United States Economy Timeline

Social and Economic Timeline of United States

1901 President McKinley assassinated
1902 United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act
1903 Movie, “The Great Train Robbery”
1904 New York City subway opens
1906 Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle
1908 Ford introduces the Model-T
1909 NAACP is founded
1911 Standard Oil Company broken up
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
1913 Personal income tax introduced in the United States
1916 First self-service grocery store opens
1917 Russian Revolution
1919 Prohibition begins in the United States
1920 Women granted the right to vote in the United States
1921 Extreme inflation in Germany
1929 New York Stock Market crashes
1930 Sliced bread available
1933 Prohibition ends in the United States
1934 Cheeseburger created
1935 CIO formed
John Maynard Keynes suggests New Economic Theory
1939 Movie, “Gone with the Wind”
1940 Nylons on the market
1944 Ballpoint pens go on sale
1946 Dr. Spock publishes The Common Book of Baby and Child Care
1950 First modern credit card introduced
1952 Car seat belts introduced
1954 Surgeon General’s report says cigarettes cause cancer
Segregation ruled illegal in the United States
1955 AFL and CIO merge
McDonald’s Corporation founded
1960 First televised Presidential debates
Birth control for women “The Pill” introduced
1962 Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
1963 President Kennedy assassinated
1966 Mass draft protests in the United States
1967 First Super Bowl
1972 Watergate scandal begins
1973 Abortion legalized in the United States
1974 President Nixon resigns
1975 Microsoft founded
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman
1980 Ted Turner establishes CNN
1984 Huge poison gas leak in Bhopal, India
1985 New Coke hits the market with a thud
1987 New York Stock Exchange suffers huge drop on “Black Monday”
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1997 Tallest buildings in the world built in Kuala Lumpur
1999 The Euro becomes the New European currency

Source:
http://www.bls.gov/opub/rtaw/pdf/setime.pdf