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Thornton Wilder is born in Madison, Wisconson
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Moves to Hong Kong (May) and to Berkeley, California (October)
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Attends Oberlin College; publishes regularly
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Receives B.A., Yale College (with brief service in 1918 with U.S. Army); many publications
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Second Novel: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pulitzer Prize)
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pluto was discovered
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The star spangled banner is approved as the national anthem
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The empire state builing is opened
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The first wave of grasshoppers hits nebraska, south dakota, and iowa
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charles lindbergh's son is kidnapped
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Franklin Roosevelt wins landslide election
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prohibition is lifted
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the first dam is built to produce power, and provide irragation
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Babe Ruth retired
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The Summer Olympics Games open in Berlin, Germany under the watchful eye of German leader Adolph Hitler, whose policies of Arian supremacy had already begun to take shape.
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Amelia Earhart disapeared
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Hitler and the nazis invade poland starting WWII
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Wizard of OZ was released
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First televised baseball game
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first commercial air flight over the atlantic
the helicopter was invented -
The Skin of Our Teeth opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize)
Writes screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Shadow of a Doubt -
The Matchmaker opens on Broadway with Ruth Gordon (revision of the 1938 play, The Merchant of Yonkers)
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Awarded German Booksellers Peace Prize, first American to receive this award
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Hello, Dolly! Opens on Broadway starring Carol Channing
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Thornton Wilder dies in his sleep
