Timeline: Jacob W. Platt: Forney & Clark Genealogy Pages

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Jacob W. Platt

1872 - 1901 (28 years)

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

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