The 20th Century By aidanhiggins Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 2000 20th Century Timeline Mar 14, 1900 Gold Standard Act Aug 29, 1900 Butch Cassidy Gang Robs Union Pacific Railroad Train No.3 Sep 8, 1900 Galveston hurricane Feb 25, 1901 U.S Steel Founded by J.P Morgan Sep 14, 1901 William McKinley Assassinated Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president Nov 18, 1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Jan 1, 1902 First Rose Bowl Game Played Feb 14, 1903 Department of Commerce and Labor created Mar 19, 1903 Elkins Act Passed Jun 16, 1903 Ford Motor Company Founded Dec 1, 1903 Great Train Robbery Movie Released Dec 17, 1903 Wright Brothers First Flight Jun 15, 1905 Industrial Workers of the World Established Mar 4, 1907 Pure Food and Drug Act Nov 16, 1907 Oklahoma becomes a state Dec 6, 1907 Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia killing at least 361 Jul 26, 1908 FBI established Feb 12, 1909 NAACP founded Nov 13, 1909 Pinchot-Ballinger controversy erupts Feb 8, 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is founded. Mar 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire May 15, 1911 Standard Oil is declared an unreasonable monopoly by the United States Supreme Court May 30, 1911 The Indianapolis 500 auto race is run for the first time in Indianapolis, Indiana Aug 21, 1911 Mona Lisa is stolen Apr 14, 1912 Titanic Sinks Apr 20, 1912 Fenway Park in Boston opens. Feb 1, 1913 Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City Oct 10, 1913 The construction of the Panama Canal comes to a close Dec 1, 1913 Henry Ford and the Assembly Line Jun 28, 1914 The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Jul 11, 1914 Babe Ruth makes his major league debut. Aug 4, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson announces that the United States will stay officially neutral in the European conflict that would become World War I. Sep 6, 1914 The First Battle of the Marne Jan 25, 1915 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson conduct the first telephone conversation between New York and San Francisco. Jan 28, 1915 United States Coast Guard is established May 7, 1915 Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat submarine Aug 25, 1916 National Park Service is officially created Nov 7, 1916 Woodrow Wilson won a second term as President Apr 6, 1917 United States Congress declares war on Germany and join the allies in World War I. Dec 18, 1917 18th Amendment, advocating prohibition of alcoholic beverages is passes Jan 1, 1931 Start of the Dust Bowl Mar 3, 1931 Star Spangle Banner Becomes Official National Anthem Oct 17, 1931 Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion Mar 1, 1932 Charles Lindbergh's child was kidnapped Jan 30, 1933 Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany Mar 4, 1933 FDR launches his New Deal Plan Dec 5, 1933 Prohibition was abolished May 23, 1934 Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police Aug 14, 1935 Social Security Created Sep 15, 1935 Germany Issues Nurumberg Laws Sep 30, 1935 Hoover Dam Complete Aug 1, 1936 Hitler Opens the 11th Annual Olympics in a Nazi Germany Mar 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart vanishes Oct 30, 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcasts for the first time and causes widespread panic Dec 31, 1939 End of the Dustbowl Dec 7, 1941 U.S enters into WWII Dec 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 American Forces storm the beaches of Normandy (D-Day) Nov 7, 1944 FDR elected for third term May 7, 1945 Germany Surrenders to the U.S in WWII Jul 16, 1945 Scientists watch the detonation of the fist atomic bomb Aug 6, 1945 U.S drops bomb on HIroshima Aug 9, 1945 U.S drops bomb on Nagasaki Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders to the U.S in WWII Nov 20, 1945 Nurumberg Trials Begin Jan 25, 1950 Korean War begins Jan 31, 1950 President Truman orders construction of first Hydrogen Bomb Feb 9, 1950 Communist Witch Hunt begins Jun 25, 1951 Color TV introduced to U.S public Sep 8, 1951 Truman signs peace treaty with Japan Mar 26, 1953 First succesful test of polio vaccine Jun 19, 1953 julius and ethel rosenberg executed Oct 1, 1953 First Playboy magazine published Jan 4, 1954 Reports say cigarettes cause cancer Jan 21, 1954 First atomic submarine launched May 17, 1954 Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S Jul 17, 1955 Disneyland opens Aug 28, 1955 Emmett Till kidnapped and murdered Sep 30, 1955 James Dean dies in car accident Dec 1, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott begins Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Sep 26, 1956 First televised presedential debate Dec 20, 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott ends Oct 4, 1957 Russia launches Sputnik, very first artificial satellite in space Jul 29, 1958 NASA founded Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion begins Apr 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion ends in utter failure Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Nov 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy Assassinated Feb 21, 1965 Malcolm X assassinated Oct 15, 1966 Black Panthers formed Jul 20, 1969 Lance Armstrong becomes first man in histroy to step foot on moon Apr 22, 1970 Firsr Earth Day celebrated May 4, 1970 4 students from Kent State in Ohio are killed during protest of Vietnam War Jan 2, 1971 Cigarettes are banned from airing commercials on television Feb 21, 1971 Nixon begins his journey for peace in Peking, China Jun 30, 1971 U.S Supreme Court allows New York Times and Washington Post to publish classified documents over the Vietnam War Jun 17, 1972 The Watergate scandal begins Jan 22, 1973 Abortion legalized in U.S if done in first 6 months May 7, 1974 Impeachment hearings are held for President Nixon after being caught as a part of watergate Jul 20, 1976 The Viking 1 space probe succefully lands on Mars
