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An actuality,no-fiction short film by Thomas Edision. The non-fiction film was about the execution of the assassin McKinley.
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Macrconi sends a signal from England to Newfoundland. The Trans-Atlantic radio transmission.
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Flemming invented the first two-electrode vaccum tube amplifier. He called it the oscillation, also known as the Fleming tube or valve.
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The audion amplifier was invented in 1906. Helped amplify sounds using a grid, a plate, and a filament
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The Cats-whisker detector also known as the crystal radio detector was invented by Pickard with the help from H.C Dunwoody in 1906
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Newreels , a short documentary film, begins.
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The titanic sunk on the night of April 14th into the 15th, just four days into it's voyage.
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The radio helped aid efforts for World War 1
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Birth of a Nation by D.W Griffith releases the first full film to significanlty impact culture.
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The First World War ends after the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris.
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KDKA a radio station located and licensed in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
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The first commercial on the radio airs at WEAF, in New York.
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Leopold and Loeb both killed and mutliated a fourteen year old. This was the case that introduced the psychiatric defense to the legal system.
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The U.S Radio Act of 1927 is signed. Gave power to regulate the radio waves in each time zone of the U.S
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The stock market crashes. Many fortunes lost. Most people were unemployed and homeless
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Philo T. Farnsworth recieves a patent for television.
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Closed-Circut for education starts at the University of Iowa.
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The Communications Act of 1934 was formed to govern U.S broadcasting. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A german airplane crashed in New Jersey. It was the first major catastrophe to be covered by on the spot broadcast report.
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On September 1st , When Adolf Hitler released Germany troops on Poland
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On December 7th Japanese planes began dropping bombs on the U.S base in Peral Harbor, Hawaii. This event made the U.S officially get involved in World War 2.
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Franklin D. Roosvelt dies from a cerebral hemorrhage. He served throught the Great Depression and World War 2
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On August 15, the Japanese surrender after two atomic bombs were dropped over two different citites killing thousands of people.
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In October of 1947, Ten Hollywood film members denounced the tatics of the House Un-American Activites Committee. These ten members later got jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios.
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On November 3rd "The Chicago Tribune" released a newspaper that proclaimed that Dewey beat Truman for the presidency. Truman won despite the predictions against him with 303 electoral votes.
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During the strike on newspapers about the wages, most of the newspaper's lost popularity and declined. After the reslove most newpapers had a hard time gaining bach their popularty.
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On May 17th the Supreme Courts rules that segregation is unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board of Education.
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Two white men brutally killed Emmett Till , a black teenager, visiting Mississippi from Chicago. The two men killed him because Till apparently flirting with a white women. The mother of Till left the casket of her son open to show the world how brutal they were to her son.
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President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the Arkansas National Guard to protect nine black students attempting to integrate Little Rock Central High School.
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In an airplane crash on February 3rd, Rock 'n' Roll singer, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P Richardson and a pilot died near Clear Lake, Iowa. This is considered "the day the music died" in Don McLean's song "American Pie".
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This is the first time in history that a presidential debate is televised on national television.
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NASA lanched this spherical satelite into space. Later that day, live broadcasts were beamed for the first time between North America and Europe.
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The assassination of President Kennedy shocked the whole nation. Assassinated on Friday and had his funeral procession on the following Monday. It brought the nation to a hault.
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After the assassination on President Kennedy, the nation needed a distraction from their mourning. The Beatles were the distraction. The British Invasion started when they were first introduced on Ed Sullivan show.
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On July 20th, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. NASA accomplished the goal that President Kennedy set to land on the moon.
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"The New York Times" started publishing pieces of the 7,000 page government study of the Vietnam War. The government tried to keep the study from being published but the Supreme Court ruled that the government's actions were not justified.
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In Roe vs. Wade the Supreme Court legalized aboration in the U.S. A decision of 7-2.
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President Richard Nixon resigns in order to aviod impeachment.
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Elvis Presley "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" died at the age of 42.
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The Three Mile Island accident became the worst nuclear power plant accident in the U.S. After the accident no new nuclear plants were made in the U.S.
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The forner Beatle was returning to his apartment in New York with his wife when he was shot five times. He later died shortly from his wounds.
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The attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan just sixty nine days into his presidencey.
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The Music Television (MTV) aired its first music video. The video was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.
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The Summer Olymoics were held that year in Los Angeles, California.
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NASA's space shuttle The Challenger eplodes, seventy three seconds after lift off. Leading to the dealths of the seven crew members.
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During the Gulf War, CNN started covering news 24 hours. With this their ratings went up and established the traditional broadcast news operations.
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Magic Johnson a successful basketball player anounced he was HIV positive. This was a wake up call for everyone that anyone could get the diease.
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After the jury decided that the white police officers of the beating of Rodney King , an afrcian american teenager, where acuitted, African Americans took to the streets and started rioting.
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Islamic terrorists attempted to blow up the towers with a car bomb underneath tower one. The towers did not fall though instead of killing thousand like their plan was inly killed six people.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. and his family dies. After the plane he was piloting crashed into the ocean.
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On the day of September 11th four terriorts attacks occurred. Two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center. One plane crashed into the Pentagon. Another plane was supposed to crash in Wasington D.C but passengers over took the plane. All attacks killed 2,996 people in total.
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In 2002 the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Since 1986 the volcano Augustine has been dorment. But in 2006 the volcano erupted twice.
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The Great Recession is said to be worse than the Great Depression. Although the outcome wasn't as bad as the Great Depression because of the different policy responses.
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President Barack Obama was the 44th president. Also he made history because he was the first African American president
