Event Date: Event Title: Event Description:
1st Jan, 1750 2nd 1750 AD -1955 Industrial Wave Industrial Wave
31st Dec, 1750 Agricultural Wave 8000 B.C. to 1750 A.D
10th May, 1869 Stand 2 Technology - Railroad Railroad
31st Jan, 1900 Strand 4 Education- John Dewey Dewey John Dewey belived that humans use truth to solve problems and learning is active.
22nd Jan, 1901 Strand 6 Political Queen Queen Victoria dies.
30th Jul, 1901 Strand 3 Business/Corporate Dev. - Steel Morgan J.P. Morgan merged the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses to form the first billion dollar corporation in America.
6th Sep, 1901 Strand 6 Political McKinley President McKinley begins second term as president and is fatally shot.
1st Jan, 1903 Strand 3 Business/corporate Dev. - Wright Brothers Wright First flight at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers
17th Dec, 1903 Strand 5 Society The Wright Brothers flew the first controlled airplane near Kitty Hawk, N.C.
31st Jan, 1904 Strand 4 - Classical Conditioning Pavlov The first type of learning to be discovered in the early 1900's. Ivan Pavlov played a key role in the development of classical conditioning.
31st Jul, 1908 Strand 2 Technology - Mass Production Ford Henry Ford built the automobile using a method of mass production called the assembly line.
31st Jan, 1910 Strand 5 Society Angel Angel Island in San Franciso, an immigration station, opens to Asian Immigrants coming to America.
31st Jan, 1910 Strand 5 Society Boy Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in the United States. It is the largest youth organization in the world.
25th Mar, 1911 Strand 3 Business/Corporate Dev.- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Triangle A factory in New York caught fire killing an estimated 500 workers. The led to the beginning of strikes and labor unions.
31st Jan, 1912 Stand 4 Education Montessori Started by Maria Montessori
The first Montessori school was opened in the U.S, in 1912.
3rd Feb, 1913 Strand 6 Political Ford The 16th amendement allows Congress to collect income tax.
30th Jul, 1913 Strand 3 Business/ Corporate Dev. - Henry Ford Henry Henry Ford brought down the price of the Ford Model T with the use of the assembly line. The assembly increased the speed of the production of cars.
4th Feb, 1917 Strand 6 Political WWI The United States enters WWI.
2nd Apr, 1917 Strand 2 Technology - War Wilson President Wilson enters the United States in World War I.
31st Jan, 1920 Strand 4 Education - Social Interdependence Social This takes place when individuals share common goals.
26th Aug, 1920 Strand 6 Political Women's Women's Suffrage was ratified granting nation-wide suffrage to women.
2nd Nov, 1920 Strand 2 Technology - KDKA radio The first radio broadcast by a radio station.
1st Oct, 1922 Strand 6 Political Mussolini Benito Mussolini starts facist government and marches on Rome.
31st Jan, 1923 Strand 5 Society KKK Widespread Klu Klux Klan violence erutped in the United States.
31st Jan, 1923 Strand 5 Society Bessie Singer Bessie Smith makes her first blue's album
31st Jan, 1929 Strand 4 Education - Jean Piaget Piaget Piaget developed the stages of cognitive development for children ages birth to eleven and up.
29th Oct, 1929 Strand 3 Business/Corporate Dev. - Stock Market Crash Stock This day is known as Black Tuesday.
29th Oct, 1929 Strand 3 Business/ Corporate Dev.- Great Depression Great
31st Jan, 1930 Strand 5 - Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl occured when topsoil was blown from barren lands and carried in storms.
28th Jul, 1930 Stand 2 Technology - Television television America's new form of entertainment is invented.
31st Jan, 1931 Strand 6 Political Star “The Star-Spangled Banner” was made the national anthem by Congress.
1st Jan, 1932 Strand 4 Education - Memory Frederic C. Bartlett wrote a book titled "Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology/" that focused on memiories of the past.
31st Jan, 1932 Strand 5 Society Amelia Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly.
28th Jul, 1932 Strand 2 Technology - Defibrillator Dr. William Bennett Kouwenhoven esearch led to the creation of the closed defibrillator to jump start the heart.
1st Sep, 1932 Strand 6 Political Hitler Becomes Chancellor
4th Mar, 1933 Strand 3 Business/ Corporate Dev. - New Deal Franklin Rooselvelt creates New Deal Programs to put Americans back to work.
5th Dec, 1933 Strand 5 Society The 21st amendment that repealed prohibition was ratified.
14th Aug, 1935 Strand 3 Business/ Corporate - Social Security Social Security Act
31st Jan, 1938 Strand 4 Education - B.F. Skinner Skinner introduces his theory of operant conditioning.
10th May, 1940 Strand 6 Politcal Sir Winston Churchhill becomes Britain's Prime Minister
7th Dec, 1941 Strand 6 Political Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor causing us to enter WWII.
11th Nov, 1942 Strand 3 Business/ Corporate- The Draft Congress lowers the draft age to 18.
16th Jul, 1945 Strand 2 Technology - Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb deveolpment was known as the Manhattan Project. It was used during World War II to make Japan surrender.
31st Jan, 1946 Strand 4 Education - Visual materials Edgar Dale created the Cone of Experience. Its purpose was for educators to provide a visual learning experience using materials.
15th Apr, 1947 Strand 5 Society Jackie Robinson played in his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
31st Jan, 1948 Strand 5 Society South Africa institutionalizes apartheid.
1st Nov, 1948 Strand 2 Technology - Camera The first polaroid camera was invented by Edwin Land. It was first sold to the public in Nov. of 1948.
31st Jan, 1949 Strand 4 Education - Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Ralph Tyler published this book based on four principles and those principles still live on in education today.
25th Jun, 1950 Strand 6 Political Korean War begins between North and South Korea over communism.
31st Jan, 1952 Strand 2 Technology - Polio Vaccine Dr. Jonas Salk invented a successful vaccine for polio.
20th Jan, 1953 Strand 6 Political Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated president of United States.
17th May, 1954 Strand 5 Society The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Brown vs. The Board of Education case in favor of Brown. The court rules that seperate but equal is unconstitutional.
30th Sep, 1954 Strand 2 Technology - Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus is the name of the first submarine launched in the United States.
31st Jan, 1955 3rd 1955--Present Information Wave
15th Apr, 1955 Strand 3 Business/Corporation- McDonalds McDonalds was founded by Ray Kroc.
17th Jul, 1955 Strand 3 Business/Corporations - Disneyland Opens Disneyland
5th Dec, 1955 Strand 5 Society Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Birmingham, Alabama. This was after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
31st Jan, 1956 Strand 4 Education - Taxonomy Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives includes six levels of knowledge.
4th Oct, 1957 Strand 4 Education - Sputnik When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik , President Dwight Eisenhower initiated federal funds to education in math and science.
16th May, 1960 Strand 2 Technology - Laser Theodore Maiman invented the first working laser.
20th Jan, 1961 Strand 6 Political John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as president of the U.S.
1st Mar, 1961 Strand 3 Business/Cororate- Peace Corps. Volunteers in the Peace Corps take on serveral different roles and serve over 139 countries in the world.
22nd Oct, 1962 Strand 6 Political Cuban Missile Crisis
31st Jan, 1963 Strand 4 Education - Keller Plan Keller Plan
30th Jul, 1963 Strand 3 Business/Corporation- Jeans Levi Strauss introduces jeans
28th Aug, 1963 Strand 5 Society Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
9th Feb, 1964 Strand 5 Society The Beatles make their debut on the Ed Sullivan show.
21st Jul, 1969 Stand 2 Technology - Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
31st Jan, 1970 Strand 4 Education - Problem Solving Learning This is where small groups work collaboratively to solve problems.
31st Jan, 1971 Strand 2 Technology - Microprocessor Microprocessor
30th Jul, 1971 Strand 3 Business/Corporation- NASDAQ NASDAQ opens as world's first electronic stock market
17th Jun, 1972 Strand 6 Political Watergate scandal that later caused President Richard Nixon to resign from office.
27th Jan, 1973 Strand 6 Political Vietnam War ends.
31st Jan, 1973 Strand 5 Society Duke Ellington's, Music Is My Mistress, is published.
31st Jan, 1975 Strand 2 Technology - Microsoft Bill Gates and Paul Allen forms Microsoft to write computer software.
24th Mar, 1976 Strand 5 Society Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority.
30th Jul, 1979 Strand 3 Business/Corporation- Sony Walkman Personal stereo cassette player by Sony in invented by Akio Morita.
8th May, 1980 Strand 5 Society Smallpox was eliminated.
19th Sep, 1980 Strand 6 Political The Iran-Iraq War begins.
20th Jan, 1981 Strand 6 Political Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president of the U.S.
31st Jan, 1981 Strand 5 Society AIDS is identified in the U.S.
12th Apr, 1981 Stand 2 Technology - Space Shuttle The first space shuttle was launched.
12th Aug, 1981 Strand 2 Technology - Personal Computer IBM released their own personal computer.
26th Apr, 1983 Strand 4 Education - A Nation at Risk T.H. Bell, Secretary of Education, created the National Commission on Excellence in Education to examine America's educational public school system.
30th Jul, 1983 Strand 4 Education - Multiple Intelligence Howard Gardner developed seven intelligences that deal with the way people learn and how we all learn differently.
31st Jan, 1985 4th 1985-Beyond Technology Wave
31st Jan, 1990 Strand 4 Education - IDEA of 1990 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) states that children with disabilities are entitled to a free public education.
31st Jan, 1990 Strand 6 Political Persian Gulf War was a result of Iraq invading Kuwait for oil reserves.
11th Feb, 1990 Strand 6 Political South Africa frees Nelson Mandela . Mandela served twenty-seven and a half years in prison.
17th Apr, 1993 Strand 5 Society Two police officers convicted on federal civil rights charges in Rodney King beating that took place in Los Angeles.
31st Jan, 1996 Strand 4 Education - The Culture of Education Jerome Bruner reminds educators that education is about more than just knowledge, but strategies to construct meaning.
31st Aug, 1997 Strand 5 Society Princess Diana dies in car accident.
11th Sep, 2001 Strand 6 Political Terriosists attack the U.S. by hijackers ramming jetliners into the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashed 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh.
8th Jan, 2002 Strand 4 Education - No Child left Behind Act This act was signed into law by President Bush to require annual testing of all students in public schools.
1st Feb, 2003 Strand 5 Society Space shuttle Columbia explodes killing all astronauts on board.
20th Dec, 2005 Strand 4 Education - Evolution School boards across the country met to discuss the controversial issue of how to teach students the origin of the earth.
4th Nov, 2008 Strand 6 Political Obama Barack Obama Is Elected President. He is the first African-American male elected president of the United States.
1st Dec, 2008 Strand 5 Society The U.S. falls into a rrecession.
30th Jul, 2009 Strand 4 Education - Criterion Referenced Instruction Robert Mager developed this type of instruction in order for it to be used for training purposes.
