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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus "Discovers" America
Christopher had a total of 3 voyages, and in the first voyage he "Discovered" America. -
Aug 23, 1497
John Cabot claims North America From England
On this date John Cabot Sailed across the Atlantic And came upon the mainland of North America. -
May 19, 1534
Jacques Cartier Explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
This voyage was Jacques Cartier's second voyage, he was with 110 men on the ship. -
Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh
This colony is called the "Lost Colony" because the fate of many colonists were there, and nobody knows what happened to them. -
Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
In the present time, Jamestown is home to two heritage tourism sites. -
1619 - Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves importedinto Britain’s North American colonies. Like indentured servants, they were probably freed aftera fixed period of service.
In 1619, the first documented Africans were brought to Jamestown, though the modern conception of slavery in the future United States did not begin in Virginia until 1660. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. -
1635 - First Public School (Boston Latin School)
The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts. -
1636 - First College - Harvard College, the first institute for higher education in a north American colony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts
First university in the United States is a status asserted by more than one U.S. university. -
1636 - Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier,Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.
The origins of slavery in the colonial United States are complex and there are several theories that have been proposed to explain the trade. -
English Bill of Rights
It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right. -
1749 - Ben Franklin - Lightning Rod
Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment using a 40-foot (12 m)-tall iron rod instead of a kite, and he extracted electrical sparks from a cloud. -
1754 - 1763 French & Indian war
The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756. -
Proclamation of 1763 by King George III
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans. -
1765 -1766 - Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
1773 - Santa Claus - Colonial America
Originally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled white man in a red coat trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard, but there are many different ways he is described as. -
Declaration of Independence
After finalizing the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. -
1777 - Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves.
Vermont is the first colony to free their slaves besides any of the other colonies. -
1775 - 1784 Revolutionary war
The American Revolutionary War, Or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. -
1787 Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, -
Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. -
Delaware
Delaware was the first state to ratify the federal Constitution. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate, -
New Jersey
New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average. -
Georgia
Historic Saint Marys Georgia is the second oldest city in the nation. -
Massachusetts
Although over 30 communities in the colonies eventually renamed themselves to honor Benjamin Franklin. The Massachusetts Town of Franklin was the first and changed its name in 1778. -
Connecticut
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878. -
Maryland
In 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore. -
South Carolina
Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. Off Hwy 14 near Gowensville -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War. -
Virginia
The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry. -
New York
The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843. -
George Washington, 1789-1797
George washington was our first president, he is known for having wooden or fake teeth. -
North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789
Pepsi Cola was invented in North Carolina 100 years ago in 1898. -
1790 - population
1790 - 4 million -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles. -
Vermont
Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution. -
Bill of Rights
Originally, the Bill of Rights included legal protection for land-owning white men only, excluding African Americans and women. -
Kentucky
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May. -
1793 - Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin
The cotton gin is a mechanical device which removes the seeds from cotton, a process which previously had been extremely labor intensive. The word 'gin' is short for engine. -
11th Amendment
This amendment was adopted in order to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia. -
Tennessee
Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans. -
John Adams, 1797-1801
John Adams was our second president, it is said that he held the first fireworks display at the White House. -
1800 - population
1800 - 5.3 million -
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
Thomas Jefferson was our third president, one of his quotes was "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." -
Ohio
Ohio is the leading producer of greenhouse and nursery plants. -
12th Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President. -
James Madison, 1809-1817
James Madison was our fourth president, when he was on his deathbed, his last words were "I always talk better lying down." -
1810 - population
1810 - 7.2 million -
1812 - 1815 War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. -
Louisiana
Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV. -
Indiana
Santa Claus, Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time. -
James Monroe, 1817-1825
James Monroe was our fifth president, he was in the party of democratic-rebulicans. -
Mississippi
Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges. -
Illinois
The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885. -
Alabama
The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886. -
1820 - population
1820 - 9.6 million -
Maine
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable. -
Missouri
The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912. -
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
John Quincy Adams was our sixth president, he grafuated at Harvard University. -
1829 - Graham Cracker
The Graham cracker was originally marketed as "Dr. Graham's Honey Biskets" and was conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham. -
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Andrew Jackson was our seventh president, At the age of 13, he joined the Army to fight in the Revolutionary War. -
1830 - population
1830 - 12.8 million -
Indian Removal Act (1838 Trail of Tears)
The Trail of Tears is a name given to the relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
1833 - Oberlin College - First college to accept Women
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. -
1835 - Oberlin College - First School to accept Blacks
Although this college regularly accepts blacks and females, they were the first college to do so. -
1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was an armed conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas. -
Arkansas
Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers. -
1837 - U of M- 11817-founded in detroit michigan to ann harbor in 1837
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States -
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
Martin Van Buren was our eighth president, he was described as a "little squirt" because he was 5 feet 6 inches. -
Michigan
Michigan is first in the United States production of peat and magnesium compounds and second in gypsum and iron ore. -
1839 - Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear
Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process accidentally after five years of searching for a more stable rubber. -
1840 - 17 million
1840 - 17 million -
John Tyler, 1841-1845
John Tyler was our tenth president, he had the total of fifteen childen. -
William Henry Harrison, 1841
William Henry Harrison was our ninth president, he suffered from the following illnesses : ulcer, stress and pneumonia, and he died of pneumonia. -
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
James Know Polk was our eleventh president, he died at only the age of 53 years old. -
1845 - Baseball - Alexander Cartwright
Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field. -
Florida
Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States. -
Texas
Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. -
1846 - 1848 Mexican American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention. -
Iowa
Iowa's longest and highest bridge crosses Lake Red Rock. -
1847 - Doughnut
The two most common types are the toroidal ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam (or jelly), cream, custard, or other sweet fillings. -
Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Door County has five state parks and 250 miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan. These figures represent more than any other county in the country. -
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
Zachary Taylor was our twelvth president, he was the second cousin of James Madison. -
1850 -population
1850 - 23 million -
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
Millard Fillmore was our thirteenth president, he was born in a log cabin. -
California
More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States. -
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
Franklin Pierce was our fourteenth president, he suffered many tragedies in his life, like losing his three children to early deaths during childhood. -
1855 - Michigan State
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. -
James Buchanan, 1857-1861
James Buchman was our fifteenth president, his nickname was "Old Buck" because he was stron and tall. -
1858 - Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman
In 1862 Lipman sold his patent to Joseph Reckendorfer for $100,000 who went to sue the pencil manufacturer Faber for infringement. -
Minnesota
Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast. -
Oregon
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. -
1860 - population
1860 - 31.4 million -
1860 - Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henry
Henry was hired by Oliver Winchester at the New Haven Arms Company in the late 1850s to improve the design of the Volcanic repeating rifle. -
1861 - 1865 American Civil War
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war fought in the United States of America. -
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln was our sixteenth president, his home state is Illinois. -
1861 - Jelly Bean - William Schrafft
Jelly beans first surfaced in1861 when Boston confectioner William Schrafft Urged people to send his Jelly beans to soldiers during the American Civil War. -
1861 - Machine Gun - Richard Gatling
The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. -
Kansas
Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981. -
1863 - Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson
Breakfast cereals, packaged, became considerably more convenient, and, combined with clever marketing, they caught on. -
West Virginia
West Virginia is considered the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state. -
Nevada
The Imperial Palace on the Las Vegas strip is the nation's first off-airport airline baggage check-in service. -
1865 - 13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery
The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864. -
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
Andrew Johnson was our seventeenth president, he was an alcoholic. -
Nebraska
Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert". -
14th Amendment
Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States. -
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
Ulysses Simpson Grant was our eighteenth president, he was a quiet and soft-spoken man. -
1869 - American Football - Walter Camp
American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the "Father of American Football". -
1869 - Soccer - Princeton vs. Rutgers (6-4 Rutgers)
Soccer was first known as soccer in Great Britain, but before Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Rome and England had games much like soccer. -
1870 - population
1870 - 38.6 million -
1870 - African Americans’ Right to Vote
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
1870 - African Americans’ Right to Vote
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1873 - Jeans - Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. -
Colorado
Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast. -
1877- Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler
By 1874 he had is own business the Rolled Wrapping Paper Company, but the company couldn't turn a profit. -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
Rutherford B. Harves was our nineteenth president, his hobbies were croquet, driving, shooting. -
1879 - Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. -
1880 - population
1880 - 50.1 million -
James Abram Garfield, 1881
James A. Garfield was our twentieth president, he was the first left-handed man to become a president. -
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
Chester A. Arthur was out 22nd president, he was never elected to be the president but succeeded to office after the assassination of James Garfield. -
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
Grover Cleveland was our twenty-third president, he weighed250 punds and had the nickname "Uncle Jumbo." -
1886 - Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola. -
1887 - Softball - George Hancock
George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played indoors, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. -
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
Benjamin Harrison was our twenty-fourth president, he was the grandson of the nation's ninth President, William Henry Harrison. -
North Dakota
North Dakota passed a bill in 1987 making English the official state language. -
South Dakota
South Dakota is the home of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes, which make up the Sioux Nation. -
Montana
Montana has the largest migratory elk herd in the nation. -
Washington
The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president. -
1890 - 62.9 million
1890 - 62.9 million -
1890 - Stop Sign - William Phelps Eno
William Phelps Eno was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself. -
Idaho
In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. -
Wyoming
Wyoming's license plates feature a man on a bucking bronco. -
1892 - CMU
Central Michigan University (also known as CMU) is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan. -
1893 - Radio - Nikola Tesla
Nikola Teslawas a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. -
Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
Grover Cleveland was our twenty-fifth president, he died at age seventy-one. -
1894- Corn Flakes- Will Keith Kellogg
The accidental legacy of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th century, when a team of Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to the vegetarian diet. -
1895 - Volleyball
Voleyball is a co-ed sport and it is played in the Olypmics. It is mostly played by girls instead of boys. Volleyball is an indoor court sport or an outdoor sport which you would play on the beach. -
Utah
Utah has 11,000 miles of fishing streams and 147,000 acres of lakes and reservoirs. -
William McKinley, 1897-1901
William McKinley was our twenty-sixth president, he was assassinated by Leon F. Czolgosz. -
1900 - population
1900 - 76.2 million -
1901 - Assembly Line - Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt was our twenty-seventh president, the teddy bear was named after him. -
1902- Teddy Bear - Morris Michtom
Morris Michtom was an Russian Jewish immigrant, who with his wife Rose invented the Teddy Bear. -
1904 - Banana Split - David Strickler
The sundae originally cost 10 cents when it was first invented, (twice the price of other sundaes) and caught on with students of nearby Saint Vincent College. -
Oklahoma
An Oklahoman, Sylvan Goldman, invented the first shopping cart. -
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
William Howard Taft was our twenty-eighth president, he was over 300 pounds and had the nickname "Big Bill." -
1910 - population
1910 - 92.2 million -
New Mexico
The Rio Grande is New Mexico's longest river and runs the entire length of New Mexico. -
Arizona
Arizona's most abundant mineral is copper. -
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
Woodrow Wilson was our twenty-ninth president, he was the only president with a PhD and he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1920. -
16th Amendment (Income Tax)
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
1914 - 1918 World War 1
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. -
18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)
Prohibition in the United States (sometimes referred to as the Noble Experiment) was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, -
1920 - population
1920 - 106 million -
19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle. -
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
Warren Gamaliel Harding was our thirtieth president, he was known as a weak and dishonest man. -
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
Calvin Coolidge was our thirty-first president, His wife, Grace Coolidge, was a close friend of Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind. -
1927 - Kool Aid
All of Edwin Perkins experiments took place in his mother's kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. -
1927- Television - Philo T. Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. -
1928 - Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney
Mickey typically appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete among others. -
1928 - Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”
In an interview a few years before his death, he said, "It was an accident". In 1937, the gum went on the market nationally. -
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
Herbert C. Hoover was our thirty-second president, he was raised in a Quaker family. -
1930 - population
1930 - 123 million -
1931 - Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer. In 1932, the company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and continues to produce a range of electric and bass guitars to this day. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our thirty-third president, He was the only person who was elected President to four terms: 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944. -
20th Amendment - Jan. 20 inauguration.
The inauguration of the President of the United States occurs upon the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States. -
21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. -
1938 - Soft Serve Ice Cream
Soft serve is generally lower in milk-fat (3% to 6%) than ice cream (10% to 18%) and is produced at a temperature of about −4 °C compared to ice cream, which is stored at −15 °C. -
1939 - 1945 World War 2
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
1940 - population
1940 - 132 million -
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
Harry S. Truman was our thirty-fourth president, he was known for being honest and efficient. -
1846 - 1848 Mexican American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention, -
1948 - Video Game
The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube. -
1948 - Cable TV
Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in 1948. -
1950 - population
1950 - 151 million -
1950 - 1953 Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China, with military material aid from the Soviet Union. -
22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President
The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States. -
1952 - Barcode
The first patent for a bar code type product was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. -
Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
Dwight David Eisenhower was our thirty-fifth president, he died at the age of 78 years old. -
1956 - Video Tape
The first practical professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape machines. -
Alaska
Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States. -
Hawaii
Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee. -
1960 - 179.3 million
1960 - 179.3 million -
1960 - 1975 Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
John F. Kennedy was our thirty-sixth president, he was the first catholic president. -
23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President. -
1963 - Computer Mouse
The first known publication of the term "mouse" as a pointing device is in Bill English's 1965 publication "Computer-Aided Display Control". -
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
Lyndon B. Johnson was our thirty-seventh president, he was known for being raw and boisterous. -
1964 - Buffalo Wings
Buffalo wings are used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia's Wing Bowl and at the National Buffalo Wing Festival. -
24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
1965 - Minicomputer ($18,000!)
The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s. -
1965 - CD
The Compact Disc is a spin-off of Laserdisc technology. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. -
25th Amendment - presidential succession
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. -
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
Richard M. Nixon was our thirty-seventh president, On November 17, 1973 Richard Nixon declared his innocence saying "I am not a crook." -
1970 - 203 million
1970 - 203 million -
1971 - Email
Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. -
26th Amendment - 18 as voting age
The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18. -
1973 - Cell Phone
The history of mobile phones records the development of interconnection between the public switched telephone systems to radio transceivers. -
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
Gerald R. Ford was our thirty-eighth president, he was an avid sports fan and enjoyed tennis, fishing, golf, swimming and skiing. -
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
James Earl Carter (A.K.A. Jimmy Carter) was our thirty-ninth president, he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. -
1980 - population
1980 - 226.5 million -
1981 - Laptop
Portable computers, originally monochrome CRT-based and developed into the modern laptops, and were originally considered to be a small niche market, mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, accountants and sales representatives. -
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
Ronald W. Reagan was our fortieth president, His first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River, near Dixon where he saved the lives of 77 people. -
1983 - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry, and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. -
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
George H. Walker Bush was our forty-first president, he became the youngest pilot in the U.S. -
1990 -population
1990 - 248.7 million -
1990-1991 Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait. -
27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term
The Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. -
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
William J. Clinton was our forty-second president, his nickname as a child growing up in Arkansas was "Bubba." -
2000 - population
2000 - 281.4 million -
George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
George W. Bush was our forty-third president, He received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University. -
2001: US Invasion of Afghanistan
know one will ever forget the tragic day of september 11 2001, a sad day for everyone in the u.s. -
2001 - iPod
The iPod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category, When the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices. -
2003: Invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War or Operation Iraqi Freedom in which a combined force of troops from the United States, -
Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-
Barack Husseion Obama is our forty-fourth president, when he was little he was sometimes teased in school for having the initials B.O. -
2010 - population
2010 - 308.7 million -
1901 - Car - Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds
e founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan. The company was bought by a copper and lumber magnate named Samuel L. Smith in 1899 and renamed Olds Motor Works.
