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1875
Blanche Kelso becomes first African- Americn senator to serve his full 6 yr term -
1883
Standard Oil trust is started -
1888
Kodak Camera is invented -
1893
Ellis Island opens -
1898
Spanish American War starts -
1900
Olds Co. begins Mass Producing Automobiles -
1903
Wright Brothers make first flight -
1940
The Jeep, created by Willy's, debuts -
1997
Netflix sends DVD's home via mail -
1865
Civil war ends -
1868
Typewriter is invented -
1870
Transcontinental railroad opens -
1872
Freedman's Bureau is abolished -
1873
There are now 6 black member is congress -
1874
Carnegie's steel company begins -
1876
The telephone is invented -
1877
Rutherford B Hayes is inaugurated as president -
1880
The light bulb is invented -
1908
Ford introduces the Model T -
1910
Hallmark was created by founder Joyce C. Hall -
1911
Supreme court order to breakup Standard Oil -
1914
Panama canal opens -
1929
Great Stock crash -
1930
First U.S supermarket opens ,King Cullen -
1935
1st DC-3 flight -
1939
1st Commercial television broadcast -
1948
Gold is discovered in California -
1955
Disneyland opens -
1958
Eisenhower SIgns Act creating NASA -
1960
20,000 New England shoe workers went on strike and got higher wages -
1963
Equal pay for Equal works act was created -
1971
Southwest Airlines begins flying -
1975
Wall Street fixed commission was estrablished -
1979
The 3 Mile island disaster occurred -
1980
The U.S government bails out Chrysler -
1987
Black Monday crash occured -
1994
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect -
1995
Amazon.com opens online -
1996
Aol goes to flat rate pricing -
1998
AOL launches AOL 4.0 membership goes up from 8 to 16 million members -
1999
Napster is launched -
2000
NASDAQ hits a record high of 5,048 before lunging by 78% by the dot com business -
2001
Jimmy Wales launches Wikipedia -
2002
Friendster.co lauches but is quickly taken over by facebook -
2003
Apple launches itunes music store -
2004
Mozilla releases firefox -
2005
YouTube is founded on Valentine's Day -
2006
Google acquires YouTube for for $1.65 billion -
2007
Apple releases the first Iphone -
2008
HTML5 is introduced -
2009
Microsoft launches Bing -
2010
Pinterest and Instagram launches -
2011
Google + launches -
2012
Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide -
2013
Edward Snowden turns over thousands of classified documents -
2014
Facebook buys Whatsapp for $19 billion
