Census Time Line

By tanene

  • HMS Titanic, Woodrow Wilson, World War I

    U.S. Resident Population: 92,228,496
    Fire kills 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, on March 25, 1911.
    HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
    Between 1918 and 1919, a deadly Influenza strain kills 20 to 40 million people.

  • Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh, Stock Market Crash

    U.S. Resident 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.
    Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris on May 21, 1927, successfully completing the first trans-Atlantic flight.

  • Mickey Mouse, 1936 Berlin Olympics, Amelia Earhart

    U.S. Resident 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.
    American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, July 2, 1937.

  • The Homefront, Count Basie, VJ Day

    U.S. Resident Population: 132,164,569
    Walt Disney wins a 1943 Academy Award for his animated short film Der Fuehrer's Face.
    Band leader Alton Glenn Miller disappears while enroute to Paris, France, December 15, 1944.
    Thirteen stations begin broadcasting commercial television in 1947.U.S. Resident

  • Baby Boom, Elvis, Tail Fins

    U.S. Resident Population: 151,325,798
    The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, launches on January 21, 1954.
    On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refuses to vacate her seat aboard a Montgomery, AL, bus.
    Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states, respectively, in 1959.

  • Vietnam War, Psychedelic Music, Apollo 11

    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.
    The 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrive in Vietnam on March 8, 1965
    The National Organization for Women is founded in 1966.

  • Oil Embargo, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War Ends

    U.S. Resident Population: 203,302,031
    President Richard M. Nixon resigns from office on August 8, 1974
    Recording artist Elvis Aaron Presley dies on August 16, 1977.
    The television series The Dukes of Hazzard premiers on January 26, 1979.

  • Ronald Reagan, Space Shuttle, Berlin Wall

    U.S. Resident Population: 226,542,199
    Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on U.S. Supreme Court in September 1981.
    The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986.
    The stock market loses 22.6 percent of its value on "Black Monday," October 19, 1987.

  • Wall Street, Harry Potter, Computers

    U.S. Resident Population: 248,709,873
    In 1990 the average American's income per year was $28,970.00. By 1999, it had risen to $40,810.00
    Diana Princess of Wales dies in a Paris car accident, August 31, 1997.
    At age 77, John Glenn becomes the oldest astronaut in space on October 29, 1998.

  • Tiger Woods, 9/11, Barack Obama

    U.S. Resident Population: 281,421,906
    Hijacked airliners crash into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, PA, September 11, 2001.
    The Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart during reentry, killing the seven astronauts onboard, February 1, 2003.
    Hurricane Katrina, the costliest hurricane in U.S. history, hits southeast Louisiana, August 29, 2005.U.S. Resident Population: 281,421,906