1904 - First New Year's Eve celebration in New York's Time Square; Teddy Roosevelt elected President; Ice Cream Cone invented; Adolph Gottscho, Inc. Founded • 1905 - Las Vegas is founded in the Nevada desert; Wright brothers execute first successful aeroplane flight lasting more than ½ hour; Novocaine introduced • 1906 - Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle is published, prompting the passing of the nation's first legislation aimed at regulating purity and cleanliness of food; The first Victrola record player is manufactured; Kellogg Company Founded; Becton, Dickinson and Company is Incorporated • 1907 - Hershey Park opens in Hershey, PA, UPS is founded in Seattle, WA • 1908 - England wins all three medals in the Olympic Tug-of-War competition; Henry Ford produces first Model T automobile; The Chicago Cubs become the first team to win back-to-back World Series • 1909 - Construction begins on the RMS Titanic; The Wright brothers sell the first-ever military airplane to the United States Army; The Manhattan Bridge opens • 1910 - Jack Johnson becomes the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion; Mexican Revolution begins; Leo Tolstoy dies in Russia • 1911- United States Supreme Court orders the dissolution of Standard Oil, The First Indianapolis 500 is run; Incan city of Machu Picchu is rediscovered • 1912 - Arizona becomes the 48th state; Girl Scouts of America are founded, RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks on its maiden voyage • 1913 - Thousands of Civil War veterans flock to Pennsylvania to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg; the modern zipper is invented, Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, CA • 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo, setting off a chain of events that result in the First World War; Babe Ruth makes his major league debut; President Woodrow Wilson signs the Mother's Day Proclamation • 1915 - Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park; Construction begins on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC; RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by a German U-Boat • 1916 - The light switch is invented; First Norman Rockwell painting featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post; A Polio epidemic grips many Eastern US Cities • 1917 - The US declares war on Germany; the National Hockey League is formed in Canada; John F. Kennedy born in Brookline, MA • 1918 - Moscow becomes the Capital of Soviet Russia; The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series; Nelson Mandela is born in South Africa • 1919 - The 18th Amendment to the Constitution is enacted, beginning prohibition; The Treaty of Versaillesis signed, officially ending WW I; Oregon becomes the first state to levy a Gasoline tax • 1920 - Babe Ruth is traded to the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox; the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution gives women the right to vote • 1921 - The communist party of China is founded; thefirst Miss America pageant is held in Atlantic City, NJ; The first Halloween celebration takes place in Anola, Minnesota. • 1922 - President Warren G. Harding brings the first radio into the White House; Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party; Construction begins on Yankee Stadium • 1923 - Roy and Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company; the first issue of Time Magazine is published; Pancho Villa is assassinated in Mexico • 1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and is placed in a public tomb in Russia's Red Square; IBM is founded in Endicott, New York; J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to head the FBI • 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States; teacher John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. • 1926 - The first liquid-fueled rocket is launched in Auburn, MA; US Route 66 is established; Harry Houdini dies from complications of a ruptured appendix; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Co is founded • 1927 - The first live demonstration of Television at Bell Telephone headquarters in New York; Charles Lindbergh completes the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis; Georges LeMaitte posits the "Bing Bang" theory • 1928 - General Electric's WGY becomes the first television station with scheduled programming; Penicillin is discovered; Motion Industries Founded • 1929 - The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood; the Geneva Convention is signed; the US stock market collapses, sparking The Great Depression • 1930 - The first frozen food goes on sale in Springfield, MA; Clint Eastwood is born in San Francisco, CA; Unilever founded • 1931 - Dracula starring Bela Lugosi is released; The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States national anthem; Construction of the Empire State Building is completed • 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President; Radio City Music Hall opens in New York • 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins; The Lone Ranger makes its radio debut; Prohibition ends in the United States; Packaging Machernery Manufacturers Institute (PMM) founded • 1934 - Bonnie and Clyde ambushed and killed by a group of Texas Rangers; .357 Magnum cartridge introduced; Alcatraz Prison is opened • 1935 - The first MLB night game takes place inCincinnati, OH; FDR signs the Social Security Act into law; Elvis Presley born in Tupelo, Mississippi • 1936 - Construction of the Hoover Dam is completed;Gone with the Wind is published; Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany • 1937 -The Golden Gate Bridge opens; The Hindenburg disaster occurs in Lakehurst, NJ; JRR Tolkein publishes The Hobbit • 1938 - Superman debuts in Action Comics #1; Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia; the ball-point pen is patented in Britain • 1939 - Hewlett-Packard is founded in Palo Alto, CA;First appearance of Batman in Detective Comics issue #27; Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig ends his ironman streak at 2,130 consecutive games played • 1940 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the U.K.;John Lennon born in Liverpool, England • 1941 - Cheerios cereal introduced by General Mills; Citizen Kane premieres; the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor prompting US entry into WWII • 1942 - "The Manhattan Project" initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction; Muhammad Ali born in Louisville, KY; Michael Chichton is born • 1943 - Roosevelt becomes the first US President to travel by airplane while in office; Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter first appears on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post; Keith Richards born in Dartford, England • 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator; FDR has his final Fireside Chat; George Lucas born in Modesto, CA • 1945 - World War II ends; President Roosevelt dies suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage; Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh take power in Vietnam • 1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council is held; the first general, all-purpose computer is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania; the filmIt's a Wonderful Life premieres in New York • 1947 - The Polaroid camera is unveiled in New York; Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers; Meet the Press makes its TV debut • 1948 - Gandhi is assassinated in India; the World Health Organization is established by the United Nations; Israel declares its independence; Uhlman is founded by Josef Uhlman • 1949 - The First Emmy Awards are presented; George Orwell's 1984 is published; Bruce Springsteen born in Long Branch, NJ • 1950 - Gasoline costs $0.27/gallon; the US intervenes in the Korean conflict; President Harry Truman sends military advisors to aid the French in Vietnam • 1951 - United Nations headquarters opens in New York; J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is published; the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limits presidents to two terms • 1952 - The Diary of Anne Frank published; United States Special Forces is created; Laurence "Mr. T" Tureaud born in Chicago, IL; Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea • 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men credited with reaching the summit of Mt. Everest; Joseph Stalin dies of a stroke in Moscow; Jonas Salk announces the Polio vaccine • 1954 - Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio;  the first issue of Sports Illustrated is published; Dr. Jonas Salk begns inoculating school children with his Polio vaccine • 1955 - Chuck Berry releases his first single Maybellene;Disneyland opens in Anaheim, CA, Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, NJ • 1956 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano retires undefeated • 1957 - Wham-O introduces the first Frisbee; the Dodgers agree to move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles; John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time • 1958 - At 14 years old, Bobby Fischer becomes United States Chess Champion; Explorer 1 becomes the first American satellite successfully launched into orbit; Elvis Presley enters the United States Army • 1959 - Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba, the Barbie doll debuts; Hawaii becomes the 50th state • 1960 - President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960; the first birth control pill is approved for usage in the United States • 1961 - John F. Kennedy inaugurated as the 35 president of the U.S.; Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space • 1962 - Russian missiles are discovered on Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis; Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA game at Hershey Park Arena; Ringo Starr finalizes the line-up of The Beatles; the Ruth Gottscho Kidney Foundation is founded • 1963 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC; Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ceases operations as a penitentiary; President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX • 1964 - The Beatles arrive in America and make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; the First Ford Mustang is unveiled to the public; President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, abolishing segregation • 1965 - Winston Churchill dies in London; the first US ground troops arrive in Vietnam; Bob Dylan "goes electric" at the Newport Folk Festival • 1966 - Walt Disney dies of lung cancer; Ronald Regan elected governor of California; AFL-NFL merger approved • 1967 - The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl I; the National Hockey League expands to 12 teams adding teams like the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins; The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's LonelyHearts Club Band • 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy are assassinated; the Viet Cong begin the Tet Offensive; 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres in Washington, DC • 1969 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon; Richard Nixon is elected the 37th President of the United States; Sesame Street debuts • 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight;the first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.; The Beatles disband; Barr Laboratories, Inc. founded; Sanofi-Aventis founded • 1971 - Cigarette advertisements on radio and television are banned in the U.S; "Smokin" Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali to become heavyweight champion; the U.S. ends its trade embargo with China; Schering Corporation merged with Plough to form Schering-Plough • 1972 - President Richard Nixon visits China; J. Edgar Hoover dies of cancer in Washington, DC; "Pong" introduces the video game craze • 1973 - Roe vs. Wade overturns the ban on abortion in the United States; The Paris Peace Accords ends America's direct military involvement in Vietnam; the World Trade Center opens in New York • 1974 - President Nixon resigns amid fallout from the Watergate scandal; Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career home run record; Steven King publishes Carrie, his first novel • 1975 - Microsoft is founded in New Mexico by Bill Gates; the Vietnam War ends; Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC; (VCRs) and (VHS) home videotape systems are developed • 1976 - The United States celebrates its bicentennial; Apple Computer is founded in Cupertino, CA by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak • 1977 - Star Wars is released; Elvis Presley dies of heart failure in Memphis, Tennessee; Las execution by guillotine in France • 1978 - Resorts International opens in Atlantic City, NJ, becoming the first legal casino in the Eastern United States; the Camp David Peace Accords are signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin; Pope John Paul II is chosen as the 264th pope • 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran; Russia invades Afghanistan • 1980 - Ronald Regan elected President; The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeats the Soviet team on their way to a gold medal in the Lake Placid Olympic Games; former Beatle John Lennon is assassinated outside his apartment building in New York City. • 1981 - President Regan fires over 11,000 striking air-traffic controllers; Lady Diana marries Prince Charles of Whales; Bob Marley dies at the age of 36 • 1982 - The first artificial heart designed for permanent use is transplanted; Michael Jackson' Thriller is released; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released in movie theaters • 1983 -The Final episode of MASH becomes the most watched television program in history; Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger • 1984 - Apple's Macintosh debuts; Ronald Regan is re-elected to a 2nd term in a landslide victory • 1985 - The U.S. food and drug administration approves the first blood test to detect AIDS; Microsoft releases Windows 1.0; DNA is first admitted as evidence in a criminal trial • 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off,; The Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes in Ukraine; Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are introduced • 1987 - The United States stock market plummets over 500 on what will be known as Black Monday; The Simpsons make their first television on Fox's Tracy Ullman Show; Prozac  makes it debut in the U.S. • 1988 - The Greenhouse effect is discovered; CDs outsell albums for the first time • 1989 - The Berlin Wall comes down, unifying East and West Germany; Chinese students in favor of democracy stage protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square; the first elections are held in the Soviet Union in over 40 years • 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, leading to the first Persian Gulf War; The Simpsons premiers as a weekly television program; Nelson Mandela is released from prison in South Africa • 1991 - Iraq leaves Kuwait ending the first Persian Gulf War; the Soviet Union dissolves into independent republics; the World Wide Web project begins • 1992 - Bill Clinton elected as the 42nd President of the United States; construction begins on Minnesota's Mall of America, the largest mall in the country; the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, CA claim 53 lives and cause over $1 Billion dollars in damages • 1993 - Intel ships the first Pentium Processors; Michael Jordan retires for the first time • 1994 - Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa; the Channel Tunnel opens, connecting England and France; OJ Simpson runs from Los Angeles police in his white Ford Bronco • 1995 - OJ Simpson is found not guilty on two counts of murder; the national speed limit of 55 mph is repealed • 1996 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana are granted a divorce; Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz merge to form Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. • 1997 - Princess Diana dies in a car accident in Paris, France; Mike Tyson's loses rematch with Evander Holyfield; Mother Theresa dies in Calcutta, India • 1998 -The Good Friday Peace agreement ends the conflict in Northern Ireland; the first digital audio player is introduced to the public • 1999 - The world readies for the Y2K computer bug; Lance Armstrong wins his first Tour de France • 2000 - George W. Bush wins the presidency in a controversial election; Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer since 1953 to win three major tournaments in a calendar year; Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline Beecham merge to form Glaxo Smithkline • 2001 - Shark Attacks plague the East Coast; Enron Corporation files for chapter 11 bankruptcy • 2002 - The Department of Homeland Security is formed; Kelly Clarkson is crowned as the first winner of American Idol • 2003 - The U.S. invades Iraq and overthrows the regime of Saddam Hussein; Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor of California • 2004 - Gottscho celebrates its 100th Anniversary! • 2005 - Hurricane Katrina destroys much of the gulf coast in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; President George W. Bush is re-elected to a 2nd term; Pope John Paul II dies in The Vatican • 2006 - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin dies in a freak accident while scuba diving in Australia; Google acquires YouTube • 2007 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the House; Apple unveils the iPhone • 2008 - Barack Obama is elected as the first African-American President of the United States; Fidel Castro resigns as president of Cuba; a writer's strike which had crippled TV and movie production ends • 2009 - US Airways flight lands safely in the Hudson River after losing both its engines; North Korea conducts a successful nuclear test in the province ofNorth Hamgyong, Singer Michael Jackson dies in Los Angeles, CA.