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Birth of Joseph Lee
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Birth of William G. Morgan
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Yellowstone National Park established
United States President Ulysses S Grant signs the Yellowstone National Park protection act, giving birth to the world's first national park. -
Joseph Lee graduates from Harvard
Joseph Lee graduates from Harvard with his bachelor's degree. -
Joseph Lee receives his law Degree
Joseph Lee received his law degree from Harvard University. -
Joseph Lee jumpstarts Playground Movement
After hearing that little boys were being arrested for playing in the streets, Joseph Lee cleared a lot and gave materials for the children to play. He soon found that the boys were fighting with each other when unsupervised. He later jumpstarted the Playground Movement in 1890 so children could play together in supervised spaces. -
William G. Morgan invents Volleyball
Morgan worked as a Director of Physical Education at a YMCA in Holyoke. He wanted to think of a game that could act as an alternative for basketball that anyone could play. He created a team game that involved bouncing a ball in the air ball over a net and trying to hit it before it hits the ground. He called it "Mintonette", but it would later be known by another name, Volleyball. -
Signing of Antiquities Act
United States President Theodore Roosevelt signed this act, which gave presidents the authority to create national parks and monuments to preserve the historic and natural beauty of the country. -
Formation of Playground Association of America
This establishment occurred at the YMCA in Washington D.C and helped ensured that children all across America would have some sort of play area that they could go to. Reformers believed that supervised play for children could improve their mental and emotional health while also giving them a place to exercise. -
National Park Service created
President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service in order to preserve the natural and historic beauty of America. -
Television First demonstrated
In San Francisco, the first electronic television was successfully demonstrated 21-year old inventor, Philo Taylor Farnsworth. It was a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and transformed back into a moving picture on the screen. This would serve as an ancestor for modern television. -
Civilian Conservation Corps established
Established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with an executive order as part of his New deal legislation. It combatted high unemployment during the Great Depression by creating jobs for men to work for environmental conversation projects. -
First televised baseball game
The First televised sporting event was a college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton universities. -
Brown v Board of Education
The Supreme Court voted unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which stated that keeping races "separate but equal" was constitutional. It was very influential during the Civil Rights Movement and helped ensure that children of all races could learn together. -
1958 NFL Championship Game
The 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants was the first ever NFL Game to be on national television. It sparked an uproar in NFL popularity thanks to Johnny Unitas, who became a breakout star after this game. -
First Special Olympics
The first Special Olympics Competition was held in Chicago's Soldier Field for young people with intellectual disabilities. The inspiration came from Eunice Kennedy when she saw how unfair people with disabilities were being treated by others. They did not even have a chance to go to school. This helped mark change in society and centuries of mistreatment began to fade away and people with special needs started to find a lot more of societal acceptance. -
First Monday Night Football Game
The New York Jets played the Cleveland Browns in the first-ever Monday Night Football game. It since became a weekly staple for generations in the autumn season and is still very popular to this day.
