sem timeline

By rwilson123

  • Fans paid to attend a baseball game between two teams in the New York City area at Fashion Rack Course in Queens

    Fans paid to attend a baseball game between two teams in the New York City area at Fashion Rack Course in Queens

  • 1906 – National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was officially formed to govern collegiate athletics.

  • 1919 – Development of recording of sound on motion picture film

  • 1920 – First commercial radio stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts

  • 1926 – RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • 1927 – Farnsworth transmits first electronic television picture; receives patent.

  • 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded

  • 1929 – The Stock Market Crash leads to the Great Depression closing nearly three-fourths of amusement parks

  • 1934 – Lou Gehrig appeared on a Wheaties box.

  • 1939 – First television is sold

  • 1943 – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed due to many Major League Baseball players serving in WWII.

  • 1948 – Televisions are in over one million homes.

  • 1949 – Wilson Sporting Goods signed golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias to an endorsement contract for $100,000 per year.

  • 1550-1700 – Introduction of outdoor entertainment including bowling, primitive amusement rides, music and dancing.

  • 1951 – Color television is introduced

  • 1955 – Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens costing $17 million to build.

  • 1960 – Over 100 million television sets are in homes around the world

  • 1961 – Six Flags opens in Texas

  • 1964 – Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1972, the name is changed to Nike

  • 1971 – The Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens costing $375 million the build

  • 1972 – Title IX is enacted, mandating equal access to educational opportunities for men and women

  • 1973 – Rich Foods pays $60,000/year for the naming rights to the Buffalo Bills football stadium.

  • 1980 – The US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow

  • 1980 – CNN, the first all news network, is launched by Turner Cable Network

  • 1980 – Prince Charles and Diana Spencer are married on international television

  • 1981 – First IBM Personal Computers are available for retail sales

  • 1981 – MTV debuts

  • 1982 – Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” sells 20 million albums

  • 1983 – First compact disc is released

  • 1984 – The Olympics becomes commercialized. Peter Ueberoth helps to make the Olympics profitable

  • 1985 – Nintendo home entertainment system is introduced

  • 1989 – Time and Warner merge to become Time Warner Inc

  • 1995 – First television program delivered via the Internet (webcast)

  • 1996 – Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.

  • 1997 – Princess Diana is killed in an automobile accident