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	Date	Event(s)
1	1867	1867: Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
2	1868	1868: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women. 1868: Bret Harte writes "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
3	1869	1869: Mark Twain writes The Innocents Abroad. 1869: Bret Hart writes "The Outcasts of Poler Flats."
4	1869-1877	1869-1877: Ulysses Simpson Grant serves as the eighteenth president of the United States of America.
5	1870's	1870's: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch establish the germ theory of disease.
6	1871	1871: Louisa May Alcott writes Little Men.
7	1874	1874: Verdi's Requiem premieres in Milan, Italy.
8	1876	1876: Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake. 1876: Mark Twain writes the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876: Walt Whitman writes Leaves of Grass.
9	1877-1881	1877-1881: Rutherford Birchard Hayes serves as the nineteenth president of the United States of America.
10	1878	1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
11	1879	1879: First vaccine for cholera 1879: Henry James writes Daisy Miller.
12	1881	1881: First vaccine for anthrax 1881: Henry James writes Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady. 1881: Helen Hunt Jackson's writes A Century of Dishonor. 1881: James Abram Garfield serves as the twentieth president of the United States of America.
13	1881-1885	1881-1885: Chester Alan Arthur serves as twenty-first president of the United States of America.
14	1882	1882: First vaccine for rabies
15	1883	1883: The Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York. 1883: Mark Twain writes Life on the Mississippi.
16	1884	1884: Helen Hunt Jackson writes Ramona.
17	1885	1885: Gilbert and Sullivan finish The Mikado. 1885: William Dean Howells writes The Rise of Silas Lapham.
18	1885-1889	1885-1889: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-second president of the United States of America.
19	1888	1888: Strauss writes the symphonic poem Don Juan.
20	1889	1889: Theodore Roosevelt writes The Winning of the West.
21	1889-1893	1889-1893: Benjamin Harrison serves as twenty-third president of the United States of America.
22	1890	1890: Emil von Behring discovers develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines. 1890: Sarah Orne Jewett wrote Tales of New England.
23	1891	1891: Carnegie Hall opens in New York.
24	1893	1893: Dvorak composes From the New World.
25	1893-1897	1893-1897: Grover Cleveland serves as twenty-fourth president of the United States of America.
26	1895	1895: Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage.
27	1896	1896: Ragtime music is born.
28	1897	1897: First vaccine for plague. 1897: Ronald Ross shows that malaria parasites are transmitted via mosquitoes. 1897: First vaccine for plague.
29	1897-1901	1897-1901: William McKinley serves as twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.
30	1898	1898: Spanish-American War
31	1899	1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
32	1900	1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
33	1901-1909	1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
34	1903	1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors. 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
35	1904	1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
36	1905	1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
37	1906	1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
38	1909	1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
39	1909-1913	1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
40	1911	1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
41	1912	1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
42	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."
43	1913-1921	1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
44	1914-1918	1914-1918: World War I
45	1914	1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
46	1915	1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
47	1918	1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
48	1919	1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
49	1920	1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
50	1921	1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
51	1921-1923	1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
52	1923	1923: First vaccine for diphtheria 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
53	1923-1929	1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
54	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.
55	1926	1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
56	1927	1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
57	1928	1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
58	1929-1933	1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
59	1932	1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
60	1933-1945	1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
61	1935	1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
62	1936	1936: Electric guitars debut.
63	1937	1937: First vaccine for typhus
64	1939-1945	1939-1945: World War II
65	1941	7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
66	1943	1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
67	1945	1945: First vaccine for influenza
68	1945-1953	1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
69	1948	1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
70	1949	1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
71	1950-1953	1950-1953: Korean War
72	1953-1961	1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
73	1955	1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
74	1956	1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
75	1960	1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
76	1961-1963	1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
77	1963-1969	1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
78	1964	1964: First vaccine for measles
79	1965-1975	1965-1975: Vietnam War
80	1967	1967: First vaccine for mumps 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
81	1969-1974	1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
82	1973	1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
83	1974	1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
84	1974-1977	1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
85	1977	1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
86	1977-1981	1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
87	1978	1978: First vaccine for meningitis
88	1981	1981: MTV goes on the air running around the clock music videos.
89	1981-1989	1981-1989: Ronald Wilson Reagan serves as fortieth president of the United States.
90	1988	1988: CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
91	1989-1993	1989-1993: George Herbert Walker Bush serves as forty-first president of the United States.
92	1990-1991	1990-1991: Persian Gulf War
93	1993-2001	1993-2001: William Jefferson Clinton serves as forty-second president of the United States.
94	2001-	2001-: George Walker Bush serves as forty-third president of the United States.
95	2003	2003: Invasion of Iraq

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