1900s Major Events

1906 San Francisco

Earthquake & Fire

First Airplane Crash

First License Plates Issued in

the U.S.

First Silent Movie

Typhoid Mary Captured

Wright Brothers Make First

Flight

Significant People Theodore Roosevelt Booker T. Washington Thomas Edison Orville Wright Henry Ford Babe Ruth Mark Twain William R. Hearst J.P. Morgan

Chart Hits

1. Haydn Quartet – "Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet"

2. Harry MacDonough – "Shine On, Harvest Moon"

3. Henry Burr – "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"

4. Bryon Harlan – "Right Church, but Wrong Pew“

5. Frank Stanley – "Good Evening, Caroline"

6. Billy Murray – "Shine On, Harvest Moon"

7. Ada Jones – "Yama Yama Man"

8. Ada Jones – "I've Got Rings on My Fingers"

9. Henry Burr – “To the End of the World"

1910s Major Events

1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Mata Hari Captured Rasputin Murdered Sinking of the Titanic Sinking the Lusitania Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Fire World War I

Significant People Marie Curie Charlie Chaplin Harry Houdini Henry Ford

Chart Hits

1. The Peerless Quartet – "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" 2. Louise Homer – "America The Beautiful" 3. Sophie Tucker – "Some of these days" 4. Arthur – "Alexanders Ragtime Band" 5. Al Jolson – "The Haunting Melody" 6. American Quartet – “Moonlight Bay” 7. Clauncy Olcott – “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” 8. Charles Harrison – “Peg O' My Heart” 9. American Quartet – “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” 10. Henry Burr – “The Song That Stole My Heart Away”

1920s Major Events

Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin

Charleston Dance Becomes Popular

Flappers Henry Ford Designed the

Model T Hitler's Attempted Coup Prohibition St. Valentine's Day Massacre Stock Market Crash of 1929 Tomb of King Tut Found

Significant People Albert Einstein Sigmund Freud T.S. Eliot Charlie Chaplin Duke Ellington Cecil B. DeMille Frank Lloyd Wright Pablo Picasso Joseph Stalin

Chart Hits

1. Al Jolson – “Swanee” 2. Louis Armstrong – “West End Blues” 3. Bessie Smith – “Downhearted Blues” 4. Jimmie Rodgers – “Blue Yodel” (T for Texas) 5. Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals – “Star Dust” 6. Fats Waller – “Ain’t Misbehavin’” 7. George Gershwin – “Rhapsody in Blue” 8. Eck Robertson – “Sally Gooden” 9. Fiddlin’ John Carson – “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” 10. Gene Austin – “Bye Bye Blackbird”

1930s Major Events

Bonnie and Clyde's Crime

Spree Empire State Building Opens Great Depression Hindenburg Disaster King Edward VIII Abdicated

for Love Night of Broken Glass War of the Worlds Radio

Broadcast Causes Panic

Significant People Emperor Hirohito Adolf Hitler Herbert Hoover Babe Ruth Walt Disney Salvador Dali

Chart Hits

1. Billie Holiday – “Strange Fruit” 2. Judy Garland – “Over the Rainbow” 3. Robert Johnson – “Cross Road Blues” 4. Glenn Miller – “In the Mood” 5. Coleman Hawkins – “Body and Soul” 6. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra – “Minnie the Moocher” 7. Robert Johnson – “Hellhound on My Trail” 8. Count Basie – “One O'Clock Jump” 9. The Carter Family – “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” 10. Benny Goodman – “Sing, Sing, Sing”

1940s Major Events

Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding Dewey Defeats Truman Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Bombed Leon Trotsky Assassinated Pearl Harbor Attacked Winston Churchill's Iron

Curtain Speech World War II

Significant People Winston Churchill Mohandas Gandhi Elizabeth Taylor Dizzy Gillespie The Andrew Sisters BB King Frank Sinatra

Chart Hits

1. Hank Williams – “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry” 2. Woody Guthrie – “This Land Is Your Land” 3. Thelonious Monk – “Round Midnight” 4. Bing Crosby – “White Christmas” 5. John Lee Hooker – “Boogie Chillen” 6. Billie Holiday – “God Bless the Child” 7. Edith Piaf – “La Vie en Rose” 8. Duke Ellington – “Take the "A" Train” 9. Bill Monroe – “Blue Moon of Kentucky” 10. Leadbelly – “The Midnight Special”

1950s Major Events

Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba

Disneyland Opens First Modern Credit Card Hillary and Norgay Climb

Mount Everest James Dean Dies in a Car

Accident Laika the Dog Goes into

Space Segregation Ruled Illegal in

U.S.

Significant People Kim Il Sung Marilyn Monroe Queen Elizabeth II James Dean Audrey Hepburn Elvis Presley Joe Dimaggio Mickey Mantle

Chart Hits

1. Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode” 2. Elvis Presley – “Jailhouse Rock” 3. Bill Haley and His Comets – “Rock Around the Clock” 4. Little Richard – “Tutti Frutti” 5. Jerry Lee Lewis – “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” 6. Ray Charles – “What’d I Say” 7. Eddie Cochran – “Summertime Blues” 8. Elvis Presley – “Hound Dog” 9. Little Richard – “Long Tall Sally” 10. Buddy Holly & the Crickets – “That’ll Be the Day”

1960s Major Events

Beatles Become Popular in

the U.S. Berlin Wall Charles Manson and His

"Family" Kill First Man on the Moon Martin Luther King Jr.

Assassinated Vietnam War Woodstock Music Festival

Significant People John F. Kennedy Neil Armstrong Park Chung-hee Martin Luther King Jr. The Beatles Al Pacino Dr. Seuss Muhammad Ali

Chart Hits

1. Rolling Stones – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” 2. Aretha Franklin – “Respect” 3. Bob Dylan – “Like a Rolling Stone” 4. Marvin Gaye – “I Heard it through the Grapevine” 5. Beatles – “Hey Jude” 6. Beach Boys – “Good Vibrations” 7. Doors – “Light My Fire” 8. Righteous Brothers – “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’” 9. Kingsmen – “Louie Louie” 10. Temptations – “My Girl”

1970s Major Events

First Test-Tube Baby Born Jonestown Massacre Kent State Shootings M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers Munich Olympics Massacre Tangshan Earthquake Terracotta Army Discovered

in China

Significant People Mao Zedong Margaret Thatcher Betty Ford Stephen King Frank Lloyd Wright

Chart Hits

1. Led Zeppelin – “Stairway to Heaven” 2. John Lennon – “Imagine” 3. The Eagles – “Hotel California” 4. Marvin Gaye – “What’s Going On” 5. Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” 6. Derek and the Dominos – “Layla” 7. Stevie Wonder – “Superstition” 8. Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody” 9. Simon and Garfunkel – “Bridge Over Troubled Water” 10. Al Green – “Let’s Stay Together”

1980s Major Events

Berlin Wall Falls Chernobyl Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Huge Poison Gas Leak in

Bhopal, India Mt. St. Helens Erupts Reagan Assassination

Attempt Tiananmen Square Massacre

Significant People Ronald Reagan Steven Spielberg Michael Jordan Michael Jackson Madonna Tom Cruise Martina Navratilova Diana, Princess of Wales

Chart Hits

1. Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean” 2. Police – “Every Breath You Take” 3. Prince – “When Doves Cry” 4. Marvin Gaye – “Sexual Healing” 5. Madonna – “Like a Virgin” 6. Guns N’ Roses – “Sweet Child O’ Mine” 7. Human League – “Don’t You Want Me?” 8. Bruce Springsteen – “Born in the U.S.A.” 9. Tina Turner – “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” 10. Blondie – “Call Me”

1990s Major Events

Columbine Massacre Oklahoma City Bombing Princess Diana Dies in Car

Crash Nelson Mandela Becomes

President of South Africa Rwandan Genocide Waco Cult Compound Raided The Internet Increases in Use Personal Computers Become

More Common

Significant People Nelson Mandela George Bush OJ Simpson Bill Gates Stephen Hawking Princess Diana John Paul II

Chart Hits

1. LeAnn Rimes – "How Do I Live" 2. Los Del Rio – “Macarena” 3. Toni Braxton – "Un-Break My Heart 4. Jewel – “You Were Meant For Me" 5. Bryan Adams – "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You 6. Boyz II Men – "I'll Make Love To You" 7. Next – "Too Close" 8. Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men – “One Sweet Day” 9. Savage Garden – "Truly Madly Deeply" 10. Elton John – "Candle In The Wind 1997/Something

About The Way You Look Tonight"

2000s Major Events

Word Trade Centre is Attacked

U.S. Declares War on Iraq Terrorist Attacks Around the

World Apple Invents iPhone and

iPod Facebook is Created WiFi and Broadband Internet GPS Navigation Devices are

Created 2004 Tsunami

Significant People George Bush Saddam Hussein Barack Obama Steven Jobs Mark Zuckerberg Bill Gates Oprah J.K. Rowling

Chart Hits

1. Mariah Carey – “We Belong Together” 2. Usher (ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris) – “Yeah!” 3. Flo Rida (ft. T-Pain) – “Low” 4. The Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling” 5. Nickelback – “How You Remind Me” 6. Alicia Keyes – “No One” 7. The Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow” 8. Mario – “Let Me Love You” 9. Kanye West (ft. Jamie Foxx) – “Gold Digger” 10. Timbaland (ft. OneRepublic) – “Apologize”