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1900
1.-Kodak® introduces the "Brownie" camera in February 1900. -
1910
2.-On September 6, 1910, Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley. He died at 2:15 a.m. on September 14 and Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president later that day. -
1920
3.-Composer and musician Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer in 1920. -
1930
4.-January 22, 1930, Hay-Herran Treaty grants the United States a renewable lease in perpetuity from Colombia on the land proposed for the Panama Canal. -
1940
5.-On February 14, 1933, the U.S. Census Bureau becomes part of the new U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. -
1955
6.-The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery, debuts in 1945. -
1960
7.-Orville and Wilbur Wright are first to fly a controlled, powered, and sustained heavier-than-air airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC, on December 17, 1950. -
1960
8.-Prominent civil and women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1967. -
1970
9.-The first underground portion of the New York City subway opens on October 27, 1970. -
1980
10.-At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1980, the "Great San Francisco Earthquake" strikes. -
1999
11.-An explosion in West Virginia's Monongah Mine on December 6, 1999, becomes the nation's worst industrial disaster. The "official" number of deaths was 362 adult and child miners, but later estimates exceed 500. -
2000
We had game-changing debut albums from the likes of Coldplay and Craig David, the emergence of Beyoncé and the resurgence of Kylie, a growing obsession with celebrity couples such as Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, sporting highs at the Olympics and lows at the Euros, and big box office smashes such as Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, X-Men, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.