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U.S. Resident Population: 62,979,766 •The Ellis Island Immigration Station begins processing immigrants to the United States on January 1, 1892.
•More than 25 million people visit the 1893 Chicago World Columbian Exposition between May 1 and October 30, 1893.
•Ex-slave and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass dies on February 20, 1895. -
U.S. Resident Population: 76,212,168 •Kodak® introduces the "Brownie" camera in February 1900.
•Composer and musician Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer in 1902.
•The first silent film, The Great Train Robbery, debuts in 1903. -
U.S. Resident Population: 92,228,496 •Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) dies on April 21, 1910.
•Fire kills 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, on March 25, 1911.
•HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on April 14, 1912. -
U.S. Resident Population: 106,021,537 •KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, becomes the first radio station to offer regular broadcasts on November 2, 1920.
•Lila Bell and DeWitt Wallace begin publishing Reader's Digest in 1922.
•F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby in 1925. -
U.S. Resident Population: 123,202,624 •The Mickey Mouse comic strip debuts in the January 13, 1930, edition of the New York Mirror.
•Shirley Temple makes her film debut in 1932's Kid's Last Stand.
•The Lone Ranger premiers on radio station WXYZ, Detroit, MI, on January 31, 1933 -
U.S. Resident Population: 132,164,569 •Radio and club patrons dance to popular singers and musicians, including Rosemary Clooney, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Bing Crosby, and Cab Calloway.
•Marvel Comics introduces superhero Captain America in March 1941.
•Gas rationing limits personal consumption to three gallons per week in 1942. -
U.S. Resident Population: 151,325,798 •RCA broadcasts the first color television program on June 25, 1951.
•C.A. Swanson & Sons introduces the "TV dinner" in 1953.
•Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea receives a 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, the author is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
U.S. Resident Population: 179,323,175 •Frances Gary Power's U2 spy plane is shot down over Sverdlovsk, U.S.S.R. on May 1, 1960.
•Harper Lee's 1961 book To Kill A Mockingbird is a bestseller.
•On October 1, 1962, James H. Meredith becomes the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi -
U.S. Resident Population: 203,302,031 •William P. Blatty's 1971 book The Exocist is a bestseller.
•The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries announces an embargo on oil exports to the United States on October 15, 1973.
•President Richard M. Nixon resigns from office on August 8, 1974. -
U.S. Resident Population: 226,542,199 •MTV airs its first music video ("Video Killed the Radio Star") on August 1, 1981.
•Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on U.S. Supreme Court in September 1981.
•Apple Computer® launches its Macintosh computer in 1984.