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General Electric Company is founded.
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Cinema is born. The brothers Louis and Auguste Lumière made the first public screening of motion pictures
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Radio technology is introduce.Inventor Guglielmo Marconi amazes a London assemblage in 1896 with a demonstration of wireless communication across a room. Five years later to the date, Marconi sends the first signal across an ocean.
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Ragtime grows in popularity.Ragtime publishing operations grew out of existing music houses in major cities across the US Perhaps no other city had more such activity than New York.
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The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
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James Reese Europe records ragtime arrangements in New York with the first black ensemble to be recorded
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Pianist W.C. Handy writes St. Louis Blues. Undoubtedly the most long lived and popular blues song ever written is William Christopher Handy's classic St.
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Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity. Was a German physicist of Jewish origin, nationalized after U.S. and Switzerland. It is considered as the most important scientist of the twentieth century.
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Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins tours with blues singer Mamie Smith and begins to develop a unique style of playing.
Primarily known as a saxophonist, Hawkins is a classic jazz performer whose style was always within the limits of swing and bop. -
The National Socialist German Workers' Party ( German : Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei abbreviated NSDAP ), commonly known in English as the Nazi Party , was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945.
