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Mary Catherine Slate

Mary Catherine Slate

Female 1892 - 1960  (67 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1893 
  • 1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
2 1893-1897 
  • 1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
3 1895 
  • 1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
4 1896 
  • 1896: Ragtime music is born.
5 1897 
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
  • 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes.
  • 1897: First vaccine for plague.
6 1897-1901 
  • 1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
7 1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
8 1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
9 1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
10 1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
11 1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
12 1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
13 1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
14 1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
15 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
16 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
17 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
18 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
19 1913 
  • 1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs.
  • 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers!
  • 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
20 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
21 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
22 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
23 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
24 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
25 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
26 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
27 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
28 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
29 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
30 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
31 1924 
  • 1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York. Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
32 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
33 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
34 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
35 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
36 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
37 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
38 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
39 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
40 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
41 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
42 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
43 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
44 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
45 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
46 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
47 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
48 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
49 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
50 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
51 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
52 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.

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