20th Century

By Star Lord

  • The Gold Standard Act is ratified

  • US Steel is founded by Morgan

  • MCKINLEY ASSONATED and TR becomes President.

  • FIrst Roe Bowl game played

  • The first movie theater opens in LA

  • Ford Motor company formed

  • Pure Food and drug act

  • First World Series

  • Great Train Robery- Movie comes out

  • Wright brothers have their first flight

  • Industrial Workers of the World is founded

  • Oklahoma becomes state

  • FBI established

  • Ford introduces the model T

  • Taft is elected President

  • One Millionth Model T Rolls Off Assembly Line

  • Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavy weight champ

  • Sweat Shop Fire

  • First Indi 500

  • The Discovery of Manchu Picchu

  • Idaho Big Burn

  • Girl Scouts of America founded

  • Titanic Sinks

  • Grand Central opens

  • WWI Starts

  • The Panama Canal Opens

  • World War I Christmas Truce

  • The British warship Formidable is hit

  • Lusitania Sunk By Torpedo

  • U.S. President Woodrow Wilson Marries Edith Galt

  • U.S. Enters World War I

  • Palmer Raids

  • Senate Rejects League

  • Nineteenth Amendment

  • Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time

  • Harding Landslide

  • Harding Dies

  • Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billio

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

  • John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution

  • Klansmen March

  • Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres

  • Aviator Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo transatlantic flight

  • Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the season

  • Hoover President

  • "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,"

  • American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto

  • he London Naval Reduction Treaty is signed into law by the United States

  • The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover

  • Inventor Thomas Alva Edison dies.

  • The ruins of the ancient Indian villages around Canyon de Chelly are designated a national monument by President Herbert Hoover.

  • The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key, is approved by President Hoover and Congress as the national anthem

  • The state of Nevada legalizes gambling.

  • - Construction is completed on the Empire State Building in New York City and it opens for business

  • The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnaped.

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the first time.

  • The New Deal social and economic programs are passed by the United States Congress

  • The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act

  • The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago

  • The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.

  • The Master's golf tournament is held for the first time at Augusta National Golf Club,

  • JFk Wins precidency

  • Kennedy Inaugural

  • Minimum Wage Hike

  • Federal Protection for Freedom Riders

  • Kennedy Proposes Moon Program

  • National Guard Desegregates Ole Miss

  • JFK Proposes Big Tax Cuts

  • Kennedy Assassination

  • LBJ Declares War on Poverty

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964