Timeline By m710ucla Apr 11, 1875 Ravel Born Apr 2, 1880 Lightbulb is invented Apr 2, 1886 Mercedez produces first commercial automobile Apr 2, 1887 Invention of the disc record Apr 2, 1895 Film invented Apr 2, 1898 Spanish American War Apr 11, 1898 Duke Ellington Born Apr 11, 1898 George Gershwin Born Apr 2, 1899 Freud publishes "The interpretation of Dreams" Apr 2, 1899 Publication of Maple Leaf Rag Apr 2, 1903 First controlled flight Apr 11, 1903 Ravel - Quartet in F Apr 2, 1905 Japan colonizes Korea Apr 2, 1905 Einstein publishes Special Relativity Apr 2, 1908 Model T Apr 2, 1910 Mexican Revolution Apr 2, 1912 Chinese Revolution Apr 2, 1913 Rite of Spring Apr 2, 1914 World War I Apr 11, 1914 World War I Starts Apr 2, 1917 Russian Revolution Apr 11, 1917 End of WWI Apr 21, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution Apr 11, 1919 Harlem Renaissance begins Apr 11, 1920 Prohibition begins Apr 11, 1924 Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue Apr 11, 1927 Ellington - Begins to play at Cotton Club Apr 11, 1928 Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy Apr 21, 1929 Stock Market Crash Apr 21, 1929 Stalin comes to power Apr 11, 1930 End of Harlem Renaissance Apr 11, 1930 Gershwin - Girl Crazy Apr 11, 1931 Ellington - Mood Indigo Apr 11, 1933 Prohibition ends Apr 21, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor Apr 21, 1933 FDR becomes president Apr 21, 1933 Collapse of Weimar Republic Apr 11, 1935 Gershwin - Porgy and Bess Apr 21, 1936 Spanish Civil War Apr 21, 1936 Stalin begins the "Terror" Apr 11, 1937 George Gershwin Dies Apr 21, 1938 Kristallnacht Apr 21, 1938 Anschluss Apr 21, 1939 Non0aggression pact (Stalin/Hitler) Apr 21, 1940 Paris falls Apr 21, 1941 Attack on Stalingrad Apr 11, 1944 Ellington - Beginning to See the Light May 5, 1948 Long Play (LP) May 5, 1948 Television Networks May 5, 1950 Korean War