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Historic context
- Marconi transmits telegraphic radio messages, 1901.
- Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Company, 1903.
- Wright brothers’ first airplane flight, 1903.
- First Tour de France bicycle race, 1903.
- First World Series in baseball, 1904.
- Broadway subway opens, 1904.
- First cubist exhibition in Paris, 1907.
- W. E. B. DuBois founds NAACP, 1910.
- Manhattan Bridge is completed, 1910.
- S.S. Titanic sinks on maiden voyage, 1912.
- Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution introduces federal income tax, 1913.
- Grand Central Terminal opens, 1913.
- Niels Bohr formulates theory of atomic structure, 1913.
- Panama Canal opens, 1914.
- World War I, 1914-1918.
- Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits manufacture, sale, or importation of alcoholic beverages, 1920; repealed 1933.
- Founding of the League of Nations, 1920; U.S. Senate votes against joining.
- Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the right to vote.
- Soviet states form USSR, 1922.
- Scopes trial in Tennessee on teaching of theory of evolution, 1925.
- Charles Lindbergh solo flight across the Atlantic, 1927.
- Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City, 1929.
- Stock market crash, beginning of world economic crisis, 1929.
- Building of the Empire State Building, 1929-1931.
- George Washington Bridge is completed, 1931.
- United States enters World War II, 1940.
- Enrico Fermi splits the atom, 1942.
- First atomic bomb detonated, New Mexico, 1945.
- United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 1945; Japan surrenders.
- Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals begin, 1945.
- Jackie Robinson becomes first African American major league baseball player, 1947.
- Founding of the State of Israel, 1948.
- United Nations building in New York City is completed, 1950.
- United States explodes first hydrogen bomb at Pacific atoll, 1952.
- U.S.S.R. explodes hydrogen bomb, 1953.
- U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I and II, first earth satellites, 1957.
- Guggenheim Museum opens, 1958.
- Berlin wall is constructed, 1961.
- Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1963.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Noble Peace Prize, 1964; assassinated, 1968.
- Apollo landing and moon walk, 1969.
- Paris Peace Accords to end Vietnam War, 1973.
- Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 1979.
- Sandra Day O’Connor appointed first female justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1981.
- Vietnam Veterans’ War Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC, 1982.
- AIDS virus discovered by U.S. and French research teams, 1984.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu of South African Council of Churches receives Nobel Peace Prize, 1984.
- Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986.
- Challenger disaster, 1986.
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1988.
- Pan Am 103 is blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988.
- Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, 1989.
- Tianemen Square massacre, 1989.
- Solidarity wins first free election in Poland since World War II, 1989.
- Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.
- Reunification of Germany, 1990.
- Mikhail Gorbachev elected first president of the Soviet Union; awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 1990.
- Hubble Space Telescope put into orbit, 1990.
- Iraq invades Kuwait, 1990.
- Operation Desert Storm; end of the Gulf War, 1991.
- Warsaw Pact dissolved, 1991.
- Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1991.
- World Trade Center bombing in parking garage, 1993.
- Nelson Mandela inaugurated as South Africa’s first president, 1994.
- Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, 1996.
- Terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, the Pentagon, crash of United flight 175, 2001.
- U.S. administration declares War on Terrorism, 2001.
- United States attacks Afghanistan, 2002.
- Introduction of the Euro currency, 2002.
- Space shuttle Columbia disintegrates on reentry, 2003.
- Iraq war begins; Bush declares end of fighting, 2003.
Source:
OpenStax, Music appreciation: its language, history and culture. OpenStax CNX. Jun 03, 2015 Download for free at https://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11803/1.1
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