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Feb 26, 1353
Chole
Modification of hocky played in Belgium. Believed to be the origin of golf -
Feb 26, 1450
Gutenberg Press
The Gutenberg Press perfects the type pieces with metal casting. Uses mechanical force to drive press straight down. Dramatically expands the distribution of documents -
Jan 1, 1457
Golf banned
Golf banned in Scotland because it was interfering with military training -
Feb 26, 1502
Golf ban lifted
Ban on golf lifted after the Treaty of Glasgow between England and Scotland was signed -
Jan 1, 1510
Martin Luther
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Feb 26, 1552
St. Andrews
1st round of golf at St. Andrews -
Jan 1, 1567
First female golfer
Queen of Scotland, Mary takes up golf after the death of her husband. -
Golf in America
Golf is banned in New York- first reference to golf in America -
Golf in news
First golf match reported in the newspaper -
French & Indian War
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Stoke play
St. Andrews - first tournament to be played as stroke play. Previously all match play -
American Revolution
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Benjamin Franklin
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American golf club
South Carolina Golf Club in Charleston. First outside of the UK. -
French Revolution
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George Washington President
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Thomas Jefferson President
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Female golf competition
First record of women's competitve golf -
War of 1812
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James K. Polk President
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Mexican War
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American Civil War
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Jefferson Davis
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Abraham Lincoln President
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Women's golf club
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Ulysses S. Grant President
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Franco-Prussian War
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Voice Telegraphy Patent
Bell receives first US patent for voice telegraph (the telephone). -
Audio Recording
Edison receives first US patent for audio recording and reproduction (phonography). -
Full Motion Patent
Edison receives first US patent for full motion photograph and reproduction (Kinetoscope). -
Radio Tech. Invented
Nathan Stubblefield FIRST invetnts radio technology but doesn't patent until 1908 - too late. -
18 holes in US
Chicago Golf Club opens the first US18-hole golf course. -
William McKinley President
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NCAA Golf
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"Golf" published
"Golf", the first US golf magazine published. -
Spanish-American War
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PGA Tour
Event played that evolved into the PGA Tour -
Olympic golf
Golf as an Olympic sport in Paris -
Theodore Roosevelt President
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Amature Radio Operators Apply to Gov't for Licences
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Titanic Sinks
Radio utilized as tool after this event. -
Woodrow Wilson President
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WWI
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PGA founded
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Russian Revolution
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"Doctor" John Brinklig
Radio personality - goat gland -
The Radio "Boom"
Radio emerging at fast rate. Radio music box. Amature run stations. RCA creates NBC. -
Broadcast radio licenses
Like net nutrality today. Hoover afraid radio would be destroyed by ads. -
First Federal Radio Conference
Hoover/Congress - not much happens -
Commercialization
Radio advertising creates a new market, new profit centers, growing audience, competition for channels, demand for regulation -
3rd Fed. Radio Conference
Helps economy, creates jobs. Acceptance of public service/propaganda & advertising -
Federal Radio Act
Federal Radio Commission - temp. agency. All licences impounded and redestributed. -
Financial Crisis
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Herbert Hoover President
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First Electric TV
Philo Farnsworth invents world's first electric TV - patent -
Adolph Hitler
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Franklin Roosevelt President
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Communications Act of 1934
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The Masters
First Masters tournament. Front/back 9's reversed. -
RCA forced to buy patents
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Spanish Civil War
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WWII
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Press critical of Nazi Germany
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Winston Churchill
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8,000 US TVs
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Korean War
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The Nation refuses to publish Greenberg
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Vietnam War
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Jackson Pollock dies
Jackson Pollock dies after crashing his car while driving drunk. Six years of alcoholism followed completion documentary filmed. -
John F. Kennedy President
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Richard Nixon President
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US Ebraces the TV
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Ronald Regan President
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Grenada Invasion
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Gerorge Bush Sr. President
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Wireless
Marconi first demonstrates wireless technology after scamming off everyone else's ideas. -
210,000,0000 US TVs
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Operation Desert Storm
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Birthday
I was born! -
Bill Clinton President
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Somalia Invasion
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Invention of wood/ceramic block printing
China- 8th century
Japan- 9th century
Korea- 10th century
