Mass Media By DerickLombardi Sep 14, 1901 U.S. President McKinley assassinated. Dec 10, 1901 First Nobel Prize awarded Jan 1, 1903 First Silent Movie: The Great Train Robbery. Oct 27, 1904 New York City Subway Opens:Covered by media Jun 19, 1905 First U.S. Movie Theather Opens Apr 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake covered my media Jan 19, 1907 First electric washer machine Oct 1, 1908 Ford Introduces the Model-T Apr 6, 1909 Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole Feb 8, 1910 Boy Scouts established Aug 21, 1911 Mona Lisa stolen Mar 14, 1912 Oreo Cookie introduced. Apr 15, 1912 SS Titanic sinks. Jul 11, 1914 Babe Ruth Pitches His First Game and Hits His First Home Run With Red Sox Jan 25, 1915 First Transcontinental Telephone call made. Jan 1, 1916 Rockefeller become first billionare. Apr 6, 1917 U.S. Enters World War I Jun 28, 1918 Daylight Saving Time Introduced Sep 12, 1919 Hitler Joins Nazi party Feb 22, 1923 GERMAN MONEY HYPER INFLATES Oct 24, 1925 HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMANY Nov 17, 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASHES, DEPRESSION BEGINS Dec 23, 1930 HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT Nov 28, 1931 Htiler begins to take power in Germany Aug 2, 1934 Hindenburg Dies Nov 3, 1936 FDR Re-elected May 10, 1940 Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P.M. Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades Russia May 25, 1943 Germans surrender in Stalingrad, huge loss. Jun 6, 1944 Allies invade Europe – D-Day Apr 12, 1945 FDR Dies Jun 25, 1950 Korean war starts, North Invades South – UN intervenes (USSR absent from Security Council) Mar 24, 1953 U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Nov 11, 1954 Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected. Jan 27, 1958 DDE sends U.S. Marines to Lebanon to suppress Arab nationalists. Apr 13, 1960 Castro comes to power in Cuba Jul 30, 1960 - Castro confiscates U.S. property in Cuba; U.S. begins embargo Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall constructed Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Dec 3, 1967 First heart transplant Mar 16, 1972 Watergate scandal begins. Sep 7, 1973 U.S pulls out of Vietnam Aug 9, 1974 Nixon Resigns Dec 10, 1976 Apple Computer Founded Jan 30, 1979 iran takes American hostages May 27, 1981 new plague identified as AIDS Apr 18, 1983 U.S. embassy in Beruit bombed. May 12, 1985 Hole in Ozone layer Jan 28, 1986 space shuttle the challenger explodes Nov 9, 1989 berlin wall falls Feb 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela freed Jan 1, 1991 soviet union collapse Oct 3, 1995 O.J. simpson found not guilty Apr 20, 1999 killing spree at Columbine highschool hs Jul 16, 1999 JFK jr dies in plane crash Oct 12, 2000 USS Cole Bombed Jan 13, 2001 Wikepedia Launched Sep 11, 2001 Bombing of the World Trade Center Feb 22, 2003 Myspace Launched Mar 27, 2004 Facebook Launched
