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Census
Population: 76,212,168
Kodak® introduces the "Brownie" camera in February 1900.
Composer and musician Scott Joplin publishes The Entertainer in 1902.
Upton Sinclair publishes his novel about Chicago's meatpacking industry, The Jungle, in 1906. -
Census
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.
The 1918 "Standard Time Act" establishes daylight saving time in the United States during World War I. -
Census
Population: 106,021,537
KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, becomes the first radio station to offer regular broadcasts on November 2, 1920.
Robert Goddard fires his first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926.
Audiences see the first motion picture with sound The Jazz Singer in 1927. -
Census
Population: 123,202,624
The Mickey Mouse comic strip debuts in the January 13, 1930, edition of the New York Mirror.
The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937.
Ted Williams makes his Major League Baseball debut with the 1939 Boston Red Sox. -
Census
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.
Walt Disney wins a 1943 Academy Award for his animated short film Der Fuehrer's Face. -
Census
Population: 151,325,798
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states, respectively, in 1959.
Susan Hayward wins the 1958 Best Actress Academy Award for the movie, "I Want to Live."
C.A. Swanson & Sons introduces the "TV dinner" in 1953. -
Census
Population: 179,323,175
The Beatles make their U.S. debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, on February 9, 1964.
Harper Lee's 1961 book To Kill A Mockingbird is a bestseller.
Sidney Poitier wins the 1963 "Best Actor" Academy Award for Lilies of the Field. -
Census
Population: 203,302,031
The television series The Dukes of Hazzard premiers on January 26, 1979.
President Richard M. Nixon resigns from office on August 8, 1974.
Recording artist Elvis Aaron Presley dies on August 16, 1977. -
Census
Population: 226,542,199
Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express wins the 1986 Caldecott Award.
The stock market loses 22.6 percent of its value on "Black Monday," October 19, 1987.
Apple Computer® launches its Macintosh computer in 1984. -
Census
Population: 248,709,873
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time on March 29, 1999.
Celine Dion's Falling Into You wins the 1996 Album of the Year Grammy.
At age 77, John Glenn becomes the oldest astronaut in space on October 29, 1998. -
Census
Population: 281,421,906
Super Bowl XLIII (2009) is the most watched television broadcast in history with 151.6 million viewers.
Monty Python's Spamalot opens on Broadway in 2005
Senator Barack Obama elected president on November 4, 2008.