 million
  • King Camp Gillette invents the double edge safety razor
  • Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner
  • The first radio receiver successfully received a radio transmission
  • Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner

1903

  • Wright brothers conduct first sustained powered flight

1904

  • NYC subway opens

1906

  • William Kellogg invents cornflakes

1907

  • Color photography is invented by Auguste & Louis Lumiere
  • Immigration peaks in the U.S. to 9 million in the 1900s; dropped when WWI started

1908

  • Henry Ford invents the "Model T which would sell for $700-$900

1910

  • Thomas Edison invents the talking motion picture

1911

  • Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system
  • Supreme Court orders breakup of private monopoly Standard Oil

1912

  • The motorized motion picture camera is invented and replaces hand-cranked cameras
  • Titanic sinks taking with it many of Wall Street's elite

1913

  • Ford introduces the assembly line
  • The Federal Reserve is formed to provide stability to the financial markets

1914

  • Panama Canal opens facilitating trade between North and South America
  • Archduke Ferdinand assassinated - start of WWI
  • (Aug. - Dec.) All of the world markets closed, including the NYSE, because of massive selling to return money to Europe ahead of WWI

1915

  • German submarine sinks the British Lusitania and gave U.S. incentive to enter WWI

1917

  • U.S. enters WWI

1918

  • Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
  • The super-heterodyne radio circuit is invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong which is still used today by every radio and television

1919

  • Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I
  • Prohibition begins in the United States and is terminated in 1933

1920

  • Women given the right to vote

1921

  • Extreme inflation in Germany post WWI

1922

  • Radio station WEAF owned by AT&T in NYC broadcasts first radio ad

1923

  • Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal

1924

  • First Olympic Winter Games in France

1925

  • The mechanical television is invented by John Logie Baird
  • Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

1926

  • Robert H. Goddard invents the liquid fueled rocket

1927

  • JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch
  • Technicolor, a method for making color motion pictures, is invented
  • Complete electronic TV system is invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth

1928

  • Penicillin is invented by Alexander Fleming to treat infections

1929

  • Paul Galvin invents the car radio
  • The Great Crash (Oct. 24-29) largely as a function of investors buying stocks on credit which led to banks failing and personal bankruptcies

1930

  • An early form of a computer is invented (still analog at the time) known as the "differential analyzer," by Vannevar Bush at MIT
  • The jet engine is invented by Frank Whittle and Dr. Hans Von Ohain
  • Scotch tape is invented by Richard G. Drew at the 3M Corp.

1931

  • Stop action photography is invented by Harold Edgerton

1932-34

  • Depression-era securities laws establish the FDIC and SEC; R. Hollingshead builds prototype drive-in movie theater

1933

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1934

  • FDR passes legislation creating the Federal Housing Administration which brought stability to the mortgage market by insuring loans

1935

  • The radar is patented by Robert Watson-Watt
  • John Maynard Keynes suggests new economic theory supporting interventionist government policy
  • FDR signs into legislation social security which provides benefits for disability, retirement, and death
  • First DC-3 flight

1936

  • Bell labs invents the first voice recognition machine
  • Hoover Dam completed
  • UAW state their first sit-down strikes

1937

  • The photocopier is invented by Chester F. Carlson

1938

  • The first working turbo prop engine is invented

1939

  • First commercial television broadcast
  • Igor Sikorsky invents the first helicopter
  • Hewlett and Packard headquarter their company in Palo Alto, Ca with the hopes of creating a new technology community
  • World War II begins

1940

  • Peter Goldmark invents the modern color television
  • Karl Pabst invents the Jeep

1941

  • The first computer controlled by software is invented by Conrad Zuse
  • The U.S. is attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor - U.S. enters WWII

1942

  • Women work at Kaiser’s WWII shipyards surpassing expectations

1944

  • Willem Kolff invents the kidney dialysis machine
  • D-Day - Western allied nations liberate Europe from Nazi control
  • Bretton Woods agreement outlined the rules for global commercial and financial transactions; IMF and World Bank established
  • FDR signs the GI Bill of Rights which gave returning war veterans favorable loans and the opportunity to get an education

1945

  • The atomic bomb is invented under the code name "Manhattan project" and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Coke becomes a global brand during WWII

1946

  • The microwave is invented by Percy Spencer
  • Baby Boom begins
  • Government creates the Employment Act which seeks “to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power”

1947

  • Marshall Plan enacted to help European nations recover from WWII
  • The Tupperware seal is invented by Earl Silas Tupper
  • Transistor invented by 3 Bell Scientists - transistor is the key to all modern electronics because of its small size and low cost to mass produce

1949

  • Communist movement in China

1950

  • Senator Joseph McCarthy begins communist witch hunt

1952

  • First patent for the bar code, hydrogen bomb built by Edward Teller

1953

  • Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments

1954

  • McDonalds started by Ray Kroc

1956

  • Optic fiber was patented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
  • Eisenhower creates the interstate system
  • First computer hard disk used

1957

  • Trend toward globalization - first Japanese car (Toyota) sold in U.S.
  • European Economic Community established

1958

  • Bank of America launches first credit card
  • Eisenhower signs a bill creating NASA
  • Modem, integrated circuit, and laser invented

1959

  • Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba
  • Bowling "boom" sweeps across America and bowling alleys begin to pop up in new suburban areas
  • Microchip invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

1961

  • Berlin Wall built which divided West Berlin and East Germany
  • Kroc buys McDonald’s

1962

  • Cuban missile crisis
  • Audio cassette invented
  • Grand opening of first Wal-Mart

1963

  • JFK assassinated; Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
  • Equal Pay Act signed into legislation to address discriminatory practices in the workplace

1964

  • BASIC, an early computer language, is invented
  • Civil Rights Act enacted

1965

  • Compact disk, Astroturf, and Kevlar invented
  • U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
  • Medicare signed into law by President Johnson to provide health insurance for elders

1966

  • Vietnam riots rage across country as radical groups such as the Black Panther Party are formed
  • Electronic fuel injection for cars invented

1968

  • Computer mouse, first computer with integrated circuits made, and Random Access Memory created
  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
  • Tet offensive launched by the U.S. and South Vietnam against North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front
  • President Johnson’s “Texas-sized” spending spurs domestic inflation

1969

  • First version of internet, ATM, and bar code scanner invented
  • Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon

1970

  • Floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart
  • Xerox establishes its Palo Alto Research Center
  • U.S. begins to run a trade deficit

1971

  • Dox-matrix printer invented, LCD, microprocessor by Intel, VCR
  • Intel invents the single-chip microprocessor
  • Southwest Airlines opens for business

1972

  • Terrorist attacks at the Olympic Games in Munich
  • Watergate scandal begins and ends with President Nixon's resignation
  • Word processor, first video game invented

1973

  • Black-Scholes option pricing model introduced
  • Fed Ex begins operation
  • Gene splicing, Ethernet (local computer network) by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox
  • Abortion legalized; U.S. pulls out of Vietnam
  • First Oil Shock occurs when OPEC cuts its delivery to nations that supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt

1974

  • Pres. Ford signs the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), establishing the minimum standards for pension benefits

1975

  • Microsoft founded by Bill Gates
  • Wall Street’s fixed commissions end to allow for competition among brokers (discount brokers flourished)

1977

  • MRI invented by Raymond V. Damadian

1978

  • California asbestos lawsuits; Second Oil Shock heightens during the Iran hostage crisis
  • Toys R Us revives employee stock options and benefits from the Reagan tax cuts in the early 80's

1979

  • Cellular phones, Cray supercomputer, walkman, roller blades invented
  • Paul Volcker becomes Chairman of Fed

1980

  • Gene patenting allowed by Supreme Court
  • Government bails out Chrysler from bankruptcy
  • Reagan elected President – tax cuts to follow
  • Microsoft is called upon to provide the IBM operating system

1981

  • MS-DOS invented, first IBM-PC, scanning tunneling microscope
  • New plague identified as AIDS
  • Reagan fires federal air traffic controllers

1982

  • Human growth hormone genetically engineered

1984

  • AT&T is broken up because its size prevented competition among telephone service providers
  • CD-ROM, Apple Macintosh invented

1985

  • Windows invented by Microsoft

1986

  • Challenger space shuttle explodes

1987

  • Black Monday (Oct. 19) - The DJIA dropped more than 20% as programmed selling was a major reason to blame for the sharp sell-off

1988

  • Digital cellular phones, abortion pill, Prozac invented
  • Savings and loans crisis peaks (along with the decline in the real estate market, two factors that caused recession of 1990-91)

1989

  • High-definition television invented
  • Symbolic ending to Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall and a modern day victory for free market capitalism

1990

  • World Wide Web/Internet protocol and WWW language created

1991

  • Operation Desert Storm occurs in an effort to liberate Kuwait from Iraq
  • Digital answering machine invented

1993

  • World Trade Center bombed by an Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda
  • Pentium processor invented

1994

  • HIV protease inhibitor created that reduces the ability of the HIV virus to proliferate
  • Mexican peso crisis

1995

  • Java computer language, DVD invented
  • Oklahoma City bombing
  • Netscape goes public

1996

  • Web TV invented

1997

  • Korean Financial crisis

1998

  • Clinton impeached; India & Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons
  • Russian Ruble collapse; the demise of Long Term Capital Management; Asian Tiger Crisis
  • Brazil defaults on debt

1999

  • The Euro becomes the New European Currency; Fear of Y2K

2000

  • NASDAQ "bubble" burst
  • Presidential election between Bush and Gore goes to Supreme Court for decision on Florida recount

2001

  • WTC destroyed by terrorists linked to al-Qaeda
  • Accounting scandals hit corporate America - Enron's Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay made an example

2002

  • U.N. Security Council passes resolution demanding Iraq to disarm
  • Another wave of accounting scandals surface: Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski and WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers (these scandals shook investor confidence and contributed to the market downturn in 2001 and 2002)
  • WorldCom files for bankruptcy in July marking the largest corporate insolvency ever
  • New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer begins to leverage his authority to investigate unethical practices of corporations
  • Nanotechnology wearable fabrics invented by Nano-tex LLC; Virtual keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB

2003

  • SARS outbreak in Asia
  • Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein falls
  • Toyota's hybrid car developed

2004

  • Radical Muslim terrorist group destroys Madrid's commuter railway and several trains

2005

  • Accounting scandal surfaces against AIG and CEO Hank Greenberg
  • Hurricanes Rita and Katrina devastate the Gulf Coast

2006

  • Ben Bernanke replaces Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Chairman
  • Oil prices eclipse $78 a barrel amid conflict between Israel and Lebanon
  • Democrats take control of Congress after mid term elections

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