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Plessy v. Furguson
The US Supreme Court rules that segregation of blacks and whites was permitted under the Constitution so long as both races receive equal facilities. -
1st Black College Football Game
1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0 -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Supreme Court rules that a child born of Chinese parents in the United States is an American citizen and cannot be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act. -
Phillipines Independence
The Philippines achieved independence in 1946. -
Escalator
Charles Seeberger creates the modern day escalator. -
United States Steel Company
J.P. Morgan creates the United States Steel Co., which will become the first $1 billion corporation in the world. -
Cencus
Bureau of the Census is established; it later becomes part of the Department of Commerce. -
Tour de France
New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced -
First flat-disk phonograph
The first flat-disk phonograph is introduced -
Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein proposes the Theory of Relativity. -
San Francisco Earthquake
San Francisco Earthquake -
Hand Shake-a-thon
Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day -
Whip Game
Henry Ford develops the first Model T automobile, which sells for $850. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W. E. B. Du Bois. -
Angel Island
Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, becomes immigration center for Asians entering U.S. -
Air-Mail
The first official air mail flight takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km. -
Titanic
Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. -
16th Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
WWI
A major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances; the Allies vs. the Axis Powers. -
Genocide
Genocide of estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians by Turkish soldiers. Systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. -
Einstein
Albert Einstein completes his mathematical formulation of a general theory of relativity, which includes gravity. -
Pulitzer Prize
The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for editorial writing, reporting, history of the United States, and biography or autobiography. -
Subway
New York's worst subway accident kills 92 and injures 100 after a train jumps a track in Brooklyn at 30 mph (five times the speed limit). -
18th Amendment
The 18th amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcholic beverages anywhere in the U.S., is ratified (Jan. 16). -
KDKA
KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast. -
Nutritious
Vitamin D is discovered and shown to prevent rickets.
Vitamin E is discovered as well. -
Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. (May 30). -
Earthquake
Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo. -
IBM
New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). -
Big Al
Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket. -
NBC
RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse establish NBC, which operates two national radio networks.
