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Computer
If you look at most history books, they'll tell you ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first true all-purpose electronic computer. Unveiled in 1946 in a blaze of publicity, it was a monstrous 30-ton machine, as big as two semis -
GI Bill Of Rights
he G.I. Bill, was an omnibus law that provided college or vocational education for returning veterans. -
Car
America's first gasoline powered commercial car manufacturers were two brothers, Charles Duryea and Frank Duryea. The brothers were bicycle makers who became interested in the new gasoline engines and automobiles -
Radio
In 1895 Alexander Stepanovich Popov built his first radio receiver, which contained a coherer. Further refined as a lightning detector, it was presented to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7, 1896 -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970 -
18th amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established Prohibition in the United States. the Eighteenth Amendment, is defined as basicly "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, -
19th amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. -
Emergencry Quota Act
restricted immigration into the United States. -
Immigration Act
Johnson Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890. -
Black Thursday
the firstday that the stock market lost money which led to the crash of the stock market on black tuesday -
Black Tuesday
the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
Television
Hungarian engineer Kalman Tihanyi designed a television system utilizing fully electronic scanning and display elements, and employing the principle of "charge storage" within the scanning or camera tube. -
Hoover Dam Constructed
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 25 mi southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected Pres.
FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deala variety of programs designed to produce relief, recovery, and reform which helped The economy improve rapidly from 1933 to 1937, -
21st amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. It was ratified on December 5, 1933. -
Frisbee Invented
The clay target used in trap shooting, almost identical to a flying disc in shape, was designed in the 19th century.
Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern day flying disc in 1938 -
Internet
The first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between Leonard Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on 29 October 1969.