20th Century Timeline

Timeline of the 20th Century

2008-10-20T20:15:00.001-07:00

This timeline of the 20th century emphasizes the changes in technology, arts and political landscape. I thought it befitting to focus upon the images, audio and video because these seem best suited to express the special century of the Modern Age. I mixed historical data with trivia to give the textures of the times. Primary source documents are given priority. A primary source document is a recording made at the time of the event. Secondary documents will be annotated later. I'm also beginning work on the 19th Century Timeline

1900-1909

1910-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

note - include 9 video minitures

1900-1909

2008-10-20T16:50:00.001-07:00

1900

Early electric automobile

Paris Exposition Universelle 0:37 (narración en español)

Paris Exposition Universelle 8:04

L'invention du cinéma 1/4 1:01(narration française)

L’Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1889 a pour invité d’honneur Thomas Edison, l’homme de science de cette fin de siècle. Dépositaire de près d’un millier de brevets, il est à l’origine d’une invention révolutionnaire : le kinétoscope

Feb 6 Automobile Parade 1:55

Car Trial slideshow 5:17

Clement Panhard driving thorough Paris 1:01

Arabian Gun Twirler - Arabic Cylinder 3:11

Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory

Wright Brothers begin experiments with gliding aircraft

Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

George Eastman releases the first mass-marketed camera—the $1 Brownie.

Vess Ossman - Stars and Stripes Forever (Feb 1900) audio 1:58

April 30, 1900 Casey Jones died at the throttle of Engine No. 1

"Reports received to date indicate that Engineer Jones of the passenger train, who lost his life in the accident, was alone responsible for the accident as train No. 83 which was obstructing the main track at Vaughan sawing by train No. 26 was properly protected by flagman, who had gone back a distance of 3000 feet, where he had placed toropedos on the rail; then continued north a further distance of 500 to 800 feet, where he stood and gave signals to train No. l; which signals, however, were apparently not observed by Engineer Jones: nor is it believed he heard the explosion of the torpedoes as his train continued toward the station at a high rate of speed, notwithstanding the fact it was moving up a grade; collision occurring at a point 2l0 feet north of the north passing track switch. It is also stated that Engineer Jones of train No.l failed to sound the whistle for the station when passing the whistle board."

Jones entered the service of this company as fireman in March, l888, was promoted to position of engineer in February, l890, since which date his record has been as follows:

Engineer Jones was promoted to position of engineer in February, l900, and had a reasonably good record, not having been disciplined for the past three years. He had been assigned to passenger service between Memphis and Canton about 60 days before collision occurred and at the first opportunity thereafter Supt. King had talked to him about the importance of the trains to which he had been assigned, instructiong him to use good judgement, especially in stormy weather; to keep close lookout for signals at all times, particularly in approaching and passing through stations and yards; adding that the trains he would handle had been successfully handled by other engineers who were on the runs and that satisfactory time had been made. He particularly instructed Jones not to attempt to do any reckless running with the view of establishing a record of making fast time, or better time than the other men on the runs. Jones' work up to the time of the accident had been satisfactory."

Soon after Casey’s death it was first sung by a humble engine wiper and friend of Casey’s known as Wallace Saunders to the tune of a popular song of the time known as “Jimmie Jones.” Making up little songs and ballads about people appeared to have been his specialty. He was known to sing and whistle as he went about his work cleaning the huge steam engines, so naturally he would sing about his dead friend. In the words of Casey’s wife: "Wallace's admiration of Casey was little short of idolatry. He used to brag mightly about Mr. Jones even when Casey was only a freight engineer." But Saunders, being illiterate and only interested in using the song as a vehicle to express his grief and admiration for his friend, never had his original version copyrighted, and thus there is no way of knowing precisely what words he sang.

In 1900 an ice cream maker consisted of a pail of cream inside a bucket of ice with a hand cranked churn.

By 1900, the bicycle has been on the road and in development for 83 years. Bicycles are the most common means of transportation. Mass production of reasonably-priced bicycles allows working men to use them for transportation and leisure.

An international force of eight treaty powers–the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Britain, Austria-Hungary—marches into Beijing and ransacks the Forbidden City in reaction to the Chinese violence against foreigners in the Boxer Rebellion.

On September 8, 1900, a killer hurricane struck the Texas coastal city of Galveston. This hurricane would become the greatest natural disaster, by number of deaths, in United States history: 8,000 by accepted figures, perhaps as many as 12,000. Of that total, 6,000 perished in Galveston alone. The tragedy killed more Americans than any other natural disaster, indeed, more than the legendary Johnstown Flood, the San Francisco Earthquake, the 1938 New England Hurricane and the Great Chicago Fire combined.

L'homme Orchestre - Georges Méliès 1:16

Bullfighters and bull waiting for the next move - Picasso

Sears Roebuck 100th Anniversary catalog

Sears Roebuck peddled everything from kitchenware and tools to "Coca Wine"

1901

January 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

Picasso begins Blue Period The Old Guitarist

Women Boxing - Edison

The Mysterious Cafe - Edison

Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle 0:52

Funeral of Queen Victoria 0:23

North Shields 2:03 ss

Belfast 2:19 ss several horsedrawn trams and buggies 10 bicycles how many pedestrians?

What Happened on Twenty-third Street 1:17

1902

1902 Indian Head penny (front)

1902 Indian Head penny (back)

In the Good Old Summertime 1902 performed by Robert Price audio 1:37

Le Voyage Dans La Lune - Georges Méliès 8:23 (narration française)

Le Voyage Dans La Lune - Georges Méliès 11:49 (english narration)

In 1901, the education system of China was reformed to allow the admission of girls and the curriculum was changed from the study of the Classics and Confucian studies to the study of Western mathematics, science, engineering, and geography. The civil service examination was changed to reflect this new curriculum, and in 1905 it was abandoned altogether. The Chinese began to send its youth to Europe and to Japan to study the new sciences, such as economics, and radical new Western modes of thinking started making their way into China, such as Marxism.

"When we left Kitty Hawk at the end of 1901, we doubted that we would ever resume our experiments. Although we had broken the record for distance in gliding, and although Mr. Chanute, who was present at that time, assured us that our results were better than had ever before been attained, yet when we looked at the time and money which we had expended, and considered the progress made and the distance yet to go, we considered our experiments a failure. At this time I made the prediction that men would sometime fly, but that it would not be within our lifetime." - Wilbur Wright

1902 glider

"Quarry No. 1 contains (several bones) of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur... I have never seen anything like it..." - message from Barnum Brown while unearthing the first discovered Tyrannosaurus rex from the 65 million-year-old rocks of the Missouri Breaks in Montana.

1903

June 17 Ford Motor Company founded

In 1903, 12-inch records (30.5cm) are introduced, with four to five minutes of music per side.

The British author George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, b. Motihari, India, June 25, 1903.

Jun 11 Eugene Sandow 0:27

The Wright Brothers built a larger version of their 1902 glider, and added propellors and power. On 14 December they tossed a coin to determine that Wilbur would be the pilot. A crew lugged the plane up a big hill and laid about 30 metres of monorail. The plane went too fast down the track, and Orville, running alongside to hold it steady, could not keep up. A wing hit the ground and the plane broke. However, the Wrights now knew that it would work.

In two days the plane had been repaired, and on 17th December 1903, the wind was right. It was Orville's turn to be pilot. They had realised it would be better to lay the track on flat ground, and Wilbur was able to remain running alongside keeping the right wing steady. The plane lifted off the monorail and flew for 12 seconds, travelling 120 feet (over 37 metres). It was the first controlled, sustained flight in a heavier-than-air craft.

The Great Train Robbery 10:23

Life of a Fireman 6:02

Comedy Cake Walk 0:30

As In a Looking Glass 1:03

1904

Eugene Debs film 1:17

Chestnut tree blight begins in the Easter United States in 1904

Jan 16 Physical Culture Show at Madison Square Garden 2:13

Westinghouse Works 6:06

April 28 Welding the Big Ring at Westinghouse Works 5:00

May 13 Steam Hammer at Westinghouse Works 3:32

The History of the Standard Oil Company by journalist Ida Tarbell is published.

The Washington Post Feb 28, 1904 reads "For the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., from April 30 to December 1, 1904, several forms of excursion tickets to St. Louis will be placed on sale by the Pennsylvania Railroad on April 25."

Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis 1904 Performed by Robert Price Composed by Andrew Sterling & Kerry Mills audio 1:58

Ice Cream Cone was invented at the 1904 World's Fair?

On July 23, 1904, according to some accounts, Charles E. Menches conceived the idea of filling a pastry cone with two scoops of ice-cream and thereby invented the ice-cream cone. He is one of several claimants to that honor: Ernest Hamwi, Abe Doumar, Albert and Nick Kabbaz, Arnold Fornachou, and David Avayou all have been touted as the inventor(s) of the first edible cone. Interestingly, these individuals have in common the fact that they all made or sold confections at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, known as the St. Louis World's Fair. It is from the time of the Fair that the edible "cornucopia," a cone made from a rolled waffle, vaulted into popularity in the United States.

Elizabeth Magie patents The Landlord's Game, a precurser to the Monopoly board game. It is a realty and taxation game. Though many similar home-made games were played at the beginning of the 20th Century and some predate The Landlord's Game, it is the first of its kind to have an attested patent. Magie re-patented a revised edition of the game in 1924.

Magie based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate.

Picasso Rose Period Boy with a Pipe

In the Evening by the Moonlight - Edison Male Quartet

Yankee Doodle Boy 1904 performed by F.E. Lewis Composed by George M. Cohen audio 2:05

Yankee Doodle Boy 1904 Performed by Bill Murray audio 2:39 with higher fidelity

Cascades - Scott Joplin 1904 The early mass marketing of musical reproduction piano rolls marks the birth of modern commercial art? Scott Joplin's rags were written to be loosely improvised. Here is one rendition by the master himself in digital midi from a piano roll.

Una furtiva lagrima
Negli occhi suoi spunto:
Quelle festosee giovani
Invidiar sembro.
Che piu cercando io vo?
M'ama, lo vedo.
Un solo instante i palpiti
Del suo bel cor sentir!
I miei sospir, confondere
Per poco a' suoi sospir!
Cielo, si puo morir!
Di piu non chiedo.

English Translation

One tear that falls so furtively
from her sweet eyes has just sprung,
as if she envied all the youths
who laughingly passed her right by.
What could I want more than this?
She loves me! I see it.
One moment just to hear her heart,
beating so close next to mine,
to hear my sighs like they were hers,
her sighings as if they were mine!
Heavens, please take me now:
All that I wanted is mine now!

1905

The special theory of relativity is proposed by Albert Einstein in his article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies".

Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality

I am the Edison Phonograph

Le Diable Noir - Georges Melies 3:52

The Burglar's Slide for Life 1/2 3:02

The Burglar's Slide for Life 2/2 2:37

Czar Nicholas II of Russia 0:17

my footnote: sales pitch is alluding to robotics, the idea that people could relate to machines and machines could personally relate to humans

In My Merry Oldsmobile 1905 composed by Vincent Bryan & Gus Edwards audio 2:51

The Preacher and the Bear

The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one Sunday morn'
It was against his religion, but he took a shotgun along
He got himself a mess o' mighty fine quail and one old scraggly hare
And on the way home he crossed the path of a great big grizzly bear
Well the bear got down lookin' ready to charge
The preacher never seen nothin' quite that large
They looked each other right smack in the eye
Didn't take that preacher long to say bye

The preacher, he run till he spotted a tree
He said, "Up in that tree's where I oughta be"
By the time that bear made a grab for him
The preacher was a sittin' on top a that limb
Scared to death, he turned about
He looked to the sky and began to shout

"Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion's den
You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then
The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace
So the good books do declare
Hey lord, if you can't help me,
For goodness sake don't help that bear"

Yea, look out preacher!

Well, about that time the limb broke off
And the preacher came tumblin' down
Had a straight razor out of his pocket
By the time he lit on the ground
He landed on his feet right in front a that bear
And Lord, what an awful fight
The preacher and the bear and the razor and the hair
Flyin' from left to right

Well first they was up and then they was down
The preacher and the bear runnin' round an' round
The bear he roared, and the the preacher he groaned
He was havin' a tough time holdin' his own!
He said, "Lord if I get out a here alive
To the good book I'll abide
No more huntin' on the Sabbath day
Come Sunday I'm headin' to the church to pray"

Up to the heavens the preacher glanced
He said, "Lord won't you give me just one more chance"
So the preacher got away, he looked around
Seen a tree where he'd be safe and sound
Jumped on a limb, turned about
Looked to the sky and began to shout

"Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion's den
You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then
The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace
So the good books do declare
Hey lord, if you can't help me,
For goodness sake don't help that bear"

1905 Renault

1906

1906: The San Francisco Earthquake

The Story of the Kelly Gang is the world's first feature film. Originally there were no inter-titles; narration was performed by an on-stage lecturer who also provided sound effects including gunfire and hoofbeats.

Nobody - Bert Williams cylinder recording 2:07

You're a Grand Old Flag 1906 performed by American Quartet composed by George M. Cohen audio 2:36

You're a Grand Old Flag 1906 performed by Bill Murray audio 2:52

Maple Leaf Rag - United States Marine Band

Matisse finishes painting Woman in a Hat

1907

The $5 bill issued in 1907
featured the woodchopper and his family on the homestead.

Harrigan 1907 composed by George M. Cohen performed by Edward Meeker audio 2:11

School Days 1907 Performed by Byron Harlan composed by Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards audio 2:56

Dec. 3, 1907 Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh Annual Message to Congress on The Conservation of Natural Resourses

The Eclipse - George Melies 9:09

1907: Painting: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

1908

Emanuel Heilronner is born in Germany to the Heilbronner family of soapmakers. (ref 1929)

The Model T sold for $850, which could be purchased using nine $100 National Bank Notes or 41 one ounce gold coins. Click here to see the Naked Ford chassis

46 stars

On July 4th, 1908, the U.S. flag grew to 46 stars with the addition to the Union of Oklahoma

Autumn of 1908 - Wright Brothers give public demonstation in France

September 17, 1908 Orville Wright invents the Plane Crash. US Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge became the first person killed in a powered fixed-wing aircraft when his aircraft, piloted by Orville Wright, crashed after propeller separation failure during military tests at Fort Myer in Virginia. Selfridge died of a fractured skull. Wright suffered broken ribs, pelvis and a leg

Electricity and Progress - audio 2:12 Thomas A. Edison,
Recorded for the opening of the New York Electrical Show, October 3, 1908.

Text of Electricity and Progress:

"Ladies and gentlemen,

Those of us who began our love labors at the operator's key 50 years ago have been permitted to see and assist in the whole modern industrial development of electricity. Since the remarkable experiments of Morse in 1844 and the unsuccessful efforts of Field in 1858 that have come with incredible rapidity – one electrical arc after another. So that in practically every respect civilization has been revolutionized.

It is still too early to stand outside these events and pronounce final judgement on their lasting value.

But we may surely entertain the belief that the last half of the 19th century was a distinct and distinct in its electrical inventions and the results of the first half was in relation to steam.

The lessons of the Jubilee of the Atlantic Cable of 1858 is one of encouragement to all who would act to the resources of our race and extend our control over the forces of Nature. Never was failure more complete, never was higher courage shown, never was triumph more brilliant than that which set 1866 has kept the old world moored alongside the new by cables of steel and copper, the family ties of the civilized world.

When I look around at the resources of the electrical field today I feel that I would be glad to begin again my work as an electrician and inventor and we veterans get only older than our successors, the younger followers of Franklin and of Tolbin to realize the measure of their opportunities and to rise to the heights of their responsibilities in this day of electricity."

Picasso continued experimenting with Cubism Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde.

Shine On Harvest Moon 1908 pianio roll audio 1:13

Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1908 performed by Edward Meeker audio 2:03

Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue 1908 performed by Bill Murray audio 2:31

Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908

1909

1909 Edison recording of Sousa' Band performing Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa

Jack Johnson vs. Stanley Ketchel - Oct 16 1909

Mr. Crump
By W.C. Handy

(Melody)
You want to be my man, you gotta give me forty dollars down
You want to be my man, you'll give me forty dollars down
If you don't be my man, your baby's gonna shake this town

Mr. Crump¹ don't 'low² no easy riders here
We don't care what Mister Crump don't 'low
We gonna bar'l house any how, Mr. Crump don't low no easy riders here

Crump don't 'low it, ain't gonna have it
We don't care what Mr. Crump don't 'low
We gonna bar'l house and how, Mr. Crump can go and catch hiself some here

I'm goin' down the river goin' down the river
Goin' to take my rockin' chair
Goin' to the river goin' to take my rockin' chair

Blues overtake me, goin' to rock away from here
Oh de Mississippi river, Mississippi river so deep and wide
I said the Mississippi river's so deep and wide

Man I love he is on the other side

__________
Note: originally titled "Mr. Crump", later also known as "Memphis Blues";
Note 1: Mr. Crump, Edward H. Crump, a local Memphis political boss of the time. Crump asked Handy to play with his band in support of his campaign to become elected mayor of Memphis;
Note 2: 'low, short for allow.

Le Ratelier - Emile Cohl 8:06

1910-1919

2008-10-20T16:48:00.000-07:00

1910

Come Josephine in My Flying Machine 1910 performed by Blanche Ring Composed byFred Fisher &
Alfred Bryan

Come Josephine in My Flying Machine 1910 Performed by Ada Jones and Billy Murray 4:06

Down by the Old Mill Stream 1910 Composed by Tell Taylor 2:50

Jack Johnson vs. James Jeffries

The Oath and the Man

Emile Cohl "The Hasher's Delirium" check date

Emile Cohl - Mobilier Fidèle - The Automatic Moving Company wrong date should be 1910

By 1910 the 10-inch (25.4cm) record was by far the most popular standard, holding about three minutes of music or entertainment on a side.

1911

?1911 — The last known Passenger Pigeon dies. Due to massive hunting to feed the poor and slaves the Passenger Pigeon went from being one of the world's most populous birds to extinction.

?The last known individual of the species, a female named Martha, died in ?1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo and is now on display in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History.

What cause? The loss of the Chestnut trees?

Macchu Picchu located

China becomes a republic when the last imperial dynasty (Manchu) is overthrown. The Manchu had been in decline for a century until living conditions caused instability resulting in a Nationalist revolt. After assuming power, the Nationalists would be continuously challenged by a growing Communist movement. Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) leads the Xinhai Revolution that topples the Qing dynasty, ending 5,000 years of imperial rule.

Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin - performed by Bill Murray 1911

I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl 1911 performed by Ella Retford audio 2:31

1912

Picasso goes a step further, combining cubism with collage in works like Still Life with Chair Caning, Of revolutionary importance in modern art, collage was the ÒhighÓ art that many scrapbook makers would recognize as their own technique of cutting and pasting.

The Cameraman's Revenge - Ladislaw Starewicz 13:21

The Little Match Seller

Memphis Blues - Victor Military Band composed by W. C. Handy

April 2 Titanic in Belfast 0:37

April 18 Carpathia Returns to NY with Titanic suvivors 0:22

It's a Long Way to Tipperary 1912 performed by Bill Murray 3:09

Land of Hope and Glory 1912 performed by Clara Butt audio 2:59

Moonlight Bay 1912 performed by Premier Quartet audio 4:12

Casey Jones Nov, 1912? performed by Bill Murray audio 4:26

Alexander's Ragtime Band Royal Military Band (need realplayer?)

1913

The zipper

The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Стрекоза и муравей Владислав Старевич 4:48

The Insect's Christmas - Ladislaw Starewicz 6:29

1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated

The Battle of the Marne

Nicholas II Declares War on Germany 0:40

Andrew Carnegie quoting from the Gospel of Wealth January 20, 1914 Edison recording 5:57

Gospel of Wealth text

Birth of the Telephone - 1914 Edison recording of Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell

Jack Johnson -vs- Frank Moran

By the Sea 1914 audio 1:13

St. Louis Blues 1914 composed by W.C. Handy performed by Original Dixieland Jass Band audio 3:15

The Little Old Ford Rambled Right Along 1914 Bill Murray audio 3:09

Keep the Home Fires Burning 1914 performed by Columbia Stellar Quartet audio 3:35

1915

The Lusitania is torpedoed by a German U-Boat

In 1915, Wilson warned of hyphenated Americans who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life. Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed out

The crackdown on radical left-wing political groups had actually begun during World War I. After a series of bomb attacks of court buildings, police stations, churches and homes attributed to violent immigrant anarchist groups, the Department of Justice and its small Bureau of Investigation (BOI) (predecessor to the FBI) had begun to track their activities with the approval of President Woodrow Wilson.

Jess Willard vs. Jack Johnson with Bat Masterson as Timekeeper

Sodero's Band performing Stars and Stripes Forever

Conscientious Objector 1915 performed by Alfred Lester audio 3:01

Film: Birth of a Nation 1915 google video 180 minutes

1916

1916: US railway reaches peak length.

1916 - Chicago architect Arthur Aldis persuaded wealthy residents of Lake Forest, Illinois, and investors such as Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., to form the Lake Forest Improvement Trust to build Market Square, an integrated shopping complex of 28 stores, 12 office units, 30 apartments, gymnasium, clubhouse and landscaping. According to Richard Longstreth, "The automobile was a central factor in this planning, since most Lake Foresters had cars at an early date. Market Square was perhaps the first business district to be laid out specifically to accomodate motor vehicles." (p. 152) The National Register of Historic Places has listed Market Square as the first planned shopping district in the Unites States.

1917

Invention: Battle tank

The bourgeois democratic revolution broke out in Russia in February 1917. The tsarist autocracy was overthrown. The main motive power and predominant force in the revolution was (he working class. However it could not concentrate absolute power in its hands because of its lack of class-consciousness and organisation. A dual power was established in the country: Soviets of workers' and soldiers' deputies, and the bourgeois Provisional Government.

On June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The law set punishments for acts of interference in foreign policy and espionage. The act authorized stiff fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who obstructed the military draft or encouraged "disloyalty" against the U.S. government. After two anarchist radicals, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, continued to advocate against conscription, Goldman's offices at Mother Earth were thoroughly searched, and volumes of files and detailed subscription lists from Mother Earth, along with Berkman's journal The Blast, were seized. As a Justice Department news release reported:

A wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda material was seized, and included in the lot is what is believed to be a complete registry of anarchy's friends in the United States. A splendidly kept card index was found, which the Federal agents believe will greatly simplify their task of identifying persons mentioned in the various record books and papers. The subscription lists of Mother Earth and The Blast, which contain 10,000 names, were also seized.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was also a background factor: many anarchists believed that the worker's revolution there would quickly spread across Europe and the United States.

Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa Band 2:53 In 1917, Sousas recordings are high-fidelity! Compare this to the cylinder recording of 1897!

Over There July 13, 1917 performed by Nora Bayes composed by George M. Cohen audio 2:52

Over There 1917 performed by Bill Murray audio 3:27

Over There 1917? or 1918? performed by Enrico Caruso audio 2:48

Over There 1917 performed by Henry Burr audio 2:45

Over There 1917 performed by Arthur Fields

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
(chorus sung twice)

Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who's a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and Blue.
(chorus sung twice)

Chorus
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there -
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev'rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray'r,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over
Over there.

January 10, 1917 "Buffalo Bill" Colonel William F. Cody dies.

1917 The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" by Colonel William F. Cody

Oh Susanna - Henry Burr

The Butcher Boy - Fatty Arbuckle 1/3 9:40 (french titles)

The Butcher Boy - Fatty Arbuckle 2/3 8:52 (french titles)

The Butcher Boy - Fatty Arbuckle 3/3 5:36 (french titles)

1918

The Carolina Parakeet goes extinct, the only parrot species in the Eastern U.S.

The last Tarpan, a Ukranian wild horse, dies in captivity.

The Romanovs are executed

Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers

Influenza sweeps across the entire planet. Accute respiratory infections suddenly began to be noticed at military installations in the United States. Fort Riley, Kansas was the first to be hit by the disease, in March 1918. By October 1918, some U.S. Army camps were reporting a death every hour. The outbreak is thought to have killed about 500,000 Americans. By 1930's scientist were able to find the virus that caused influenza, and later a cure.

While World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives, the influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.

Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms. Others succumbed after a few days; their lungs filled with fluid and they suffocated to death. Young adults, usually unaffected by these types of infectious diseases, were among the hardest hit groups along with the elderly and young children. The flu afflicted over 25 percent of the U.S. population. In one year, the average life expectancy in the United States dropped by 12 years.

The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children.

It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.

Johnson "Jass" Blues 1918 Edison recording

Composed by E. Arnold Johnson and Performed by Friscoe "Jass" Band

Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody 1918 performed by Al Jolson 2:54

Harold Lloyd

1919

On January 29, 1919, the Secretary of State, by proclamation, announced that on January 16th thirty-six states had ratified the amendment and therefore it had become a part of the Constitution. It was subsequently ratified by ten additional states. It became effective on January 16, 1920, as the Eiahteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the pertinent sections of which are as follows:

" Sec. 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage, purposes is hereby prohibited.

" Sec. 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation"

In 1919, the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat Socialist representative Victor L. Berger (news copy in PDF) from Wisconsin because of his socialism, German ancestry, and anti-war views. Congress also passed a series of immigration, anti-anarchist, and sedition acts (including the Sedition Act of 1918) that sought to criminalize or punish advocacy of violent revolution.

At the time, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Luigi Galleani were in the forefront of the anti-conscription movement. Valdonoci, the Palmer house bomber, was later identified as a militant follower of Luigi Galleani. Attorney General Palmer requested and received a massive supplementary increase in Congressional appropriations in order to put a stop to the violence. Palmer then ordered the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation to prepare for what would become known as the Palmer Raids.

So They Tell Me - social satire circa 1919

Jazz Deluxe fox trot 1919 Edison recording Performed by Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band

Sensation Jazz one step 1919 Edison recording Composed by Dixieland Jazz Band Performed by The All Star Trio - saxophone, xylophone and piano

By the Light of the Silvery Moon 1919 performed by Bill Murray composed by Edward Madden & Gus Edwards audio 2:47

Marine Hymn 1919 performed by U.S. Marine Band audio 1:07

In December 1919, Palmer's agents gathered 249 people of Russian origin, including well-known radical leaders such as Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and placed them on a ship bound for the Soviet Union (The Buford, called the Soviet Ark by the press).

The Hayseed - Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton 1/3 8:23

The Hayseed - Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton 2/3 8:09

The Hayseed - Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton 3/3 8:09

1920-1929

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1920

Slang of the 1920's

Paavo Nurmi won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in the 12 events in which he competed at the Olympic Games from 1920 to 1928.

In 1920, the kid’s bike was introduced. Since adults were riding in automobiles, the market needed someone to buy their bicycles.

The palmer raids continue escalating. In January 1920, another 6,000 ipeople were arrested, mostly members of the Industrial Workers of the World union. During one of the raids, more than 4,000 individuals were rounded up in a single night. All foreign aliens caught were deported, with no requirement that there be any evidence against them, under the provisions of the Anarchist Act. All in all, by January 1920, Palmer and Hoover had organized the largest mass arrests in U.S. history, rounding up at least 10,000 individuals.

For most of 1919 and early 1920, much of the public sided with Palmer, but this soon changed. Palmer announced that an attempted Communist revolution was certain to take place in the U.S. on May 1, 1920 (May Day). No such revolution took place, leading to widespread derision of Palmer. Once seen as a likely presidential candidate, he lost the nomination of the Democratic Party to dark horse candidate James M. Cox

"I desire not merely to explain what the real menace of communism is, but also to tell how we have been compelled to clean up the country almost unaided by any virile legislation. Though I have not been embarrassed by political opposition, I have been materially delayed because the present sweeping processes of arrests and deportation of seditious aliens should have been vigorously pushed by Congress last spring." A. Mitchell Palmer The Case Against the Reds (PDF) 1920

Following WWI (the war to end all wars), talented young authors, some expatriates in France, wrote about their feelings of disillusionment and alienation. A sense of rebellion developed and the victorian idea of decency was considered hypocritical. Writers began to write frankly about sexuality.

Centered in Harlem, NY, and other urban areas during the 1920s, black writers published more than ever before. Influential and lasting black authors, artists, and musicians received their first serious critical appraisal. This group included Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Alain Locke , who was considered the chief interpreter for the Harlem movement. or the Harlem Renaissance.

August 18 - American women gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

1920 Mrs. Wilson's Cookbook - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions. It includes recipes for making Ice Cream at home. In 1920 Thomas Edison told reporter B.F. Forbes that he was working on a machine that could make contact with the spirits of the dead.

Until the development in the mid-1920's of electrical recordings -- recording aided by microphones and electrical amplifiers during the recording process, and electrical amplification and loudspeakers for playback -- all sound recording processes were The diaphragm and needle cutting an acoustic record were powered only by the force of a voice. A speaker making a record had to shout into a recording horn to successfully record. Thus, almost no speeches recorded in the acoustic era are actuality recordings. All of the speeches recorded for the Nation's Forum were delivered solely for the recording machine, without a public audience. Since phonograph records in this period were limited to about three minutes, someone -- presumably the speaker -- abridged or selected highlights from longer speeches. Some speeches are represented by two or three very similar takes.

Dixieland one step 1920 edison recording composed by Dixieland Jazz Band performed by Lopez and Hamilton's Kings of Harmony

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me 1920 Edison recording Raderman's Jazz Orchestra

The1920s have been called the Golden Age of Sports. From the very beginning of the decade extraordinary athlete-heroes emerged in virtually every sport — baseball, football, tennis, golf, polo, and the Olympic sports. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Red Grange, Knute Rockne, Helen Wills, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Jack Dempsey, Benny Leonard, and Tommy Hitchcock established records and, in the process, became legends.

1920 Headin' Home - Babe Ruth video 4m

Charleston dance video

1920? Jaycees is founded, providing democratic leadership training opportunities through the projects and programs members plan, organize and conduct in their communities.

By 1920, Brooklyn’s Coney Island cycle path is dominated by motor vehicles.

1921

The term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek.

The January 26, 1921 issue of the Memphis Press contained the headline: "May Lynch 3 to 6 Negroes This Evening." Clergymen and business leaders often participated in lynchings. Few of the people who committed lynchings were ever punished. What makes the lynchings all the more chilling is the carnival atmosphere and aura of self-righteousness that surrounded the grizzly events.

1921 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of the highest paid actor/directors in the motion picture business. But on September 5 of that year, during a weekend party he was throwing at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco, the water in the goldfish bowl turned murky. Virginia Rappe (Rap-pay), a girl attending the party, ran screaming from a bedroom, took sick and died four days later.

Benjamin Brawley publishesSocial History of the American Negro

September 13, 1921 Wichita, Kansas, first White Castle restaurant is opened.

On September 17 Roscoe Arbuckle was arraigned in San Francisco charged with the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe.

Swing Low Sweet Chariot December 07, 1921 Edison recording Performed by The Southern Four 4:13

My Mammy 1921 performed by Diamond Trio audio 2:41

Second Hand Rose 1921 Fannie Brice audio 3:19

Stoney Broke in No Man's Land 1921 Frank Miller audio 3:10

Ain't We Got Fun 1921 Billy Jones audio 2:56

1922

August 2 1922 Alexander Graham Bell dies.

Yma Súmac was born on September 13, 1922 in Cajamarca, Peru

A Day with Thomas Edison 0:32

The discovery of King Tut's tomb

Book: Ulysses by James Joyce

November 26, 1922 Charles Monroe Schulz born

Excavation of Ur

Commençant en 1922, Casadesus a collaboré avec l'effilochure de Maurice de compositeur sur un projet pour créer des rouleaux de piano d'un certain nombre de ses travaux.

Beginning in 1922, Casadesus collaborated with the composer Maurice Ravel on a project to create piano rolls of a number of his works. Jeux d'eau - Ravel piano roll

Carolina in the Morning 1922 Paul Whitemen audio 3:05

The Flirt - Harold Lloyd film

Young Sherlocks - Our Gang 9:58

1923

1923 - The Country Club Plaza (often referred to as "the Plaza") is an upscale shopping district in Kansas City, Missouri. It was the first shopping center in the world designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile.

Opera reel with calls November 24, 1923 Jasper Bisbee - fiddle, Beulah Bisbee-Schuler - piano.

Canal Street Blues - King Oliver 3:00

Boys To Board - Our Gang 1/2 8:06

Boys To Board - Our Gang 2/2 9:51

Affectionate Dan - Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle

1924

Southern Blues Guitar Duet

Pharoah's Army Got Drownded July 09, 1924 Edison recording Performed by "colored quartet" (windowmedia)

Lonesome Road Blues (windowsmedia) September 22, 1924 The Blue Ridge Duo (Gene Austin and George Reneau) Edison recording.

Toastmasters was formed in October 1924, when a group of men assembled by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley met in the basement of the Santa Ana, California, YMCA to form a club "to afford practice and training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings, and to promote sociability and good fellowship among its members."

1924: Music: "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin

1925

1925 - Federal Aid Highway Act of 1925 - Instead of using names and colored bands on telephone poles, this new system would use uniform numbers for inter-state highways and a standardized shield that would be universally recognizable. The most important change was that this new system would be administered by the states, not by for-profit private road clubs. Even then, people decried the idea of giving roads numbers since they felt numbers would make highways cold and impersonal.

1925: Book: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Scopes, a high school teacher, was arrested on May 5, 1925, for teaching evolution from a chapter in a textbook which showed ideas developed from those set out in Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species.

July - Adolph Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

1925: The New Yorker debuts

St. Louis Blues September 04, 1925 Edison recording 3:39 by W.C. Handy performed by Frank Ferera and John Paaluhi - Hawaiian guitar duet.

By the mid twenties the introduction of radio broadcasting causes a drop in record sales. In response the record companies introduced electrical recordings and a new range of technically advanced machines (such as the HMV Orthophonic Gramophone) to play them. The increased loudness and improved tonal qualities revived the sales of both records and talking machines.

first electrical recordings?

With the advent of the microphone and electrical recording in 1925, the acoustical era of recording ended

Invention: Television

Film: "The Gold Rush"

Desire Under the Elms - Eugene O'Neill 1925 (text)

Table Ballet - Charlie Chaplin 1925

Night at the Kit Kat in London 9:48

1926

1926: Book: "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Roaring 20s: Jan Garber 's Orch. - Baby Face, 1926

Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five 2:47

1927

1927: Babe Ruth hits 59 home runs in one season

Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight - Bessie Smith 3:10

Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Tree - Carter Family recording August 1, 1927

Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven 3:48

Toot Toot Tootsie - Al Jolson

My Mammy - Al Jolson

California Here I Come - Al Jolson

1928

In 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, working in London, discovers that a mould on one of his culture plates produced a substance, penicillin, that killed bacteria.

Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth was one of the first inventors of the electronic television.

Anthropologist Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa, a study that has an impact on sexual mores in the West.

Child killer, Albert Fish surfaces.

1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon American film-maker Walt Disney creates Mickey Mouse. European films include G W Pabst's Pandora's Box.

German scientist Fritz Pfleumer invents magnetic tape.

Anssin jukka ja härman häät - Otto Pyykkonen March 08 Edison 3:02

May 10 Wildwood Flower - Carter Family

Barbara Allen - August 15, 1928 Frank Luther and his Pards - Edison recording

British novelist D H Lawrence publishes Lady Chatterley's Lover privately in Florence, but soon the book, with its scenes of explicit sex, is banned in several countries.

Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott - My Ohio Home (November 21, 1928)

1929

Emanuel H. Bronner immigrates to the USA, dropping the "Heil" from his name in protest of Hitler, becoming Dr. Bronner.

"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In 1929 Charles Francis Potter founded the First Humanist Society of New York whose advisory board eventually included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann. Potter was a minister from the Unitarian tradition and in 1930 he and his wife, Clara Cook Potter, published Humanism: A New Religion. Throughout the 1930s Potter was a well-known advocate of women’s rights, access to birth control, "civil divorce laws", and an end to capital punishment.

On Black Thursday, 24 October, US investors beginning selling their shares in a panic, causing the Wall Street crash. This results in a worldwide economic downturn – the Great Depression – leading to bankruptcies and mass unemployment.

More than 200 Zionist settlers, hoping to form a Jewish state, are massacred by Palestinians in Hebron.

The German Graf Zeppelin airship flies around the world.

Leon Trotsky is exiled from the Soviet Union by Stalin.

A sculpture by Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, symbolises the clean lines of modern art.

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel of life on the Mississippi, is first performed, showing how America's racial tensions are reflected in drama.

The term "moving pictures" is replaced by the term "talking pictures"

early terminology for technology incuded flying machine talking machine horseless carriage notes on slang

Frankie and Johnny 1920's

Makin' Whoopee 1920's performed by Louisiana Collegians 3:00 (windowsmedia)

King Porter: A Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton 1920's

St. Louis Blues starring Bessie Smith 8:30 The title track is the ever first published Blues collected and notated by musicologist W. C. Handy

Dec. 6, 1929 Sweeping the Clouds Away - Coon Sanders Orchestra

Mary Don't Weep (March 21, 1929)

1929 Bentley

1930-1939

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1930

1930 — Last known Giant Aye-Aye killed in Madagascar. The species was 2.5 to 5 times the size of the endangered Aye-Aye.

1930: Mohandas Gandhi leads a peaceful revolt again British rule in India

After 1930 Jiang launched a series of attacks that encircled the communists in southeast China and led to an attempt by communist army commander Chu Teh to break out.

Slang of the 1930's

1930 Chicago skyline

Tango - Joseph Schmidt

Amelia Earhart takes off from Hatboro, Pa.

Amelia Earhart speaks (circa early 30's)

Dutch Elm disease reaches the United States. Cleveland, Ohio witnessed the first case of Dutch elm disease in the U.S., in 1930. Apparently, this silent killer arrived in a shipment of logs from France. But Dutch elm disease spread East quickly: Within two years American elm trees in New Jersey were falling prey to the deadly fungus.

1930: Painting: "American Gothic" by Grant Wood

Dec. 7, 1930. W1XAV Boston broadcasts a video portion of a CBS radio program, The Fox Trappers orchestra program, sponsored by I. J. Fox Furriers. Included was what is sometimes called the first television commercial, which was prohibited by FRC regulations. [However, Donna Halper reports that as early as 1928 W1XAY in Lexington Mass. simulcast one hour of WLEX radio daily, and there is a mention of commercials in that hour.

Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band 2:37 (May 25, 1930)

Poor Little Benny - Bela Lam and Family 2:09

1931

Shortly before Edison dies, he says that the biggest mistake he had made was in trying to develop directed current, rather than the vastly superior alternating current system that Nikola Tesla had championed.

Oct 18, 1931 Thomas Edison dies at home. his final words to his wife, Mina, "It is very beautiful over there."

The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Nikola Tesla, who was quoted as saying,

"He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense."

Mourning Becomes Electra - Eugene O'Neill 1931 (text - not accessible in USA)

I Love Myself Because You Love Me - Helen Kane 1931

1932

On March 14, George Eastman, aged 77, writes suicide note--"My work is done. Why wait?"--and shoots himself.

Book: "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

June 21, 1932 - World champion cyclist Major Taylor dies

Le Lion Devenu Vieux - Ladislaw Starewicz 8:53

Hitler 00:55

Babe Ruth "Fancy Curves" (1932)

Buzzin' Around - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 1/2 10:12

Buzzin' Around - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 1/2 9:58

Free Eats - Our Gang 2/11/32 9:03

Betty Boop - Just a Gigolo - Irene Bordoni

1933

March 4, 1933 - Roosevelt Inaugurated

1933: The Tennessee Valley Authority created

Raymond B. Bragg, the associate editor of The New Humanist, sought to consolidate the input of L. M. Birkhead, Charles Francis Potter, and several members of the Western Unitarian Conference. Bragg asked Roy Wood Sellars to draft a document based on this information which resulted in the publication of the Humanist Manifesto in 1933. The Manifesto and Potter's book became the cornerstones of modern humanism. Both of these sources envision humanism as a religion.

The Devil's Ball - Ladislaw Starewicz 5:10

America First - Woody Guthrie date?

Tom Joad with montage from Grapes of Wrath

This Land - Woody Guthrie

So Long, it's Been Good to Know You - Woody Guthrie

Paradis - Pola Negri 3:11

1934

The Long March to northwest China, from October 1934 to October 1935, reduced the communists' army from over 100,000 to little more than 8,000, mainly as a result of skirmishes with Jiang's forces and the severity of the conditions. During the march a power struggle developed between Mao Zedong and Jiang Guo T'ao which eventually split the force. Mao's group finally based itself in Yan'an, where it remained throughout the war with the Japanese, forming an uneasy alliance with the nationalists to expel the invaders.

Bonnie and Clyde Death Scene - 1934

Emma Goldman returns to the US 2:51

Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe 20:34

1934 Duesenberg

1935

Parker Bros. Monopoly game inroduced - 1935

1935 - The Desert Rat-kangaroo becomes extinct

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston is published.

Bill Wilson founds Alcoholics Anonymous

1935: The Social Security Act

September 10 Huey Long dies from an assassin's bullet

Poslednij Tabor (The Last Gypsies Camp)1/3 Al'ta is dancing

Poslednij Tabor 2/3 Dancing

Poslednij Tabor 3/3 Al'ta is dancing

Geisha vs Yankee Girl baseball 1:22

A scene from An Inn in Tokyo 3:30

1936

The Tasmanian Tiger, at the time the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, is declared extinct.

Volkswagon Beetle debuts

Film: "Modern Times"

Flash Gordon Serial clip 3:12

Flash Gordon Ch. 7 Serial Clip 3:30

Flash Gordon parachutes from a rocketship 0:52

Hiram Donar recieves a new model Chevrolet

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration.

A campaign conducted in the 1930s by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) sought to portray marijuana as a powerful, addicting substance that would lead users into narcotics addiction.

Footnote: read the plot of reefer madness and wonder how many storyteelers in the guise of justice unjustly put people in prison for being dangerous to society. (bugliosi) wild imaginations maybe they were on even heavier drugs!? haha

Music: "Peter & the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev

Reefer Madness released 1936

Modern Times - 1936 Charlie sings and does the Moon Walk!

1936 Documentary on Huey Long 3:50

1937

1937 saw the publication of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich as well as Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, which many still consider the quintessential self-help book.

1937: The zeppelin Hindenburg explodes over New Jersey

May 27 - Golden Gate Bridge opens to public

May 28th, 1937. The place: Germany. The event: Automotive history was made with the founding of a new automobile company, the Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH, that, a little over a year later, became Volkswagenwerk GmbH. Thus began the formal story of Volkswagen.

Guernica - Picasso

Film: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Le Roman de Renard - Ladislas Starevitch (opening) 1:36

Miaou! - Le Roman de Renard - Ladislas Starevitch 2:22

They Can't Take That Away From Me - composed by Gershwin and sung by Fred Astaire

Joseph Schmidt live in Holland 1:08

1938

Invention of Nylon

Dracula - Mercury Theater of the Air first broadcast July 11, 1938 archive

Oct 30, 1938 Mercury Theatre's War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds broadcast script

October 17 Captain Midnight airs with "The Perada Treasure"

LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives.

Xerographic copying invented

SMALL FRY
by Frank Loesser

Small fry, struttin by the pool room
Small fry, should be in the school room
My, my put down that cigarette
You ain't grown up high and mighty yet

Small fry, dancin for a penny
Small fry, countin up how many
My, my just jlisten here to me
You ain't the biggest catfish in the sea

You practice peckin all day long to eome old radio song
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes
You better listen to your maw

and someday practice the law
and then you'll be a real success, yes,

Small fry, you kissed the neighbor's daughter
Small fry, should stay in shallow water
Seems I should take you cross my knee
You ain't the biggest catfish in the sea

You've got your feet all soakin wet
You'll be the death of me yet
Oh me, oh my, small fry

Gold und Silber - Erna Sack 3:34

La Folletta - Erna Sack 2:42

Voices of Spring - Erna Sack 2:11

1939

1939: Book: "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood. All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees. — John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath”

The Wizard of Oz

Shoot the Liker to Me John Boy - Artie Shaw 1939

Dancing Co-ed - Artie Shaw 1939

In the Mood - 1939

In the Mood - Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra

The commentator in this clip from the 30's quotes a warning about the rise of demogues. Speaking of Huey Long, "If Roosevelt fails, the man is waiting who is ruthless, ambitious and, indeed, plausible enough to Hitlerize America. Power for power's sake is Long's mastering god, until he is assassinated."

The clip then turns to the life of FDR.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) – after 1939, the Works Projects Administration – was a work-relief program created in 1935 by the President Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration that had employed over 8.5 million people by its demise in 1943. One of its programs was the Federal Writers Project (FWP), which included a Folklore Section. This section conducted fieldwork, recording songs, traditions, and stories across the nation. Originally created to gather material for the American Guide Series, later emphasis was placed upon fieldwork for the preservation of folk traditions for future generations.

1939 Zora Hurston Neale (collected in 1935 also)

Shove It Over - Zora Neale Hurston 4:31 (windowsmedia)

Wake Up Jacob - Zora Neale Hurston 1:35 (windowsmedia)

Let's Shake it - Zora Neale Hurston 2:51 (windowsmedia)

Let the Deal Go Down - Zora Neale Hurston 4:30 (windowsmedia)

Old Rattler - Field Hollar collected by John Lomax (WindowsMedia)

1940-1949

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1940

1940's New York Skyline

By the 1940's Chestnut Blight has claimed over 3.5 billion American Chestnut trees.

Railroads experience the highest ridership in American history, as soldiers are being sent to fight overseas during World War II. However, automobile transportation causes ridership to fall off after the war ends.

Book: "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Film: "The Grapes of Wrath" 1940: British troops evacuate Dunkirk

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (376 sound recordings)

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (24 interviews)

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (18 religious songs)

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (32 dance pieces)

Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (25 children's songs)

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (6 blues songs)

Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (33 work songs)

Bob Wills Breakdown 2:35 date?

I Aint Got Nobody - Mills Brothers undated

Globe scene from The Great Dictator - Oct 15, 1940

Everything is Jumpin' - Artie Shaw 1940 date?

Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw year?

Kid pitches to babe ruth? date?

The Dream - Matisse

Three Horses - Xu Beihong

Akai Suiren 紅い睡蓮 (李香蘭) a Mandarin song 2:22

三年(San Nien - Three Years) - Sung by Li Xiang Lan (李香兰)

Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France

Sister Rosetta Tharpe performing at Café Society in New
York City's Greenwich Village, Dec. 11, 1940.

1941

July 10, 1941 Jelly roll Morton dies.

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Manhattan Project Begins

Film: "Citizen Kane"

Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov first used the word "robotics" to describe robotic technology and predicted the rise of a powerful robot industry.

In 1941 the American Humanist Association was organized. Noted members of The AHA include Isaac Asimov, who was the president before his death, and writer Kurt Vonnegut, who followed as honorary president.

"The Maltese Falcon" starring Humphrey Bogart and lauren Bacall?

Amadee Ardoin dies at the Pineville State Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana on November 4, 1941, of a common disease untreatable at that time.

1942

1942, Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in a uranium pile on a tennis court at the University of Chicago.

The Battle of Midway

Feb 19, 1942 Executive Order No. 9066 Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas. This gave General DeWitt authority to order the mass evacuation of Issei and Nisei from the West Coast and other military areas. This order affected about 120,000 citizens and non-citizens of Japanese origin. The stated purpose of removing this entire ethnic group was for “protection against espionage and against sabotage.” Congress made it a crime to refuse to leave a military area when ordered to do so.

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is established in June 1942 with a mandate to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.

Nov 5, 1942 George M. Cohen dies.

Film: "Casablanca"

White Christmas by Irving Berlin

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree - Andrew Sisters 3:00

Don't Fence Me In - Andrew Sisters 1:45 date?

40's "Nudie" film 2:42

Ants in her Plants (40's "nudie") 4:47

Jingle Jangle Jingle - Gene Autrey 2:46

Close Shave - John Kirby 2:23

The Supreme Court hears Korematsu v. United States On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court decided, 6–3, to uphold the conviction of Korematsu. The majority ruled only on his refusal to leave a prohibited military area and did not consider the constitutionality of the relocation camps.The Court sided with the government and held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu's rights. Justice Black argued that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, is justified during circumstances of "emergency and peril."

When the Supreme Court made its Korematsu decision, the justices also decided another case that resulted in finally closing down the prison camps. The Supreme Court ruled that President Roosevelt’s executive order and the enforcement law passed by Congress only authorized the removal of the Issei and Nisei from military areas, not their imprisonment. The court never squarely decided whether the government could have legally issued orders and passed laws to establish a prison camp system. [Ex parte Endo,323 U.S. 283 (1944)

T-shirt Introduced

1943

The Toolache Wallaby declared extinct.

Invention: Scuba gear

7 January Nikola Tesla dies.

On April 19 Dr. Hofmann takes the first acid trip by intentionally ingesting his newly invented LSD25.

Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.

Grave of Katyn Forest Massacre Found

Chime Bells 2:37

1944

Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale

D-Day landing at Normandy

Today is Election Day, Bob Wills

Sons of the Pioneers

Cool Water

Gene Autry

Wild and Wooly West - Gene Autry with the Sons of the Pioneers

Nobody's Darlin' But Mine - Gene Autry

Woody Guthrie

Tom Joad (scenes from Grapes of Wrath)

So long it's been good to know you

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Andrew Sisters

Lone Star Rag - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys 1:42

1945

Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt meet in Yalta 1:59

FDR Dies

First Computer Built

Germans Surrender

Hitler Commits Suicide

Microwave Oven Invented

Slinky Toy Hits Shelves

United Nations Founded

U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Invention: ENIAC, the electronic computer

July 16 First Atomic Test

Hiroshima -August 6

Nagasaki -August 9

3 Songs - Leadbelly sings "In the Pines, ?

Goodnight, Irene - Ledbelly

Woody Guthrie with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee field recording 2:42

Woody Guthrie - 1945 field recording

The Glider - Artie Shaw 2:59

1946

Bikinis Introduced

The Common Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Spock

Juan Perón Becomes President of Argentina

Nuremberg Trials

Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill (text not accessible in USA)

Brotherhood of Man 1/2 sponsored by UAW-CIO

Brotherhood of Man 2/2

Goodbye Liza Jane - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys 1:40

1947

Dr. Bronner, after having escaped the Nazis and come to America, was arrested and committed to a mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois from which he escaped after shock treatments.

Dr. Bronner started his business making products by hand in his home. The product labels were crowded with statements of Bronner's philosophy, which he called "All-One-God-Faith" and the "Moral ABCs". The labels became famous for their idiosyncratic style, including hyphens to join long strings of words and the liberal use of exclamation marks.

On April 10, Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American in the major leagues.

The Marshall Plan

Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered

Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British

Marshall Plan

Polaroid Cameras Invented

Play: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

Katherine Hepburn's speech against HUAC

The Blues are Brewin'- Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong 2:09

Do You Know What It Means - Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong

Farewell to Storyville - Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong 4:56

1948

LSD was introduced into the United States in 1948

Berlin Airlift

"Big Bang" Theory Formulated

"Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Paper

Gandhi Assassinated

Policy of Apartheid Begun

State of Israel Founded

December 10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN General Assembly Resolution 217A)

In 1948 Columbia introduced the 33 1/3 rpm LP records, followed soon after by the 45 rpm records from RCA Victor.

first recordings?

Painting: "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth

Large Red Interior - Matisse

1949

In 1949, Jackie Robinson led the National League in batting and stolen bases and was voted the league's Most Valuable Player.

China Becomes Communist

First Non-Stop Flight Around the World

George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four

NATO Established

Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Wildwood Flower - Carter Family

Fleur De Fougere - Ladislaw Starewicz 1/3 8:43

Fleur De Fougere - Ladislaw Starewicz 2/3 6:40

Fleur De Fougere - Ladislaw Starewicz 3/3 7:19

1950-1959

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1950

1950 Fernseh DE10

Circa 1950 — The Israel painted frog goes extinct because its marsh habitat is drained.

1950's Drastic decline in railroad travel in the United States of America, due toautomobiles, trucks, and airplanes, as first jetliners take to the air.

1950's The northernmost section of Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway is replaced with the Prospect Expressway.

The Fifties are brought to you by Volkswagen undated

Forties? or Fifties? VW commercial

Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. After several largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy rose suddenly to national fame in 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who were employed in the State Department.

The British author George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair dies in London, Jan. 21, 1950

Film: "Sunset Boulevard"

Film: "All About Eve"

Battle of Inchon

1950 Blackface Performance: Vernon & Ryan 4:28

Sometime in the Fifties, Dr. Bronner sends out the first spam messages on his soap labels

1951

Hooneymooners airs - 1951

1951: Book: "The Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger1951: Film: "African Queen"

1952

1952 — Last reliable report of the Caribbean Monk Seal.

January 1 The Black Museum

Though most American radio programs were created at home, occasionally one was created by an outside source. Such was the case with The Black Museum. Produced by the BBC and hosted by Orson Welles, this series came to Mutual on this day. The series was based upon Scotland Yard's Black Museum, housing many artifacts from its own history. Welles could be heard leading the listener through the museum as he pointed out various artifacts. At some point he would focus on one item and begin telling a story based on the item's reason for being in the museum. The idea of the series was great as was Welles, but the series never really took off and left the air by December of the same year.

Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, published in 1952.

Nixon's "Checkers" speech September 23, 1952

With his victory in the 1952 presidential race, Dwight Eisenhower became the first Republican president in 20 years.

Film: "Singing in the Rain"

Nobel Peace Prize: Albert Schweizer

Book: "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White

Book: "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Book: "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

First hydrogen bomb exploded

Printemps a Rio - Jacqueline François

Tu n´peux pas t´figurer - Jacqueline François

Tu voulais - Jacqueline François

1953

In 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson deciphered the structure of DNA. Understanding how DNA carries information and reproduces itself brought humanity closer to understanding one of the central mysteries of life. This discovery proved how Charles Darwin's theory of evolution worked in practice.

Discovery of the double helix structure of DNA

Intending to select a moderate conservative, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren to be the fourteenth Chief Justice of the United States.

Wilt Chamberlain 1:45

1954

George Devol applied for the first robotics patents in 1954

Earl Warren is confirmed by the Senate on March 1, 1954 to be the fourteenth Chief Justice of the United States

delivered 9 June 1954 during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in Washington, D.C.

With the highly publicized Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, McCarthy's support and popularity began to fade. Later in 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67 to 22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion.

Book: "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Book: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

Roger Bannister breaks the 4-minute mile

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Brown v. Board of Education: US Supreme Court desegregates schools

Film: "On the Waterfront"

Till Then - Mills Brothers undated?

Taita Inti - Yma Sumac 1:34

Amor Indio - Yma Sumac 2:07

1955

Bacall and Bogart

In the mid Fifties, the Rat Pack is founded by "Den Mother" Lauren Bacall, after seeing her husband, Humphrey Bogart and his friends return from a night in Las Vegas. The original members of the were Frank Sinatra (pack master), Judy Garland (first vice-president) and husband Sid Luft (cage master), Lauren Bacall (den mother) and Humphrey Bogart (rat in charge of public relations), Swifty Lazar (recording secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Michael Romanoff and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon, actor David Niven confirms that the Rat Pack originally included him but not Sammy Davis or Dean Martin.

Ray Kroc buys the rights to franchise McDonald's Restaurants

"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabakov

Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott

Mister Sandman - The Chordettes

The Great Pretender, Only You - The Platters

Only You - The Platters

Union Maid by Woody Guthrie - Almanac Singers

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come 'round
She always stood her ground.
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.
Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,
I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die.
This union maid was wise to the tricks of company spies,
She couldn't be fooled by a company stool, she'd always organize the guys.
She always got her way when she struck for better pay.
She'd show her card to the National Guard
And this is what she'd say
You gals who want to be free, just take a tip from me;
Get you a man who's a union man and join the ladies' auxiliary.
Married life ain't hard when you got a union card,
A union man has a happy life when he's got a union wife.

Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and the Comets

1956

In 1956, the first large-scale oral contraceptive trials took place at the request of the Planned Parenthood Organization.

The interstate system was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956

1956: Play: "Waiting For Godot" by Samuel Beckett

Just a Gigolo - Louis Prima 2:47

Till Then - Mills Brothers undated?

Take Me Back to Tulsa - Bob Wills and Glen Campbell 1:44

San Antonio Rose - Glenn Campbell and Bob Wills 3:25

1956 - Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby declared extinct.

1957

1957 is brought to you by the all new 1957 Chevrolet! 00:35

Death of Joseph Raymond McCarthy May 2, 1957

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

November 17, 1957 - Police in Plainfield, Wisconsin, investigating the robbery of a local hardware store and disappearance of the owner arrive at the dilapidated farmhouse of Eddie Gein. They find a ghoulish inventory of decapitated corpses including an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses, a heart and a suit made entirely of human skin. Police discovered within Eddie's farmhouse the remains of ten women.

Oct 3, 1957 Sputnik launched - Soviet film

R7 and Sputnik launches - Soviet footage (use for the year 1957)

R-7 ICBM Launching Sputnik-1 from Baikonur launch site

Oct 3, 1957 Sputnik launched - U.S. news report

Oct 3, 1957 Sputnik launched - German news report

Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday 2:33

Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday 3:14

Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday

Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday 9:04 1957? or 1944? with Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster Gerry Mulligan Roy Eldridge Doc Cheatham Vic Dickenson Danny Barker Milt Hinton Mal Waldron on Sound of Jazz hosted by Robert Herridge

1958

America - Allen Ginsberg audio with montage

Jack Kerouac last page of On the Road

Elizabeth Cotten had retired from the guitar for twenty-five years, except for occasional church performances. It wasn't until she reached her sixties that she began recording and performing publicly. She was discovered by the folk-singing Seeger family while she was working for them as a housekeeper.

While working for a brief stint in a department store, Elizabeth helped a child wandering through the aisles find her mother. The child was Peggy Seeger and the mother was Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Charles Seeger Family. Soon after this Elizabeth again began working as a maid, caring for the Seeger's children Mike, Pete, and Peggy. While working with the Seegers (a voraciously musical family) she remembered her own guitar playing from forty years prior, and picked up the instrument again to start from scratch.

What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday 1958

1959

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), by Richard P. Feynman

Nixon and Khrushchev July 26, 1959 Former Vice President Richard Nixon meets with Khrushchev . Their conversation and debate during the meeting became known as the kitchen debate.

1959: Film: "Ben-Hur"

1959: Film: "Some Like It Hot"

Walk the Line 1959 live

Feb 3, 1959 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash.

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran Feb 7, 1959

Silent footage of the Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and others in New York, Summer 1959. The location is in and around the Harmony Bar & Restaurant at E 9th St. and 3rd Ave. Others seen are Mary Frank (wife of film-maker Robert Frank) and children Pablo and Andrea, as well as Lucien's wife Francesca Carr and their three sons, Simon, Caleb and Ethan.

Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen Show

Stars Fell on Alabama - Jack Teagarden year?

Stars Fell on Alabama - Richard Himber year?

Shout! - Isley Brothers

Jamaica Farewell - Harry Belafonte 3:28 date

The Fifties have been brought to you by Good & Plenty candy!

AND

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rice Krispies!!!

1960-1969

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1960

The Supreme Court, under the leadership of Earl Warren, took on the defense of individual rights as no court before it.

The U-2 came to public attention when pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet territory on 1 May 1960, causing an event known as the U-2 Crisis.

By the early 60's, the Rat Pack features its most famous line-up of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, who appeared together in films and on stage.

Kennedy presidential campaign jingle

Kennedy presidential campaign advertisement

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock

Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) 1/9 - Ingmar Bergman 10m

Joe Turner - St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) 3:10 French

When The Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong date?

When The Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong other version date? introduces band members

I'm Gonna Run to My Jesus for Refuge - Charles Barnett 2:17

How Can I Face Tomorrow - Patsy Cline 1960

Up Above My Head - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2:54 date?

Down By the Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2:50

1961

President Kennedy Inaugural Address Jan 1961

footnote: Why the stovepipe hats in 1961? The stovepipe was in style for a very brief period during the Civil War. The country was celebrating a long series of nostalgic anniversaries of events leading up to the Civil war. There was the 150th birthday of Lincoln, the anniversary of the Emanipation Proclamation and many other anniversaries important to the Civil Rights Movement.?? 1963 is the 100 anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. In August, Americans gather in washington D.C. to demonstrate.

Invention: Birth-control pill

The Berlin Wall is built

Soviet launch first manned space flight in 1961

1961: John Glenn orbits the earth

Sunday, April 16 - United States of America launches a terrorist attack upon Cuba, invading the island at the Bay of Pigs.

196? is brought to you by the Volkswagen Beetle Bus

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein

I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline 1961

Crazy - Patsy Cline 61?

Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline undated

Jack Kerouac in France year?

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady 4:09 1/3 year?

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady 1:40 2/3 year?

Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady 3/3 year?

Allen Ginsberg reads from Howl year?

1962

In February 1962, the U.S. launched an economic embargo against Cuba.

"Lawrence of Arabia"

Kennedy Rice Stadium speech September 12, 1962 1 of 2 video 9:18

Kennedy Rice Stadium speech September 12, 1962 2 of 2 video

On September 12, 1962, Rice Stadium hosted the speech in which President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade. In the speech, he used a reference to Rice University football to help frame his rhetoric:

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

On 14 October 1962, a U-2 from the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, based at Laughlin Air Force Base near Del Rio, Texas and piloted by Major Richard S. Heyser, photographed the Soviet military installing nuclear warhead missiles in Cuba, thereby precipitating the Cuban missile crisis.

October 22, 1962 Kennedy televised speech ordering blockade of Soviet ships - Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 — A survey found no surviving Titicaca Orestias, a fish native to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

Bob Dylan records "Blowin' In The Wind"

"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Old Fashioned Girl - Eartha Kitt (Live Kaskad 1962)

I Want to be Evil- Eartha Kitt (Live Kaskad 1962)

C'est Si Bon - Eartha Kitt (Live Kaskad 1962)

Let There Be Love - Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland 2:17

1963

Read the Text and view the video of I Have a Dream
delivered on Aug 28, 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr.

Sep 2, Kennedy interview concerning Vietnam

The Warren Court that is remembered today is the 1963-69 Court, in which a solid bloc of five liberals created the revolution in constitutional criminal procedure, and which aided the civil rights movement as much as possible. Earl Warren became well known as a "liberal" Supreme Court justice, so much so that national politics revolved in part on one's position concerning the Court. That is, one's views of the Warren Court reflect in part one's views of an "activist" judiciary. Warren was a decisive, amiable and tough-minded leader of a fractious group, and he imprinted his political and legal views on nearly all of the Court's decisions in this six year period.

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train - on Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (No. 3)

Later Career and Recordings

During the later half of the fifties Mike Seeger began making bedroom reel to reel recordings of her songs in Elizabeth's house. The culmination of these recordings would later go on Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar, which was released on Folkways Records. Since its release, her songs, especially her signature track, "Freight Train," written when she was 11, have been covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan,Matt Valentine and Taj Mahal. Shortly afterwards she began playing selected joint shows with Mike Seeger, the first of which was in 1960 at Swarthmore College. One of her songs, "Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now," was in fact recorded by Blind Boy Fuller under the title "Lost Lover Blues" in 1940. A tribute to Cotten, "In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton"[sic] was recorded by fIREHOSE on the album If'n shortly after her death. The song mimics her playing style and its lyrics echo the content of "Freight Train".

Over the course of the early sixties Elizabeth went on to play more shows with big names in the burgeoning sixties folk revival. Some of these included Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival and the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife.

The newfound interest in her work inspired her to write more material to play and in 1967 she released a record created with her grandchildren entitled Shake Sugaree.

Using profits from her touring and record releases, as well as from the many awards given to her for contribution to the folk arts, Elizabeth moved with her daughter and grandchildren from Washington and bought a house in Syracuse, New York. She continued touring and releasing records well into her 80's. In 1984 she won the Grammy Award for "Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording" for her album on Arhoolie Records "Elizabeth Cotten Live." In 1989, Cotten was one of 75 influential African-American women chosen to be included in the photo documentary, "I Dream a World." When accepting the award on the Grammy stage in Los Angeles, her comment was "Thank you. I only wish I had my guitar so I could play a song for you all".

Elizabeth Cotten died in Syracuse, New York at the age of 92.

Kennedy's commencement address at American University June 10, 1963

"(The US) will never start a war."

photo date 62 or 63?

Kennedy arrives at Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas - image

Peace March - Thousands Oppose Vietnam War

She Loves You Manchester - Beatles (1963) 2:32

Le Feu Follet - Molle 2:10 (french)

Le Feu Follet - Molle) 8:38 (french)

The bold stand of a few students, faculty, and local people, around the University of Califrornia in Berkeley, renewed the right to free speech and paved the way for the Anti-War Movement. Mario Savio delivers a climatic speech on the steps of Sproul Hall which had been occupied by one of the first of many "Sit-Ins". (Dec 2, 1964)

Great Train Robbery UK

Kodak 156 Instamatic cartridge camera introduced.

Goldfinger with Sean Connery as the Hero, James Bond

Schwinn introduces the Sting-Ray, with low-riding 'banana' seat and high-rise handlebars.

1964

1964: The Civil Rights Act

Killing Floor - Howlin' Wolf

I Feel Fine - Beatles

What Did You Learn In School?

Addams Family theme 1:00

Audrey Hepburn speaking Cockney slang (My Fair Lady) 0:25

The Rain In Spain (My Fair Lady) - Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle 2:22

I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady) - Audrey Hepburn 3:55

Beatlemania Feb 1964 Beatles New York

September 24 Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

I Feel Fine

David Bowie interview

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins 2:19

A Spoonful of Sugar - Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

I Love to Laugh - Ed Wynn as Uncle Albert in Mary Poppins 7:39

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan 1964 6:14

Mr. Tambourine man - Bob Dylan at 1964 Newport Folk Festival 5:14

Mustang Coming Soon! - Mustang Coming Soon! - television commercial 0:58

1965

Richard Feynman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965

Salty Dog - The Dillards (the Darlings) 1:52

Dooley - The Dillards (The Darlings) 1:45

The Times they are A-changin' (1965)

Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

Eight Miles High 3:28

So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star 2:01 this is a studio recording with montage

So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star - live 1:49

Ticket to Ride

Help!(live)1:37

Helllo Goodbye 3:23

Help! - Beatles 2:12

"Dr. Zhivago"

"The Sound of Music"

The Rolling Stones release "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

The first abandoned rail corridor in the United States to be converted into a recreational trail is the Elroy-Sparta State Trail in Wisconsin, which opened in 1965. The following year the Illinois Prairie Path opened. The longest developed rail trail is currently the 225-mile Katy Trail in Missouri

In 1965, Congress passed the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act requiring the surgeon general's warnings on all cigarette packages.

The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-92) required that the warning "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health" be placed in small print on one of the side panels of each cigarette package. The act prohibited additional labeling requirements at the federal, state, or local levels

Beatles at the NME Poll Winners Concert 1965 (1/3) I Feel Fine, She's a Woman 6:07

Beatles at the NME Poll Winners Concert 1965 (2/3) Baby's in Black, Ticket to Ride 5:57

Beatles at the NME Poll Winners Concert 1965 (3/3) Long Tall Sally 3:54

1966

1966- Truman Capote speaking about the nonfiction-novel

Subterranean Homesick Blues (1966) Allen Ginsberg stands on the left edge of the frame

Like a Rolling Sone (1966)

Bob Dylan & John Lennon

Os Mutantes 3:13 (Brasil) year?

Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground and Nico 5:50

I'm Waiting For The Man - Velvet Underground and Nico 4:54

Femme Fatale - Velvet Underground and Nico live 2:51

Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground and Nico 5:14

Run Run Run - Velvet Underground and Nico 4:26

Heroin - Velvet Underground and Nico 7:15

Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys 2:18

Beatles behind the scenes footage

I Want You - Bob Dylan 3:08

Theory of plate tectonics suggested

The 6-Day War

Christiaan Barnard performs the 1st heart transplant

Charles Whitman Texas tower shootings - August 1, 1966 Huntley Report

During the pre-dawn hours of August 1, 1966, Whitman killed his mother in her apartment and his wife at their residence. Later in the morning he bought a variety of ammunition and a shotgun; about 11:30 A.M. he went to the university tower, taking with him a footlocker, six guns, knives, food, and water. After clubbing the receptionist (who later died) on the twenty-eighth floor about 11:45 A.M., he killed two persons and wounded two others who were coming up the stairs from the twenty-seventh floor. On the observation deck of the tower, at an elevation of 231 feet, Whitman then opened fire on persons crossing the campus and on nearby streets, killing ten more people and wounding thirty-one more (one of whom died a week later). Police arrived and returned his fire, while other policemen worked their way into the tower. Several of the dead and wounded were moved to cover by students and other citizens while the firing continued. At 1:24 P.M. police and a deputized private citizen reached the observation deck, where police officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy shot and killed Whitman. Altogether, seventeen persons were killed, including Whitman, and thirty-one were wounded in one of the worst mass murders in modern United States history. An autopsy on Whitman's body revealed a brain tumor, but medical authorities disagreed over its effect on Whitman's actions. His body was returned to Lake Worth, Florida, for burial.

1967

In June 1967 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its first report to Congress recommending that the warning label be changed to "Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death from Cancer and Other Diseases."

President Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall to be associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Graduate

Martin Luther King - speech delivered 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

The Chicago Picasso, as it is generally referred to, was unveiled in the Civic Center Plaza on August 15, 1967. Executed from Picasso's 42-inch steel model, the finished sculpture is 50 feet high and weighs 162 tons.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles

A Day in the Life - Beatles 5:02

Soul Man - Sam & Dave 2:49

Soul Man - Sam & Dave 2:29

Light My Fire - Doors live with montage 3:34

Break on Through - Doors live 1967

The End - Doors live 9:58

The End - Doors live 10:40

Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees

That's Life - Frank Sinatra 5:28

Banho de Lua - Os Mutantes 1:12 (Brasil)

O Cantador - Elis Regina 3:07 (Brasil)

Veleiros - Elis Regina 2:44 (Brasil)

Apples and Oranges - Pink Floyd 3:05

If You Go Don't be Slow - Syd Barrett 67 or 74?

Expecting to Fly - Buffalo Springfield 3:46

Tuesday Afternoon - Moody Blues 4:28

Wild Thing - Jimi Hendrix at Monterrey Pop 1967 6:07

Stop That Train - Keith And Tex 3:22

1967 Mustang ad 0:55

1968

The Tet Offensive

The decisions of the Warren Court became a part of the 1968 presidential election, won by Richard Nixon, and led to calls, still heard more nearly forty years later, for judges to engage in judicial "restraint." Nixon also campaigned on a "Law and Order" plaform.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald

Tiptoe through the Tulips - Tiny Tim (1968)

Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger

June Carter Johnny Cash Pete Seeger (1967) 4:51

Touch Me - Doors live 3:13

Hello Goodbye - Beatles

Helter Skelter - Beatles

I am the Walrus - Beatles 4:44

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic) - George Harrison 3:25

Aquarius/Hair/Manchester England/Let the Sun Shine - original cast of Hair

Easy to be Hard - Jennifer Warnes from cast of Hair 3:07

Hello Dolly - Louis Armstrong

Dois Mil e Um - Os Mutantes 3:48 (Brasil)

Clowns and Jugglers - Syd Barrett 2:53 July 20

Dont Look Back - Keith And Tex 3:20

April 4 Robert Kennedy's speech in Indianapolis on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr

June 5 Assassination of Robert Kennedy

In the summer of 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced his retirement upon the appointment of his successor.

Dan Rather accosted by "Security" at Democratic National Convention 1:00

Confrontation between Chicago Police and demonstrators at 1968 Democratic National Convention 0:57

Strong-arm tactics at 1968 Democratic Convention 3:13

1969

Nixon appointed Warren Burger in 1969 to succeed Earl Warren, who was perceived as a liberal interventionist, especially in areas like school desegregation and civil rights, as Chief Justice. Nixon wanted the Court to follow a more conservative, go-slow attitude, especially in civil rights. This was the era of school busing and integration, real political hot buttons. Burger was a conservative Minnesota judge. The newly elected President, Republican Richard Nixon, fulfilled a promise to appoint Supreme Court Justices who were "strict constructionists" of the Constitution by nominating Burger.

"Turn on, tune in, drop out." -Timothy Leary

Legend of a Mind - Moody Blues 1969 6:08

1969? is sponsored by the Volkswagen Beetle

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's first step onto the Moon on July 20

I Want You Back - Jackson Five

CBS August 9, 1969 Newscast of Tate-LaBianca Murders

August 1969 - period after Tate-LaBianca murders

Manson Family Documentary

Brady Bunch airs 0:58

August 15 – August 17, 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair

Going up the Country - Canned Heat 2:55

I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock 3:18

L.A. Woman

Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act (Public Law 91-222), which prohibited cigarette advertising on television and radio and required that each cigarette package contain the label "Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health."

1969: Book: "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Space Oddity (original version)- David Bowie

Space Oddity - David Bowie

Feel The Spirit - Ethiopians 2:34

Losing You - Ethiopians 3:09

Reggae In Your Jeggae - Dandy 3:05

Brixton Cat - Dice The Boss 2:45

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 7:23

Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs

My Pal Foot Foot - The Shaggs

Panis et Circences - Os Mutantes 2:59 (Brasil)

Fuga Nº 2 - Os Mutantes 2:48 (Brasil) 69 or 70?

Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar Um Amigo - Os Mutantes 3:33 (Brasil)

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues - Bukka White 3:27

Poor Boy Long Way from Home - Bukka White 3:10

Mama Don't Allow - Bukka White 3:00 (date?)

1970-1979

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1970

Circa 1970 — The Caspian Tiger becomes extinct. Nearly exterminated by the Russian government in the early 20th century whiel the last of its population succumbed to deforestation and hunting.

By 1970, over 100 million American elms succumb to Dutch Elm disease in the United States, many of them dating from the 1700s. Efforts were wasted in frantic "cut and burn" campaigns. With no programs to save the American elm, it was up to private citizens to prevent this great tree from going the way of the chestnut.

Students Sandra Scheuer, Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause and William Schroeder are slain
by Ohio State National Guardsmen at Ohio State University.

Kent State Shootings May 4, 1970

Kent State Shootings documentary video 2:50

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

John Henry - Mississippi Fred McDowell 2:57

Goin Down to the River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 2:50

The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell 5m

May 31 - Major earthquake hits Peru killing 66,794 throughout the country. The town of Yungay gets the worst when a peak from Mt. Huarscaran falls into the lake above the town, tipping the lake over onto the village and killing 20,000 under water and earth and rock in 3 minutes.

August 25 Sterling Hall Bombing (PDF)

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Chanson à répondre - Soirée Canadienne 4:05

You're Something Special to Me - The Shaggs

Space Oddity (live) - David Bowie

February 18 Arrest (PDF)

1971

The Last Whole Earth Catalog is issued, a collaborative effort featuring tools to access

Heart of Gold - Neil Young live

Tiny Dancer Elton John live

Riders on The Storm - The Doors 7:06

Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison live 3:27

Country Roads - John Denver 3:14 larger screen

The Egg McMuffin sandwich is test marketed in the US as McDonald's first breakfast menu item.

7Up The Uncola

"All in the Family" debuts

1972

World Trade Center completed

John Wayne Gacy Jr. (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994), also known as The Killer Clown, was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men, 29 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown."

Nixon visits China

"The Godfather"

Terrorists interupt Olympic Games in Munich

The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff 3:35

Águas de Março - Elis Regina com Tom Jobim 3:49 (Brasil) year? larger screen

Atras da Porta - Elis Regina 4:09

1973

Abortion is legalized in the US

Nobel Peace Prize: Kissenger & LDT for ending War in Vietnam

"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

On Thursday, January 11, 1973, the first broadcast of An American Family changed television history forever. A 12-hour documentary series on PBS, An American Family chronicled seven months in the day-to-day lives of the William C. Loud family of Santa Barbara, California. An audience of ten million viewers watched in fascination the unfolding real-life drama of Bill and Pat Loud, and their five children, Lance, Kevin, Grant, Delilah and Michele.

1974

January 4, 1974 - Ted Bundy begins a rampage of serial killings

April 15, 1974 9.40 am Hibernia bank robberry in San Francisco by Sybionese Liberation Army featuring Patricia Hearst

If you showed up on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul and plunked down your $1 admission (50 cents for kids) to attend the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, you were in select company. There were about 12 people in the audience.

Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run putting Babe Ruth behind him.

Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman

Film: "Chinatown"

Lucy the fossil hominid is discovered.

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground live in Paris 7:06

Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed 4:37 live Brussels, Belgium

July 8 The Supreme Court hears arguments in United States vs. Nixon 3:10:00

July 24 the Supreme Court decides United States vs. Nixon. The question: Is the President's right to safeguard certain information, using his "executive privilege" confidentiality power, entirely immune from judicial review? The Court decides 8-0 that neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the generalized need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified, presidential privilege. The Court granted that there was a limited executive privilege in areas of military or diplomatic affairs, but gave preference to "the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of justice." Therefore, the president must obey the subpoena and produce the tapes and documents. The Opinion Announcement of the Court 16:49

The Supreme Court decision forces Nixon to release the tapes.

Aug 8 - Nixon resigns (outtakes)

Transcript of Ford's speech

September 8, one month after President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency amid the Watergate scandal, his successor, President Gerald R. Ford, announced his decision to grant Nixon a full pardon for any crimes he may have committed while in office. Page 1 of the Pardon Page 2 of the Pardon

1975

1975 - Ocean Parkway Bike Path designated as a scenic landmark to prevent any further compromise to the historic design.

TV: "Saturday Night Live" debuts

1975: Book: "Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow

1975: Film: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Intro - Rocky Horror Picture Show 4:42

The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show 4:14

Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Picture Show 3:50

27 year old, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

Old Man 3:31

1976

At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping city of Tangshan, in northeastern China. The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, obliterated the city of Tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century.

1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address by Barbara Charline Jordan audio

The Helter Skelter Murders 1/9 9:36

Blitzkrieg Bop

Rock n' Roll High School (1979)

I Wanna be Sedated

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio

California Sun

Teenage Lobotomy

The KKK Took My Baby Away

Spiderman

It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 world)

Commando, Spiderman, Rockaway Beach

Elton John Improvision

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult live

Elected - Alice Cooper 3:42

1977

McDonald's breakfast menu introduced nationally in America.

"Roots"

"Star Wars"

1978

Invention of the Year: Test tube babies. The world's first test-tube baby Louise Brown was born, thanks to in vitro fertilisation, researched by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in Britain.

Nobel Peace Prize: Begin (Israel) + Sadat (Egypt). (Both whom are responsible for more war than than the average jamoke!)

Bicycling becomes more popular because of environmental awareness (the first Earth Day was in 1970), the oil embargo, and resulting fuel shortages. In 1978, more bikes than cars are sold in the US.

1979

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants students stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took approximately seventy Americans captive. The students were supported by Iran's post-revolutionary regime that was in the midst of solidifying power and objected to U.S. influence in Iran and its support of the recently fallen Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been installed by a CIA funded coup in 1953.

Accident at the 3-Mile Island nuclear power plant

Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Teresa

Somoza overthrown in Nicaragua

"Apocalypse Now"

1980-1989

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1980

Michael Jackson does the Moonwalk developed from Marcel Marceau's "walking with the wind" and Charlie Chaplin's scene in Modern Times

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

Call Me - Blondie 2:12

Magic - The Cars 4:07

1981

Sandra Day O'Connor is 1st woman appointed to the US Supreme Court

In 1981 the FTC issued a report to Congress that concluded health warning labels had little effect on public knowledge and attitudes about smoking. As a result of this report, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-474), which required four specific health warnings on all cigarette packages and advertisements:

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Smoking by Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, and Low Birth Weight

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide

Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson 1/6 9:33

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March attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan 0:18

March attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan 0:24

March attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan 1:17 (narration)

1981 Andy Warhol eating a hamburger

Laurie Anderson - O Superman 8:26

I Melt with You - Modern English 4:10

Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys live Finland 1:16

1982

1982: Film: "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial&quot

1982: Book: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 2:26

1983

The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out
NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man of few pretensions and tremendous personal charm, who speaks with the same passion about a child's toy wagon and the frontiers of subatomic physics.
Original broadcast date: 01/25/83

Pleasure Of Finding Things Out 1/5

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1983: Play: "Glengary Glen Ross" by David Mamet

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper 4:33

Rawhide - Dead Kennedys

I Kill Children / Police Truck - Dead Kennedys live 5:11

Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2 3:46

1984

Book: "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

Magic - The Cars live 4:33

Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2 live 4:04

1985

A Prairie Home Companion November 16, 1985 1:59 A Prairie Home Companion first aired in 1974 and was going strong by the mid 80's. The show was broadcast live every Saturday evening. This is the first available recorded broadcast.

1986

Reagan speaks on the day of the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster delivered 28 January 1986 video

Crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik

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Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 5:57 1/7 full screen

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 6:20 2/7

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 5:13 3/7

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 6:42 4/7

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 4:56 5/7

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 3:11 6/7

Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose 5:03 7/7

The International Bicycle Fund cites a survey from the Department of the Interior and Nielson that shows bicycling is the third-most-popular participatory sport after swimming and general exercise.

1987

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 1 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 2 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 3 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 4 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 5 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 6 of 7

1987 Charles Manson Interview with Geraldo Rivera: 7 of 7

1988

Jane Says - Jane's Addiction 5:09

1989

1989 — The Golden Toad of Costa Rica becomes extinct due to climate change.

1990-1999

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1990

World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

1990 - daughter of LaBianca's pleads for Tex Watson

Sue Hendrickson, amateur paleontologist, discovered the most complete (more than 90%) and, until 2001 the largest, Tyrannosaurus fossil skeleton known in the Hell Creek Formation near Faith, South Dakota, on August 12, 1990. It is named "Sue" in honor of Hendrickson.

Nelson Mandella freed from prison

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched

1991

Iraq is attacked by UN forces

January 16, 1991 signalled the start of an air campaign against Iraq. February 27, after 100 hours of ground fighting, Kuwait was liberated, and a ceasefire was declared. 200,000 Iraqis were dead, including hundreds of civilians, 148 UN allies were killed.}

The Soviet Union Dissolves

Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, lead a revolution against Gorbachev inorder to preserve the crumbling Soviet Union power structure. Yeltsin however didn't lose much, after the failed revolt, the 15 seperate republics were granted their independence and Yeltsin remained the president of the newly independent republic.

First web page goes online August 6, 1991

Luby's massacre was a mass killing that took place on October 16, 1991, in Killeen, Texas, United States when George Jo Hennard drove his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot and killed 23 people, wounded another 20 and then committed suicide by shooting himself.

1991: The Soviet Union breaks apart

1992

LA Riots

Rodney King was beaten badly by police officers in L.A when resisting arrest. Unknown to the police, there was somebody filming it in the bushes. The police officers were handed a verdict of not guilty by the first review board. This caused racial riots to break out in south central L.A. and led to several days of rioting.

President Clinton elected

In November, Democrat Bill Clinton becomes 42nd president of the United States, defeating Republican incumbant George Bush.

1992 - U.S. and French teams complete genetic maps of mouse and human

Would - Alice in Chains 3:28

1993

Waco Tragedy

The ATF raids the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas and a seige results. The seige lasts for several weeks until a fire breaks out (I have heard some reports that the Davidians themselves started it and some reports that the Federal agents started it) killing most of the cult members including leader David Koresh and several children.

Explosion at the World Trade Center in New York

February 26, Muslim funamentalists tried to destroy the World Trade Center, killing five people and trapping tens of thousands of office workers in the tower. In March, four men connected with Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman were convict

1995

The Oklahoma City Bombing

April 19, 1995: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals, were killed in the bombing of a federal building in Oaklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged and convicted in this case. For their roles in the bombing Terry Nichols received a life sentence and Timothy McVey was sentenced to death.

1996

OJ Simpson Trail Begins

1997

Heaven's Gate Cult Death

A mass suicide in which 39 members of a "Heaven's Gate Cult" in California killed themselves by drinkling Comet Multi Purpose Cleaner, thinking they would be sent up to a spaceship behind the passing Hale Bopp comet. Strange and sad story

Princess Diana Dies in Tragic and Horrific Car Accident

Princess Diana dies in a horrific car accident after being chased by the Paparazzi from an elegant hotel in downtown Paris. They were speeding along in the Black 1996 Mercedes SMG550 when they entered the Llovure Tunnel below the Effiel Towel. The car lost control and smashed into the tunnel wall at 115MPH killing everyone insode the car except for the body guard. Diana was rushed to thew hospital but attempts to save her fail and she died that same night. Nobody except for the body guard were wearing their seatbelts.

Princess Dianas Funeral

Millions of mourners gathered outside a London cathedral for the funeral of Princess Diana. Princess Sara and her children showed up in the crowd of mourners. Camilla Parker Bowles, refered to by Diana as a Rottweiler, was the only one who wasn't invited to the funeral. Diana was later laid to rest at the Spencer family plot.

John Benney Ramsey is Murdered in Denver, Colorado

She was murdered Christmas night 1996 in Boulder, and the mystery since then has remained of who killed her.

Hong Kong Gains Independence from Great Brittan

Dolly the Sheep is Cloned

1998

Clinton admits to Lewinsky affair

1999

President Clinton is Acquitted

In February, the Senate acquits the president of perjury and obstruction of justice, after the House or Representatives had convicted him.

Panama Canal is handed back to Panama

Y2K Scare

Creation of the Euro

Friend of the Devil - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman 4:30

1994

1994 — Saint Croix Racer, a snake native to the Virgin Islands, declared extinct.

— Levuana Moth from Hawaii goes extinct

1994: Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa

In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web

Kurt Cobain is found (CNN report April 8, 1994) Kurt Cobain was reported to be missing. His body was found on April 8. An autopsy report later concluded Cobain's death was a result of a "self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The report estimates Cobain to have died on April 5, 1994

1995

Hum Bom! - Allen Ginsberg, London, October 19 1995

1997 - Last known Aldabra banded snail from the Seychelles Islands found. Scientists believe global warming may have been the reason for the snail's demise.

In 1997, British scientist Dr Ian Wilmut successfully cloned a sheep – 'Dolly' – from a single mammary gland cell taken from a six-year-old ewe.

1996

1997

1998

May 1998 Interview with Osama bin Laden

1999

Oct 12 Wilt Chamberlain dies at age 63

Trends of the 20th Century

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Technology

radio television cylinder disc acoustic recording electric microphone color tv speakers photography b/w color eastman ford philo auto plane jet ships ballon zeppelin trains subway bicycle technology affected all other fields or art, music, politics, law, medicine

Chinese Revolution

last emporer republican governments formed

Mao tse tung marches takes government establishes communist economic systems of production and distribution but retains the republican form of constitutional government

The Chinese Revolution of 1911 辛亥革命

rise of state sanctioned communism

Stalin

post revolutionary Soviet Union union of republics

genocide

Stalin

Atomic Bomb

atomic era weapons of mass destruction

Influenza

1918 outbreak

Moon Landing

bringing all technology together for one purpose

first time humans as extraterrestrials

Thurgood Marshall

most powerful supreme court justice ever?

Any U.S. Supreme Court Justice, especially Earl Warren

strong supreme court leaders were more powerful than the presedincy in second half of the century

Tangshan Earthquake (1976)

killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century

Japan

Japan rises as a great force in technology and manufacturing

Rise of Theory of Evolution

theory begins to gain popularity supplanting long established creation'metanarratives

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20th Century Trends - movement of work force from 3rd to 1st sector/libraries and educational institutions/philanthropy

Trends of 1900's nationalism/imperialism

Trends of 1910's ragtime?

Trends of 1920's speakeasies/jazz

Trends of 1930's gangsters/prohibition/communist party/New Deal

Trends of 1940's wwii/baby boom

Trends of 1950's r&r/blue jeans

Trends of 1960's psychedlics/liberation/festivals

Trends of 1970's

Trends of 1980's republicans religous right

Trends of 1990's democrats/digital technology

Life expectancy (years) 47 77
Infant mortality (deaths per 1,000 live births) 100 7
Deaths from infectious diseases (per 100,000 population) 700 50
Heart disease (age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 population) 307 (1950) 126
Per capita GDP (1998 dollars) $4,800 $31,500
Manufacturing wage (1998 dollars) $3.40 $12.50
Household assets (trillions of 1998 dollars) $6 (1945) $41
Poverty rate (percent of U.S. households) 40 13
Length of workweek (hours) 50 35
Agricultural workers (percent of workforce) 35 2.5
TV ownership (percent of U.S. households) 0 98
Homeownership (percent of U.S. households) 46 66
Electrification (percent of U.S. households) 8 99
Telephone calls (annual per capita calls) 40 2,300
Cars for transportation (percent of U.S. households) 1 91
Patents granted 25,000 150,000
High school completion (percent of adults) 22 88
Accidental deaths (per 100,000 population) 88 34
Wheat price (per bushel in hours of work) 4.1 0.2
Bachelor’s degrees awarded to women (percent of degrees) 34 55
Black income (annual per capita, 1997 dollars) $1,200 $12,400
Resident U.S. population (millions) 76 265
Air pollution (lead, micrograms per 100 cubic meters of air) 135 (1977) 4
Computer speed (millions of instructions per second) 0.02 (1976) 700
Computer ownership (percent of U.S. households) 1 (1980) 44

Chinese Revolution

Stalin

Mass Production

Mass Murder

Space Exploration/Satelite Spying

Computers

Civil Rights

Women's Rights

Paleontological/Archaeological Finds

Counterculture

Communism/State Approved Capitalism

Oil Dependency

Destruction of Environment/Extinctions

Travel

Atomic Energy

3rd to 1st sector

agriculture to manufacturing to info

water potency diminished ned soap to clean and buy bottled water

Great Books of the Twentieth Century

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Complete Works of George Orwell Online

Zora Neale Hurston online

A/V Shelf 1960-1989

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Documentaire Brigitte Bardot 2m
Movie Legends - Brigitte Bardot 6m
Harley Davidson - Brigitte Bardot 4m
Ce n'est pas vrai - Brigitte Bardot 2m
Noir Et Blanc - Brigitte Bardot 2m
Faite pour dormir - Brigitte Bardot 3m La bise aux hippies - Brigitte Bardot 2m
Les amis de la musique - Brigitte Bardot 4m
Brigitte Bardot 2m
Brigitte Bardot 3m
Brigitte Bardot interview 1m
Brigitte Bardot interview 60s
Brigitte Bardot Ballerina 2m
Brigitte Bardot tribute 8m
Faces of Paris - Brigitte Bardot 1/2 15m
Faces of Paris - Brigitte Bardot 2/2 14m
Brigitte Bardot - Une Parisienne 1/2 (1957) 9m
Brigitte Bardot - Une Parisienne 2/2 (1957) 9m
Brigitte Bardot compilation n°1 5m
Brigitte Bardot compilation n°2
Brigitte Bardot 3m
Sanislas - Brigitte Bardot et les Les Freres Jacques 3m

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Barbara - Les Frères Jacques 4m
Shah,Shah,Persan - Les Frères Jacques 3m
La Queue du Chat - Les Frères Jacques 4m
Le Complexe de la Truite - Les Frères Jacques 4m
Les Frères Jacksons 2m

Water Walk - John Cage 1960 10m
4:33 - John Cage 6m
4:33 - John Cage 9m

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Kennedy presidential campaign advertisement
Kennedy campaign jingle 2m
Mustang Coming Soon! - television commercial 0:58
60's Volkswagen Beetle Bus tv commercial
60's Slinky commercial 1m
Classic Kool Aid Commercial 1m
Snap! Crackle! Pop! - Rice Krispies!!! 1m
Good & Plenty Candy! 1m
Classic Good & Plenty Candy commercials 4m

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Clutch Cargo 4m

Hava Nagila - Dalida 2m
Hava Nagila - Rika Zarai (1966) 2m
Hava Nagila - Andre Rieu 2m
Hava Nagila - Hebrew folk dance 1m
Hava Nagila Thai style
Klezmer Hava Nagila on Accordion 2m
Hava Nagila real Klezmer music on vinyl 1957 3m
Hava Nagila - Kostas Kastanis 3m
Hava Nagila/Riders in the Sky - Dick Dale

The Virgin Spring 1/2 - Ingmar Bergman 1960 2:42
The Virgin Spring 2/2 - Ingmar Bergman 8:20

President Dwight David Eisenhower's Farewell Speech 1/2 "Military/Industrial Complex" 1961 audio 8m
President Dwight David Eisenhower's Farewell Speech 2/2 8m

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Kennedy Rice Stadium speech 1/2 9m
Kennedy Rice Stadium speech 2/2 8m
October 22, 1962 Kennedy televised speech ordering blockade of Soviet ships - Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy's commencement address at American University June 10,1963

I Have a Dream - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 17m
Deadly Riots at Ol' Miss - 35 US Marshalls are shot in attempt to admit the first black at the university 8m

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First Kennedy assassination bulletin 1m
First Kennedy assassination bulletin 1m

She Loves You - Beatles Manchester, England (1963) 2:32
I Feel Fine - Beatles
David Bowie interview 1964

What Did You Learn In School? - Pete Seeger

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho - Mahalia Jackson 2m
Didn't It Rain - Mahalia Jackson 3m
Didn't It Rain - Mahalia Jackson 4m
How I Got Over - Mahalia Jackson live 6m

Born to Take the Highway - Joni Mitchell (1965) 4m
Come Back Baby - Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan 3m
The Praties They Grow Small - Carolyn Hester 3m

Tell Her No - Zombies 2m
She's Not There - The Zombies 2m
She's Not There / Tell Her No - The Zombies (stereo) 5m

A Spoonful of Sugar - Mary Poppins 4m

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Hum Bomb - Allen Ginsberg 2m
Hum Bomb - Allen Ginsberg 3m
America - Allen Ginsberg audio with montage 5m
America - Allen Ginsberg 9m
America - Allen Ginsberg 5m
Howl - Allen Ginsberg 6m
Howl by Allen Ginsberg 1/2 10m
Howl by Allen Ginsberg 2/2 10m
Allen Ginsberg reads from Howl 6m
Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady 1/3 4m
Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady 2/3 2m
Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady 3/3 2m
Ballad of the Skeletons - Allen Ginsberg & Paul McCartney 7m
Ballad of the Skeletons - Allen Ginsberg & Paul McCartney (video directed by Gus Van Sant) 4m

Doc Watson - Deep River Blues 2m
Charlie Brown - The Coasters 2) Firehouse Stomp 6m
Love Potion No. Nine-The Coasters (1959) 2m
Yakity Yak - The Coasters 2m
Three Cool Cats - The Coasters 2m
Little Egypt - The Coasters 3m

What Makes a Good Party? 11m

How to Yodel 2:10
Wimoweh - Karl Denver 2:31
Cannonball Yodel - Bobbejaan Schoepen yodels 2:34

Whoa Mule - Andy Griffith 1:55
Boil Them Cabbage Down - The Darlings 1m
Shady Grove - The Darlings 2m
Shady Grove - The Darlings - Jean Richie

Shotgun - Buddy & Stacy with "Jimi James Hendrix" on guitar 3m

O Cantador - Elis Regina 3m
O bêbado ea equilibrista - Elis Regina 3m

Rock Island - The Music Man 4m
Sincere - Buffalo Bills 3m
Ya Got Trouble - Music Man 5m

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Rain in Spain - My Fair Lady 2m
I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady) - Audrey Hepburn 3:55

Soul Man - Sam & Dave 2:29
Soul Man - Sam & Dave 2:49

Patti McGee1964 Girls Skateboard Champion 8:49
Patti McGee 1m

Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk live 1966 10m
Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk Quartet live 1966 4:04

Le Feu Follet (French) 8:38
Le Feu Follet - Trois Gnossienes I-Eric Satie 2:10

Let There Be Love - Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin 2:17
Get Happy - Judy Garland (Summer Stock 1950) 2:52
The Rat Pack sings Birth Of The Blues 2:21
Tha Rat Pack Live At The Sands 1:11
Rat Pack Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jr. Dean Martin 2:34
Johnny Carson Throws Out Audience Member 8:45
That's Life - Frank Sinatra 5:00
That's Life - Frank Sinatra 3:05

C'est Si Bon - Eartha Kitt (1962) 3:02
I Want To Be Evil - Eartha Kitt (1962) 3:02
Just an Old Fashioned Girl - Eartha Kitt 2:57

California Sun - The Rivieras 2m
Rockin' Robin - Rivieras 45 rpm 2:34
Misirlou - Dick Dale 1963 3m
Pipeline/Surf Beat Medley - Dick Dale 1:56

60's VW beetle commercial

Mes Bouquets D'Asphodèles - Marie Laforet (1969) 2:24
Tu Fais Semblant - Marie Laforet (1963) 2:28
Toi Mon Amour Mon Ami - Marie Laforet 2:21
Aux Marches du Palais - Marie Laforêt 2:23
Ivan, Boris & Moi - Marie Laforet 2:11
Viens, Viens - Marie Laforet (1973) 3:14

It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones (1965) 1:53
It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones (1965) 1:34
What's New Pussycat - Tom Jones 2:19
What's New Pussycat - Tom Jones 2:16

Wild Thing - The Troggs 2:33

Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger 2:52

How Can I Face Tomorrow - Patsy Cline 2m
I Fall to Piece - Patsy Cline 1961 3m
Walking After Midnight - Patsy Cline 2m

Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotton 3m

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Down By the Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3m
Up Above My Head - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 3m

Survival Plan - Dr. Strangelove 5m
Mein Führer! I Can Walk! - Dr. Strangelove 3m

Mario Savio - Machine speech (1964) 1m

The Seventh Seal: The knight's first meeting with death 1m
The Seventh Seal scene 3m
The Seventh Seal two scenes 9m

Pine Grove Blues - Nathan Abshire - Cajun accordian 7m
Mamou Cajun Band 2m
Mamou Cajun Band 1m

Goin Up Cripple Creek - The Stoneman Family (60's) 3m
Tupelo County Jail - Stoneman Family 2m

The Spanish Merchant's Daughter - The Stoneman Family 4m
Mountaineer's Courtship - Ernest Stoneman 3m

1) The Kingsmen - "Louie, Louie"

2) Sir Douglas Quintet - "She's About a Mover"

3) Roy Head - "Treat Her Right"

4) Olympics - "Good Lovin'"

Opening medley (song excerpts):
--Willy Nelson - "Long Tall Sally"
--David Crosby and Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds) - "Long Tall Sally"
--Righteous Brothers - "Sticks and Stones"
--Kingsmen, Billy Preston - "Good Golly Miss Molly"

--The Byrds - "Not Fade Away"

--Willy Nelson - "Jump Back"

--Micki Lynn - "Crazy 'bout My Baby"

Ave maria - Shubert - sung by Pavarotti 4m

Jack Kerouac - William F. Buckley's Firing Line (1968) 6m
Jack Kerouac interview in French with English subtitles 5m
Jack Kerouac explains On The Road 6m
Jack Kerouac on Steve Allen Show 3m
Jack Kerouac 6m
Jack Kerouac in Italy, 1966 4m
Silent footage of the Beat Generation 5m
Jack Kerouac / The Beat Generation 3m
Woody Allen's Manhattan - Jack Kerouac 3:30

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan 1964 live 6m
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Dylan 1966 3:41
Mr. Tambourine Man - Dylan 1965 2:16
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man - Dylan 1964 5:14
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Dylan 1966 2:15
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream 7m
I Want You - Dylan 3:08
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Dylan live 1966 7:27
Maggies Farm - Bob Dylan live 1965 3m

Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds live Featuring Bob Dylan
Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds 1965 studio 2:21
Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds 1965 live2:08
Mr. Tamborine Man - The Byrds 2:08
Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds live
Turn Turn Turn - solo performance by Roger McGuinn 3:22
Eight Miles High - The Byrds 3:31
Eight Miles High Byrds live 4:16
Eight Miles High - Roger McGuinn 4.14

Messin With The Kid - Junior Wells & Mike Bloomfield 3:36
Messin' with the Kid - Junior Wells live 3:54
Hoodooman Blues - Junior Wells 3:28

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Rita Chao & The Quests / Nancy Sit -"Hanky Panky" 1967 5:37
Butterfly Rita Chao (Singapore) 3m

Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys 2m
Misirlou - Jonny Flash 2m

For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder 3m
My Cherie Amor - Stevie Wonder 3m

1967 Mustang ad 1m
1967 Mustang ad 1m
1967 Mustang television commercal 0:55

Wild Thing - Jimi Hendrix at Monterrey Pop 1967 8m
Jimi Hendrix at Monterey pop Festival pt 1 10m

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey pop Festival pt 4 8m
Jimi Hendrix - Backstage Hound Dog on Acoustic and onstage performance of Foxy Lady (1969) 5m
Fire- Hendrix live 81969) 5m

1967 Johnny Cash/June Carter 4m
Jackson - Johnny Cash/June Carter 1976 6m
Piggies - George Harrison live 3m
Piggies - Beatles 2m

Aquarius/Hair/Manchester England/Let the Sun Shine - original cast of Hair
Late-60's Volkswagen Beetle television commercial

April 4 Robert Kennedy speech in Indianapolis on the death of Martin Luther King Jr. 6m
Assassination of Robert Kennedy 2m

Strong-arm tactics at 1968 Democratic Convention 3m
Confrontation between Chicago Police and demonstrators at 1968 Democratic National Convention 1m
Dan Rather accosted by "Security" at Democratic National Convention 1m
1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago Police Riot 4m

Tiptoe through the Tulips - Tiny Tim (1968) 2:35

If You Go Don't be Slow - Syd Barrett 3m
Apples and Oranges - Pink Floyd 3:05
Clowns and Jugglers (Take 1) - Syd Barrett 2:53

Stop That Train - Keith and Tex 33&1/3 3:22
Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers 33&1/3 3m
Brixton Cat - Dice The Boss 1969 3m
Gun the Man Down - Dice the Boss 1:49
Reggae In Your Jeggae - Dandy (1969) 3m
Reggae hit the Town - The Ethiopians 2:16
Train to Skaville - The Ethiopians 2:42
Losing You - Ethiopians 3m
Dont Look Back - Keith And Tex 3:20

I Want You Back - Jackson Five 3m
Legend of a Mind - Moody Blues live France 1969 6m
Legend of a Mind - Moody Blues 7m

Brady Bunch theme 1m

Going up the Country - Canned Heat - Woodstock 3m
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe McDonald at Woodstock 3:18

Panis et Circences - Os Mutantes 2:59 (Brasil) 1969
Fuga Nº 2 - Os Mutantes 2:48 (Brasil) 69 or 70?
Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar Um Amigo - Os Mutantes 3:33 (Brasil)

July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's first step onto the Moon 2m
Apollo 11 cockpit voice recorder of landing & photos 1/2 8m
Apollo 11 cockpit voice recorder of landing & photos 2/2 7m
Apollo 11 - JFK, Neil Armstrong & the 1st Moon landing
First Moon Landing 1969

Tate-LaBianca Murders - CBS August 9, 1969 Newscast 2m
Tate-LaBianca Murders 10m

Hello I Love You - Doors 2:07
Light My Fire - Doors live with montage 4m
Light My Fire - Doors live 9:55
Break on Through - Doors 2:25
Break on Through - Doors live 1967 2:40
Touch Me - Doors live 3m
Moonlight Drive and Light My Fire. - Doors 6:16
Roadhouse Blues live 4:40
Roadhouse Blues live 6:43
Riders on The Storm - The Doors 7m

Down On Me - Janis Joplin (live audio 1967)
Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin live at Monterey 1967 5:31
Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin live at Monterey '67 5:31
Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin live 1:15
Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin (1968) 4:05
Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin (live in Germany '69) 4:04
Ball And Chain - Janis Joplin (live in Germany '69) 5:56
Maybe - Janis Joplin (live in Germany '69) 3:51
Summertime - Janis Joplin - Live Gröna Lund 1969 4:45
Try - Janis Joplin (Live at Woodstock) 4:11
Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin (This is Tom Jones, 1969) 3:43
Raise Your Hand - Janis Joplin and Tom Jones 3:48
Work Me Lord - Janis Joplin (Woodstock 1969) 6:47
Half Moon - Janis Joplin 1970 4:00
To Love Somebody - Janis Joplin 1970 3:15
Get it While You Can - Janis Joplin 1970 3:37
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin 3:05
Cry Baby - Janis Joplin (live in Toronto 1970) 6:16

Addams Family theme 1m
Que le Vent M'Apporte la Caresse de ta Voix 2m
I'll Blow You a Kiss in the Wind 2m
Rock a Bye Baby 1m
The Iffin' Song 1m

Expecting to Fly - Buffalo Springfield 3:45
Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees 2:45

Help! - Beatles 2m
A Day in the Life - Beatles 4m
Hello Goodbye - Beatles 3m
Helter Skelter - Beatles 3m
You Know My Name - The Beatles 6m

Divino Maravilhoso - Gal Costa (1968) 3:42
Tim Maia Live 1971
Equatorial - Lo Borges (Ao Vivo) 2002 3:10

Barbarella Intro 4m

Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson 7m

La Marelle - Nazare Pereira 2:54
Hinkelbaan - Nazaré Pereira 2:58
Terra Morena - Nazaré Pereira 4:44

Coração de Estudante - Milton Nascimento (1984) 3:44
Clube da Esquina N°2 Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges (1997)
Travessia - Milton Nascimento (ao vivo) 4:23
Bailes da Vida - Milton Nascimento 4:03
Canção da América - Milton Nascimento 3:46

Águas de Março - Elis Regina e Tom Jobim live 3:37
Águas de Março - Elis Regina live 3:55
Águas de Março - Elis Regina (English subtitles) 3:55

Taj Mahal - Jorge Ben 9:39
Jorge Ben Live (1972) 3:44
Pais Tropical Jorge Ben Acustico 6;08

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Heroin - Velvet Underground and Nico 7:15
Run Run Run - Velvet Underground and Nico 4:29
Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground and Nico 5m
Femme Fatale - Velvet Underground and Nico 2:35
Femme Fatale - Velvet Underground and Nico live 2:51
Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground and Nico 5:50
I'm Waiting For The Man - Velvet Underground and Nico 4:54

Sweet Jane - Lou Reed live 5:31
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies 3:27

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My Pal Foot Foot - The Shaggs 3m
You're Something Special to Me - The Shaggs 2m
Who are Parents? - The Shaggs 3m
Philosophy of the World - The Shaggs 3m

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21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson 7:26
Epitaph - King Crimson 8:47
I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson 6:05
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

Autobahn - Kraftwerk 10m
Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf 7:25
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Band 9:18
Paranoid - Black Sabbath 2:44
Paranoid - Black Sabbath live 1970 UK 4:34
Paranoid - Black Sabbath 1970 (English TV) 4:57

Soirée Canadienne - 11 - Rigodon Folklorique 4m
Soirée Canadienne - 103 - Chanson à répondre 3m
Soirée Canadienne - 107 - Chanson à répondre 3m
Soirée Canadienne - 108 - Chanson à répondre 3m

Aretha Franklin - R E S P E C T 3m
I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin (1970) 4m
I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin 4m

Lumberjack Song - Monty Python 2m
Dueling Banjos 4m

Intro to Rocky Horror Picture Show 5m
Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Picture Show 4m
The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show 4m

Kent State Massacre documentary 10m

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead 11m

Space Oddity - David Bowie 1969 orignal video 4m
Space Oddity - David Bowie (live) 1970 4m

The Supermen - David Bowie (1971) 4m
The Supermen - David Bowie Glastonbury Festival 1971 Acoustic 3m
David Bowie at Andy Warhol's Factory, (September 14, 1971) 6m
Life on Mars - David Bowie 4:10
Life on Mars - David Bowie 4:46
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie 45rpm 4m
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie live at the Beeb 4m
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie (1971) 4m
Torture Song David Bowie - The Man Who Fell to Earth 3m

Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison live 3m

Tiny Dancer - Elton John (1971) 5m
Tiny Dancer - Elton John (1971) 6m

How Many More Times 1/2 - Led Zeppelin live
How Many More Times 2/2 - Led Zeppelin live 6m
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin live 7m
Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin live 3m

Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young and Crazy Horse (studio) 3m
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young and Crazy Horse live 5m
Helpless - Neil Young (The Last Waltz) 6m
Down By The River - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 5m
Heart of Gold - Neil Young live (1971) 3m
Don't Let it Bring You Down - Neil Young
Don't Let it Bring You Down - Neil Young BBC live (1971) 3m
Old Man - Neil Young live (1971) 4m
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young live 5m
Cowgirl In The Sand - Neil Young live (1971) 4m
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain (Live Aid 1985) 3m
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain live 6m
A Man Needs A Maid - Neil Young live (1971) 4m
The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young - Live Aid (1985) 3m

Oh My Love - John Lennon 3m
John Lennon and George Harrison in 1971 recording Oh My Love

Country Roads - John Denver 3m

Mysterious Nose Snatcher - Bert & Ernie 1m
Very Important Note - Bert & Ernie 2m
Heeeeeere Fishy Fishy Fishy 3m
Bert's Cookies - Bert & Ernie 2m
You're It - Bert & Ernie 2m
Ernie and Bert's TV chair showdown 4m
Ernie and Bert: Role Reversal 4m
Ernie paints Bert's portrait 5m
Ernie's Phone Call 3m
Flashlight, Umbrella, Bowling Ball 4m
Ernie Gets Emotional during the movies 2m
Ernie and Bert at the movies - Tall hat lady 3m
Ernie and Bert at the movies - Loud Snacks
Manah Manah 2m

Raw Power - Iggy Pop And The Stooges 1973 3m

Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff 4m

Nixon resignation outtakes 2m

Charles Manson Interview - with Charlie Rose 1/7 6m
Lynette Squeaky Fromme attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford 4m
Eu Só Quero Um Xodó - Dominguinhos 4m
Calice - Maria Bethania 3m
Calice - Chico Buarque e Gilberto Gil 4m
Terra - Caetano Veloso 4m
Terra -Caetano Veloso live 7m
Elis Regina - Atras da Porta 4m
Elis Regina - Atras da Porta - ao vivo 4m

vintage VW beetle commercial (1972)

vintage VW Beetle commercial (1974)

Le Sacre Du Printemps - Pina Bausch 70's 7m
Café Muller - Pina Bausch 7m
Pina Bausch 1m
Barbe Bleue (intégrale 6 sur 12) - Pina Bausch (1977)10m

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It's Not My Place (In the 9 to 5 World) - Ramones 3m
We Want the Airwaves - Ramones 3m
The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones 3m
The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones live (1981) 2m
Rock N Roll High School - Ramones 2m
Pet Cemetary - The Ramones 3m
I Wanna be Sedated - Ramones live 1996 2m
Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio - Ramones live 1996 3m
Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio - Ramones 4m
Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio - Ramones live 1980 3m
Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio - Ramones live 4m
Rare Ramones 1 (live audio) 7m
Rare Ramones 2 (live audio) 7m
Judy Is A Punk - Ramones 1974 live 2m
Baby, I Love You - Ramones live lip synching 4m
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones live 2m
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones (studio) 2m
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones 1977 live 2m
Beat on the Brat/KKK - Ramones live 5m
Beat on the Brat - Ramones 3m
Beat on the Brat - Ramones live 1975 3m
Beat on the Brat - Ramones live 1995 2m
Beat on the Brat - Ramones live 1996 2m
Chinese Rock / Teenage Lobotomy - Ramones live 4m
Teenage Lobotomy 2m - Ramones
Teenage Lobotomy 2m - Ramones
Do You Wanna Dance - Ramones 2m
I Don't Want to Grow Up - Ramones 3m

Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello live 1977 4:02
Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello - Directed by Irving Rappaport 4m
Elvis Costello - Blame It On Cain live 1977 3:00

Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys live 1979 4m
Kill the Poor - Dead Kennedys live Finland 1981 1m
Rawhide - Dead Kennedys 4m

Mr Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne & Randy Rhoads 6m
I Melt with You - Modern English 4m
Magic - The Cars 4m
Call Me - Blondie 2m
Wraps around Your Finger - The Police 5m
Andy Warhol hamburger 1981 Andy Warhol eating a hamburger 4m

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Mar 1981 attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan 0m
Charles Manson interview with Tom Snyder (1981) 1/6 9:33
Charles Manson Interview with Charlie Rose (1986) 5:57 1/7
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 5m
Brass in Pocket - Pretenders 3m
Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders (live) 4m
Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders (live acoustic) 5m
Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders (studio) 4m

Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2 (live 1984)4m
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2 live 4m

Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads 3.38

Sudanese Women Song 5:50
Sudanese Women Song 3:35
Ma3alena _ Nada Algal3a Sudan 4:56
Zanoba - Sudanese Song - Ethiopian Singers 5:28
Sudan music 6:00

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Lebela Lebel - Fatna Ibrahim - Eritrea 5:35
3ozaz 3aleena - Sudanese Song Ethiopian Band 4:24
Ya Haneen - Afia Hassan 8:08
Sara by Tesfaldet Mesfin - Eritrea 6m
Khadijah - Eritrea 4:51
Baburay - Wedi Sheik - Eritrea 4:10
Fatna Suleiman - Eritrea 5:22
Zeinab Bashir - Eritrea 5:40
Wedi Tukul - Eritrea 4:04
Bekita Ali - Eritrea 4:21

7obayabee for Ayoob 6aresh - Yemen 5:45
Al-Ta7reer for Ayoob 6arish - Yemen 5:19
Ya-reem Wadee Bana - Ali Al-Semah - Yemen 6:44
3la Bo3dak - Ana Ma-Agdar - Yemen 4:09

Ruth St. Denis Tribute 1/5
Ruth St. Denis Tribute 2/5
Ruth St. Denis Tribute 3/5
Ruth St. Denis Tribute 4/5
Ruth St. Denis Tribute 5/5

Tribute to Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn I 5m
Tribute to Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn II
Tribute to Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn III
Tribute to Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn IV

Sally Goodin - Homer & Calvin Chastain 1978 field recording 3m
Cumberland Gap - Eldia Barbee 1978 field recording 2m
Buckin' Mule - Eldia Barbee Live 1978 3m

Always Look on the Bright Side Monty Python 3m

Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper 5m

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes 2m
I Hear the Rain - Violent Femmes 2m

Hog Slaughter - News from Lake Wobegon - Garrison Keillor 9m

Pleasure Of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman (1981) 1/5

11 - Spinal Tap 2m
Spinal Tap Reunites for Live Earth To Fight Global Warming 4m

Is this real? Wipers (1980) 2m
Beach Party - Marine Girls (1981) 2m
1st EP from Saccharine Trust (1981) 5m
Millions Of Dead Cops - M.D.C (1982) 2m
Pee Pee The Sailor - Butthole Surfers (1983) 2m
Scratch Acid (1984) 3m
My War - Black Flag (1984) 5m

Tribute to Challenger Astronauts 4m
Reagan - Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster - 28 January 1986 4m

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth(1987) 5m
Locust Abortion - Butthole Surfers (1987) 4m
Surfer Rosa - The Pixies (1988) 2m
Pink EP - The Vaselines (1988) 4m

Djobi Djoba - Gipsy Kings live 3m
Bambleo - Gipsy Kings live 3:14
Volare - Gipsy Kings 3:39
Si Tu Me Quieres - Gipsy Kings live 4m
Pharaon - Gipsy Kings 4m

I Am Superman - REM 3m

Trends

2008-08-03T13:10:00.000-07:00

Broad Outline
The Basics
How To Use This Atlas
Start
What's New?
FAQ
Looking back at the 20th Century
General Trends
Living Conditions
Government
War
Art
Population, Religion, etc.
Specific Places and Events
Europe
America
China
Cold War
Imperialism, World Wars, Olympics, etc.
Sources
Links (if you don't find what you want on my site, try these.)History Site of the Fortnight
Matthew White's Homepage
Detailed Table of Contents
The Basics:
How To Use This Atlas:
Many of these maps are interactive. If you click on a place, you might zoom in and get more detail. Then again, you might not. Try it.
Similarly, if you click on the legend to a map, you might get a more detailed explanation of the topic.
Clicking on the arrows...

... will take you page by page through a specific subject, such as American History or Warfare.
Clicking on the Contemporary Context button bar...

... will zoom out to show what's happening in the world at this time in a specific field of human activity. The icons symbolize Cities, Government, War, International Relations, Living Conditions and Economics, respectively.
Although this atlas is non-linear in overall design, its backbone is probably the series of maps illustrating national political systems, so this is probably the best place to start if you have no particular topic you're curious about.
If you are curious about a particular topic, I don't have a search engine here, but you might want to use [CONTROL]-[F], and then type in (a) simple keyword(s), like soviet or world war.
Table of Contents:
FAQ
What's New
Keeping the Turn of the Century in Perspective:
Who Is the Most Important Person of the Twentieth Century?
Othe people's choices for the top 100 this-and-thats of the 20th Century (links)
What Are the Most Overrated Events, People and Achievements of the Twentieth Century?
My Selections, based on my incredible expertise on historical matters, and a fair dose of arrogance.
... and a few underrated aspects of the Century as well.
Your Selections, based on a survey conducted in late 1998 and early 1999.
When did the Century begin and when does it end?
Which is it? 1900-1999 or 1901-2000?
General Trends:
Socio-Economic Trends:
Agricultural Workforce
Infant Mortality
Life Expectancy
Literacy
Telephones
Timelines
1st Quarter: 1900-24
2nd Quarter: 1925-49
3rd Quarter: 1950-74
4th Quarter: 1975-99
Systems of Government:
By Decade:
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
By Type:
Monarchies, 1900-98
Democracies, 1945-95
Military Juntas, 1945-95
Single Party States, 1945-95
Population by Type of Government
Population:
World Population, 1900-2000
Density, 1900-2000
Growth, 1900-2000
Cities:
1900
1991
Urban Growth:
1900-1925
1925-1950
1950-1975
1975-2000
War:
Overview
Wars:
1900-1925
1925-1950
1950-1975
1975-2000
30 Worst Atrocities
15 Bloodiest Wars
Complete Casualty Statistics of Wars and Tyrants
Alphabetical Index
Do democracies make war on one another?
Art
The 100 most important art works of the 20th Century
Religion
Africa
Judaism
Specific Places and Events:
Europe:
1900
1914
Austria-Hungary
1935
Spanish Civil War
Hungary
1970
Soviet Union
Collapse of the Soviet Union
America:
North America:
North American Border Changes
United States: 1910
Mexican Revolution
Caribbean: 1920
Political Violence in the USA
Nicaragua
South America:
Border Changes, 1900-42
Political Changes, 1945-99
Asia:
China:
Qing Dynasty
Revolution
Era of the Warlords
Under the Guomindang
The Long March
Final Civil War
Israel
Korean War
Philippines
Lebanon
War in Afghanistan
Iran-Iraq War
Africa
Colonial Africa
Maji-Maji Rebellion
Nigeria
South Africa
Chad
Sudan
Africa in the Late 20th Century
International Relations
Age of Imperialism
British Empire
French Empire
First World War:
Pre-War Alliance System
Aftermath of World War One
Losses in the First World War
World Governments:
League of Nations
The United Nations
Second World War:
Alliance System
World War II in Europe
Fascist Europe, 1942
Aftermath of World War Two
Losses in the Second World War
Dumping the Colonies
The Cold War:
Alignment: 1945-1960
Communism
Core Treaties
Alignment: 1960-1991
Nuclear Proliferation
Post Cold War
Disasters:
Earthquakes
Accidents
Nobel Prizes:
1900-1925
1925-1950
1950-1975
1975-2000
Olympic Games:
1900-1924
1928-1948
1952-1972
1976-1996
Sources:
General Bibliography
Recommended Reading
Letters Received
Detailed death tolls for the major bloodlettings of the 20th Century
Index of Wars and Tyrants
External Links

20th Century Timeline

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This timeline of the 20th century empasizes the changes in technology, arts and political landscape. I thought it befitting to focus upon images, audio and video as these seem to best express this special century in the Modern Age.

I mixed historical data with trivia to give the textures of the times.

include table of 9 videos minitures

Trends of the 20th Century

20th Century American Culture

Complete Works of George Orwell Online

I'm also beginning work on the 19th Century Timeline

Twentieth Century American Culture

2008-06-21T08:56:00.000-07:00

20th Century American Culture

Hotlinks: Table of Contents:

American Culture by Decade

1900's
Eyewitness to History
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Great Fire and Earthquakes of 1906
telephone switchboards-early 1900's
Keokuk, Iowa History - Early 1900's
1900's
Arts and Crafts Movement in America
FC Bayern München : 1900 - 1998
Vintage (1800's to early 1900's) Dancing
The Southern Music Network - (1900's)
British Poetry Archive
1780-1910: Hypertext
Meteorology Index - Weather 1700 - 2000
British Politics Time Line: 1900-1910
Jello Company advertising 1900-1910
Turn of the Century
Who were/are the immigrants to the U.S.?

1910's
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The Anti-Saloon League
The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918
Why Prohibition?
Reform:Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire of 1911
Images from WW I
My Adventures as a Spy - Baden-Powell 1915
President Wilson and WWI
The Advertising of Installment Plans in 1919

1920's
Flapper Culture & Style
The 1920s/A Decade of Giants
1920s Time Line: 6 Impt.
Topics of the 20's
1920's Experience: People, Technology,Events and more
20th Century: 1920-1929 Decade
An Outline of American History: 1920's Changes
American Cultural History 1920 - 1929 Guide
Immigration in the 20's
Andy's Roaring 20's Page: Slang, Events, People...
Art: 1925 the Year in Review
Outline of American History: Conservative Policies Prevail
Culture in the Jazz Age
Flapper Station: Antique Automobiles,Classic Radio,Jazz and Vaudeville
Little Orphan Annie Homepage

The Jazz Age Page: Sound Clips and events
Herbert Hoover Presidentail Library
Roaring Twenties Fact Sheet
Roaring �20s Whimpers for Many
1920-1929 - Early Broadcasting
The Jazz Age: A Fusion of Music and Literature
Corporate Labor Policies and the Workers in the US, 1920s
1920's Best Sellers: Books
Monkey Trial - Inherit/1925
ABC New Time Capsule: Timeline of the Nineteen Twenties
Music, art and culture of the 1920's
Scopes 'Monkey Trial': July 10 - 25, 1925

Chronology Of The Equal Rights Amendment 1923
American Temperance and Prohibition
American Prohibition in the 1920s

History of Alcohol Prohibition
The Brewing Industry and Prohibition
America in the 1920s
Why Prohibition?
Links to Temperance and Prohibition
1929 Stock Market Crash, charts and stories
The St. Valentines Day Massacre(20's)
The History of Broadcasting, 1920-1960
The 1920s/A Decade of Giants
1920s-timeline
US Labor History
Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After
Jazz Age Biographies
Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
"Harlem Renaissance": Mecca of the New Negro
Music from the 1920s
The Jazz Age, and the Crash of '29
The Illinois Labor History Society
Clara Bow
Louise Brooks Society
Rudolph Valentino
The 1920s/Society, Fads, Daily Life

1930's
New Deal Timeline: 1933 & Links
Margie's 1930's and 1940's Web Links
Time Line of the Great Depression
Main Causes of the Great Depression
Collective Security in the 1930s
The Main Causes of the Great Depression
The Great Depression and the 1990's: Unit Overview
Warden Johnston's Alcatraz: 1933 -1948
Lindbergh Trial
U of Virginia's American Studies: 1930's in Print
The 1939 New York World's Fair
The Killer Heat Wave of 1936
Pulp Fiction Central
Screwball Comedy
Photos from the 30's
The History of Superhero Comic Books
The First Transmission of a Photo by Wire
Hartford Circus Fire: The Day the Clowns Cried
1932 Olympics
The Story of Hoover Dam
Day of the Black Blizzard
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl - Oklahoma
New Deal Cultural Programs
Exhibit: A New Deal for the Arts
New Deal Agencies
Colbert, Claudette
Davis, Bette
Dietrich, Marlene
Greta Garbo Gallery
Amelia Earhart Bio
Amelia Earhart!
The Emma Goldman Papers
Dorothea Lange
Evelyn Shuler:Reporter Right in the Thick of the News
Jean Harlow
Huey Long
Frederick Jones: Mobile refrigeration possible
TUSKEGEE
Tuskegee apology, human experimentation
Bank Robbery
Machine Gun Kelly
LESTER M. GILLIS, aka: "Baby Face" Nelson
THE KANSAS CITY MASSACRE
The John Dillinger File
John Dillinger
Woody Guthrie
Growing Up White in the South in the 1930's
Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
Color Photographs From 1938-1944
Growing Up Black in the 1930s
They Still Draw Pictures: Spanish Civil War
Discovering Horydczak's Washington: People and Events
Klu Klux Klan: a 100 years of Terror
The Great Depression - life in the urban city
The Great Depression: Causes & Cure

1940's
December 7, 1941 - Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor
The Myths of Pearl Harbor
Margie's 1930's and 1940's Web Links
The 40's Time Line
NM's Creative Impulse..1900-1945.
NM's Creative Impulse.. 1945-Present
Political Leaders, 1945-
History of the Mafia
Texas City Disaster 1947 Ben Reynolds
Warden Johnston's Alcatraz: 1933 to 1948
Index of the 40's
Political Leaders, 1945-
The Forties
Color Photographs From 1938-1944
Edward R. Murrow
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
Social Security History
Screwball Comedy
Roosevelt Biographies, Historical
New Deal Network
Holocaust Museum Resources for High School Students
World War II Exhibit: A People at War
Women Come to the Front
Women's land Army
ZEP-makeover
Leni Riefenstahl Bio - German-Hollywood

1950's
Time Line of the Civil Rights Movement
Military history
"The American 1950s"
The Atomic Age, McCarthyism,
Segregation, I Like Ike, and Rock &
The 1950's
Time Gallery: movies, slang & images of the 50's
Buddy Holly
Lost in the 50's: Oldies & Jukeboxes
"American 1950s" Literature & Culture
Search the AMERICAN 1950s pages
Joe McCarthy
Fight For America: Sen.Joseph McCarthy
Liberals,Anti-Communism & McCarthyism
BLACKLISTED
The Hollywood Blacklist
"Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions"
Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - 1951
The Fifties Web
Rosenberg Sons Statement on the 45th Anniversary of their Parents' Execution

US Historical Documents
BOOMER'S INTERNATIONAL WEB SITE
American Films from 1946 to 1964
Better Homes and Gardens Covers
Lyrics - Louie, Louie - Louie Louie - Wanderer
Crisis in Little Rock: The Little Rock Nine
"The American 1950s"
Research tools for studying the 1950s
The National Security Archive/The Iran-Contra
Time Gallery - movies, slang and images of the 50's
Communist Control Act of 1954
Understanding the lyrics of American Pie
Phone Booth Packing
Hula Hoops
Classic Television!
Time Gallery - movies, slang and images of the 50's
Phone Booth Packing
Howard Zinn's A People's History - 1945 - 1960
Communist Control Act of 1954
FutureWorld -- The Legendary Buddy Holly
1954 Brown v. Board of Education (2)
Baseball
Alaska becomes a state
Kefauver Commission on Organized Crime 1950+
Letters From the Korean War
Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
1950s - Some Significant Events
50's Postwar America (POSTWAR AMERICA IS A MYTH WHEN DID THE WAR END? NEVER)
The Beat Begins: resources for the 50's
Howl/Drive Project Home Page - poetry
Literary Kicks - writers
TV Variety Shows of the 50's
Main Events of the Eisenhower Presidency, 1950's
The Fifties - Glory Days
Dr. Martin Luther King
Jazz: The 1950s - Records & Photography
The Music of the Fifties
Barbara Stanwyck: Ball of Fire
MHP: Timeline by Chronology
The Tube - The FCC
Soviet Archives: Entrance Room
Repression and Terror - Stalin in Control
Cold War: Postwar Estrangement
Interpreting McCARTHYISM
The Impact of McCARTHYISM
An Air Force for Crises and Lesser Conflicts
Sizing the National Guard: Post-Cold War
U.S. Military Strategy and Force Posture
Deterring Regional Aggressors
U.S. and Japan After the Cold War
Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
Nagasaki Journey: 1 of 25
Leo Szilard Online
A New Nuclear Infrastructure
50 Years from Trinity
Radiation Effects Research
Executive Summary: Costs

1960's
The U.S. During the 1960s
T.V. News Archive: 1968 to Present
The Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Colin's Haight-Ashbury Archives
Sixties
Sixties Related Web Sites
The Sixties Project
The Language of the Hip
Biblography: Psychedelic Drugs and Bohemians
Gallery E
Gallery D
Gallery D - more
Cool Words that are Fun to Say!
The Music Festival HomePage
WWW Pop Art: Index
WWW Pop Art: Pop Art - A Movement in the 60's
San Francisco - Haight-Ashbury
Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969
The Haight-Ashbury: A timeline
1969 to 1971
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
People's Park History Pages - 1969
Yesman's Museum of Yes
VC-04's Cool Words
HST 202: The U.S. During the 1960s
Chronology of 1960's
Hippy Haven: What is a Hippie?
60's
Country Joe & the Fish - Protest Songs
Country Joe & the Fish, Lyrics
MHQ: Vol.10 * # 3
Museum of the City of New York
1966
Bob's Pop Culture Place: The Short View
People actually wore this!
Smothers Brothers Home Page
Twilight Zone: Search or Surf
Rod Serling's Night Gallery: Index
Toys From the Sixties
Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations 1969
1960s - Some Significant Events
Manson Family Murders 1969
Elke Moritz: Malcolm X
Feminist Movement 1967-1971
Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy
Collective Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War Politics Social Attitudes
Cold War Policies 1945-1991
Marines' Mighty Midget Over Vietnam
THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT
U2 Shootdown Incident of 1960
Baez, Joan
Joan Baez
Dolores Huerta
Barbara Jordan
The Kennedy Assassination Home Page
Quotations of John F. Kennedy
Onassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
Wilma Rudolph
Beckwith v. State of Mississippi
Black Panther National Anthem
The Ideology of the Black Panther Party
Virginia Commission on "Civil Rights and Legal Wrongs,"
ROBERT C. WEAVER
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
1960-1969 Decade
Robert Altman - Catalog
Niels Van Iperen's Rock Shots
My Lai Commemoration Campaign
The International War Crimes Conference
US Domestic Covert Operations
US Domestic Covert Operations 2
Organizing Veterans Through War Crimes Documentation
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc. (VVAW)
IMAGES OF MY WAR
The VietNam Pictures Archives at SunSite
Vietnam: Conflict or War?
The Street Kids of Vietnam
1968 -- The Year of the Barricades

1970's
Bad Songs of the Seventies
Welcome to the 70's Preservation Society
Super Seventies RockSite!
The Fashion Page: Fashion Designer Hall Of Fame
Watergate
The Wonder Years as an American Narrative
Mary Tyler Moore Show - (1970 - 1977)
Fashion of the 1970's
The Avalon Project : War Powers Resolution
MAYDAY: Kent State / The Event / Chronology
Watergate
Resignation of Vice President Agnew 1973
Letters from Vietnam
Medal of Honor Winner Fred Zabitosky
Re: Vietnam -- Stories Since the War
Return of P.O.W.'s from Vietnam 1973
linmaya
Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965-1969
The Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy:Primary Source Materials from the U.S. Department of State
Jonestown massacre + 20: Questions linger
Jonestown: Examining the Peoples Temple
FBI: Investigation of the shooting of Congressman Leo J. Ryan & possible Jonestown conspiracy
Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite
Love Canal
About the Love Canal
Return to Love Canal: History & Impact
The 20th Anniversary of Love Canal
State of emergency declared at Love Canal -- May 21, 1980
Public Health Assessment: Love Canal
Learning from Love Canal
EPA: Love Canal
The Love Canal Disaster: An Error in Engineering or Public Policy?
The American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island Alert
The Three Mile Island (TMI-2) Recovery and Decontamination Collection
Three Mile Island 2 Accident
Washington Post: A Nuclear Nightmare in Pennsylvania
Son of Sam
David 'Son of Sam' Berkowitz
Son of Sam: Won't Let Me Stop Killing
A Definitive Overview and Analysis of the Zodiac Case, 1966-1974
The Zodiac Killer
Zodiac Killer Index
Seventies Almanac
Bad Songs of the Seventies
Music Dude's 70's File
Super Seventies Rocksite
8 Track Heaven
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: SALT I 1969-1972
SALT II
SALT II Talks
The Nixon Links
The Watergate Decade
70 's Music...
'70s To '90s Rock & Pop
TV Single Dads: The Seventies
The Seventies - Energy Urgency
Mr. Showbiz - Oscars of the 70's
Patricia Hearst
This is Tania, Patricia Hearst
Hearst Saga Lives On: Remembering the 1974 kidnapping
Patty Hearst Kidnapped: Slideshow ABC News
Horror Films of the Seventies

1980's
1989 Earthquake History
Significant Damaging California Earthquakes
1980's
The 80s Server
1980's...the Best Decade Around
Growing up in the 80's - Games,Music,...
The 1980's Music Archive
American Cultural History 1980 - 1989
Welcome to InThe80s.Com
Mount St. Helens, Washington - May 18, 1980 Eruption
Iran Contra Hearings 1987-1988
World Health Organization declares smallpox eradicated 1980
The Challenger: Our Disaster by Jarett Epstein
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989
M.L.King's Birthday Declared National Holiday 1983
Presidents Reagan and Bush
Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union

The Glass Ceiling Biographies: Sandra Day O'Connor
The John Lennon Shooting
CNN 1980 - 1997 Video Almanac
Atlanta Child Murders
Innovations in Films during the 1980's
The Century Time Lines: 1980's
American Architecture - Twentieth Century - 1980 to 1989
Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1980-1991
ACADEMY AWARDS® Winners and History 1980 - 1989
CFA - Theatre Arts: History of Drama 1980-1998
Query Hong Kong Movie Database
Retail Sales in the United States, 1983-1998
"Children Of The Eighties"
GENERATIONX
Livin' in the 80's: The Good, the Bad & the Cheesy!
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989
Bombing of Marine Headquarters in Beirut 1983
Baby "M" & Surrogate Parenting 1987-1988

Falklands War 1982
Iran Contra Hearings 1987-1988
Iran Contra Trials 1989-1990
The Iran-Contra Scandal
Reagan Assassination Attempt 1981
Lebanon Hostage Crisis 1985-1991
John Lennon Shooting 1980
Manuel Noriega Trial 1989-1993
M.L.King's Birthday Declared National Holiday 1983
Once Upon a Time in the Eighties
U.S. Invasion of Grenada 1983
San Francisco Earthquake 1989
Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm
Farm Crisis of the 80's
Desert-Storm.com
Wilma Mankiller& the Cherokee Nation
Sandra Day O'Connor
Children of the Eighties
The Eighties - latin music
The October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
Top 10 Censored Stories of 1989
Panama Page - Felipe Tribaldos
State Department Information - Panama
1989 -- The Walls Came Tumbling Down

1990's
Retail Sales in the U.S. 1983-1998
CFA - Theatre Arts: History of Drama 1980-1998
PhotoGuide Japan/PhotoHistory 1980-1998
Encyclopedia Americana: Watergate
An A to Z of the '90s
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: US poverty from 1993 to 1994
Economic Research Service--Issues for the 1990's
Bureau of Arms Control Fact Sheets
Rosenberg Sons Statement on the 45th Anniversary of their Parents' Execution
Hurricane Andrew 1992
Midwest Flood of 1993
CNN 1980 - 1997 Video Almanac
Newspaper Production 1992
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court Hearings 1991
Bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City
Billboard Charts
Branch Davidian/Waco, Texas Stand-off
The Pulitzer Prizes
Navy Arms Control Office
Unabomber's Manifesto
BOSNIA
WashingtonPost.com: Fog of War
Gulf War Debriefing Book
Gulf War Photo Gallery (Frame Enhanced)
Air Power in the Gulf War
Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages
The Truman Show
Media Criticism and News Ethics
Most Frequently Banned Books in the 90's

2000+
You Be the Historian

Influential People/Companies of the Century
Search The Forbes 500s Annual Directory, 1998
TIME 100: Leaders & Revolution
Fortune 500 | 500 List
The Traces of Advertising Giants
40 Wealthiest Americans of all Time

Interesting Stuff!
Conspiracy Theory
People's Century
Life Magazine
Posters American Style
FAMOUS CASES
George Lucas Education Foundation
Cultural Arts: folklore and culture
The History of Jazz
We Didn't Start the Fire: A Stream of Conciousness
Flappers 2 Rappers

The Nobel Prizes
Carnegie Hall Time Line
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Inductees By Name - Rock and ROll Hall of Fame
War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles
Official Hopalong Cassidy Website
Motion Picture Collections
History of Wax Sculpture

Meaning of Names
Regional popularity of Names in the U.S.
Eponym - International & Cultural
Eponym: International Names
Etymology of Names
BabyCenter | Baby Name Meanings
An Onomastikon (Dictionary of Names)
Medieval Naming Guides
Surnames: What's in a Name? * Name Origins
Hall of Names
First Names and What They Mean
Names -- Popularity Top 100 of all Time
Historical top 40 names
First names and calendars
Linguistic Links
U.S. Surname Distribution
Family Chronicle Magazine

Media History
The Media History Project
The Media History Project Connections Pages
What's New at the Media History Project?
Media History Project Timeline Pages
MHP: Timeline by Chronology
Media History Timeline: Prehistoric Era
Media History Timeline: 3500-59 BCE
Media History Timeline: 1 - 1099 CE
Media History Timeline: 1100 - 1399 CE
Media History Timeline: 1400 - 1599 CE
Media History Timeline: 1600s CE
Media History Timeline: 1700s CE
Media History Timeline: 1800s
Media History Timeline: 1900s
100 years of Radio: from Marconi to the future of communications
Sparks Telegraph Key Review
Recording Technology History
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
OLD NEWS homepage

Evening News Abstracts
Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page
History of the Information Revolution and Communications Technology Time

Counter Culture
Counter culture 1095 - 1960
60 - 75's Counter culture Timeline
Counter culture 1975 - 90
Wm. Murray's Time Page: An Examination of Cycles in American History
Freedom Shrine Timeline

Cross Decade Sites
The 1900s®: A Century Of Sound (1900 - 1999)
Ad Access: Ads of Canadian/American Newspapers and Magazines from 1911 and 1955
Evening News Abstracts from 1968 to Present
Historical Photos Online
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
Civil War to Present
SoulMates: The Century in Shoes
Wacky Patent of the Month
Who's Who in American History: Civil War to Present
ABC: Timelines of the 20th Century (annoying cookies tho)
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
NM's Creative Impulse: 1900 - 1945
NM's Creative Impulse: 1945 -Present
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Scopes Trial Home
Timeline of Western Philosophy
Japan/PhotoHistory 1980-1998
Retail Sales in the U.S. 1983-1998
Theatre Arts: History of Drama 1980-1998
Turn of the Century
Who were/are the immigrants to the U.S.?
Internet History Sources on the Net
Video Archives: 20th Centruy
Atlas of American Immigration
20th Century Archive
Radio Archive of the University of Memphis (1920 - 1960)
Getty Information Institute
The History of Broadcasting, 1920-1960
Video Archives: 20th Centruy
Mining Company: 20th Century
Atlas of American Immigration
Howard Zinn's A People's History - 1945 - 1960
LIFE Magazine Classic Covers
Migration and Ethnic Relations
Immigration History Research Center
Video Archives: 20th Centruy
Mining COmpany: 20th Century
Atlas of American Immigration
20th Century Archive
British Politics Time Lines 1900 - Present
20th Century - Author Links
20th Century - Gallery Of Achievement
Oyez Supreme Court Case Summaries

Centers for Cultural Studies
Center for the Study of White American Culture
American Swedish Institute, Mpls., MN
Editorials on American Culture today
American Studies @ Univ. of Virginia...
Cultural Maps
Generational Eras
Migration and Ethnic Relations
Who were/are the immigrants to the U.S.?
History of Midwestern US - 1700 to now

1800's Etiquette
ETIQUETTE FOR THE BALLROOM
Language of the Fan
A 19TH CENTURY'S WOMAN'S PLACE
VICTORIAN DANCING ETIQUETTE
CALLING CARD ETIQUETTE
VICTORIANA, RESOURCES FOR VICTORIAN LIVING
Turn of the Century

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