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World Events During His Life:
1860
Birth of Juliette Gordon (Founder of Girl Scouts). US population: 31,443,321 (in 33 states). US Prices: Whiskey .50/gallon, Milk $.32/gallon. The first year the U.S. Census Bureau counted American Indians as a distinct group. It is probable that many Indians were identified as White, Mulatto, or Black, particularly in the early census years. Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
1861-1865
The US Civil War. The Confederacy finances its war effort mainly by printing money. In addition to the Confederate notes, the States, railway, insurance and other companies also issue notes. The resulting hyperinflation renders Confederate paper worthless. By comparison inflation in the North is relatively moderate as the Union government raises very substantial sums of money by taxation and borrowing.
1862
In U.S., paper money is printed for the first time.
1867
Sholes builds a functional typewriter.
1900
Life expectancy at birth was 68 years old.
1901
X-Rays invented.
1903
Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, fly first powered, controlled, heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Henry Ford organizes Ford Motor Company. The Boston Red Sox win the first World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. W. E. B. Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk.
1904
Russo-Japanese War begins, competition for Korea and Manchuria. Entente Cordiale: Britain and France settle their international differences. General theory of radioactivity by Rutherford and Soddy. New York City subway opens. Einstein develops the energy-frequency relation of light quanta; physicist Sir John Ambrose Flemming invents the diode valve and rectifier which improves radio communication; Ernest Rutherford estimates the age of the Earth by radioactivity dating; iced tea was invented at the St. Louis World's Fair; telephone answering machine invented; offset lithography becomes a commercial reality; a photograph is transmitted by wire in Germany; "The Great Train Robbery" creates demand for fiction movies; the comic book debuts; 3rd Olympic Games opens in St. Louis in the US; automobile tire chain patented; Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens it's doors; British newspaper "The Daily Mirror" begins publishing; Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" premiers in Milan; Ravel's "Sheherazade" premiers in Paris; Pope Pius X bans low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen; St Louis Police try new investigation method- fingerprints; Wilbur Wright makes his first airplane flight- the first to last more than 5 minutes; the Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Lord Rayleigh; Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Sir William Ramsey; US occupation of Cuba ends; control of Panama Canal Zone acquired by US for million; the first speed limit laws are passed, in New York.
1905
In Russo-Japanese War, Port Arthur surrenders to Japanese; Russia suffers other defeats. President Roosevelt mediates Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H., which recognizes Japan's control of Korea and restores southern Manchuria to China. The Russian Revolution of 1905 begins on "Bloody Sunday" when troops fire onto a defenseless group of demonstrators in St. Petersburg. Strikes and riots follow. Sailors on battleship Potemkin mutiny; reforms, including first Duma (parliament), established by Czar Nicholas II's "October Manifesto." Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and other key theories in physics. Franz Lehar's Merry Widow; reclusive millionaire toolmaker Howard Hughes is born (d. 1976). The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) begins to organize unskilled industrial laborers, while promoting overthrow of the capitalist system. The union will decline and finally be destroyed in the "Red scare" following World War. Percival Lowell postulates a ninth planet beyond Neptune; In France - Pathe colours black and white films by machine; In Pittsburgh the first nickelodeon opens; Photography - printing - and post combine in the year's craze - picture postcards; The Yellow Pages.
1906
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, fixes magnetic North Pole; Xerox Corporation is founded as Haloid Co. The tungsten-filament light bulb is introduced. Lee DeForest (1873-1961) patents his Audion vacuum tube to amplify electronic signals. Reginald Fessenden (1866-1932) invents AM radio. The 3 day San Francisco Fire is ignited by an earthquake that destroys nearly three-quarters of the city and more than 500 died. In response to rising public outcry over unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, Congress passes the Pure Food Act; Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets; In Britain - new process colours books cheaply; A program of voice and music is broadcast in the US; An animated cartoon film is produced; British Labour Party organizes; International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts 'SOS' as new call for help. The first animated cartoon copyrighted; The first federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS; W K Kellogg and Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. The company sold breakfast cereals originally developed as a health food for psychiatric patients.
1907
Second Hague Peace Conference, of 46 nations, adopts 10 conventions on rules of war. Financial panic of 1907 in U.S. Mahler begins work on "Song of the Earth." Oklahoma becomes 46th state. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon introduces cubism; Ivan Pavlov demonstrates conditioned responses with salivating dogs; Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness; DeForest begins regular radio music broadcasts; British suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested; Finland is the first European country to give women the right to vote; Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec; Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP); Taxis first began running in NYC; Alfred Korn announces Fac-Simile telegraphy.; A run on banks during the Panic of 1907 forces many to close. Future CIO president Walter Reuther is born (d. 1970). Gulf Oil incorporates. By presidential fiat, Japanese laborers are prohibited entry to the U.S.
1908
Earthquake kills 150,000 in southern Italy and Sicily. U.S. Supreme Court, in Danbury Hatters' case, outlaws secondary union boycotts; Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing and unveils the Model T for .00; In US - Smith introduces true colour motion pictures; Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (he didn't); General Motors founded by William C Durant; New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public; The 46th star was added to US flag for Oklahoma; The first horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago.; Hollywood is founded in the Los Angeles area.; The first time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square; William Durant organizes General Motors Co. to manufacture automobiles. Publisher Walter Hubert Annenberg, creator of TV Guide and other publications, is born. The first free "Gideon" Bible appears in a hotel room. Congress enacts the first child labor law, in District of Columbia.
1909
North Pole reportedly reached by American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W. E. B. Du Bois; More than two million Americans own stocks. Inventor Leo Baekeland (1863-1944) develops a new plastic called Bakelite, the first synthetic resin; First broadcast talk and the subject was women's suffrage; First use of aircraft as offensive weapon in Turkish-Italian War. Italy defeats Turks and annexes Tripoli and Libya. Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution overthrows Manchu dynasty. Sun Yat-sen named president. Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz, president since 1877, replaced by Francisco Madero. Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York; 146 killed. Amundsen reaches South Pole. Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom. Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band; The first race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway; The first US federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium); University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was the first to North Pole; US President Taft inaugurated as 27th US President during 10" snowstorm.
1910
The Boy Scouts of America is chartered. Growing public outrage over the influence of huge corporations on politics leads to passage of the Mann-Elkins Act, which initially targets powerful railroad interests. Black & Decker Manufacturing Company is founded in Baltimore (MD); The Golden Delicious apple originated on a farm in the US in West Virginia; Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 29th recorded pass and causes panic. US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick; Melodramas, westerns, and slapstick comedy become popular American film genres; Using Salvarsan for syphilis, Paul Ehrlich inaugurates modern chemotherapy.
1911
A fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory claims 145 lives, mostly young women. The U.S. Supreme Court invokes the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up behemoth Standard Oil into more than thirty independent companies. Future International Business Machines (IBM) incorporates as the Computing Tabulating Recording Co., Herman Hollerith (1860-1929), founder. U.S. offshore drilling for oil commences; A two year famine began in Russia and while people starved and died the country continued exporting a fifth of its annual grain production; Efforts are made to bring sound to motion pictures; British house of commons accepts Parliament Bill; British Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords; Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre; Remains of a Neanderthal man found in Jersey in the UK. ; The Zeppelin 'Deutscheland' is wrecked at Dusseldorf; The merger of three companies forms Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). This company will later become IBM.
1920
Women vote for the first time. First scheduled radio program is broadcast. New word "sundae".
1921
Band-Aid's were invented. Albert Einstein wins Nobel Prize. First Miss America contest.
1922
Bobbed hair becomes "the rage". Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, a women's record. The first airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington D.C.
1923
Hollywood sign erected of Hollywood, California. Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
1924
First Kleenex invented. "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny. Notebooks get spiral bindings. King Tut's tomb opened. Trial against Hitler in Munich begins.
1926
First zipper was invented. Walt Disney Studio is formed. Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day work week.
1927
Last year Model T car is produced - Cost . First Academy Awards ceremony held.
1928
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. 'Steamboat Willie' introduces Mickey Mouse. Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company.
1929
The New York Stock Market crashes on 'Black Tuesday', triggering the 'Great Depression'. Edwin S Lowe invents the game of BINGO. The first US color TV demonstration, in New York City. The first telephone installed in US White House.
1935
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed Social Security Act.
Food Prices in 1902:
- Warfield brand seeded raisins, pound package .10
Asparagus stalks in lb tins .15
- Early June peas, canned [no size specified] reg. .15, sale .11
- California apricots, large can, .15
- Best Elgin Creamery butter, pound, .25
- Best Columbia River Salmon, 1-2 lb tins .9
- Gem soups, in pound tins, three for .25
- Very best XXXX Minnesota Flour, 98 lbs 4.69
- Avon brand peaches, gallon cans .23
- German potatoes, best, half bushel, .45
- Flake Tapioca, 5 lbs, .25
- Cod fish, pound bricks, .6
- Royal coconut in 1-4 pound packages, .5
- Fancy roasting chickens, .20/lb
- Finest sugar cured hams, .14/lb
- Legs of finest lamb, .18/lb
- Veal chops, loins and ribs, .16/lb
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Prices of Electric Shavers in 1937
Dinner Menu in 1860
English Boys Clothing during the 1890s and 1900s
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