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   Date  Event(s)
1898 
  • 1898: Spanish-American War
1899 
  • 1899: Kate Chopin writes The Awakening.
1900 
  • 1900: Theodore Dreiser writes Sister Carrie.
1901-1909 
  • 1901-1909: Theodore Roosevelt serves as twenty-sixth president of the United States of America.
1903 
  • 1903: Henry James writes The Ambassadors.
  • 1903: Jack London writes The Call of the Wild.
1904 
  • 1904: Jack London writes The Sea-Wolf.
1905 
  • 1905: Edith Wharton writes The House of Mirth.
1906 
  • 1906: Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle.
1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
10 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
11 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
12 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
13 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."
14 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
15 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
16 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
17 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
18 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
19 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
20 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
21 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
22 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
23 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
24 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
25 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.
26 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
27 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
28 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
29 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
30 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
31 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
32 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
33 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
34 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
35 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
36 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
37 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
38 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
39 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
40 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
41 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
42 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
43 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
44 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
45 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
46 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
47 1961-1963 
  • 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
48 1963-1969 
  • 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
49 1964 
  • 1964: First vaccine for measles
50 1965-1975 
  • 1965-1975: Vietnam War
51 1967 
  • 1967: First vaccine for mumps
  • 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
52 1969-1974 
  • 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
53 1973 
  • 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
54 1974 
  • 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
55 1974-1977 
  • 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
56 1977 
  • 1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
57 1977-1981 
  • 1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
58 1978 
  • 1978: First vaccine for meningitis
59 1981 
  • 1981: MTV goes on the air running around the clock music videos.
60 1981-1989 
  • 1981-1989: Ronald Wilson Reagan serves as fortieth president of the United States.


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