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General Electric Company is founded.
General Electric Company is founded. -
Cinema is born
Cinema is born. The brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière made the first public screening of motion pictures -
Radio technology is introduced
Radio technology is introduce.Inventor Guglielmo Marconi amazes a London assemblage in 1896 with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Five years later to the date, Marconi sends the first signal across an ocean. -
Ragtime grows in popularity.
Ragtime grows in popularity.Ragtime publishing operations grew out of existing music houses in major cities across the US Perhaps no other city had more such activity than New York. -
The Electric Theatre.
The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. -
First black ensemble to be recorded
James Reese Europe records ragtime arrangements in New York with the first black ensemble to be recorded -
St. Louis Blues.
Pianist W.C. Handy writes St. Louis Blues. Undoubtedly the most long lived and popular blues song ever written is William Christopher Handy's classic St. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity. Was a German physicist of Jewish origin, nationalized after U.S. and Switzerland. It is considered as the most important scientist of the twentieth century. -
Coleman Hawkins.
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins tours with blues singer Mamie Smith and begins to develop a unique style of playing.
Primarily known as a saxophonist, Hawkins is a classic jazz performer whose style was always within the limits of swing and bop. -
Adolf Hitler.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party ( German : Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei abbreviated NSDAP ), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party , was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945.
